The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learn so much all the time from students, clients and colleagues, it is hard to narrow it down to just one or two things, but I'll try. Here are a few of the lessons I have learned. Mostly about the power of the network and Web 2.0 tools. First, I learned how far a digital asset can travel if people find it has value.One of my student's YouTube videos Educational Uses of Second Life ... learned first hand the exponential power of the social network of the web. My blog book tour was a huge success for ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and ... the questions are even broken down further into more sub-questions which you can read for yourself at the original ASTD Blog posting Network Feedback . The assumption seems to be that there is one "best" place for asking a question. One social network for Learning Management System questions and, perhaps another, for a question about learning strategies or business strategies or marketing strategies. If only you could pinpoint that particular location or network then ...

This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for the learning and development community. We aim to exceed expectations. If you have a to-learn list and are willing to share, and willing to share how you work with that list, that would likely be helpful information. I constantly have a "to-learn" list. Some of the items are necessary and some are "pie-in-the-sky." I tend to have two methods of working on ... third, I think learning how to network with others to acquire the necessary learning (once identified on the ...

... great social networking features that make it easy to share your knowledge and establish connections with others in your industry. I started off by joining the ASTD, and CLO groups and I think I'll look into the eLearning Guilds group ...

Anyone going to the ASTD Conference in San Diego in June? It's nice to get together at conferences . If you are going - please drop a comment below. Even better if you might be interested in blogging about sessions, thoughts, notes, etc. from your experience at the conference. I won't even say it's Mandatory Blogging. :) Likely this is a better way to have success with networking ahead of the conference ( Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results ). ASTD's site ... doing an eLearning 2.0 Presentation at the ASTD Conference.

ASTD TechKnowledge 2009 is coming to Las Vegas in January. I'm doing two sessions including a keynote / general session - descriptions below. If you are planning to go to the conference and read this, please drop me a comment because Get Together at Conferences - F2F Still Matters . Better yet, go take a look at: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions ... -learning 2.0 methods to see examples of where and how tools such as social networks, social bookmarking, wikis, blogs, and ...

ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 is coming soon in San Antonio. Now that it's less than a month away, I thought I'd sit down and try to do some conference planning. To help me prepare, I went back to a few previous posts on related topics... In ... - Ten Tips for Extending your Education Conference Session Hopping - A Practical Guide Conference Networking Tools Ray Sims had some good practical suggestions in the comments of Conference Networking Tools that suggest how to make contact. It somewhat presupposes you have a purpose. It also supposes you can get into and use ASTD CONNECT ...

Administrivia The Chapter's President Elect shared some initiatives I'm personally looking forward to for next year. Here's a great opportunity for local ASTD Chapter members: The board's looking to conduct many affordable workshops next year. To pull this off, the chapter will naturally be looking for membership support to host ... networking. The board will be open to your ideas. In January, expect a learning/networking event devoted to structured networking. The Snowflake Effect: Readiness for the Age of Uniqueness. 7:00 PM. At this point we conferenced ...

I'm trying Slideshare for the first time. I've embedded the presentation from last week that I mentioned before . SlideShare Link A few posts that go along with the content: Delicious Upgrade Have Work and Learning Changed or the Way We Do Work and Learning? Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) What is eLearning 2.0? eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 Learning Trends Point To and Shape eLearning 2.0 Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Start-Up Guides Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & ...

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 workshops locally that can then help fund it. I'm looking forward to doing more of these this next year. But in the cases ... month's Big Question - Network Feedback and in Getting Help . So, I'm hoping that folks can recommend what I should ... speaker in the Birmingham, Alabama area for a local ASTD on eLearning 2.0 or Work Literacy. What would you do if you ...

Here is my presentation on eLearning that was presented at the Orange County ASTD. Im trying ... We Do Work and Learning? Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) What is eLearning 2.0 ... willing to make those available, as well? Best regards, Mel ASTD-OC Technology SIG Member   ... Due to Social Networking an... Blogging as Part of Classroom ...

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Tony O'Driscoll, Paula Ketter and I did a webcast for T+D - ASTD's publication today. Unfortunately, we ran into a few technical issues. For example, I was trying to demonstrate elements of my blog and found out that folks were not ... Predictive markets Social Networking New Hires Communities of Practice One of the questions we got was: How do you start ... actually some good stuff that we discussed. The associated links: Learning and Networking With A Blog (T+D article) Today's PowerPoint Presentation ASTD homepage Webcast Archives T+D magazine website ...

I just saw a post from Tim Sosbe - The "New" Network that tells us the following about the Brandon Hall Network ... to collaborate, share resources and make new connections. ... If you've read other blogs claiming the Network is dead, consider that a great exaggeration! I feel somewhat bad because if you Google search "Brandon Hall Network" the results give you a couple of links to Brandon Hall and then links to a few of my past posts around the network such as: Brandon Hall Network - Nicely Done? and Brandon Hall Researchers Blogging - Implications? where I predict and ...

Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Blogs ASTDs Learning Circuits Blog Barts Virtual Learning Worlds Blog Ben Hamiltons Learning Design and ... Thoughts on Innovation... List to Learn, Learn to List Games for Change Social Networking Not ...

My article in Training + Development Magazine was just published - Learning and Networking with a Blog . You must launch the reader and then go to page 20 to find the article. Unfortunately, a couple of things got cut between the final edits from T+D and when it was published. So here are two associated pieces of content that are the article's "deleted scenes": Getting Started with Blogging Probably the first step in blogging is learning about blogging for ... contribute to ASTD's Learning Circuits Monthly Big Question. You can find this on the Learning Circuit's ...

Organization, Business Objects, NATPE, Jewish Funders Network, ASTD, ad:tech, University of California, Santa Barbara ... White Label Social Networking Solutions, Part II A Comparison Chart by TechCrunch The information in the ... and custom social networking solutions. For do-it-yourself, hosted solutions, please see our previous chart and our post "9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network" . You can also return to the post accompanying this chart. Hover ... LiveWorld Neighborhood America Omnifuse Pringo Networks ...

In this month's T&D Magazine published by ASTD , I have a number of quotes in the Need for Speed article by ... such as the Cartoon Network and Nick Jr. that, while designed for kids, are easy to navigate. Kapp states...There are ... teaming with Allison Rossett from San Diego State Univ. for an ASTD Featured Webcast. The details are below, if you ... special webcast for ASTD members. The webcast, based on the February T+D article "The Need for Speed" written by Michael ... approach. Title: Rapid Learning Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Time: 2:00 p.m. EST You can register if you are an ASTD ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...

ASTD ... transitioned the site to function better with ASTDs other online offerings. In doing so, weve added some new features and cleared ... ;ASTD recognizes individuals and teams who advance the knowledge of the workplace learning and performance profession ... calculators.   Industry Headlines ASTD Announces 40 ... Search of Network Experts More Industry News ...