From the monthly archives:

June 2010

Social networking is fast becoming ubiquitous

25th June 2010

Further evidence of the near universal appeal of social media comes in the form of a new report from Neilsen, which shows Internet usage in April of this year. According to the report: Worldwide, 22% of all online time is spent social networking. Three quarters of all Internet users visit a social networking site when [...]

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Interoperability Matters

21st June 2010

Despite the increasing use of web conferencing, instant messaging, and social media tools in the workplace, email shows no sign of disappearing. There are plenty of arguments for and against email, but it has one very big plus that most other systems don’t have; no matter which email system you’re using, you know it’s interoperable [...]

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Web conferencing is the scalable option

17th June 2010

At the INGO E-Learning Conference today at Oxfam I had a chance to chat with Martin Baker of the Charity Learning Consortium. He told me about a new business book abstracting service called getAbstract, which is distributed in the UK by LMMatters. What I found interesting was the story he told me about one of [...]

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A word about overload (well a few really)

15th June 2010

We have to acknowledge that, like a computer, the human brain has limits to its capacity for memory and processing. Instructional material often disregards these limits, and the result is what psychologists call cognitive overload. It is tempting to hold fast to the view that certain information is so precious and so comprehensive that it [...]

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