Serendipity is a wonderful word for how most blogging gets done. You discover something unexpectedly, begin to make some mental connections, and then reflect on it by writing about your new find in the hopes that someone will find it interesting as well and add something to the conversation. Last night, while preparing presentations, I discovered Esko Kilpi from Finland. What a great name. Check out his article in Nokia People titled The Power of Peer Production . Its a big .jpg file but at full screen it's readable. Affiliation through personal choice: "Peer production is ...

This is a neat idea that I came across tonight. Unfortunately it's into it's 3 part, but there is still time to participate and collaborate if you would like to be a part of Spike Lee's next major film. You can check out the Nokia Productions website and upload your photos, videos, text, etc all from your phone. Selected items will be used in the making of the upcoming film. Humanity is the overall theme and focuses on the role that music plays throughout the ... you can make and you don't have to use a Nokia product to take part in the project. Take a look around you; use ...

I've been more productive this morning than I've been in 2 weeks. Stress shuts down decision-making. Looking at the ... over at Life Coaches Blog with Matt Cornell, a productivity expert: I think of (productivity) as nested circles: ...

How does your engineering design process stack up? or down? MIT's Steven Eppinger who is the Deputy Dean of the Sloan School of Management was recently interviewed on what aspects of product design are needed by successful companies. Professor Eppinger also leads MIT's executive seminar: Product Design, Development and Management . He is also authors a text on this subject. Podcast: Product Development Trends and Innovations I have added this to the Engineering Learning Wiki podcast page .

... companies right now. Significant increases in productivity with a wiki. The productivity increases are really what ... than answering the same questions all the time Productivity How do you quantify this? Hard to tell–how do you ... productivity in less than a year. Q: Did you have a wiki before? A: No, they just used central file sharing. He had never ... can answer customer questions immediately. Technorati Tags: PBwiki , productivity , ...

... methods no longer effectively reached their students. The productivity paradox - c/net Productivity growth has slowed since 2004, however, and nobody is sure why. One theory that may explain declining productivity growth has been ... benefit from productivity-stimulating technology. All that's left are complicated and nuanced jobs requiring ...

We have two holy grails in this industry, ROI and Productivity . ROI and Productivity (ROIP) are great for talking about manufacturing widgets. They are even great for talking about call centers. But value creation? Leadership? Relationship management? Innovation? Would you use such metrics for an acquisition? How about a hire of a key corporate officer? Would you make a career switch to improve your personal ROI or productivity? Would you use ROIP to make the case to develop a web portal for your enterprise? How about ROIP for picking out what to have for lunch? With these ...

If you find yourself with a few hours to spend doing exactly what you fancy, then you may consider looking at this list of fascinating free websites and applications at listible.com : http://www.listible.com/list/complete-list-of-web-2-0-products-and-services . I know there are lots of other things you may fancy doing more than this, but let's just imagine these aren't available, alright?

Productivity 2.0: How the New Rules of Work Are Changing the Game - Zenhabits For years, books and articles and blogs on productivity have been showing us how to be more productive: crank out the tasks, multi-task, work faster, be ... productivity, or Productivity 1.0. What's new? 280 Slides There is a new online presentation creator in town -- ...

Another thought just occurred to me based on my last post Innovation Geography Based and Innovation in eLearning . Ben Werdmuller posted his comments on this Does location matter for web startups? and asked about innovation in eLearning, especially innovation that leads to products. One thing that just dawned on me is how few product vendor blogs there are in eLearning. If you look on my link roll, there's one from Articulate, elgg, ummm ... I'm already running out. Where's a blog from Saba, SumTotal? Do they not have anything interesting to say about where things are going?

August 1997 Distance education and industrial production: a comparative ... MASS PRODUCTION PREPARATORY WORK PLANNING ORGANIZATION SCIENTIFIC CONTROL METHODS ... , structural elements, concepts and principles derived from the theories of industrial production are used here to interpret the ... equated with processes in industrial production. The comparison is purely heuristic. A comparison of this kind ... university or college work, namely research, comparisons with the production process already exist. In 1919, Max ...

Toyota has changed the economic and business landscape. Author and professor Jeffrey K. Liker explains that this success was the result of consistently applying four key management principles for organizational excellence-Philosophy, People, Problem Solving, and Process. The Lean Blog has now published a three part series / podcast of interviews with Professor Liker on his new book, Toyota Culture. In this book he notes that a key aspect to Toyota's success is culture ... in fact it is the "heart and soul of the Toyota Way" Jeff Liker Interview - Parts One | Two | ...

