... person directly above them). If you ask an employee "So....how do you like to be managed?"- you probably won't get a ... Alarm bells go off when I hear someone say "Our company has this management training program..." Usually this means ... ill-advised "teamwork" sessions when the manager gets back to the office. "Oh no - the boss has been to another management training session. I wonder if I have enough vacation days...." And I'll admit to having that reaction when I ... story about my favorite manager. I was secretly hoping that someone would "get it", connect some of the dots, ...

... became a group happening and was a real exchange of ideas and pointers on how to manage the growing digital knowledge ... , moving from a folksonomy (a personal, intuitive tagging system) to a more general tagsonomy (a tagging system that people ... getting in touch with new knowledge. Management should be made aware of the surplus they get from employees that can focus some part of their business hours on retrieving and trying out new ideas/content (cfr the google managers model of the early years or the Semco management system (books on this topic Ricardo Semler). One thing is for sure: the more you ...

... are truly end-user friendly with very little training required, 4) a credible management and maintenance story for IT ... in my organization..... From what I can tell, the overarching trend is a move towards more personal responsibility ... implementation. And, fortunately, I'm given the freedom to do so without much gripping from management (so far). What is lost ... to blame-models of management. Employees are actively discouraged from taking responsibility. Way too much energy is ... . Management needs to start actively rewarding initiative. Employees need to start taking responsibility for themselves ...

... that they recommended managers to engage in if they are to attain the highest levels of cognitive fitness: Work ...

I received an excellent example of the value of IT friends within an organization. Yesterday, I talked to one of the members of our network team. The conversation started with borrowing sugar (all we currently have in our office is Splenda, Equal, and Sweet and Low - YUCK!). As we talked, he saw the Google Sidebar on my personal laptop. So you've found Google Sidebar? Yeah - I'm thinking of using it as a possible training resource tool here. Whaddya think? I love Google Sidebar. Very cool tool. I have it on my home PC. I'm really concerned about how the computers here ...

Personal Learning and Personal Learning Environments As part of the recent discussion on personal learning and personal learning environments, I went back to find my posts on these topics and on personal knowledge management and related. Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments The future of learning is personal learning PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools for Personal Learning Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ... Do Learning Professionals Make ...

... in touch with the most important features of their times: classic arts, becoming a worldly person. This Grand Tour ... lot depended on the person on whether or not and particularly what they would learn. I like the political ...

... practical one. The practical part is co-given by a person in the institute that has had some experience with that specific ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments : eLearning Technology Theres been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony ODriscoll ... blog posts on the topic: Stephen Downes - Personal Learning I can talk about webs and networks and personal ...

... nbsp;         A PLE (personal learning environment) is: a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage their learning, manage both content and process ... environment (VLE) or learning management system (LMS) , such as Blackboard or Moodle, is: a software system designed to help teachers by facilitating the management of educational courses for their students, especially ...

... the Performance Manager to set and assess personal objectives for each employee that reflect whole business objectives ... the sorts of problems that many corporates face, and which generally lead them to a conventional learning management ... toolkit. Moomis, their Modular Object-Orientated Management Information System would you believe, adds all sorts of ... administrators to allocate any number of users to any number of different groups and designate any number of managers to each group. Once users are allocated to groups, administrators and managers can use the Report Creator to obtain management ...

At last! A user friendly LMS that doesn't require a 4 day course in administration. From Savvica an new online LMS called Nuvvo allows users to create, brand, and market online learning in minutes. Nuvvo LMS The Personal Learning Management System Call it bite-sized, mini, or Savvica Lite; we call it Nuvvo, the first LMS for the individual ... Full evaluation and gradebook tools I have had extensive experience working with multiple Learning Management Systems ... powered by Savvica , an enterprise learning management system that is geared for corporate learning management ...

... management of personal development plans, learning content management, reporting, and so on. The VLE (Moodle, Blackboard ... Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Now I don't ... SumTotals was little ol' open-source Moodle: Award for market share - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management Systems - Platinum award: Moodle. Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Award for satisfaction - Small and Medium Corporate Learning Management ...

I’ve seen several articles over the past few months about online reputations, and why it is important for you to always be aware of how you are represented on the web. Michele Martin over at The Bamboo Project Blog has a great post titled With Web 2.0, You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide: Tools and Resources for Managing Your Online Reputation . The main idea is that you should be increasingly more aware of how you represent your self, both personally and professionally, on the web. It’s becoming easier and easier for people and companies to track down every ...

Coming back from my vacation, I realized that I needed to go through a clean up exercise again on my RSS feeds. It turned out to work pretty well for me this time around because I have been following the advice I've seen a couple of places: Controlling RSS Overload ... Animal House Style Managing Many RSS Feeds The Myth of Keeping Up Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective My basic ... adage among small business CEOs that you never hear - "I fired that person too early." Generally, the tendency is to ...

... practical ways to build personal informal networks. Helping groups learn from mistakes and errors, practices to carry ... practices ? Discovering opportunities and gaps in knowledge flows, improving personal networking and finding experts ... . Communities of practice, incentives & recognition for personal mentoring, story collection and telling, cross-domain ...

... managed by the boomers, and they did this in a period that we would regard now as unbelievably austere and crisis-ridden ... circumstances have been perhaps unique in history. My personality was shaped by the liberalism of the 1960s when we had ...

Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? In it, he points out that a stepping stone to Enterprise 2.0 adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of ... Personal Knowledge Management system, and my day-to-day set of tools that enhance my knowledge worker productivity ... I doing? All. Maybe there are some distinctions between personal knowledge management, personal learning ...

Great post by Dave Pollard - Knowledge Management: Finding Quick Wins and Long Term Value the second Dilbert comic strip in the post is worth the visit to the page. Of course, so is the Quick Wins list. I'm probably particularly happy with the list because several items echo suggestions I've been making in posts such as: Managing your RSS Feeds PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools for Personal Learning Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ... I'm hopefully that as a community ...

... and came up with some interesting points.  At the personal level was to be nimble, strategic, and develop yourself.  Tony ... infrastructure and capability.  Dave Pollard today talked about moving from Knowledge Management 1.0 to 2.0, empowering ... ? A couple of recurrent themse were selling this to management, and managing the proliferation of tools.  For the ...

It took a number of attempts and rescheduling but I FINALLY introduced our Senior Management to Moodle. This took a ... together a Learning Management System (Moodle) to help us keep track of the tutorials. This tool will be an important part ... reside on our intranet. If the person is not in our building, they can't get to the tutorials. We will have outside access turned on (hopefully) next week. Other big advantage - the managers will not have to wait for trainer availability or for classroom availability for training. 3) Reporting - Managers like reports. One report they all wanted ...

Course Management Systems and Pedagogy © Lisa M. Lane 2007 Course Management ... , or how teaching is impacted by the systems. With the emergence of new CMSs (also called Learning Management ... . Course management systems, by virtue of their intent and design, create limitations on faculty independence ... move toward standardization as a way to ease management issues (Danaher et al 2004, Katz 2003).  ... . Indeed, "Faculty adopt course managment systems principally to manage the more mundane tasks ...

... to help people transition into management roles throughout the organization (customer service, sales, operations, etc ... Would You Do to Support New Managers? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this ... as possible please provide specific suggestions to this person. Since dialog with her is possible at this point, if ... - learning & development - Mar Big Q: Supporting New Managers shehnaaz - Interlinked Learnings Learning CIrcuits Big Question --- What Would You Do to Support New Managers? Michele Eby Media Partners Trainer's Blog 6 Ways to ...

... really surprises me that people are so satisfied with how organizations are supporting new managers. I personally have ... Big Question: Supporting New Managers? - didn't get as many posts as in the past few months. He wonders what's the cause ... question at a session with Harold and Jay Cross. Someone asked how informal learning might apply to new managers. I ... mean that informal learning doesn't apply to new manager training? Or are we powerless to help make informal learning ... Learning? that suggests lots of informal learning approaches and think about how these might apply to new managers.

Management) Gary Woodill forwarded a link to a .pdf download of a new book “ Plan to Learn: Case Studies of Elearning Project Management . It’s a useful exploration (Canadian-centric) of case studies in elearning projects ... the case studies provided. I’m personally still looking for a report on “how do we design learning in today ... Connectivism Content Content Management Copyright/IP/DRM Design Elearning Evaluation/Assessment/ROI Games/Simulations Information Architecture Innovation Instructional Design Knowledge Management Learning ...

Based on my experience in visiting blogs for the first time and having a hard time deciding what the content of the blog really was, I decided that what I needed was a blog guide. So, I decided to create a Blog Guide for my own blog and put a permanent link for it on my blog up in the header. Since I just saw a post by Jim Belshaw that referenced it - Personal Reflections: Tony Karrer and eLearning Technology where Jim said: I do wish more people would follow this ... my guide needs lots of help, but I feel it's better than nothing. On a similar subject, I recently posted how I Manage ...

EDUCAUSE Review > Archive > Volume 40, Number 3, May/June 2005 > From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities: From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities ... this article From Course Management to Curricular Capabilities: A Capabilities Approach for the Next-Generation CMS Van Weigel This article appears as chapter 12 in Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental ... contemporary course management system (CMS) is both a blessing and curse for our evolving understanding of the value of ...

Words of wisdom about managing the flow of personal productivity.  (I'm guilty of violating some of these principles myself and need a kick-in-the-butt reminder every now and again.) Web Strategist: Manage your time as you ... how to manage your time effectively: Time is Like Money ... my personal email (second priority) then any work email (third email). As soon as you answer emails, you’re now ... ... Manage meetings with software: Try to avoid meetings, instead use ...

An Intel Colleague from the Digital Home Group blogged this little gem.  Set up your own server that can deliver your personal content in multiple formats for FREE!   TVersity is the product and it conjurs up all sorts of ideas for distributing learning content behind a firewall to the many digital devices available to our employees. What is it? "The TVersity Media Server lets you manage your Internet and home media and create your personalized lineup of channels, or as we call it your Personal Entertainment Guide (PEG). It then serves this media to a multitude of ...

... traditional project and change management follows a linear process, what may be more effective for emerging technology is ... relationships between the me, the we, and the many. The boundaries aren't always clear. Me: The individual. Personal ... project management is very linear, but we need something more iterative. Iterative change is a recurring theme here ... , iterative projects Distributed learning Start with your personal practices because you have control there, then ...