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Decisions, decisions. Business decisions.
The shift from training (we tell you what to learn) to learning (you decide what to learn) increases the scope of the director’s job from classes, workshops, and tests to the broad array of networks, communities, meta-learning, and learning culture. Using smart tech to make it easier for workers to collaborate and network • MAKING BUSINESS DECISIONS: THE HEART AND THE HEAD Jay Cross examines decision making on learning at work, and gives the lie to some myths about the use of business metrics.
Internet Time - Sunday, March 14, 2010
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SXSW 2010 for Publishers
If book readings aren't your bag, then how about a workshop on how to get to the bottom of all this content we create by the second? "As This panel brings together several perspectives from the world of crowdfunding to explain different approaches to raising money from the audience for bloggers, artists, podcasters, developers, filmmakers, musicians, and more." Wikipedia Gets an Upgrade: Collaborative Video Wikipedia is the A ReadWriteWeb Guide Ever since its inception, the Internet has blurred the boundaries between author and audience.
ReadWriteWeb - Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Time it Takes: A Learning Practitioner's Lessons on Time
hours Preparing an individual coaching programme (design, preparing/holding 6 sessions): 25 hours (3+ days) Collaboratively developing a training programme curriculum (multiple events with companion 370-page participant's handbook - writing through to final proofing for printing, with some inputs coming from other sources): 172.5 days) Developing a 1-day facilitated planning workshop for a new client (design, consultation, and fully briefing the facilitator who delivered it): 16.75 When I worked in an NGO environment, we didn't ever really notice how long it took to do things.
You Learn Something New Every Day - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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  • Remote Collaboration
    In other words - How do we collaborate together in remote work teams to be as effective or even more effective than a team that works down the hall? Let me admit that I'm likely in over my head when talking about methods and tools for collaboration. I'm particularly drawing on both personal experience and on experience with the work skills workshops we are offering. My primary interest here are the methods and tools that allow us to work better as part of remote work teams. I cannot claim to be an expert, and I feel like this topic demands a lot of soft skills such
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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  • Coming out of the Graphic Facilitation Closet
    Today I put up a page on the workshops I’ve been doing, as well as outing my own graphic practices page . Here are the workshop offerings. Graphic Facilitation Workshops Beyond doing graphic recording myself , I offer two kinds of workshops on the practice of graphic recording and Well, I guess it is time to walk my talk and declare I CAN DRAW. After doing it on the side, teaching it to others, I realized it was time to declare this part of my practice on my website.
    Full Circle - Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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  • Work Literacy Skills - New Workshop
    Harold Jarche, Michele Martin and I are pleased to announce a new workshop offering that relates to the recent posts on Tool Set 2009 and to the issues of Work Literacy . Work Literacy Skills Workshop Was the last formal training you had on knowledge work skills the use of a card catalog and microfiche reader? We are left trying to figure out where all these new tools fit in our day-to-day work You aren't alone in that. While there has been incredible innovation in tools and methods that support personal work and learning over the past 10 years, most of us have had a hard
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 8, 2009
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  • Creativity for Left-Brained People
    got to try out these techniques with others while facilitating a concepting workshop for some fellow left-brained people . Here are two of the methods I introduced during this workshop to understand and re-imagine the experience of learning online. Tags: Collaboration Creativity Experience Design Methods Tips & Trick As a systems-thinking, ridiculously rational INTP , I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told to, “Stop overthinking!” 8221; After all, rational thinking isn’t naturally associated with creativity.
    Adaptive Path - Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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  • Smart.fm: How to move from web to mobile
    So much so that taking the team on a walk through the neighborhood, mobile-sized sketchbooks in hand, has become a regular part of mobile workshops I’ve facilitated and participated in in the past. workshop, we free-listed not only mobile contexts, but also the characteristics of mobile experiences. Tags: Case Studies Collaboration Methods Mobile smart.fm Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
    Adaptive Path - Monday, June 22, 2009
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  • Real-Time Collaborative Editing
    A while ago I asked in several places if people knew of a text or document editor that would allow real-time collaborative editing during a conference session (or workshop, seminar, course, etc.). While I'm on the subject of real-time collaborative editing, I just had a fantastic experience via Robin Good where he used MindMeister to allow participants to collectively edit a Mind Map during a session at the Learning Trends . This mind map started with just the first level nodes that represented the categories. My main requirements were: Easy to use Easy to distribute (give everyone a URL) No download required Support chat and document editing At the time, I didn't get very good responses.
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, November 20, 2008
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  • Social Media Planning and Evaluation for NGOs
    I’ve been co-designing and c0-facilitating a number of workshops for the CGIAR and FAO over the past few years about knowledge sharing, and more recently, this phenomenon people call “social media.” Over time, most of this material will also be added to the every growing “ KS Toolkit ,” another collaborative resource I’ve pointed to frequently. 8221; Part of this work has been to  comb through resources and create some launch pads that are relevant to NGOs and non profits. I
    Full Circle - Sunday, June 7, 2009
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  • How I use social media
    This was where I had the amazing opportunity to co-facilitate an online workshop with Mihaela Moussou (now Michele Paradise). Just today I received an email from one of the people who took our workshop and he wrote “I still remember your course as one of the absolute best courses in my life. Then it was Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and a multitude of international NGOs based This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I
    Full Circle - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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  • Social Media in International Development Workshop
    Then sign up now for the next Social Media Workshop offered by the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR. After a successful pilot online event (See blog posts about the event ), the CGIAR, through its ICT-KM Program , is pleased to offer an online Social Media Workshop from May 25 to June 12 2009. “Social Social media is using the Internet to instantly collaborate, share information, and have a conversation about ideas, and causes we care about, powered by web based tools.” Do you work for an international development NGO? Here are the details:
    Full Circle - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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  • Google Wave's Best Use Cases [Google Wave]
    Education: Increasing Interactivity and Collaborative Learning Dozens of teachers, students, and academics of all stripes wrote in saying that they need better and faster ways to communicate and collaborate in and out of the classroom. to collaborate. This will result in a savings of time for passengers, reduced fuel and operating Last week we asked a simple question: How will you use Google Wave? Over 600 responses later, we're sending Wave nominations to the people who had the best use cases.
    Lifehacker - Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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