So a few days back I wrote about my new love for Twitter and how I think Twitter could be used to re-imagine aspects of training and development.  There was a lot more I wanted to write, but in case you haven’t noticed, I blog long.  I’ve decided that I’m a “go big or go home” sort of blogger.  I’m ok with that so you should be too.  Ok, so where was I?  Yeah right, there rest of the story on Twitter. I think Twitter is the beginnin ...     Read entire post

Some of you may know that I have a bit of experience in the custom content development world (12 years in the space, Director for the Firefly product during its formative years, speaker at over 48 conference sessions, etc...) so it might surprise you to know that I've never been a huge fan of courseware.  For a lot of years, I tried hard to push clients to electronic performance support systems (EPSS) as a way to address real organizational performance needs instead of yet more courseware t ...     Read entire post

For the last few weeks I have been using Twitter and Snitter a lot more.  I’ve also read some of the musings on my colleagues on the value of Twitter.  Aaron basically argues that it’s a way to stay in front of clients.  Jim argued that it’s mostly noise, but that there might be value if you “…put together a strong network of like-minded individuals…” which might lead to “…highly relevant, interesting, helpful posts...&rdq ...     Read entire post

I Twittered two session today: one by Paul Saffo (the keynote) and one by a first-time presenter.  Interesting contrast.  I had never heard of Paul prior to this, but this is one smart dude.  Plus he presents well.  I will be tracking him going forward. Second presenter was good, but generally unprepared for the sorts of questions we had.  Not sure if it was the disconnect between her "assigned task" and expectations from a set of seasoned professionals, but m ...     Read entire post

So I have like 4 or 5 draft blog posts that I should be working through.  I have a product requirement spec to finish that was due last Friday, and I'm doing a presention tomorrow at Dev Learn (on team-based content authoring...) that I haven't even started yet.  But am I working on any of that? No. "Why not?" you ask.  Well, it's simple really.  I had a horrible travel day -- 16 hours in planes and airports to go from Boston to San Jose.  So here's ...     Read entire post