Archive for May, 2008

Fri, May 30th, 2008
posted by Dawn Poulos 09:05 AM

Out on the blogs today …

Big Dog, Little Dog: Management in formation, how the workplace is changing with mobile and elearning.

Training Day: Millenial generation recruitment madness.

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Tue, May 27th, 2008
posted by Dawn Poulos 08:05 AM

It’s the era of the microtrend market and it seems that all anyone can talk about in marketing is how to go viral:

Rand Fishkin is a popular speaker at search engine optimization conferences – not so much for his trademark yellow sneakers – but for his direct and uncompromising advocacy of social media marketing … and he insists the quickest way to kill a viral campaign is by giving it to your public relations department.

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Tue, May 13th, 2008
posted by Dawn Poulos 04:05 AM

Educators and the deep, blue digital …

The Learning Circuits Blog: The question for May is if there’s a difference between instructional design for digital immigrants vs. digital natives.

Karyn’s erratic learning journey: Responding to the question for May, Karyn says no and anyway, you have to do a fresh needs assessment for each instructional design project.

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Tue, May 6th, 2008
posted by Dawn Poulos 01:05 PM

In a comment about Clay Shirky’s cognitive surplus concept by Heresiarch (appended to a Making Light post, via FastForwardBlog, via Harold Jarche*), we read:

… 1) Shirky’s claim isn’t that everyone will suddenly devote every leisure hour to writing a novel/inventing cold fusion–only that, all of a sudden, it will be much easier to do so. People might still only choose to use 1% more of their leisure time in a productive fashion, but that’s still 1% improvement, and small percentages add up to a lot of productivity when you’re talking millions of people.

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