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    Adding video comments

    Sunday, May 18th, 2008

    Seesmic enables video conversations. On their own site, people log in from around the world and have conversations by posting short video clips.
    OK, I don’t fully get it either. However, some of my blog colleagues have installed a plug in to make it possible to have video comments on their blogs. At first, I wasn’t [...]

    31 Day Comment Challenge

    Friday, May 2nd, 2008

    Sue Waters, Kim Cofino, Michele Martin and Silvia Tolisano have created a 31 Day Comment Challenge for May. I met Sue and Michele doing 31days to a Better Blog last year. They were the super achievers of our international group that supported each other through the learning process. It was a wonderful online learning [...]

    Updating

    Friday, April 25th, 2008

    I am working on the updating the backend of the blog. It will be a couple days before I have all the kinks worked out. Thanks for your patience.\
    I lost some of the links in the upgrade, so if you used to be here, and want to be again, leave me a comment and I’ll [...]

    How Technology Transformed My Professional Development

    Monday, January 28th, 2008

    This is a guest post from blogger Michele Martin, who also was a guest on this week’s podcast.
    As a consultant with a background in career development and training, it’s not surprising that I’ve put professional development high on my list of priorities. If I don’t keep learning, it’s easy for me to lose my [...]

    31 days blogging challenge update

    Friday, August 24th, 2007

    Some of you may remember I took up the 31 days to a better blog challenge for the month of August. You may have also noticed that the blog has been shifting, especially over the last few days. I have been removing extra clutter and cleaning up the look, adjusting details. Now when you click [...]

    Web 2.0 in Learning - Part 2: Blogs

    Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

    My family had lunch with my in-laws this last Saturday at the Olive Garden. Good food, good times, good discussion. My parents-in-law are in their mid 60s. She has not worked since before they were married, he is the VP of sales for a tool distribution company. We started talking about my projects at work [...]

    Training Blog Portal

    Monday, July 30th, 2007

    Read an assortment of training blogs in one place.
    Here is a place to read the latest posts from an range of blogs related to training. BlogCascadia is included under ‘professional organizations’.
    This portal site was created by Steve Woodruff from Impactiviti and Karl Kapp, the author of Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning. Among other [...]

    Are trainers keeping up with important technology?

    Friday, June 15th, 2007

    Gary Woodill, the Director of Research and Analysis at Brandon Hall Research spoke at the ASTD national conference earlier this month. He noticed,
    About half of the training professionals had used Google Earth, but almost none had tried Second Life. In fact, I had the impression that much of what I showed was completely new to [...]