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On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Content MORE
In January of this year, I predicted that 2012 would be the year of content curation. The NTEN Journal also includes a terrific introductory article for nonprofits and what content curation is relevant to their work. Content MORE
The content of the narrative is only a part of the meaning that the contributor can supply, the way they interpret is also key, not only to provide quantitative data and objectivity in an abductive world, but also to empower the story teller over the expert. MORE
Sadly much of it has been turned into one big content farm. The internet still holds so much potential to helps us understand and improve ourselves and the world around us. It doesn't need to be this way. It is not too late. Each of us can ask our selves every time we share, like, or write something: Will this post trigger people to think more deeply about its topic? Have I written it in a way that is more likely to open up debate than close it down? MORE
The biggest change in my understanding of design after joining Capital One, by far, is how I understand the importance and nature of content strategy in my design work. First, I defined each chunk of content that we needed. Content Themes and Voice. MORE
And quite often one of the first concerns listed is content quality. This natural instinct is the best solution to poor quality content. Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.comWhen I do sessions on eLearning 2.0 , I often will ask for the audience to provide a list of barriers or risks. Often the audience is quite good at identifying all the things that may go wrong or that will prevent them from doing any of this. MORE
Alex Hodgson of ReadCube is leading a panel called “Accessing Content: New Thinking and New Business Models or Accessing Research Literature” at the Shaking It Up conference. You import your pdfs, read them with their enhanced reader, and can annotate them and discover new content. “What does content want to be?” JSTOR has 150M content accesses per year, 9,000 institutions, 2,000 archival journals, 27,000 books. MORE
What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. Content curators have integrated this skill into their daily routine. Content MORE
So, I’d roughly (and generously) estimate that the ratio is around 80:20 for content: practice. So, two questions: do we just need more practice, or do we also have too much content. Yes, designing practice is harder than just delivering content, but it’s not that much harder to develop more than just to develop some. However, I’ll argue we’re also delivering too much content. And then let the practice drive them to the content. MORE
An example: How Jay Cross Curates Content. Wise interpretation is what adds value to the content. You’ve shared a link to the content and your take on it. Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow. MORE
I read, again and again, about the importance of ‘content’ in learning. Just what do mean by ‘content’? For one, I get concerned that talking about content foregrounds ‘information’ And that’s a problem. MORE
Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. What should be the elements of content are an introduction to the learning experience, a presentation of the concept(s), examples that illustrate applying the concept to contexts, and a closing of the experience. MORE
The key component is that no one will adjudicate a content issue, that is for editors to resolve; however the system as a whole is constrained by rules of editor behaviour. This means that you can argue about the content, but you can't call those editors who disagree with you names. Wikipedia has long fascinated me as a complex adaptive system. MORE
Best of Mobile Learning March 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Getting Started With Mobile Learning? MORE
I was recently asked what I thought about content management systems (CMS); how content should be developed; whether generational differences should be considered; and how to keep content relevant. There is relevant and irrelevant content. MORE
Next public online workshop runs: 11 JANUARY – 5 FEBRUARY 2016 It is clear that many people find traditional training approaches out of date and unappealing, so this is the first in a series of online workshops that look at how to provide modern training. This 4-week workshop offers an opportunity for participants to consider a number of […]. Social learning MORE
Content creation, a subset of sensemaking, is difficult. According to a 2019 survey of 213 North American workers conducted by Degreed , most sharing of information is in responding to other content found in the flow of work or learning. MORE
We’ve heard about learning engineering and while the focus is on experience design, the pragmatics include designing content to create the context, resources, and motivation for the activity. And it’s time we step beyond just hardwiring this content together, and start treating it as professionals. You can customize the content you’re searching for with filters. The content reacts to the device you’re on and displays appropriately. MORE
Solutions Consultant, Mike Buoy , and Jennifer Rogers , Head of Learning at Anglo American, discussed how learning leaders need to rethink how to create, manage, and deliver content to meet the needs of the modern workforce. In this webinar, Xyleme Sr. MORE
Yesterday I made my views on making a difference clear in terms of what I valued, what Cognitive Edge is capable of and some of the Cognitive Edge capabilities in this area. MORE
In the content business the commercial Web has become, algorithms are now used to target both stories and the advertising that pays for them. MORE
Following my posts about Modern Workplace Learning, this is the first of a series of online workshops which will help you make it a reality. MORE
What a shame that the web, this wonderful medium for self discovery and sharing has been turned for so many into "content". There is something so utilitarian about the word, something so manipulative, something so industrial. It seems to sum up all that I thought we were getting away from. Maybe there is still time MORE
To date, however, according to Bersin by Deloitte, only 12% of learning content is mobile-enabled. Sales-type employees require mobile learning for different types of quick content consumption. Chunking some existing content into bite-sized nuggets. MORE
