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Jack Merklein from Xerox Global Services did a really great presentation at LearnTrends 2009 entitled - Common tools for Diverse Communities at Xerox Global Services.  You can find the LearnTrends 2009 Recording including Jack’s presentation.  A few follow-up thoughts. Jack is responsible for the development, care and tools for learning communities and knowledge sharing initiatives.  In practice this means a lot of different things and across many different learning communities.  A few of the different communities he discussed: New Hire Sustainability CxO While the title centered on tools for communities and knowledge sharing and he provided a list of tools … Existing Tools: Outlook email distribution lists Live Meeting with Brain Shark DocuShare Calendars Wiki Instant messaging Links to training catalog Emerging Tools: Podcasts YouTube LinkedIn (Intra-community) Training videos on YouTube A ...

After LearnTrends 2009 , I received a note from a person I know and highly respect that said, “I dropped in on several sessions over the last three days and wanted to thank you for your good facilitation skills …” It’s great to get that positive feedback, but this was actually a bit of a surprise.  I often felt during the conference that I was not doing a good job of taking advantage of the expertise that was often in the room. This was amplified when George Siemens did a highly participatory session where he had the audience list out design considerations for several things like formal vs. informal, etc.  Some tweets during the session: “opens the whiteboard up to let participants create the agenda…whoa! crazy fun! ” @chambo_online “Very intrigued to have 130 people writing on a whiteboard all at once at #learntrends … and amazingly, it didn’t suck” @cynan_sez “130+ people writing on same Elluminate whiteboard and GWave also being completed. Online learning h...

You can find other posts about eLearning Conferences in eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , and eLearning Conferences 2009. Clayton R Wright just sent me his incredible annual list of eLearning Conferences. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page and so we’ve somewhat established a pattern of published in here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com . December 2009 December 1-4, 2009 New Zealand Association for Research in Education , Distinction Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. http://www.nzare.org.nz/ December 2, 2009 Security and Defence Learning : International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and Emergency Services, 5 th , Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Berlin, Germany. http://www.security-defence-learning.com/ December 2-4, 2009 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 15 th , Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, G...