InfoVis: Conceptual Presentations
InfoVis: Conceptual Presentations"Presentations are becoming increasingly visual and less textual. Converting every concept into an image is the challenge and, at the same time, the solution... it can make the difference between delivering the message or showering the audience with difficult to assimilate words."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Intranet Journal: KM and Intranets: Putting People First
Intranet Journal: KM and Intranets: Putting People First"Experience shows that employees use an intranet primarily because it is of substantial benefit to them and helps them perform their jobs better, not because of its sheer availability or a company-dictated policy... Success depends on an ongoing process that has as much to do with people management as it does with the availability of an appropriate information-technology infrastructure."
knowledge management, intranets Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Elearn Magazine: Hot on the Trail of an E-Learning Career
Elearn Magazine: Hot on the Trail of an E-Learning Career"There are jobs, although there's no denying the good ones are far from plentiful. Here's a quick look at some of the more available jobs in the e-learning field..."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Don Morrison: The Search for the Holy Recipe
Don Morrison: The Search for the Holy Recipe"I'll come clean. I hate the term 'blended learning'. I'm not alone. A number of people including several e-learning luminaries have shared their dirty little secret with me. I can't help reading 'blended learning' as 'we can
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Harvard Working Knowledge: Take the Fat Out of Your Writing
Harvard Working Knowledge: Take the Fat Out of Your Writing"Clarity is far and away the most important attribute of tight writing. For if the purpose of writing is to communicate a particular message, then no matter how concise your writing, how impeccable your spelling and grammar, how interesting your topic
writing Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 29, 2003
KM Magazine: Stealth KM
KM Magazine: Stealth KM"No company is going to allocate dedicated resources to knowledge management unless there is a real rather than perceived need. To convince senior management and refractory Boards that there is a need, and that you have the answer, is a function of talking in their terms -- and that means lightening up on the jargon, folding it in with organizational development [strategic planning] and emphasizing the deliverables. Think of them as customers, or end users -- spouting off about ontology, learning organizations, conversing companies, narrative repositories and communities of practice makes their eyes glaze over, their ears close and their cognitive systems to shut down."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 28, 2003
Stanford Business Magazine: Priming the Pump for Better Classroom Performance
Stanford Business Magazine: Priming the Pump for Better Classroom Performance"The Aplia system offers problem sets and other homework that can be machine-graded, and it supplies results back to the students and professor before the next class begins. The professor doesn't have to waste as much class time going over material that students were supposed to read before class because now she can measure whether they actually read it. We are trying to remove the drudgery for the professor so he or she can have a more active, open, free-flowing classroom that in the process gets us out of that deadening lecture mode."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 28, 2003
El Mundo: Interactives Gallery
El Mundo: Interactives GallerySome real cool stuff here.
interactives Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 28, 2003
Sam Adkins: Workflow-based E-learning
Sam Adkins: Workflow-based E-learning"Employees in the field and on the job do not have the time, the place or the inclination to 'take' conventional elearning. Conventional elearning formats are inappropriate for their needs. New, highly innovative, and effective augmented reality and mobile performance products are emerging that map directly to their contextual performance needs."
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Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
e-learning Guru: E-learning Business Translator
e-learning Guru: E-learning Business TranslatorYou have to watch this. It's very neat! Thanks Kevin.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation
Wired: Futurist Fears End of Innovation"Rheingold warned that attempts to stifle innovation would have dire consequences. He reminded the audience that Unix, the Internet and the Web were all open systems built collectively, by collaborating parties. If the government or big corporations had been charged with building the Web, they'd still be struggling with it in our grandchildren's lifetimes, he said."
innovation Add tag Permalink | Friday, April 25, 2003
MSNBC: Interactives
MSNBC: Interactives- Some cool ones here. Check out A wireless home of the future.