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems. When most people hear the phrase “Learning Content Management System,” they usually think “Oh, an LMS.” It turns out, that adding the word Content makes a big difference. MORE
A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation. Let’s be clear as my fellow content curator, Jan Gordon, says : There is no curation without original content. Conten MORE
has published this really useful and free e-book on Micro Content. ” The e-book, which at 32 pages, is definitely long-form content provides context, best practices, examples, tools, and resources. What is micro content anyway? Visual.ly MORE
For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. Once gone, we lose all connection and control of our content – and this has some obvious drawbacks: Content is replicated to each LMS. There is no way to monetize the content. MORE
was responsible for making sure that the results didn’t include forbidden content. Next, What Big Content wants from net neutrality (hint: protection) , by Nate Anderson in Ars Technica. Maybe somebody can draw us the Content-o-net. MORE
I continue to have a problem with the term content as a component of what our field does. What we do is create content. Even in F2F training, we have content and structure around actions we ask our learners to take. At the end of the day, much of what we’re working on is content that is communicated or triggered by learner actions. I believe we need to focus on the activity , not on the content. MORE
This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. ” Content MORE
As I’m fresh off my first neighbourhood block party in the Kitsilano hamlet that makes up part of Vancouver’s West Side, I got to thinking about content, curating and libraries. Thus, the next big skill for individuals to tackle will to become ‘ content curators’. MORE
At DevLearn next week, I’ll be talking about content systems in session 109. The point is that instead of monolithic content, we want to start getting more granular for more flexible delivery. MORE
In Snow on the Water I wrote about the ‘low threshold of death” for what media folks call “content” — which always seemed to me like another word for packing material. Twenty-five straight minutes of content!” So I think about content death a lot. Back around the turn of the millennium, John Perry Barlow said “I didn’t start hearing the word ‘content’ until the container business felt threatened.” MORE
Journalism is in a world of hurt because it has been marginalized by a new business model that requires maximizing “content” instead. Here’s one way to tell the difference between journalism and content: Journalism has ethics. Content has volume. Content is supported by adtech. MORE
In preparation for the workshop, Jason and I had been working on a mobile application with content all about mobile learning. The content is still being developed and decisions are being made. Both have the same content. MORE
A number of years ago, I said that the problem for publishers was not going from text to content (as the saying goes), but from content to experience. And is this content aligned to that skill? For instance, if the content is a bunch of knowledge that somehow you’re to magically put in someone’s head, such as product information or arbitrary rules, you’re far better off putting that information in the world than trying to put it in the head. MORE
Home > Instructional Design , Learning Content Management > Notes from Intelligent Content 2010 Notes from Intelligent Content 2010 March 11th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment A couple of weeks ago, Xyleme presented at Intelligent Content conference hosted by the Rockley Group. MORE
I’ve been on the content rant before , talking about the need to structure content into models , and the benefits of tagging. You have to understand that folks who do content as if their business depended on it, e.g. web marketers, have a level of sophistication that elearning (and all elearning: performance support, social, etc) would do well to adopt. One of the people I follow is Scott Abel, the Content Wrangler. MORE
HBR.com has just put up a post of mine about some new guidelines for “paid content.” ” The guidelines come from the PR and marketing communications company Edelman, which creates and places paid content for its clients. The fact that the two pager is paid content is flagged only by a small Shell logo in the upper left and the words “Wired promotion” in gray text half the height of the “article’s” subhead. MORE
I mentioned in my previous post that I was talking at the xAPI camp about content strategy, and on the way in I created a new diagram to convey a concept I wanted to discuss. Consequently, so too is content. Content is used in many ways, whether via apps, through the web, or print. MORE
Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” Content Curation MORE
The company is also taking sides against both — especially adtech — by supporting Content Blocking in a new breed of mobile phone apps we can expect to see in iOS 9 , Apple’s next mobile operating system, due next month. In Apple’s Content Blocking is chemo for the cancer of adtech , which I posted a few days ago, I visited the likely effects of content blocking. Yet Content Blocking should stop iAd ads as dead as all the rest, one would assume. MORE
I wrote up my visit to the Intelligent Content conference for eLearnMag , but one topic I didn’t raise was an unanswered question I raised during the conference: should the ‘smarts’ be in the content or the system? Making content smart would require a bunch of additional elements to the content. Having well-defined content and letting the system use contextual information to choose the content is the typical system used in the industry. MORE
Content Related Topics Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 14, 2018
I read, again and again, about the importance of ‘content’ in learning. Just what do mean by ‘content’? For one, I get concerned that talking about content foregrounds ‘information’ And that’s a problem.
Doc Searls
JANUARY 26, 2017
Journalism is in a world of hurt because it has been marginalized by a new business model that requires maximizing “content” instead. Here’s one way to tell the difference between journalism and content: Journalism has ethics. Content has volume. Content is supported by adtech.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 16, 2019
Content creation, a subset of sensemaking, is difficult. According to a 2019 survey of 213 North American workers conducted by Degreed , most sharing of information is in responding to other content found in the flow of work or learning.
