I just saw a blog that appears to have been created solely as a means to interact, capture thoughts and ideas during the Brandon Hall Innovations conference. It's a great way for folks not at the conference to have a sense of what's going on there. And, I bet it is a fantastic learning and networking experience for the blogger. Kudos to the BH folks for encouraging this even if there were issues .

What a wonderful conference it was in Fredericton, New Brunswick on mobile learning . Government, universities and research centers were represented and attended. It was a real treed to be able to speak in front of such an enlightened audience. The speakers were the cream of the crop on mobile learning: John Traxler, Steve Wexler, Stella Lee, Kevin Harvey and me (me not being cream, just soje). My presentation focused on mobile learning projects and social media to support the participants in those mobile projects. The audience engaged in the presentation making it an extra ...

If I attend a conference, I blog, so I am a conference blogger . This enables me to rethink what is said (content seeps into my mind immediately), ask questions if something seems to have a discrepancy, give speakers the chance to ... to have a conference report ready in less then 15 minutes ones I return to my professional base camp . There are a ... swiftly go through a few guidelines that will make your life easier as you broadcast almost instantly from a conference ... be) a conference blogger look at there quick PDF book ( only 6 pages or the booklet version only 3 pages ). If ...

Don't forget the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations online conference begins on Monday.  The conference is hosted by Tony Karrer, Jay Cross and George Siemens. I'm on first (Monday at 4pm GMT - that's 8 am Pacific) with my presentation of the 25 FREE Tools every learning professional should have in their toolbox and then participating in a Tools discussion (on Tuesday at 4 pm GMT) with Tony and Robin Good. Join us! Find out more at the website - and also join the community where you can have discussions with all the hosts and presenters.

Jay Cross, George Siemends and Tony Karrer invite you to  ... "Join us to explore new developments, track emerging opportunities, network with other learning pioneers, and deal with topics you don't find at the conferences you have to travel to. Come online the week of November 17 for a different kind of conference experience. Mark your calendar now. The event is free . Events are live and online.  Hook up with fellow innovative thinkers and international visionaries to gain insight into what's going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of learning." I shall ...

Looking at the Gnomedex 7.0 video repository to check out the knowledge and the speakers. In the meanwhile putting a course in eXe for the low resource health specialist Maria Zolfo.

Writing for most part of the day. Hopefully my workshop and/or presenation proposals for online educa Berlin and online educa Moscow will be accepted. One theme was vlogging/vodcasting and the other main topic was activating the brain of the eLearner with psychological tricks.

Preparing a presentation on mobile learning for a conference 2, 3 October 2007 in New Brunswick, Canada. Getting all ITM's mobile learning projects into a creative, informative presentation takes a bit of time and thought.

George Siemens is organizing an online conference on corporate learning. The conference will begin on 15 November and last untill the 20 November 2007. Looking forward to it. The conference wiki is already in progress.

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to particpate with colleagues from IBM and Duke CE in a plenary session at the HRPS Conference Our session was entitled “ Second Life: What's the Business Case for HR in the Virtual World?” My buddy Steve Mahaley (Ace Carson in SL) did an awesome job of producing this plenary. And boy was it ever a production! We had two large screens. One was projecting SL the other was projecting charts. We had an elaborate ... Makers and we got a lot of positive feedback after the session. All in all it was a great conference and I think we got ...

The last two days EMC held its 2nd annual Innovation Conference, right in the Education Services building. I was lucky enough to be given a last-minute invite to the conference. I attended last year’s conference (as a judge, not sure how that happened!), and both times the event has been very energizing and encouraging. You may be thinking: wait ... idea. Next year I’ll try to geek it up more and hide my education side. After the conference, we had a meet ... . Here’s a quick concept map: I’ll try to break it down: 4 of us had Innovation Conferences ...

An amazing speech by Hans Rosling.

Just been accepted to give a workshop on vodcasting in November at the online educa Berlin . Working to get all the paper work finished.

Anyone going to the ASTD Conference in San Diego in June? It's nice to get together at conferences . If you are ... , 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 ... to going to spark ideas... Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee Session Hopping a Practical Guide Conference Preparation Better Questions for Learning Professionals Continuing Thoughts on Questions Oh, ...

The post / poll / discussion around having better conferences continues to grow. There are quite a few really good comments and the trackbacks from the post are really quite good. Discussion of Wifi issues at conferences, George Siemens lamenting about ED-MEDIA 2007, Jay Cross and Karl Kapp calling for an unconference in Monterey - and my suggestion to colocate with the eLearningGuild in Santa Clara/San Jose, a question of whether virtual conferences are better, and more. Great stuff.

... conferences. As you know creating Better Conferences is something that very much interests me. Check out that post, the poll results and the discussion for lots of ideas on how to make conferences better. But Clive's major point is that at today's conferences the mix is: His definitions are: ideas - presentations from gurus, experts and thought ... me having just returned from the ASTD Conference. That conference was certainly the old model - mostly ideas and ... participation ahead of the event through getting together at conferences . But I wasn't very successful. I've ...

Hate to post again around better conferences but two things: 1. I just saw a fantastic post - Do We Need NECC that discusses a lot of the same issues. And there are some fantastic comments/trackbacks there. 2. On the original post - better conferences - there's been a call for moving this to a Wiki. I'm not really sure what the Wiki would look like, but it seems that there's an opportunity to have something along the lines of a Conference Patterns wiki. It would discuss different patterns that can be used for conferences as a whole or elements of a conference. Unfortunately, ...

