On the plane this afternoon I listened to a podcast from the Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar . The guest presenter was Tom Kelley, general manager at the world-renowned design firm, IDEO. His talk focused not upon how to increased innovation in the organization, but why it is 100% necessary to innovate as an individual. In short, you must consider yourself a personal innovation project. Organizations don't come up with innovations, people do ... content during my talk. Quite frankly I had personally dismissed Twitter as a waste of time ... I was forced to ...

... the family medical emergency that knocked out one of my presenters, has resolved itself in a HUGELY positive way ... taking notes> So to recap - the challenge was to design a game that would reveal the 'ethical truth' of a person ... various risks/rewards in ethical situations that differ from person to person. Karl Kapp ( Web site / slides ... touches on something akin to Joe's "middle path" - this idea that there may not be a pure, ethical path for a person to ... "accidental" ethical situation - something mirrored in a couple of the other presentations.... OK...those are just the ...

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 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 the issues around eLearning 2.0 , Work Literacy , etc. This is similar to the issue being discussed as part of ...

... just for fun part of my degree work personal learning (optional)    professional development (required ... I feel may be a good person to know in the future based on their profile and possibly a limited messaging exchange. This ... .    If someone sends a personal message with some context about why they want to be friends, then I will friend ... mindset: the way I find it easiest to manage social networking for professional purposes and social networking for personal ... professional relationships because I feel as if they both show the same me. I do not mind posting personal pictures or ...