Special Interest Groups
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008Hi all!
If any of you are looking for a state job, this is the career fair for YOU! News Release attached.
Theme Grenz, ASTD-Cascadia Past President
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Oregon Department of Administrative Services
155 Cottage Street NE, U20 Salem, Oregon 97301-3966
News Release
For Immediate Release July [...]
Learning Frameworks
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Here is an interesting chart from Ray Jimenez, PhD that he uses to illustrate his review of the new book Groundswell.
Dr Jimenez identifies the type of social media which may be most appropriate for an audience based on the way they behave when they interact with it. He describes it this way:
To help [...]
Proposals & Contracts
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Larry Fergusen presented a tip filled program for the Consultants SIG on lessons learned about proposals and contracts. Here are some tidbits that stood out for me:
Decide. You are either a consultant or you are looking for a job, not both.
A letter of agreement formalizes the discussion, doesn’t explore ideas
Make sure you are talking [...]
Informal Learning in the workplace
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Jay Cross, the author of Informal Learning , has released a very helpful whitepaper, How to set up online collaboration in corporations . He includes checklists and ideas about:
What’s in it for you?
Start with something easy
Best practices with social software
Challenge the project champion
Sustain momentum
He’s also doing a survey about the use of informal [...]
Social Learning Webinar: A Case Study from eBay
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Join the next Social Learning SIG Webinar…
This time we have one of the most well known web companies presenting their case study: eBay.
This extremely useful and informative session was delivered at the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering in mid-April in Orlando, Florida and was one of the most talked about & referred to sessions all conference. [...]
Consultants SIG with Rene-Marc Mangin
Saturday, April 19th, 2008It’s time for the consultants special interest group again. This time we have a speaker along with plenty of time to connect with each other. Last time we went to McMenemins next door after the meeting, anyone want to join me?
The Nonverbals of Collaboration
Successful collaboration is based on shared interests and complementary relationships. Dr. [...]
eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering Report
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Florida is a lot like Oregon today: Cloudy and in the 60s. Yet, I am still here and will be blogging on the conference at my blog: www.engagedlearning.net and on Twitter. If you are interested, please come join me and make any comments or Twitter back. Hopefully you can attend vicariously!
New! Consultants Special Interest Group
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Are you a consultant or considering becoming one? Is so, then there is a new special interest group you’ll want to know about. The Consultant SIG met for the the first time last night to discuss ideas for what the group might offer.
There was a great mix of people who were new to consulting, as [...]
Webinar #2 - Social Learning & Knowledge Management with Cindy Rockwell
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008For a recording of Webinar #2, go here.
This one focused on how to use Social Learning with Knowledge Management and what it will take to make it all work. It was presented by Cindy Rockwell, CEO of CustomerVision.
There were a number of key points that Cindy brings up, including the need to make it easy [...]
TK08 - Tony Karrer and Implementation of Social Learning
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008I am in Tony Karrer’s session here at TK08 today entitled, eLearning 2.0 – Applications and Implications. It is a very large room and was intended to be more of a discussion, but oh well! This is going to be a 201 session – a follow up from this morning’s session (which I [...]
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