Implementing an LMS in Small or Medium Organizations: What is most importantShare“What are the most important attributes for an LMS for a medium/small sized organization?” mussed an ASTD member this morning. He went on wondering if the most important attributes were price, speed of implementation, or specific features that are “must haves” in a small [...]

ShareLately the wires are abuzz with the importance of informal learning. Attention is now turning to how to formalize informal learning. The right way to formalize informal learning is to create an environment that supports, and therefore recognizes, informal learning. Here is what I have done to support informal learning: Build a system for aggregating informal [...]

ShareI was reading Funny: How Men & Women Use Punctuation Differently and I was reminded that this is not just limited to men and women, it is also true with companies. Companies are, after all, made up of men and women, people with different cultural filters, and differing wants and needs. As educators we need to be [...]

ShareIn this 13 minute video, Pranav Mistry gives an overview of his research into how to meld data and the physical world together–what he calls SixthSense technology. If you have ever wondered how life would be if technology was actually available when you needed it, could seamlessly work between your computer and anything handy, then [...]

ShareAudience analysis does not need to be a long and overly complex undertaking. Often the approaches that are discussed end up generating such a lengthly document that it is unusable by the instructional designers. What is needed is a simple and concise approach to audience analysis. An approach that is focused on capturing what is [...]

ShareFor those of you that feel that learning is a serious activity, and as such, is no place for fun…A simple experiment in group behavior was designed. The research question was: Can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun to do? The following 2-minute video shows what the team did to create [...]

ShareThis article was written in 2004 for MC Press for IT Professionals. For those of us who come from a technology background, it is tempting to believe that the purchase of a knowledge management (KM) system will solve the problems our organizations face by capturing the knowledge from our best and brightest employees. After all, [...]

ShareBecoming a Trusted Advisor By David Hildebrandt I would suggest that there is no activity more complex and dynamic than working with human beings in trying to improve the systems, strategies, structures, and skills that interact to form what we commonly term an organization. No, this isn’t rocket science. It is far more complicated than [...]

ShareTwitter, a micro-blogging technology, has proven that much can be said in short messages–known as Tweets. Many people say that Twitter is too short, that the 140 character limit is to limiting. Ernest Hemingway proved long ago, when he wrote a complete work of fiction with just 6 words, that a great deal if information [...]

ShareOrganizations are tying to solve how to reduce time away from work while ensuring that knowledge transfer takes place. For every hour a billable employee sits in class there is a direct correlation to lost billable time. There is also the risk of lost opportunities as key employees may not be available. The lost revenue while [...]