... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... to the original post and a poll. Personally, I feel great about how this discussion so far. It's actually gone way ... Blog ), I personally learned quite a bit about reasons on both sides. It was a fantastic exercise for my own learning ... different about this exercise than in a discussion group, half of the response posts to any question is a response of "Here's why you are asking the wrong question..." Now before you assume that's negative, in most cases my firm belief is ...

... month's Big Question - Network Feedback and in Getting Help . So, I'm hoping that folks can recommend what I should ... I've been approached quite a bit recently to do presentations at local ASTD chapters or to help find a speaker. The reality is that I can't afford to do free presentations at local events. In some cases, I am finding myself doing ... where that's not going to work out, I would really like to help the person find a speaker who is local and who can speak to ... speaker in the Birmingham, Alabama area for a local ASTD on eLearning 2.0 or Work Literacy. What would you do if you ...

For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? and then posted some ... . In my summary of the responses to the Big Question - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog - I again didn't ... evidence is mounting that it's an incredible personal learning practice. Take a look at what Janet Clarey had to ...

... the term. We got dinged for the use of the term in the LCB's Big Question for September: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? I believe that I first started using the term after hearing that ASTD was now going to refer to ... A few weeks ago, I received an email question that asked: Something I wanted to ask you is if you have defined ... personally include folks outside of Workplace learning as well. Thus, dropping the "Workplace" portion of the term. I ... will appear with good links to help this person out.

This month's LCB Big Question is What Questions Should We be Asking? Clive Sheppard posted his response . Clive first questioned if we've run out of questions. The answer is "no" we haven't, but my personal belief is that part of our issue in learning and eLearning is the lack of focus on what our real problems are - what the real questions are. So ... just pointless? While some of these big picture questions are important to think about, I guess I was hoping to see ... questions - more along the lines of the question I heard at Jay's session at ASTD TK2007: "What and how can I use the ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Network Feedback . You might want to take a look at the question by way of background. The basic question is how do you reach out into the vast network of people ... people will see the same question going by. What is their perception of multiple questions by the same person? Do they ... Media to Find Answers to Questions How to Learn through Conversation Karyn Romeis has an interesting model. She ... place to get help. I think that's part of the question. We know of several and may have different levels of ...

... around The Big Question type topics where we get to exchange ideas with other experts in the field would be a fantastic ... conferences I regularly attend - and no offense to the eLearningGuild, ASTD, etc. - because most conferences have these same problems. Certainly a big part of the issue is that attendees are quite willing to hop on a plane to attend a conference ... Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee , Conference Preparation and Better Questions for Learning Professionals ... keywords being used in the session. Now, I'm personally not ready to throw in the towel on conferences. I still feel ...

... technology." The Learning Circuits Blog ASTD's blog associated with the Learning Circuits publication. It has various authors and does a monthly Big Question that receives contributions from many different bloggers ... subscribe to and my personal style is to quickly scan a lot of blogs, selectively reading posts that I think are going to be ... , but I came to understand the request (from a very persistent person). That said, I still cheated (see below). I think a ... Strategies and Development Brent Schlenker explores elearning in the corporate world -- with a personal ...

Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get help around a question. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language Learning. The person works in a corporation in Turkey and is looking to find eLearning to teach employees English. I ... thoughts on how you would go about finding answers to this inquiry, you can use that as your answer to the Big Question ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal ...

The Big Question type topics where we get to exchange ideas with other experts in the field would be a fantastic learning ... corporate eLearning, facilitated by me and someone else that will help them identify their key issues, big questions and ... one who is excited about whats happening here. 5. Demos One of the reasons for my recent Big Question - Examples of ... different things might it be would be exactly the right question. I love your idea of the Big Question live. But Im not sure ... , robust question and answer sessions, personal demos... and use technologies for broadcast lectures and such...the ...

I said in this post to see how I did for the year. Shortly, I'll be responding to this month's Big Question with my ... should spend my time. I'm still debating around this. I've basically limited myself to eLearningGuild and ASTD ... , personal knowledge management and other such topics. These have normally been tangential, but I see them as core moving ... opportunities to create front-end tools? I am a big believer in the ability of web sites to provide simple forms that a ... powerful and best solutions that I can personally be involved in. Yet the projects are sparse. My challenge is to find more ...