January 2010 – Page 3

Learning Pool cop an elearning hotseat

January 14, 2010

On Wednesday 20th January, Paul McElvaney, Director of Learning Pool and Alison Stott, Project Manager at Essex Strategic HR will be hosting an online hotseat on the commissioning of Open, Distance and E-learning. This will be taking place in the Leadership Development Community of Practice, using the IDeA’s CoP platform. You need to register with the platform and join the community before you can get involved.

The way this will work is that a special forum has been set up inside the CoP in which questions can be left ahead of, and during, the day of the hotseat. Paul and Alison will then answer as many questions as they can before the end of the day. It’s like a day long asynchronous online Q&A session.

Subjects you might want to ask about include:

How to promote collaboration and sharing between organisations
How to save money and make efficiencies by working differently
When to consider commissioning e-learning and what criteria should be considered?

So go ahead and sign up with the community and start posting your questions! Alternatively leave a question in a comment to this post, or email it in to hello@learningpool.com and we’ll make sure it gets posted.

You can also get involved in the discussion using Twitter – just use and keep an eye on the tag #copel.

Bookmarks for January 11th through January 13th

January 13, 2010

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

Cisco 2009 3rd Party External Social Media Research Findings – "Cisco release the results of a third-party global study today, designed to assess how organizations use consumer social networking tools to collaborate externally."
Rationalizing the E2.0, SCRM, social business discussion – "Finally, when thinking about E2.0/SCRM, pay attention to the way in which organizational change occurs in the context of nuanced cultures. Don’t be constrained by one or other theory simply because it makes for an attractive sounding buzz phrase. Without that, much of what passes for this new way of thinking will be lost."
Governmentontheweb – Home Page – "This site is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of e-government and the impact of web-based technologies on government."
Bright Side of Government : What Social Middleware means for Government – "Social Middleware unlocks the potential of open applications by adding a layer of enterprise security, control, visibility and data retention. In the process you turn public platforms, like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, into enterprise-grade channels for engagement, communication and collaboration." via @hubmum
BBC News – Computer game gives taste of life as an MP – Computer game gives taste of life as an MP
Open Government/Government 2.0 @ Microsoft – Microsoft's toolkit for US government departments needing to be compliant with the open government directive.
Which Flip should I buy? | Podnosh – A cheap-video-camera buying guide from Nick Booth
Britainthinks – "Britainthinks is an independent space where the opinions of the British public can be publicly expressed."
Tina Daunt: The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet – "Kubrick, the template that launched millions of beautiful blogs and helped transform the Internet, is expected to be retired mid-year as the default theme for the popular WordPress blogging platform."
Intel AppUp(SM) Center Beta – An app store for netbooks, apparently

You can find all my bookmarks on Delicious.

You can also see all the videos I think are worth watching at my video scrapbook.

Google and China

January 12, 2010

Cripes:

These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.

via Tom Watson.

Update: Tom has thoughtfully blogged this too.

Kodak Zi8 review

January 12, 2010

I recently got a Kodak Zi8 video camera. It’s like a beefed up Flip and I think it should be considered the default choice for social reporters everywhere.

I did this video review of it, which turned out even ropier than I thought it would. Still, I’m learning.

Ironically, the review was recorded using a Flip. Maybe that’s my excuse?

Nick Booth has just published a nice post, where he recommends the Flip over the Kodak for ease of use.

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