This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and expertise if you have a question or a concern for which you need input and/or advice. The basic question is " If you need input from people, where's the best place to ask?" But, then the question breaks into sub-questions. -How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then ... social network for Learning Management System questions and, perhaps another, for a question about learning strategies ...

April 2008's Big Question was What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional? The responses to this question were quite varied. It was interesting to see that the first two responses both dealt with selling the business value of eLearning. Shaun tells us : I need to be able to sell the ROI on learning better. and How can I better ... Cross will tell you to forget ROI, but I'm not so sure that you can dismiss the notion that you have to explain the ... learning and development initiatives are actually going to grow their business, not send it into a Hindenburg-like ...

The Learning Circuits Blog big question for April is "What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional?" The simple answer to this question is " push back more ." This can be applied on many levels, but I am primarily speaking of pushing more on ROI and evaluations . I learned very early on that Analysis and Evaluations are the first things to get cut from a learning project. In actuality, the same is true for many technology related projects. While ... get put together. I've posted before that I think the number one issue facing the field is the lack of ROI ...