April 2010
2 posts
“You can’t manage knowledge. Nobody can. What you can do is to manage the...”
– Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell, Learning to Fly (via Sahana Chattopadhyay @sahana2082)
January 2010
9 posts
Dream Speakers
Today I asked my amazing twitter community whom they would love to learn from online or at an in-person event. I specifically sought the names of females, living today, although some people missed that caveat. All the responses were illuminating and so I’ve included them here.
If you’re curious, I asked because I was attempting to make a point in some other writing that today we can...
“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and...”
– A. A. Milne
Go. Now. Live.
Amid thousands of people in dark suits and Lotus swag at the Lotusphere conference this week in Orlando, I was introduced to this beautiful poem by Jeanette Leblanc via Lotus’ Bilal Jaffery, an IBM marketing manager specializes in social media. [I’m here because of the LotusKnows campaign. Perhaps #LotusKnows I appreciate things like this?]
It gets to the heart of why many of us...
Tinkering is Back: WSJ
The American tradition of tinkering — the spark for inventions from the telephone to the Apple computer — is making a comeback, boosted by renewed interest in hands-on work amid the economic crisis and falling prices of high-tech tools and materials.
The modern milling machine, able to shape metal with hairbreadth precision, revolutionized industry. Blake Sessions has one in his...
Learning to Tinker
By Patty Fisher, Mercury News 11/30/2009
The Wall Street Journal recently declared that we are in the midst of a renaissance in tinkering. Across the country, more folks are building stuff in the basement, fixing things they would have thrown away before.
Maybe it’s the economy. Or the recycle/reuse mantra of the environmental movement. Whatever the reason, tinkering is back. And...
“Your job is to let information free, not to hoard it, your job is to UNshackle...”
– It’s time to let go of control
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute...”
– - Theodore Roosevelt
(via reluctantbuddha via jackmorgan)
December 2009
8 posts
Sweet Holiday Cheer
In what can be described as Twitter’s equivalent to “Norm” (for the youngins, a boisterous alcohol-related greeting offered a character on the Boston-based TV show Cheers), I recently posted this question:
Within minutes, 10 sets of instructions appeared in my stream. @9to5to9 pointed me to the recipe her husband learned in bartender school. @mrch0mp3rs suggested adding a little...
3 tags
eLearning vs ILT stats?
I received a call this afternoon from two strangers who found my name and number on the web, who were looking for some fast stats to use in a presentation for their department about the cost of elearning development as compared to instructor led training.
Caller ID said they were Florida based, and they refered to their department as the “Impact Learning Group.” They were asking...
Watchfrom Garys Social Media Count
Best New Year's Resolution? A Stop-Doing List
by Jim Collin, originally published in USA Today
Each time the New Year rolls around and I sit down to do my annual resolutions, I reflect back to a lesson taught me by a remarkable teacher. In my mid-20s, I took a course on creativity and innovation from Rochelle Myers and Michael Ray at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and I kept in touch with them after I graduated.
One day, Rochelle...
“If you want to know what we think is important, look at how we spend our time....”
– Galen Guengerich in “A Steadiness of Days” (PDF) All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City, June 1, 2008
Robert Hass, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005
August 2009
1 post
“Performance reviews and training programs define the firm’s expectations. Financial reward systems reinforce them. Memos and communications highlight what’s important. And senior leadership actions — promotions for people who toe the line and a dead end career for those who don’t — emphasize the firm’s priorities.”
— Peter Bregman (A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture, HarvardBusiness.org...
May 2009
2 posts
Create a Learning Culture | Fast Company →
Companies that value learning outperform those that don’t. A study by independent research firm McBassi & Company shows that it pays to invest in people-focused practices including building learning capacity, knowledge accessibility, and professional development. Institutions that demonstrate the greatest commitment to their human capital seem to enjoy the greatest financial...
Twitter for Corporate Learning & Development
Trying to convince your Learning & Development department there’s a place for Twitter (or enterprise-weight counterparts) in your plans? Here are a few articles that address this growing trend.
If you know of pieces I haven’t included here, please add them with a link to the comments section or contact me directly. I’ve begun writing about this specifically and will...
July 2008
3 posts
So far so good
Easy enough to do. Now I’m not all that sure when I’ll do it.
Intrigued
I saw a tumbl for the first time today and like the idea of the in-between twit and blog.