interactives Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 24, 2003
Good Experience: Leonardo da Vinci, Disciple of Experience
Good Experience: Leonardo da Vinci, Disciple of Experience"500 years ago, da Vinci understood the power of experience. Academic pedigree is fine, but a direct grasp of experience is essential. Analyzing and learning from direct experience is innately more powerful than hiding behind obscure academic methods. da Vinci "got it." Maybe he was the first."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 24, 2003
Business 2.0: Inventing Success
Business 2.0: Inventing Success"Indeed, a successful inventor must be able to handle many roles at once -- market researcher, sales manager, and patent attorney, for starters, not to mention that all-important job as head of R&D. Let us take you through the basics of turning your aha moment into a lifetime of ka-ching."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 24, 2003
NY Times: Schools Look to Wireless to Boost Learning
NY Times: Schools Look to Wireless to Boost Learning"Some teachers have also complained about greater student distraction as they use their laptops to play games or surf the Web during class. Others simply object to seeing a sea of laptops with faces down instead of looking at them.
Even students themselves have admitted to their grades suffering as a result of too much e-mailing or instant messaging during class. For that reason, the more cutting-edge schools are turning to personal digital assistants, which they prefer because they are smaller, cheaper and less disruptive."
school Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Boxes and Arrows: IA Classics: Tools of the Trade in Comic Book Form
Boxes and Arrows: IA Classics: Tools of the Trade in Comic Book Form"What I need are highly condensed overviews, I thought, like those comic books that convert great literary works into a few illustrated pages. They condense Moby Dick down to 12 pages and provide a version of Great Expectations that can be read in 15 minutes. So I created these one-pagers (it took me two pages to cover personas). I did treatments for the tools that could be done well in this format and skipped the ones that couldn't. My hope is that these pages help make the tools of our trade more accessible."
personas Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Poynter: Art of Explanation
Poynter: Art of Explanation"Poynter Online would like to showcase the efforts of visual journalists as they help readers find clarity.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Business 2.0: Management Secrets of the Modern Masters
Business 2.0: Management Secrets of the Modern Masters"Examining the relationship between age and earning power for 125 famous artists, Galenson identified two archetypes: Picassos are bold, conceptual thinkers who peak early and innovate in dramatic leaps, while C
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 22, 2003
SF Gate: Virus pushes schools to go virtual
SF Gate: Virus pushes schools to go virtual"The Hong Kong example may be the first instance in which online learning has been used to replace real classrooms because of a major disruption in the education system. The region could prove to be an e-learning "showcase for other countries."
school Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Alertbox: Low-End Media for User Empowerment
Alertbox: Low-End Media for User Empowerment"Fancy media on websites typically fails user testing. Simple text and clear photos not only communicate better with users, they also enhance users' feeling of control and thus support the Web's mission as an instant gratification environment."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Learning Circuits: Scenario-Based E-Learning Model
Learning Circuits: Scenario-Based E-Learning Model"A key ingredient of the model is a real-world scenario to engage learners. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that developing e-learning programs based on this model required fewer resources than a typical simulation, yet the programs still seemed to make the learner feel as though they were working through a simulation. CDC refers to this model as the scenario-based e-learning model (SEM)."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 21, 2003
Knowledge@Wharton: Call Centers: Using Social Networks to Spur Staff Retention and Productivity
Knowledge@Wharton: Call Centers: Using Social Networks to Spur Staff Retention and Productivity"Castilla
Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 21, 2003
Fast Company: ” Slowly I Turned…Step by Step…Inch by Inch…”
Fast Company: " Slowly I Turned...Step by Step...Inch by Inch...""Here's the point of gradual: You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight, like rock supergroups that decide to get together one weekend.
Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 21, 2003
Darwin: Get Real
Darwin: Get Real"Real-time communication (RTC), thanks to presence, allows us to participate in more groups and with people anywhere in the world. What medium we use to communicate is less important
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, April 17, 2003
INC.: Consumers in the Mist
INC.com: Consumers in the Mist"Today, of course, unknown primitive cultures are pretty scarce, and academic jobs are even scarcer. So more ethnographers are heading into boardrooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms, bringing new insights to a less exotic, but just as complex, tribe: consumers. And why not? The U.S. consumer market is made up of thousands of "individual little cliques, subcultures, really, that all have their unique way of looking at life..."