Insights

Learning TRENDS No 500

Congratulations to Elliott Masie for bringing us nearly 500 editions of Learning TRENDS.  Now going to 55,000 people world wide.  That is big leverage! If you are not one of them there is a simple one click solution to remedy that.  Asked for a brief paragraph about my thoughts on Learning for this edition I
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The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard presents this 20 minute video on stuff.  ‘From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.’  Not any longer it isn’t! Thanks to Rob of Training Australia magazine for drawing my attention to this.
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The Technology with the Most Impact

The BBC website has been running a small dequence of articles from its technology correspondents about which new technology made the most impact on them. It made me reflect on the new stuff I have been using this year:  quite a lot in effect; from Mac’s new operating system Leopard, toTwitter ,Facebook , Plaxo and
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The Iona Creed

You can read all about Iona here .  A magical, mystical island just off the coast of Mull which in turn is off the west coast of Scotland.  Historically, it is the place where Scottish Kings were buried and the graves (including Macbeth’s) are there to see.  Home, since 1938, to an ecumenical Christian group
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Insights Come from Unexpected Corners

And they do:  this is Eddie and the Hotrods (b 1977 and still going strong) contribution, and work would be a better place if everyone stuck to its exhortation: Why don’t you ask them What they expect from you? Why don’t you tell them What you are gonna do? from ‘Do Anything you Wanna Do’ 
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I Told You Talent Was Important

I am grateful to John Drysdale of Business Momentum for drawing my attention to an article in the FT recently which draws together a number of recent surveys on Talent Development. It makes interesting reading.  More and more companies are rewarding executives for their appropriate behaviour as well as performance and talent gets a bigger
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Raving Customers

What is it about customer service?  Ken Blanchard talks about raving customers ie people so happy about the service they have received, they can’t stop talking about it.  There is another kind of raving customer too:  the one that is raving mad about the quality of service he or she has received. Take two examples.
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Adaptive Blue

I have been playing around with a piece of software called Adaptive Blue. It is one of the new Semantic Apps that tries to understand and learn context so that you can get more relevant information around a person, book, CD or idea. Adaptive Blue adds a little blue square next to a link. So
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ASTD: State of the Industry 2007

ASTD’s annual report on the state of the industry is now out as a pdf. (It also gets mailed to all members).  Not many revolutionary changes from last year apart from the obvious:  technology use UP and budgets slightly UP.  Still makes great reading. But you need to be one of ASTD’s 70,000 members to
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100,000 Views on YouTube

Thanks Stephen Downes for drawing my attention to this fascinating post by Dan Ackerman Greenberg.  Ever wondered how anyone manages to get hundreds of thousands, even millions of views on YouTube when there are up to 60,000 videos posted on YouTube a day? Well you would not be amazed to learn that it rarely happens
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