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I was surprised by the fear and loathing expressed around SharePoint yesterday at LearnTrends 2009 .  I don’t think it’s the best tool out there, but it likely is the best tool being adopted by your IT department and is part of the Enterprise 2.0 plan in your organization.  My belief is that it’s going to be a big part of eLearning 2.0 for many workplace learning professionals.  SharePoint 2010 looks to be a much better product. As such, I’m always looking for people who want to discuss how they are using it.  Certainly we’ll be doing more sessions like SharePoint in Corporate Learning - Free Micro Virtual Conference (see SharePoint Session Descriptions ).  And I’ll continue to collect examples of how organizations are Using SharePoint . In fact, towards that end, I would appreciate you connecting with me ( email , LinkedIn ) if: You work in an organization that is using SharePoint and might be interested in sharing how you are using it. You are a...

We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009 . The session was fraught with technical difficulties, so I thought it would be worth capturing a bit about each of the four award winners here. CUDA Business Brain CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia. In 2007, they launched the CUDA Business Brain as an integrated Workplace Performance Support Solution. It provides a blend of learning management and performance support. Because they operate in bandwidth constrained locations, they have implemented an extremely light web interface. They provide automated content distribution capability. A unique a Visio enabled process publishing tool that 'walks' users through performance support when they need it. This combination, backed by flexible expert location, rating and ranking mechanisms, makes our offering stand apart in providing c...

I participated in a session at DevLearn that I mentioned last week in my posts Missed Opportunities and Enough Tools for Now . The session was conducted where we broken into discussion groups around different topics each their own facilitator. My group discussed that as learning professionals we need to put ourselves in position to be able to serve learners and internal/external clients through the best possible solution we can design and create given the constraints that exist. This might mean improving our capabilities around existing offerings. It also means getting ready to offer new kinds of solutions that are outside of what we currently deliver. The challenge in this is: There’s a very wide range of possible issues that we can be presented. It’s often hard to know ahead of time what your next request will be. If we haven’t spent time and effort to be ready to offer a particular kind of solution, it’s harder to sell, harder to estimate, and has greater risk. ...

Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy? Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work. Maybe reading blog posts about the topic is okay :) Tool Set 2009 Work Skills Keeping Up Top-Down Strategy Better Memory Information Radar Processing Pages with Links Networks and Learning Communities Collaborate Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool Search Browser Short Cuts Work Literacy Workshop

LearnTrends 2009 starts tomorrow!  I’m really looking forward to very interesting conversations around the messy topic of convergence.  There seems to be quite a bit of last minute registration activity.  We have over 500 attending and over 140 who say they might attend.  Should be lively.  There will be lots of time for conversation as well.  Speakers generally are scheduled for half the time and half for discussion. If for some reason you’ve not signed up (and read my blog)... To register, you must first register on the LearnTrends community and then register on the Conference Event Page . Look forward to “seeing” you tomorrow.

Based on my post yesterday on Missed Opportunities , I received a really interesting email. The basic gist of the email could be summarized as: Don’t we have enough tools for now? At some level, this seems like a great question. We are already swimming in tools and new tools arrive faster than we can understand them much less try them. It seems somehow reasonable to simply say, let’s stop looking at new tools for a while and just get better with what we already have. In Work Skills Keeping Up? , I discuss the Tilde Effect . And in some ways, there’s a really good point being made that there is no way we can truly keep up with the flood of tools and solutions. So, we have to make smart choices about how to stay up to speed. Still I’ll stick with: The bottom line for the Tilde Effect is that we live in a time of incredible innovation that directly affect the methods we use to work and learn. Our work skills cannot sit still. There's a lot of discussion about 21s...

I need your help.  I’m supposed to be preparing for a panel session at DevLearn 2009.  But instead, I’m finding myself wondering what I’m going to be discussing with people. The panel description is: From Learning to Performance — Using Technology to Make It Happen Thursday November 12, 2009 01:15 PM Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Adobe Systems, Inc. Ruth Clark, Clark Training & Consulting David Metcalf, University of Central Florida Lance Dublin, Dublin Consulting Joe Ganci, Dazzle Technologies Corp. Tony Karrer, TechEmpower, Inc. Historically, learning departments across organizations have followed the “shiny penny.”   This high-powered panel will discuss how can one overcome this barrier to learning. You’ll discuss the key trends in technology-enabled learning such as self-service (learning by search, mobility, syndication), collaboration, etc., and learn some frameworks for execution. In this session,...