Here’s a Google perk any company can imitate: employee-to-employee learning
Editor’s note: How Google encourages Googlers to teach each other and facilitate peer to peer learning.
Browsing: Curated
Confessions of an online facilitator
Editor’s note: Some useful tips on running online learning events from a facilitator of online courses.
Wired for speech
Editor’s note: Clive Shepherd reflects on the use of voice in technology and how it can be applied in the online learning context, based on having read Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship by Clifford Nass and Scott Brave.
A data scientist’s real job: storytelling
Editor’s note: Here’s how DoSomething.org go from 350 million data points to organisational change, and how organizations grappling with similarly huge amounts of information can do the same.
Why do we call them learners?
Editor’s note: What’s in a name? Tom Spiglanin reflects the use of the term ‘learners’ by learning professionals.
Best of the HR blogs March 2013: 18 great HR blog posts from March 2013
Editor’s note: A great round-up of HR related blog posts curated by Michael Carty on XpertHR.
Neuroaesthetics is killing your soul
Editor’s note: A look at where art meets neuroscience. How will neuroscience explain our appreciation of art?
Seeing colour through infographics and data visualisations
Editor’s note: Great set of infographics exploring the use and psychology of colours online.
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.
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.