And lots of folks who’ve used twitter and blogged a few times are suddenly social media experts. In response to a query about why someone would question the concept of the LMS, I penned the (slightly altered, for clarity) response that follows: What seems to me to be the need is to have a unified performer-facing environment.  Yes, but.  MORE >>

If you go from just having an idea (first line) to trying to capture it as a product (next), whether a diagram or a screed, to communicate to some hypothetical reader, you find out that you might not have thought it out fully (the first benefit to having a personal journal, e.g. blogging). And you do some processing to generate that product. MORE >>

Look at my list of blog posts, and you’ll see that these were my four most recent posts. A few days ago, my colleague Jay Cross wrote a post on plagiarism , dealing with the fact that some of his work (even an example of some of our collaborative work) was being used without attribution. that my stuff is appearing without attribution. MORE >>

Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. Warning that on Blogs and Podcasts, the numbers are so low that any adoption looks bigger than it really is. Steve Wexler who runs eLearningGuild research has been producing some really interesting information recently. So, if you see a 4.5 2 is between Rarely and Sometimes. MORE >>

One is the rise of social networking tools: blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, and more. At the recent Up To All Of Us event (#utaou), someone asked about the 70:20:10 model. But that’s changed. In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. Operations?”). MORE >>