Learning2.0 : Journey to about2findout.com

The Learning 2007 Conference is over. I had a great time and some new things to follow up upon. The general sessions were a mixture between a personality show and learning related topics, and with some great speakers. I saw Arch Lustberg before on the video's of last year's conference, but he makes a great performance with an important message: in this digital age, how you present yourself and your story to people remains as important as ever. I also remember the very insightful talk by Don Tapscott. He didn't give the intended talk on his book Wikinomics, but talked about talent 2.0 and how the generation that now enters the workforce differs. On site over the past 3 days 4 students have developed two learning games. They will be on the public domain soon. One is on pandemics and one on new hires. But I also got to play with someone's iPhone and see that magic. And I got to test out my site on different systems and browsers as the computer room up here has Macs, Linux and Windows machines brotherly next to each other.

The braindump:

• ROI is caca
• empathy is hard to outsource and hard to automate
• pecha kusha (however you pronounce it) are fun ways of presenting
• Gaming can be done on top of everyday technology such as blogs, podcasts, email etc
• Fail your way forward (learning games)
• Rapid learning: if we as a learning service don't do this, they will do it themselves. (which is not necessarily bad, lets enable and get out of the way)
• Google Docs now has presentations as well as text documents and spreadsheets
• learning is flat(ter): peer to peer
• The lines between knowledge management and learning are blurring
• For learning 2.0 to work, the learning service needs to evangelize the tools
• Unified collaboration
• A lot of learning time is spent in meetings
• Someone (Dan Pink?) is going to publish the first business manga book next year
• ROI: what if your children ask to get an ROI on your parenting?
• 48% of our families don't know what we do as a learning professional

Now my holiday really starts. I'm going to visit colleagues in Atlanta, then explore the state of Florida all the way down to Miami beach. Back on November 5th.

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