Click here to check out the ISPI Atlanta Facebook page for an exciting opportunity with the University of Georgia. The Greater Atlanta Chapter of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) was founded in 1980. Our diverse membership is composed of internal and external corporate training professionals (directors, managers, developers, and instructors), performance technologists, and [...]

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With so much content being pushed (thrown) at us, I’m becoming convinced that you simply have to select tools that work to accomplish MOST of what you want to accomplish as there are so many options.  So after several months of learning and refining, here are my basics: Get a Smartphone.  Most operate similarly but [...]

This video is well done and informative.  If you weren’t sure about mobile devices as a possible channel for learning then maybe you should watch this short (2:51) video and reconsider — it highlights some of the changes we saw last year related to mobile phones and computing. Link courtesy Dangerously Irrelevant and Corporate eLearning & Development.

Having spent the last few days there, I realized the great Disney organization can’t keep up. Some of the exhibits at Tomorrow Land have been there for, well, a while. True, some have been updated but, for the most part it’s all kinda old news. Even the Carrousel of Progress was updated but no iPad, [...]

Take 4:15 and watch a video regarding this phenomenon…actually, it’s business as usual. It’s only a phenomenon if you still think it is, at this point (which means you’ve probably missed your opportunity). Thanks to Marc Rosenberg for the site.

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I’m beginning to get more and more efficient with all of the information that is out there. It’s impossible to consume it all so you really have to just pick what you like and move on. Sharing: Besides Facebook (personal stuff) and Twitter (professional stuff), I use paper.li to aggregate all of the Twitter posts [...]

Not a new topic but nicely written: Hear me out. Young adults have had a say in how things go since they were five. They expect to express themselves, to upload, vote, blog or update and they believe they will be heard. Keep it real. The only thing worse than being uncool is being unreal. [...]

Mapping Informal and Formal Learning Strategies to Real Work by Tom Gram During the Q&A at a recent conference session on Social Learning, a retail industry attendee asked "I have to train 300 store level associates in new product knowledge in the next three months.  Is social learning really what I want?"  What would your answer [...]

Learning Formally or Informally…? Why not Both! Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:32 Written by Frédéric Domon "The real genius of organizations is the informal, impromptu, often inspired ways that real people solve real problems in ways that formal processes can’t anticipate. When you’re competing on knowledge, the name of the game is improvisation, not rote standardization." [...]

I love these! "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." — Dudley Field Malone "Always walk through life as if you [...]

I seem to have over indulged with content on my iPad.  It’s telling me "no more apps, no more apps" and to prove the point, it started crashing a lot.  I got it fixed (deleted a bunch of stuff and had to set the entire iPad up all over again).  So, how am I feeling [...]

Socialnomics does a great job with these videos and includes so many fascinating facts.  You may need to click on the blog title above to bring up the video. Enjoy!

Hmmm, Google+ might have just sent me over the top.  Consider what I have done to myself: Five personal email accounts Two Facebook accounts Two Twitter accounts One LinkedIn account Two blogs One website No MySpace accounts (yay for me) Now, I am being flooded with all of the wonderfulness of Google+ (G+).  Really?  Why [...]

Why are organizational leaders so stuck in the notion that leading a learning organization requires no knowledge of learning?  Either the individual can’t lead and can’t be terminated ("those who can, do…those who can’t, teach" mentality) or they believe that the individual is so good that a short stint in the training department will propel [...]

I’ve been blogging for a while and have accumulated several followers and follow even more.  What have I gained?  I’ve made inroads on learning who knows stuff and who doesn’t.  Most of the time, those that know stuff know more than me and, in that regard, that is progress. It’s helped me and, hopefully, those [...]

I need to keep it simple for 2012 and, for those within a generation of my age, some thoughts: Let technology enable you, not disable you.  However, technology cannot (and should not) do it all. Dogs get trained, people learn.  But, you can’t learn without others so collaboration is critical.  Remember the 70/20/10 balance. Read [...]

Here are some good, industry-related books that have recently been published that I thought I would share. Training/Education Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance by Jay Cross A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas The New [...]

From the Kevin Jones series of videos — which does videos to explain complex ideas more simply.  This one, however, seems pretty straightforward. When we were young we would never have thought these things. Now, too many of us live it. When we take a step back and do a sanity check, we realize that [...]

Thanks to the Internet Time Alliance for this content. Making collaborative work work 10 things to remember about social learning (and the use of social media for learning) [2b2k] 13 reasons why the Britannica failed on paper MOOCs for the win! The Internet Time Alliance helps its clients understand and embrace complexity and adopt new […]

I’ve been at this social thing for about two years and, during that time, I’ve picked up on a few things.  One of them is to take some risks.  Here are a few of them: I put myself out there.  Personally on Facebook, professionally on Twitter.  LinkedIn, well, not so much but it just follows […]

Thanks to my daughter, a 2009 Mizzou graduate, for forwarding this article. April 29, 2012 By PAUL KRUGMAN In Spain, the unemployment rate among workers under 25 is more than 50 percent. In Ireland almost a third of the young are unemployed. Here in America, youth unemployment is "only" 16.5 percent, which is still terrible […]