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From learning 2.0 to social learning at the Social Learning Conference

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Martin

I’m delighted to have been asked to run an unconference session at the forthcoming Social Learning Conference on 8 March in London. The event is actually a mix of conference and unconference and features a range of great speakers and … Continue reading →

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Inaugral webinar for CIPD members Linkedin group

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Martin

Virtual meetings and their etiquette View more PowerPoint from Mike Morrison Last week, Mike Morrison hosted the first webinar for the CIPD members Linkedin group – the group Mike created, which now has more than 11,000 members. It is good … Continue reading →

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Event coverage – why should you?

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Martin

Live event coverage helps amplify your event as it happens, potentially reaching thousands more people who are following the event online. Here are 10 reasons why you need to get your event covered: To generate demand: prior to the event … Continue reading →

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Learning Trends Index: more use of technology, social and informal learning

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Martin

Research from GoodPractice shows that organisations are keen to use more tech to deliver training and to focus more on social media and informal learning. This supports the findings from Brightwave’s delegate voting at Learning Technologies, as well as the … Continue reading →

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Slideshare Zeitgeist 2011 – what the slides tell us

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Martin

SlideShare Zeitgeist 2011 View more presentations from Rashmi Sinha Thanks to Gavin Heaton for pointing to this. Slide sharing service Slideshare provides us with a look into its usage over the previous 12 months. If you are keen to see … Continue reading →

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Tweet analysis for Learning Technologies 2012

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Martin

Here is an analysis of Tweets from Learning Technologies 2012. The report looks at 1,500 tweets so does not fully cover the entire two days. That said it gives good insight into who was tweeting and what they were tweeting … Continue reading →

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Getting hands on with Lego at Learning without Frontiers #2

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Martin

At the end of day two of Learning Without Frontiers I raced back to the Lego Education dome to find . . . that they had started dismantling the fine work of the conference delegates. It was my fault, I … Continue reading →

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Learning Technologies 2012: thinking for yourself, moving things on

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Martin

I was lucky to attend the Learning Technologies 2012 conference in London’s Olympia 2 this week. I was covering the event for Personnel Today (see my day one and day two reviews) and spent the majority of my time in … Continue reading →

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Getting hands on with Lego at Learning without Frontiers #1

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Martin

The Learning Without Frontiers conference is taking place at London’s Olympia today and tomorrow. This morning I looked around the exhibition area which consists of lots of inflatable pods which look like igloos. Lego Education has a pod in which … Continue reading →

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Doodle with confidence

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Martin

A great talk here by Sunni Brown which makes that point that doodling is great for taking in and processing large amounts of information. Tomorrow and Thursday I will be at the Learning Technologies show and I hope to see … Continue reading →

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