NY Times: Movie Posters That Talk Back
NY Times: Movie Posters That Talk Back"But what if those posters could talk? What if Leonardo DiCaprio could stare out from a wall and wink at passers-by? What if, rather than being frozen on a poster for the latest James Bond movie, Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry could leap in a full-motion, fist-flying fury to a stereo soundtrack? And what if these posters could interact with film patrons, recognizing their tastes and quickly matching their interests with trailers and show times for movies that they most likely want to see?"
- Wonder if such a concept would work in training rooms/departments. Hmm...
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 13, 2002
Economic Times: Knowledge management: the new mantra
Economic Times: Knowledge management: the new mantra"As the traditional competitive differentiators have increasingly got commoditized, it has become clear that the effective use of knowledge is a key capability for ensuring corporate success. Thus, many progressive Indian companies have recognized the need to manage organizational knowledge formally so as to extract the best business advantage from it. In addition, as a part of their efforts to build an internationally-recognized brand, Indian companies have begun to realize the need to place explicit focus on thought leadership."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 12, 2002
Pew Internet Project: American workers
Pew Internet Project: American workersAdd tag Permalink | Thursday, December 12, 2002
FCW: Homeland e-learning group created
FCW: Homeland e-learning group created"The Office of Homeland Security has created a new working group to focus entirely on developing common e-learning tools and courses for the new Homeland Security Department."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 12, 2002
Syllabus: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What’s it All About?
Syllabus: The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?"We seem to be beginning a new wave of technology development in higher education. Freeing student work from paper and making it organized, searchable, and transportable opens enormous possibilities for re-thinking whole curricula: the evaluation of faculty, assessment of programs, certification of student work, how accreditation works. In short, ePortfolios might be the biggest thing in technology innovation on campus. Electronic portfolios have a greater potential to alter higher education at its very core than any other technology application we've known thus far. "
innovation Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Peterme: Can you purchase wisdom?
Peterme: Can you purchase wisdom?"The problem wasn't one of features and functionality -- the software did everything they wanted it to do. The problem was one of design -- learning how to use this system was quite difficult, and often ran contrary to how people currently worked. "
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 11, 2002
Toronto Star: E-learning shows new ways minds meet
Toronto Star: E-learning shows new ways minds meet"Using video-conferencing technology and high-speed interactive links to the Internet, more than two dozen students, scattered between the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, York University and IBM Canada's headquarters, have spent the past three months in a graduate course on Web data management, held simultaneously at four locations."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Useit.com: In the Future, We’ll All Be Harry Potter
Useit.com In the Future, We'll All Be Harry Potter"Much of the Harry Potter books' charm comes from the quirky magic objects that surround Harry and his friends. Rather than being solid and static, these objects embody initiative and activity. This is precisely the shift we'll experience as computational power moves beyond the desktop into everyday objects."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Emerald Insight: Journals of the Week
Emerald Insight: Journals of the WeekAll issues of these journals are available for free download for this week only.
- Strategic Direction
- Online Information Review
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Gerry McGovern: Thinking should come before communication
Gerry McGovern: Thinking should come before communication"Times have changed. It used to be that many organizations didn't communicate enough with their customers, staff and other stakeholders. Now, the danger is that too much communication is occurring."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 10, 2002
CETIS: ADL release new implementation guide, conformance test suite almost final version 1.3 of SCOR
CETIS: ADL release new implementation guide, conformance test suite almost final version 1.3 of SCORM"...the new implementation guide takes a very general instructional design development process as its outline, and shows exactly where and how SCORM may impact on that process."
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 09, 2002
Learning Circuits: LMS and LCMS: What’s the Difference?
Learning Circuits: LMS and LCMS: What's the Difference?Wish we could get more case studies on how LMS and LCMS are being used rather than plain-vanilla writeups explaining the differences between them. The article does, however, pose important questions, "The question remains: Just because the technology exists to manage your e-learning content at the bean level, will it have a significant impact on productivity? Can you solve the need for just-enough learning other ways?"
Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 09, 2002
Montague Institute: Ten taxonomy myths
Montague Institute: Ten taxonomy myths"Taxonomies have recently emerged from the quiet backwaters of biology, book indexing, and library science into the corporate limelight. They are supposed to be the silver bullets that will help users find the needle in the intranet haystack, reduce "friction" in electronic commerce, facilitate scientific research, and promote global collaboration. But before this can happen, practitioners need to dispel the myths and confusion, created in part by the multi-disciplinary nature of the task and the hype surrounding content management technologies."
taxonomy Add tag Permalink | Monday, December 09, 2002
MIT Sloan: The Mysterious Art and Science of Knowledge-Worker Performance
MIT Sloan: The Mysterious Art and Science of Knowledge-Worker Performance"In this article, the authors explore five key issues that companies are struggling with and then develop a framework to help organizations think more clearly about how to improve the performance of their knowledge workers."
Note: Only summary is given; complete article costs $15.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 06, 2002
Knowledge Board: A crisis of trust
Knowledge Board: A crisis of trust"What makes a full connection possible is trust. I won
Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 06, 2002
Business Week: Usability Is Next to Profitability
Business Week: Usability Is Next to Profitability"Buyers have become much more demanding about usability because they know what's possible to do now with a high-performance PC and a little imagination. The Web has accelerated the process. After all, Web sites such as Amazon.com are really just complicated pieces of sales and tracking software with a simplified yet very powerful 'front end' that an average person can easily use."
usability Add tag Permalink | Friday, December 06, 2002
The Well: Conversations with Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs
The Well: Conversations with Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs"I say again - 'virtual communities' are not natural. They have to be created, grown, and nurtured, over time. And the key ingredient always will be 'virtual community leaders' - whether they function as moderators, or those who emerge from a group and just 'lead' naturally, or that they are *very* advanced techs who can structure their systems to support group dynamics, and not be shaped by the system they are on."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 05, 2002
Educational Technology & Society: Innovations in Learning Technology
Educational Technology & Society: Innovations in Learning TechnologyNice collection of articles, but be forewarned, some are heavy reads. The theme of this issue is "Innovations in Learning Technology"
innovation Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 05, 2002
Louis Rosenfeld: Informational Needs Analysis
Louis Rosenfeld: Informational Needs Analysis"Each user has a different type of information need depending on what he's trying to find and why he's trying to find it. If we can determine the most common information needs a site's users have, we can select the few best architectural components to address those information needs."
Read the comments section, there are many good insights there.
information architecture Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 05, 2002
Training Magazine: e-Maestros
Training Magazine: e-Maestros"These days many corporations are enlisting the help of systems integrators for massive e-learning projects that are aligned with new business initiatives.
For corporations interested in e-learning, this is both good and bad news. It's good because systems integrators have larger, skilled workforces to handle enterprisewide projects
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Business 2.0: The Wisdom of the Anthill
Business 2.0: The Wisdom of the Anthill"If ants can run efficient supply chains with brains that weigh less than the ink in this comma, why do we humans have such trouble?" - Companies are applying the self-organizing rules of social insects to make complex businesses run more efficiently.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 04, 2002
HOT Labs: Interdisciplinary Interactions in an Online Videoconference Course
HOT Labs: Interdisciplinary Interactions in an Online Videoconference Course"In our feature article, this team describes their pioneering work
interaction Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, December 04, 2002
BW: Learning from the “Thumb Tribes”
BW: Learning from the "Thumb Tribes"Interview with Howard Rheingold: "So I realized that the mobile Internet wasn't going to be getting stock quotes on your telephone or surfing the Web on a tiny screen. It was going to make things possible that weren't possible before. What it makes possible, among other things, is collective action -- people coordinating their activities in configurations and timing that weren't possible before. "
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Intranet Journal: Content Management: What’s in it for me?
Intranet Journal: Content Management: What's in it for me?"Think of how much information resides on reams of paper or in a file cabinet somewhere, that information can be invaluable to an organization for many reasons. This type of information is referred to as unstructured information. The challenge of acquiring, accessing, managing, and distributing unstructured information are a significant reason organizations looked first to micrographics, then to CM, document imaging, and document management technologies to assist in that endeavor. Today, the Internet is driving an ever-increasing need to provide fresh, timely, and relevant content to their websites. To that end, Web Content Management (WCM) solutions have emerged to assist."
content management, web content Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, December 03, 2002
The Chronicle: MIT’s Open Window
The Chronicle: MIT's Open Window"MIT's plans are generating interest worldwide, but some say that the project is too ambitious, even for MIT. OpenCourseWare materials for only 38 out of the more than 2,000 courses at MIT have been published so far. MIT expects to finish the project in September 2007, but some big questions remain: How much will it all cost? And what kind of organization will be needed to accomplish it? Who will take advantage of the course materials? And how does the mission of a top university change when it offers its teaching methods to the world? "