While it’s a vendor-driven show, there were several valuable presentations and information to help get clearer about designing content. Here we’re talking investing in the underlying infrastructure to leverage the possibilities of analytics, semantics and more, and content architecture is a part of that. Like eLearning. MORE >>

me) on seeing a sight like this is to suggest that everybody would be better off with a little more investment in technology. But they could instead higher fewer people, pay them more, and use technology to make up the difference. It is in this context we need to read an article like Kentaro Toyama's Can Technology End Poverty? MORE >>

eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on e-Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 The content has already been written for the classroom. What Training Costs Part I: Converting Content from ILT to WBT How long does it take to create learning? Is there consensus on the content? eLearning Solutions Enterprise 2.0 Or not. MORE >>

Social technologies now play a big part in everything we do, and it is quite clear that many knowledge workers use a variety of social tools and networks not only to help them  get work done, but also to learn efficiently while on the job. Content co-creation tools. Member profiling. Activity streams. Real-time updates. Notifications. MORE >>

For me, the most interesting part of the conversation came as I gave him one of my standard pieces of advice: exercise tight control over technology choice, and as little as possible over technology use. This leads to confusion among people and mutually inaccessible walled gardens of content, neither of which is good. MORE >>