... specific to your organization: They could type widget XYZ to immediately pull a spec sheet for a product.

Last week I discussed Mozilla’s new project, Ubiquity . Ubiquity is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to quickly perform tasks that would normally take several extra steps (and involve you having to access other web sites). It’s a great little tool that makes power-users giddy with excitement. Ok, maybe just me… I’ve been experimenting with the commands in Ubiquity , and I managed to create a few that will be pretty helpful at work. The three commands I’m sharing are: lms Type in lms topic - and Ubiquity will take you to your LMS search ...

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... need new tools to organize linear content like audio. The growing productivity divide - Seth Godin Can you ...

... explore new media and new ways of working, the more you learn, the more productive you will become (in the long ...

John Anderton: "I need your help. You contain information. I need to know how to get at it." In the recent science-fiction thriller "Minority Report," Tom Cruise plays Detective John Anderton who solves future crimes by being immersed in a "data cave," where he rapidly accesses all the relevant information about the identity, location and associates of the potential victim. A team at PurdueUniversity is currently developing a similar "data-rich" environment for scientific discovery that uses high-performance computing and artificial intelligence software to display information and ...

Part of what we do in the eLearning community is help others become better at what they do by offering instructionally sounds learning opportunities. Well, we can also help people get smarter by introducing them to time saving techniques, or Life Hacks as they have become known. My favorite Lifehacker is Merlin Mann of 43 Folders . This is Merlin's presentation at Google on Getting Your Inbox to Zero . Many of Merlin's suggestions are based on the book Getting Things Done and he references the GTD process. I do recommend the book and implementing some sort of process in your email ...

Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind : eLearning ... Many that discusses the disconnect of what LMS products are focusing on "competency mapping and effective resource ... learning experience. While I welcome LMS products providing these kinds of capabilities, I am worried that we are ... . Further, the fact that hes suggesting that they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two ... helps the individual and by helping the individual it helps the collective. Making LMS products bigger, more ...

I ran across an article by Bob Mosher in CLO entitled: Moving from One to Many that discusses the disconnect of what LMS products are focusing on "competency mapping and effective resource management" vs. what Bob sees as the overall ... products providing these kinds of capabilities, I am worried that we are about to see another whole cascade of LMS ... they need to get on-board with collaboration suggests that LMS products are two cycles behind. Focusing on job roles, teams ... individual it helps the collective. Making LMS products bigger, more complex is likely the exactly wrong way to go.

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Google finally gets into the Wiki game by re-launching the product they acquired last year (JotSpot) under a a new name: Google Sites. See this description of the product via TechCrunch blog. I'll be trying it!

Undone is a productivity tool that lets you manage your 'to do' lists and the bigger projects that they belong to. Undone is a productivity tool that lets you tag your actions, and share them via feeds and blog widgets ...

... that is happening in media today. I believe content and context is more important than media production quality. You can spend millions on a Superbowl commercial with high production value, or you can be clever enough to get your product on YouTube. In learning situations the content and the context is more important to learners than the production quality ... production helps. The only time high quality production value helps is when you are trying to "sheepdip" your entire ... "high quality" production people will be entertained, and therefore learn. There's definitely a problem with this, but ...

CustomGuide have released some Quick Reference Guides for Microsoft, Mac and Adobe products. These printable quick references are free to use, distribute, and share! CustomGuide Computer Training Quick Reference ...

Talked to some vendors and grabbed some pens. Handed out misc. business cards. The most interesting product was Sealund's 2D game tool. Simple, but may be a good way to introduce games design to SMEs when working on their product. Also (finally) met Mark Oehlert . Yes - it takes going to Orlando for 2 people from DC to meet. Hi Mark!!!! Can't wait to see the ILS competition (I keep wanting to call this ILT....) ...

I was thinking about the earlier post on how will we know we are getting close to e-learning meeting its potential. I thought of one more, slightly further down the road. Regulations! How long until we see- WARNING - Use this e-learning product only as specified. It is against the law to use this e-learning product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.

Microsoft is having trouble supporting the long tail.  37signals is filling the gaps in web based productivity software ... MS suite but choose a more user-friendly, well designed web product. So where are the little guys supporting the long tail in eLearning?  Where's the little LMS challenging the bloated million dollar LMS products?  ...