Seeing colour through infographics and data visualisations
Editor’s note: Great set of infographics exploring the use and psychology of colours online.
Yearly Archives: 2013
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
Editor’s note: Great thoughts on why we need to be productively stupid.
Badgeville gamifies salesforce platform toolkit to drive behaviour, increase use of cloud apps
Editor’s note: Using the Badgeville toolkit, developers can reward cloud user behaviors in realtime by leveraging mechanics, such as points, achievements and missions. They can also provide recognition and rank to make users feel special or smart by leveraging mechanics, such as levels, tracks and leaderboards.
Forget about influence and change management, it’s time to lead a revolution!
Editor’s note: A great article on the importance of links and networks in influencing.
Video of the week: What can science tell us about learning?
Ahead of his keynote to the 2011 learning Live conference, Professor Robert Winston shared his…
CIPD aims to ‘hack’ change management
The CIPD is organising a hackathon for HR and L&D professionals to help reinvent the…
Enterprise Connect 2013: The conference sessions of a cautiously positive industry
Editor’s note: review of Enterprise Connect 2013 – the conference for visual collaboration technologies.
Can the everyday influencer still exist?
Editor’s note: A marketing slant but interesting for insights into the impact on inluence of recent changes to Twitter and Google.
Engagement is a buzzword all should promote
Editor’s note: Former Asda CEO Archie Norman on how his exec team turned around the ailing supermarket and what ‘engagement’ can look like.
133 eLearning events taking place in April 2013
Editor’s note: What a list from Christopher Pappas. Useful resource and indicator of the interest in elearning in its broadest forms.
Mindfulness helps us understand our true personalities, study says
Editor’s note: Study says mindfulness is the best way to really know ourselves.
Profile: Niall Gavin, head of HR and learning technologies, FirstGroup
Niall Gavin joined First Group seven years ago as IT training manager. That was a…
ABC: 10 reasons NOT to create a course and 10 other options
Editor’s note: Jane Hart explores the problems inherent with creating elearning courses and offers some alternatives to support learning.
The questionable Myers-Briggs test
Editor’s note: It is a $20m a year industry and it is harmless and potentially useful if you’re aware of its limitations. But organisations still use the MBTI as if it were infallible. Why?
Study reveals the workforce is not innovative enough
Editor’s note: Research shows that employees feel they are good at doing what they are told. But is this good enough for businesses looking to grow and innovate? Doing a task and seeing possibilities beyond that task could be very powerful.