January 2011
16 posts
Social learning and the power of inertia
Anyone who knows me professionally knows I’m a big fan of Jay Cross, one of the great thought leaders when it comes to collaborative (read, social) learning. I met Jay at LearnX here in Australia a few years ago, and then had the pleasure of attending one of his presentations out here, in which he introduced me to a new gadget called the Flip. Of course, the Flip and cameras like it have now...
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Death (from embarassment) by tweet
There are so many stories about people who have caused themselves endless trouble through one (or, sometimes, several) indiscrete tweets that I hardly need recite them for you. If you’re a Twitter user, or even if you just keep up with that odd area of news where tech meets celebrity, you’ve already heard a heap of them. If you’re one of the very few who haven’t heard...
Old Spice Guy is back! (mashable.com) →
My favourite ad campaign looks like it’s back!
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I just love this alternative to PowerPoint - Prezi →
If you’re a trainer who uses PowerPoint or something similar, I really do urge you to take a look at Prezi.
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Why organisations need social learning - Laurent...
The following article is reproduced from ASTD’s website. It provides some interesting thoughts and suggestions for why social learning (mediated by electronic tools) is useful for organisations and how it can be used. At The Salvation Army Employment Plus, we use social learning software to support our more tradition forms of training and development activities. Although I...
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Road train technology trials get rolling - BBC... →
Researchers of traffic flows have been saying for years now that if people could be forced to drive together at a safe and consistent speed, traffic flow would be greatly enhanced. Looks like controlled trials have started on the technology that could make this a reality. My only question: What do I do when I want to get off the highway and I’m the middle car in a 30-vehicle column?
PC games on the nose? →
No matter how immersive games have become, none are able to produce smells to match the on-screen environment - until now. Developer Scent Sciences have demonstrated Scent Scape, a machine that plus in to PCs via a USB port and, with the relevant code written into a game’s software, produces smells appropriate to the environment and action. Price is yet to be announced, but apparently the...
Royal Pingdom's Internet 2010 in numbers →
Some very interesting figures regarding the growth of the Internet, email, social networking and more. I haven’t looked at any of their sources, so I can’t absolutely vouch for the accuracy of all the info, but I found the post intriguing - especially the proportion of email that is spam: 89.1% of all email send last year, or 262 billion spam emails per day.
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Enjoy some nice photos
While I sort out what I should post for my first real blog post, please enjoy some photos from my trip to the UK. We arrived in between two of the biggest snow storms southern England has seen (at least, in the memory of the people we spoke to while there), but that didn’t detract from the beauty of the place.