This has been a busy conference week for me. On Monday, I attended the 55th Annual Society for Technical Communication conference in Philadephia, PA. You can see the conference web site here. I was only at the conference briefly but had a great audience for my presentation with some great questions and discussion. You can find a copy of my presentation and the presentations of many of the of the folks who lead sessions at the Materials page of the STC Conference page ... presentation, a delightful discussion and I thank her for including me in the conference. You can check out her Blog ...

As I'm thinking about going to the eLearningGuild Annual Gathering in Boston next month and ASTD in Atlanta in June, I went back to look at some notes I had created before around getting ready for conferences ... Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee And the net of it was that you really needed to be prepared with good questions, which I had talked about in: Better Questions for Learning Professionals Then, I realized that the LCB Big Question from ... ? http://learningcircuitblog.pbwiki.com/bigquestions I also ran across this good post: Conference Survival ...

I’ve stolen a moment here at the IiL08 conference in San Jose.  Couldn’t be happier with the intensity, engagement, and buzz.  Lisa Johnson ’s keynote this morning was inspirational. I was taking mental notes as she spoke, barely able to keep up with ideas playing out in my head. Anyway, worst thing so far has been my choice of ... ;conference brain.’ Will sleep well pass out tonight. David Allen delivered the lunch keynote. I’ve been a ... conference. More conference brain. The Social Media Jump Start workshop I did w/ Michelle Martin was great.

Since I'll be liveblogging, I figured I'd share my goals for this particular conference: - I'm seeing a series of sessions on XML and one session on ActionScript in eLearning. Silke Fleicher is also doing a session on Captivate 3. Anything that will help improve my technical chops is a good thing. - Learn more about adding a games approach to our ... eLearning Guild conference and have not seen him speak yet - You GOTTA go to this one!!!!! - Liveblog as much as possible ... eLearning Guild Pageflakes to see all of the other takes on this conference.

My colleagues and I recently submitted a paper/presentation for the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) Conference. This was their annual training and technology conference. We presented on some of the training programs we are working on, and we also gave a primer on trends in the learning field. One of the more remarkable things was a simple question asked by my colleague. Presenting to a room of about 100 people, she asked who ... community. I'm not saying that learning conferences are bad...far from it. It's just that sometimes we suffer ...

The Learning Technologies Conference in Portland, Oregon is happening as I type.  Christine Martell , Michele Martin and I are hosting.  There are a few things I wanted to point out as we are going through this: Learning and working are not exclusive.  They can happen at the same time.  We have such a tendency to separate them. Social Learning IS NOT training.  Unlike #1, we absolutely must separate these two.  Until we do we cannot grasp the advantages of using Web 2.0 tools for learning.  They fit very nicely together, but are not synonyms. Training = Delivery.  ...

... yesterday a new scope seminar started on personal learning environments . and an online conference on the future of education started at the University of Manitoba. all this accessable knowledge... viva Web.

... committee and the conference and speakers looks promising. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2009 Barcelona, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2009 * Keynote Speakers ... Hiroaki Ogata , Dept. of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima, Japan * Conference ... learning opportunity. The IADIS Mobile Learning 2009 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and ... . * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of ...

Gearing up for the eLearning Guild Annual Gathering on 14 - 17 April 2008 in Orlanda, Florida. This year I will be speaking on the subject of social media and how they are impacting the learning capacity in low resource areas. It is still a very new area of expertise, but the change that is happening can have a global effect. I talk in one of the concurrent session on Thursday 17th April at 10 o'clock. If you are planning to go there, look me up or comment and then we can meet up. The speakers list looks promising, so I hope I will see you there. A short overview of what I will talk ...

Image via Wikipedia A little explanation: I ran a customer conference last week in Las Vegas .  That was it.  No regular work, no blogging, nothing.  Now that I am recovered (which is relative) I am back to real life.  Because of the conference I had an abnormally small number of emails.  (I have never texted so much in my life, though!) I really can’t use last week as a real week, so I revert to my first week, the week before, and this week will ... never come close to that place again.  And it wasn’t just me - it was almost every single one of the conference ...

The eLearning DevCon 2007 is coming this summer. I know many of you need to plan your conference schedules early, and you also want to take advantage of the early registration discounts ($749 through April 9th). Good news! Register with the code iPhone and you will be entered into an exclusive drawing for an iPhone . What? You've never heard of the elearndevcon? Check out what people have said from previous years . For the eLearning Developer that's in the trenches every day designing, developing, and delivering eLearning, this is the best show...at the BEST price. Oh ...

In preparation of the live blogging I have planned during the eLearning Guilds Annual Gathering , I list my schedule. If any of you are planning to blog on this conference, let me know your schedule, we could link to one another. The tag I use for this conference is AG08. Thursday 15 April: Session 103 at 10.45 am: The Secret of Delivering Outstanding Virtual Classroom Training by Frank Gartland. Session 206 at 01.00 pm: Evidence-based e-Learning Methods to Build Creative Thinking Skills by Ruth Clark. Session 302 at ...

The eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering has started. Yesterday there were a couple of master classes and pre-conference sessions, but I limited myself to taking a swim (enthusiastic: there is a heated, big, outdoor swimming pool, hooray!) and going up to the VIP-reception in the evening. The nicest encounter of the evening was with Alan Levine (of whom I am going to follow two sessions) he looked very open hearted and filled with warm energy. This was the person who ... Disciplines of breakthrough learning and Will from the Thalheimer association, they gave a pre-conference ...