The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

I received an interesting communication from Virginia Yonkers in response to my July 7th post Web 2.0 technologies and learning professionals’ opportunities and challenges. In my post I asserted that in theory learning professionals could start with themselves and help to develop it Web / Learning 2.0 technologies throughout organizations, in my experience, building a [...]

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You may recall this post where I discussed a new Rapid E-Learning authoring tool I was beta-testing for a friend.
If, like me, you’ve spent extended periods of time creating manuals from other media formats, you’ll appreciate the hard work and, to be honest, tedium involved in generating, formatting, proofing, and finally producing documentation to accompany [...]

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I blogged recently about how Internet search terms can lead you down some unusual highways and byways.
None more true than today: for some obscure reason I Googled “elearning” + “boat.” Now while I’m a pretty good swimmer, but I hail from a land-locked county and never had any affinity for boats and whatnot. (I did [...]

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Among other things it allows me to see such statistics about site usage, page loads, popularity of site by location (for an English-language site, I’ve an unusually large group of readers in Brazil, for example: Olá! Como vai?), location of subscribers (hello also to my most Northerly ready in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada)…

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And Lo! it came to pass that a friend of mine who would describe herself as a training practitioner based out of Hartford, CT. found herself bereft of employment, for the economic downturn that is called Recession was cast upon the land, and the days were dark.
Straitly was she in need of employment, [...]

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…it just goes to show you where a mis-typed URL can land you: I was on my way over to the Xyleme Learning Pulse blog - I quite like The Blunted Edge opinion pieces there - when I accidentally dropped an extraneous “e” in front of “Learning” (finger memory I guess?).
Anyhoo, I was promptly [...]

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I had planned today to continue my series on organizational learning and e-learning ecosystems, but I have become aware of an interesting new hosted productivity and collaboration suite from Adobe called Acrobat.com, so I thought I’d discuss that today. Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary is known to respond with the acronym “IMFA” (It’s My Airline) when [...]

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Phil Hartmann
Born September 24, 1948
Died May 28, 1998 (aged 49)
Ten years gone.
R.I.P.

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Phil Hartmann
Born September 24, 1948
Died May 28, 1998 (aged 49)
Ten years gone.
R.I.P.

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In my last blog post I wrote about the optimism learning professionals are currently expressing about the short- to medium-term growth of the industry, despite the current economic climate, and the traditional impact that recessionary times have on learning and development in organizations. I’ve been thinking hard about the factors that may be influencing attitudes, [...]

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