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 13, 2011
As I’m fresh off my first neighbourhood block party in the Kitsilano hamlet that makes up part of Vancouver’s West Side, I got to thinking about content, curating and libraries. Thus, the next big skill for individuals to tackle will to become ‘ content curators’.
Euen Semple
JANUARY 10, 2018
Sadly much of it has been turned into one big content farm. The internet still holds so much potential to helps us understand and improve ourselves and the world around us. It doesn't need to be this way. It is not too late. Each of us can ask our selves every time we share, like, or write something: Will this post trigger people to think more deeply about its topic? Have I written it in a way that is more likely to open up debate than close it down?
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 12, 2015
In Snow on the Water I wrote about the ‘low threshold of death” for what media folks call “content” — which always seemed to me like another word for packing material. Twenty-five straight minutes of content!” So I think about content death a lot. Back around the turn of the millennium, John Perry Barlow said “I didn’t start hearing the word ‘content’ until the container business felt threatened.”
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 11, 2015
We’ve heard about learning engineering and while the focus is on experience design, the pragmatics include designing content to create the context, resources, and motivation for the activity. And it’s time we step beyond just hardwiring this content together, and start treating it as professionals. You can customize the content you’re searching for with filters. The content reacts to the device you’re on and displays appropriately.
Adaptive Path
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
The biggest change in my understanding of design after joining Capital One, by far, is how I understand the importance and nature of content strategy in my design work. First, I defined each chunk of content that we needed. Content Themes and Voice.
Euen Semple
DECEMBER 1, 2013
What a shame that the web, this wonderful medium for self discovery and sharing has been turned for so many into "content". There is something so utilitarian about the word, something so manipulative, something so industrial. It seems to sum up all that I thought we were getting away from. Maybe there is still time
Xyleme
JUNE 14, 2018
Solutions Consultant, Mike Buoy , and Jennifer Rogers , Head of Learning at Anglo American, discussed how learning leaders need to rethink how to create, manage, and deliver content to meet the needs of the modern workforce. In this webinar, Xyleme Sr.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
At DevLearn next week, I’ll be talking about content systems in session 109. The point is that instead of monolithic content, we want to start getting more granular for more flexible delivery.
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 25, 2014
Yesterday I made my views on making a difference clear in terms of what I valued, what Cognitive Edge is capable of and some of the Cognitive Edge capabilities in this area.
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Alex Hodgson of ReadCube is leading a panel called “Accessing Content: New Thinking and New Business Models or Accessing Research Literature” at the Shaking It Up conference. You import your pdfs, read them with their enhanced reader, and can annotate them and discover new content. “What does content want to be?” JSTOR has 150M content accesses per year, 9,000 institutions, 2,000 archival journals, 27,000 books.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 15, 2014
I’ve been on the content rant before , talking about the need to structure content into models , and the benefits of tagging. You have to understand that folks who do content as if their business depended on it, e.g. web marketers, have a level of sophistication that elearning (and all elearning: performance support, social, etc) would do well to adopt. One of the people I follow is Scott Abel, the Content Wrangler.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 9, 2015
So, I’d roughly (and generously) estimate that the ratio is around 80:20 for content: practice. So, two questions: do we just need more practice, or do we also have too much content. Yes, designing practice is harder than just delivering content, but it’s not that much harder to develop more than just to develop some. However, I’ll argue we’re also delivering too much content. And then let the practice drive them to the content.
Xyleme
AUGUST 16, 2017
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems. When most people hear the phrase “Learning Content Management System,” they usually think “Oh, an LMS.” It turns out, that adding the word Content makes a big difference.
Beth Kanter
OCTOBER 4, 2011
What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. Content curators have integrated this skill into their daily routine. Content
Jane Hart
MARCH 23, 2015
Following my posts about Modern Workplace Learning, this is the first of a series of online workshops which will help you make it a reality.
Xyleme
JULY 5, 2012
For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. Once gone, we lose all connection and control of our content – and this has some obvious drawbacks: Content is replicated to each LMS. There is no way to monetize the content.
Doc Searls
JANUARY 18, 2010
was responsible for making sure that the results didn’t include forbidden content. Next, What Big Content wants from net neutrality (hint: protection) , by Nate Anderson in Ars Technica. Maybe somebody can draw us the Content-o-net.
Dave Snowden
MARCH 11, 2011
The content of the narrative is only a part of the meaning that the contributor can supply, the way they interpret is also key, not only to provide quantitative data and objectivity in an abductive world, but also to empower the story teller over the expert.
