Also at the complex end, you should be able to issue a “personal RFP&# in the form of a request to the whole market for something you’re ready to buy, without having to go into a silo such as eBay or Amazon. MORE

Tail of Process - Demos, Hands-on Testing, Negotiation The tail of Bryan's process is: Week 9 - Read and Grade Proposals Week 10 - Final meeting to pick system (Bryan has demos in Week 5) The tail of my process has: Demos Pilot or hands-on tests Negotiate Final selection Bryan talks about having demos earlier in the process: In my model, I have learned the value of moving the demo upfront, rather than waiting until after the RFP. MORE

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Introducing The Conversation Prism eLearning Trends 2007 and 2008 TechCrunch White Label Social Networking Platforms Chart How to Insert YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Corporate Policies on Web 2.0 Using eLearning Learning , I thought it would be interesting to go look what it thinks are some of the top items of all time. MORE

worst learner laggard in technology innovation bad day elearning corporate training sucks worst presentation award bad things about e-learning worst learning experience beer elearning bad rfp requirements wasting time on technology And my personal favorite where I rank #1 is: top ten lamest people Don't believe that Google thinks I'm the "top ten lamest people" or "worst learner". MORE

Searls does a great job presenting complex (and often crushingly boring) economic theory in ways that make sense to casual readers. Like”) and exercise their consumer power by broadcasting their intent via a sort of online RFP (Request for Proposal). The Intention Economy came out on Tuesday, and coverage has been spreading. Meanwhile, while I’ve been busy at IIW , where VRM mojo has been major. Notes from the many VRM sessions at #IIW14 will appear on this page soon. MORE

It’s a preamble to an RFP. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. MORE

Other posts around Learning Management Systems: LMS Selection Presentation LMS Team Size and Time LMS RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process Learning Management Systems (LMS) GotchasI just pulled a report as part of an LMS Evaluation and saw an interesting pattern: The pattern shows that the larger the audience the lower the satisfaction scores. MORE

Just to close the loop on my series of posts that I created as part of preparing my presentation: LMS Team Size and Time LMS RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Thanks again for the input. MORE

Presentation - ASTD OC eLearning 2.0 Presentation - ISPI Los Angeles Introduction to Wikis, Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking and RSS Practical Suggestions: Web 2.0 Update 2/6/2008 based on recent Top eLearning Posts It can be daunting to visit a blog for the first time. The author(s) have been writing individual articles for months or years. This is my attempt to help you get a sense of topics of my blog and find some of the more interesting past articles. MORE

It seems to me, possibly only because of the allergy medication I am on, that the element of control is clearly present in all these discussions. MORE

So, this post will end off the series of posts I was doing on LMS Selection as a precursor to my DevLearn presentation. The other related posts are: LMS RFP LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Other posts on LMS: Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas Tracking Without an LMS LMS Dissatisfaction on the Rise Do You WANT an LMS? MORE

I’m talking about things like writing up an RFP, or a response letter, or creating a presentation, or responding to a live query. I was thinking about how to make meaningful practice, and I had a thought that was tied to some previous work that I may not have shared here. So allow me to do that now. Ideally, our practice has us performing in ways that are like the ways we perform in the real world. MORE

These things include activating emotional and cognitive relevance, presenting the associated concepts, showing examples that link concept to context, having learners apply concept to context, and wrapping up the experience. responding to an RFP) that has enough deliberate ambiguity to generate productive discussion is great. I’ve been thinking around the ways to use social learning to augment formal learning, and it’s bringing interesting things together. MORE

Confusing an RFI and an RFP. Putting the wrong requirements in an RFP. Making an RFP that will make vendors hate you. Writing an RFP that won't help you differentiate between vendors. Missing a few critical questions in the RFP or selection process. Topic #5 - Writing a Good RFP The RFP strikes me as being a big enough topic on it's own. MORE

Based on my post LMS RFP , I've been asked several times if I knew where you could find samples of Request for Proposals (RFPs) for custom eLearning development, performance support tools, learning content management systems (LCMS), elearning authoring tools , etc. This trick works really well when you are searching for content on a wide variety of things, often I add in filetype:ppt as well to find presentations. MORE

Nice interview with Dan Levy of Sparksheet : From Part I : What opportunities does the widespread adoption of mobile smartphones present for VRM? For example, we’ll want one easy way to issue a personal RFP, or to store and selectively share personal data on an as-needed basis. This is the limitless sweet spot for VRM. Humans are mobile animals. We were not built only to sit at desks and type on machines, or even to drive cars. MORE

Continuing on from my earlier posts: LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders LMS Selection Process From several comments and from looking at my list of issues, I realize that writing a good LMS RFP is challenging and it's easy to make lots of mistakes. LMS RFP Resources John Theis wrote a dissertation on the contents of 25 RFPs submitted to an LMS vendor. But, what I see as the most common problem in LMS RFP documents are the requirements. MORE

I'm going to create notes in my blog as a series of posts as I think about what I'll present and then I'll turn them into slides. Help me make this presentation better. I truly need to get input or this could be a boring session - and I don't like boring sessions - see my reservations about the presentation below. Reservations: I'm somewhat concerned that there's no good way to capture this stuff in a presentation that will be meaningful and useful. MORE