Learning is social. Business is social. People are social. So why are so many of the forays into learning technology anti-social? Friday afternoon I had a delightful conversation with a kindred spirit, Joe Miller. Joe has been marrying people, technology, and learning since the early days. He worked on the PLATO system for Control Data. Learning. MORE >>

Last week I was part of a panel on the SkyBusiness Technology Behind Business program discussing corporate social media policies, comprised of Peter Williams of Deloitte, Adrienne Unkovitch of Workplace Guardian, and myself. Here are some of the key points made during our discussion. Executives have less control than they before. Enterprise 2.0 MORE >>

Over my career I have become a technology "conference veteran" beginning with Comdex in the 80’s. This event grew to over 220,000 attendees and over 20,000 vendors. For several years I was privileged to be a judge for Best of Comdex, so became very familiar with the conference. This is the first time that mobile learning has been recognized. MORE >>

Having previously reviewed Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham’s The New Social Learning , and Jane Bozarth’s Social Media for Trainers , I have now received my copy of Jane Hart’s Social Learning Handbook.  First, I’ll review Jane’s book on it’s own, and then put it in the context of the other two.  MORE >>

A few weeks ago I posted an entry inspired by an excellent article in The World in 2011 , The Economist’s annual issue offering predictions for the following year and beyond.  Another article in the same issue caught my attention, Multinationimbles , by Matthew Bishop , who is the US Business editor of The Economist. Schumpeter was right.  MORE >>