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If you want to get people to use systems then there are a few things you can do:

Make it the only way they can get things to happen. Eg. claiming expenses
Make sure it fits in with other systems they already use. Eg. email, SMS
Make sure it provides plenty of hand-holding when they first use it. [...]

Leon Cych’s post on outdoor video streaming got me thinking.
I wondered if I could do the same thing with my phone (a Nokia 5800 – their first attempt to compete with the iPhone, now incredibly cheap).
All About Symbian has a list of 25 top free apps – one of which is Qik, a live video [...]

A question was asked today on the Learning & Skills Group forum about whether elearning has different accessibility and usability standards to normal web design.
My answer is an emphatic “No!” – at least it shouldn’t have.
The problem is, we (the corporate elearning fraternity) have got so used to our “click next to continue” paradigm, that [...]

Lot’s of things are coming together for me at the moment. This post is an attempt to try to mash them together and see what comes out…
1) I’m reading the Cluetrain Manifesto. If there was ever a book that says what I’ve been thinking – this is it:
Many people in today’s world seem to assume [...]

OK, this is a very boring post. It’s all about code. But, if you ever have a single website which you need to rebrand for a specific client, and you can’t use a content management system, then here’s how to do it.
Basically, the code looks for a parameter in the URL (eg. www.mywebsite.co.uk?client=myclient), switches to [...]

I don’t normally write directly about the company I work for (Capita Learning & Development). I value my independence too much for that.
But, there are times when we put out stuff that’s worth talking about. Today’s a case in point.
We’ve just published a research report (embedded below), based on the opinions of senior decision makers [...]

I don’t normally write directly about the company I work for (Capita Learning & Development). I value my independence too much for that.
But, there are times when we put out stuff that’s worth talking about. Today’s a case in point.
We’ve just published a research report (embedded below), based on the opinions of senior decision makers [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I made some suggestions about how we could run conferences that have a wider reach, and are much more useful to attending delegates.
As a follow-up, I’d like to ask a couple of questions about whether you’d be willing to pay for such a conference. No personal data will be collected. [...]

Just to be clear, this isn’t going to be a list of functionalities. Instead, it’s a set of ideals that I would look for from a vendor.
Demonstrable knowledge
Any vendor in this space cannot just dish out software. They need to understand learning, how people interact with software and how organisations will use the software. Part [...]

Jane Hart is collating her annual list of the tools people use to support learning and development.
Here’s my contribution. In descending order of importance:

Google search. Need I say more? It’s fast. I know how to get the best out of it. It’s my secondary brain.
Google Chrome. I was a Firefox person, but Chrome is just [...]

This post is in response to Clive Shepherd’s thoughts on “Video Streaming brings events to a much wider audience“
Clive,
Live video streaming from conferences makes the assumption that conferences are all about delivering content.
I really don’t understand why we’ve got into this way of thinking.
Conferences are the one time when I can have live face-to-face conversations [...]

Thinking about the technology systems we use to support learning, where does yours fit?
I’ve started the process. Let me know in the comments where you think systems should go on this spectrum.

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Compliance – top down, “you must…“

Social – bottom up, “have you seen…”

SAP Learning Solution

Moodle

Wordpress

Yammer, Socialcast, Facebook, Twitter

As with any one-dimensional spectrum, we need to [...]

OK – so it begins… I’ve been wanting to write a book for a long time now. It’s going to take a long time to write it, but I know that if I don’t start now I never will.
The idea behind it is to take 5 years worth of thinking, reflecting and blogging and crystallise [...]

Norman Lamont (from Lloyds Banking Group) takes a sideways look at the risks we face with the uncontrolled use of social technology inside our corporations.
New technology – the threat to our information
View more presentations from normanlamont.

Original post from Learning Conversations.

There’s a lot I could say on this topic, but much of that will have to wait for a while.
I just wanted to highlight this report that’s just been released, from Deloitte (one of the world’s largest international accounting and consulting companies.
It looks at how social media is used internally to drive innovation, and externally [...]