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 18, 2015
I was recently asked what I thought about content management systems (CMS); how content should be developed; whether generational differences should be considered; and how to keep content relevant. There is relevant and irrelevant content.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. What should be the elements of content are an introduction to the learning experience, a presentation of the concept(s), examples that illustrate applying the concept to contexts, and a closing of the experience.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 2, 2016
I mentioned in my previous post that I was talking at the xAPI camp about content strategy, and on the way in I created a new diagram to convey a concept I wanted to discuss. Consequently, so too is content. Content is used in many ways, whether via apps, through the web, or print.
Jay Cross
APRIL 29, 2015
An example: How Jay Cross Curates Content. Wise interpretation is what adds value to the content. You’ve shared a link to the content and your take on it. Curation can boost your profit and help your people grow.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 3, 2014
A number of years ago, I said that the problem for publishers was not going from text to content (as the saying goes), but from content to experience. And is this content aligned to that skill? For instance, if the content is a bunch of knowledge that somehow you’re to magically put in someone’s head, such as product information or arbitrary rules, you’re far better off putting that information in the world than trying to put it in the head.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
I continue to have a problem with the term content as a component of what our field does. What we do is create content. Even in F2F training, we have content and structure around actions we ask our learners to take. At the end of the day, much of what we’re working on is content that is communicated or triggered by learner actions. I believe we need to focus on the activity , not on the content.
Doc Searls
DECEMBER 14, 2017
In the content business the commercial Web has become, algorithms are now used to target both stories and the advertising that pays for them.
Nancy White
JUNE 16, 2010
In preparation for the workshop, Jason and I had been working on a mobile application with content all about mobile learning. The content is still being developed and decisions are being made. Both have the same content.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 13, 2014
I wrote up my visit to the Intelligent Content conference for eLearnMag , but one topic I didn’t raise was an unanswered question I raised during the conference: should the ‘smarts’ be in the content or the system? Making content smart would require a bunch of additional elements to the content. Having well-defined content and letting the system use contextual information to choose the content is the typical system used in the industry.
Xyleme
MARCH 11, 2010
Home > Instructional Design , Learning Content Management > Notes from Intelligent Content 2010 Notes from Intelligent Content 2010 March 11th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment A couple of weeks ago, Xyleme presented at Intelligent Content conference hosted by the Rockley Group.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 4, 2016
Next public online workshop runs: 11 JANUARY – 5 FEBRUARY 2016 It is clear that many people find traditional training approaches out of date and unappealing, so this is the first in a series of online workshops that look at how to provide modern training. This 4-week workshop offers an opportunity for participants to consider a number of […]. Social learning
Beth Kanter
APRIL 22, 2014
Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” Content Curation
Xyleme
JUNE 26, 2014
To date, however, according to Bersin by Deloitte, only 12% of learning content is mobile-enabled. Sales-type employees require mobile learning for different types of quick content consumption. Chunking some existing content into bite-sized nuggets.
Beth Kanter
DECEMBER 17, 2013
On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Content
Nancy White
APRIL 7, 2011
Best of Mobile Learning March 1, 2011 to March 31, 2011 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Getting Started With Mobile Learning?
Dave Snowden
JULY 11, 2012
The key component is that no one will adjudicate a content issue, that is for editors to resolve; however the system as a whole is constrained by rules of editor behaviour. This means that you can argue about the content, but you can't call those editors who disagree with you names. Wikipedia has long fascinated me as a complex adaptive system.
Beth Kanter
JUNE 7, 2012
In January of this year, I predicted that 2012 would be the year of content curation. The NTEN Journal also includes a terrific introductory article for nonprofits and what content curation is relevant to their work. Content
Beth Kanter
JULY 24, 2014
has published this really useful and free e-book on Micro Content. ” The e-book, which at 32 pages, is definitely long-form content provides context, best practices, examples, tools, and resources. What is micro content anyway? Visual.ly
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 13, 2009
And quite often one of the first concerns listed is content quality. This natural instinct is the best solution to poor quality content. Browse eLearning Content at www.elearninglearning.comWhen I do sessions on eLearning 2.0 , I often will ask for the audience to provide a list of barriers or risks. Often the audience is quite good at identifying all the things that may go wrong or that will prevent them from doing any of this.
David Weinberger
JULY 22, 2013
HBR.com has just put up a post of mine about some new guidelines for “paid content.” ” The guidelines come from the PR and marketing communications company Edelman, which creates and places paid content for its clients. The fact that the two pager is paid content is flagged only by a small Shell logo in the upper left and the words “Wired promotion” in gray text half the height of the “article’s” subhead.
Beth Kanter
JANUARY 24, 2012
A debate in content marketing circles is whether or not you should simply focus on creating original content and forget content curation. Let’s be clear as my fellow content curator, Jan Gordon, says : There is no curation without original content. Conten
Beth Kanter
APRIL 30, 2013
This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. ” Content
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