http://www.elearningpost.com/ en maish@elearningpost.com Copyright 2010 2010-02-07T23:10:16+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/smashing_silos/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/smashing_silos/#When:23:10:16Z Evan Rosen, author of The Culture of Collaboration, writes about his 5 ways to bust silo mentality at work: Eliminate Needless Formality and Hierarchy (easy access) Provide One-Click Access to Entire Organization (easy access to everyone) Design Dedicated Physical Spaces for Collaboration Adopt Common Systems and Processes (standard platform) Establish Cross-Functional Mentoring 2010-02-07T23:10:16+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/content_strategy_is_a_plan/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/content_strategy_is_a_plan/#When:00:25:58Z From Kristiana Halvorson: “The most important thing to understand is this: Content strategy isn’t a bunch of tactics. It’s a plan.” “It’s a well-founded plan, fueled by your business objectives and user goals. An achievable plan, created with your current business reality, content assets, and limited resources in mind. A future plan, for what’s going to happen to your content once you send it off into the world. And, most importantly, a profitable plan, where your measures of success ultimately have impact on your organization’s bottom line.” 2010-01-30T00:25:58+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/better_user_experience_with_storytelling_part_one/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/better_user_experience_with_storytelling_part_one/#When:23:57:23Z A good read on how storytelling can unite the different aspects of the user experience such as brining different perspectives together, defining the goal or defining the user (personas). However, there is another benefit that the article briefly touches upon and that is defining the journey (scenarios). It’s one thing to define a user, but a whole different perspective when you chart out the journey of this user accomplishing goals and tasks. 2010-01-29T23:57:23+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/lessig_calls_google_book_settlement_a_path_to_insanity/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/lessig_calls_google_book_settlement_a_path_to_insanity/#When:13:02:47Z Interesting post on Lawrence Lessig’s views on the Google book deal. “By breaking up books into different licensable parts, Lessig fears that we are going to encounter the same problem with books that we do today with film. He gives the example of documentary films which are sometimes nearly impossible to restore or preserve in digital form because the rights to every song and clip of archive footage need to be cleared again. This is an artifact of the types of licensing contracts that became the norm for film, where each constituent part of a work carries its own copyrights into perpetuity, making it more difficult down the road to update into digital form or pass along as a piece of shared culture. Up until now, books for the most part are treated as one single work.” 2010-01-27T13:02:47+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/a_better_way_to_manage_knowledge/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/a_better_way_to_manage_knowledge/#When:13:58:52Z John Hagel and John Seely Brown talk about Creation Spaces - “places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a broader learning ecology so that performance accelerates.” They go on to discuss how these spaces are different from the traditional KM systems: “Knowledge management traditionally has focused on capturing knowledge that already exists within the firm — its systems rarely extend beyond the boundaries of the enterprise. Creation spaces instead focus on mobilizing and focusing participants across all institutional boundaries.” 2010-01-25T13:58:52+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/fantastic_information_architecture_and_data_visualization_resources/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/fantastic_information_architecture_and_data_visualization_resources/#When:15:09:17Z From Noupe. Good starting points to get more on IA and infographics. (via Infodesign) 2010-01-15T15:09:17+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/kiran_bir_sethi_teaches_kids_to_take_charge/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/kiran_bir_sethi_teaches_kids_to_take_charge/#When:13:04:20Z When will this infection catch on worldwide? These are the small pockets of hope that we have left. Brilliant stuff Kiran! 2010-01-14T13:04:20+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/use_better_tools_to_be_a_better_student_in_2010/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/use_better_tools_to_be_a_better_student_in_2010/#When:00:26:02Z A wonderful list of shortcuts and techniques to help out with common tasks. 2010-01-09T00:26:02+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/web_project_team_roles/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/web_project_team_roles/#When:00:20:03Z Kristina Halvorson has put up an interesting diagram that shows how the different roles in a we project team relate to one another. 2010-01-09T00:20:03+00:00 http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/atul_gawandes_checklist_for_surgery_success/ http://www.elearningpost.com/blog/atul_gawandes_checklist_for_surgery_success/#When:12:44:32Z Brilliant article by NPR on Atul Gawande’s new book, The Checklist Manifesto. Gawande has written an entire book on how checklist and other reminders help in complex situations. Here is a good quote: There was about 80 percent who thought that this was something they wanted to continue to use. But 20 percent remained strongly against it. They said, ‘This is a waste of my time, I don’t think it makes any difference.’ And then we asked them, ‘If you were to have an operation, would you want the checklist?’ Ninety-four percent wanted the checklist.” I’m waiting to read Gawande’s new book but right now I’m in the middle of another book that talks about the same checklist culture from a very different angle. This book titled Streetlights and Shadows and is written by the brilliant Gary Klein. Both Klein and Gawande are my favourite authors. I’ve read all their previous books. So, this is interesting for me to see how their worlds collide. In his book, Klein spends an entire chapter debunking the use of checklists in complex scenarios. His idea is that checklists are wonderful in well-structured and predictive environments and do not work that well in ill-structured and unpredictable environments. Here’s the question I want answered when I start reading Gawande’s book: are the checklists just for mechanical tasks or are they for complex procedures? The surgical safety checklist mentioned in the article looks quite general. Maybe that is the point: even the ‘general’ stuff in surgery can lead to a life or death situation. 2010-01-06T12:44:32+00:00