TED (which not many people remember was originally founded by information architect Richard Saul Wurman in 1984) has expanded dramatically over the last years, from a single annual event to activities spanning a network of thousands of TEDx events, the TED-Ed educational network , the TED Prize , and now its City 2.0 initiative. Part of City 2.0 MORE >>

In an interesting study, researchers from Duke University found that learning and remembering compete when both are made to occur at the same time. Test subjects were asked to learn new scenes that were presented visually as they were remember what words they had read on a screen. We look forward to seeing more research from this group. MORE >>

I was looking for any previous post I’d made about stealth mentoring, so I could refer to it in a post I was writing, and I couldn’t find it. It’s a concept I refer to often (and have to give credit to my colleague Jay Cross who inspired the thought), so here’s my obligatory place holder. Similarly, here, with a difference. MORE >>

I leave for Rome today and will be presenting a keynote at IEEE’s ICALT 2012   (International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies). Here is what I will talking about. Integrating Learning into the Workflow. For all businesses this means integrating learning into the workflow. Many roads lead to Rome this week, it seems. Hans de Zwart. MORE >>

Visiting the Sujaya School with Rufina Fernandez. I met Rufina in 2008 in Australia when I keynoted the Connecting Up Conference and taught social media workshops for NGOs. At the time, Rufina was the CEO of  Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. MORE >>