How much does it cost to purchase an iPod Touch? $180. Imagine what you can do providing learning through on-the-need basis. See this YouTube video. Amazing! The technology is phenomenal. The challenge is how to preparepresentations that are succinct, 3…
Author: Ray Jimenez, PhD
Micro-Elements (Things) in Social Learning – From the ASTD International Conference
“We have 100,000 members, and we want to jump on board and use Web 2.0 for Learning.”“Top management directed me to see how we can launch Social Networking and Learning to 45,000 of our employees.”These are comments I received during…
Groundswell Insights – WhyTrainers Often Say, “It Does Not Work”
I just finished reading Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research. Although it was written for business executives focused on marketing, customer relationship and business development and strategy, the parallels to the training and learning industry are…
Easy Visualization of Micro-Learning Ideas – Widgets
Slide.com is another illustration on graphical Widgets. It is easy to compose with entertaining or educational graphics. I was able to do this in a few minutes. Of course I want to show off my good looking wife. Steps: Make…
Learning Games for the “Real-World” – Alternate Reality Games – The Cookies
After or while reading, do a cookie game and you will learn and see a personal impact and meaning. Ray’s request. Jane McGonigal with Institute for the Future has researched and developed alternate games that make people move games from…
Saving the World Through Game Design
Jane McGonigal talks with Daniel Zalewski about alternate-reality gaming. From “Stories from the Near Future,” the 2008 New Yorker Conference. Preview the video – it is inspiring to have newer ways of thinking about the future. http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/conference/2008/mcgonigal Ray Jimenez, PhD…
Phoenix Mars Lander Successful Landing – Genius
Congratulations to the NASA, JPL and Caltech teams. It is a great pleasure and joy to see JPL and Caltech teams realize their dreams. I am based in the Pasadena area and often meet, interact and have conversations with some…
Widgets Conference 2008
Stay tuned for the Widget Summit http://widgetsummit.com/ Check some of the sessions and speakers. Although this may seem too geeky for the average trainer and learning officer, this illustrates how organizations continue to make our lives better with improved widgets…
Welcome to the LOL Social Networking Program
Do You Know Your Blog’s Reach?
I have been doing my blog primarily for personal learning and sharing. I rarely asked if people read my blogs. Curiosity got to me so I tried three Web 2.0 tools that provide a feel on the type of audience…
“If You Believe in Computers Too Much, You Lose Touch with Reality.” — “Joseph Weizenbaum: An Appreciation” – Inventor of Eliza
“What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his world?” In Nick Carr’s blog, he expressed appreciation for Joseph Weizenbaum, the inventor of Eliza, who…
No Physical Space, No Constraints – Video on Information Revolution
Another one of Michael Wesch’s short video presentations. A wonderful way of summarizing what profound impacts digital technology has on the way we live, learn and play. An interesting way to understand the value of social networking. Ray Jimenez, PhD…
Lotus Connections – IBM’s Social Collaboration
The two videos provide you an overview of Lotus Connections. This is helpful for those who wish to have an inside look on how social networking is applied in Enterprise 2.0 applications. To see the full view of the presentation,…
Are You Coming to Bed? Someone is Wrong on the Internet.
I grabbed this image from Alan Pepofsky’s blog. One can not be the all time 24/7 police of content accuracy — which many of us in learning and train oftentimes want to do. I am guilty of sometimes being a…
Listing of Business and Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking
Listing of Business and Enterprise 2.0 Social Networking andCollaborative Applications Ringsidenetworkshttp://www.ringsidenetworks.com/ Enterprise Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/ SharePoint (Wiki, Social Network Systems)http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/prodinfo/what.mspx SocialText (Wiki)http://socialtext.com/ LinkedInhttp://www.linkedin.com/ Widgetshttp://grazr.com/popular Cisco and TribeNethttp://losangeles.tribe.net/welcome Leverage Softwarehttp://www.leveragesoftware.com/ IBM’s Lotus Connections (Profile, Blog, Wiki, Social Bookmarking, Social Network Systems)http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/ ConnectBeam (Social…