Announcing LearnTrends 2009, The Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation Conference

[Jay Cross]

November 17-19, 2009 | Online | Free

George Siemens, Tony Karrer, and Jay Cross today announced that the third annual conference on Corporate Learning Trends & Innovations will take place online November 17, 18, and 19, 2009. This year's topic is Convergence in Corporate Learning. Mark your calendar to participate and to network with fellow corporate learning professionals.

LearnTrends tackles topics you won’t find at the conferences you have to travel to. The event is free. Events are live & online and will be recorded.

Go to the LearnTrends 2009 tab for our agenda and schedule.

We are open to your suggestions: email us or leave a comment below.

[Jay Cross]

Half of each session is reserved for sharing ideas, Q&A, and debate. Everyone is encouraged to take part.

[Betsy Alexander]

Especially interested in learning more about the role of social media (informal learning) in learning organizations...which media are being used, how they are being used, LMS platforms that are social media-friendly, etc.

[Jay Cross]

Betsy, social learning is this year's hot topic. We'll be talking about Enterprise 2.0 and informal learning. No guarantee that LMS will figure into those conversations: some are antithetical to informal learning.

[Michael Collins]

Jay
Would appreciate a discussion around Web 2.0 and Social Media against corporate image, security and mindset. In my limited experience it is much harder to integrate Web 2.0 tools and social media in to large organisations.
Are there any hints and tips on starting small?
How to show the benefits of these tools to those that matter?
Any success stories that can be shared or best practice guides?

Thanks
Mike

[Maureen A. Barlow]

Hi Jay,

I think I'm in the same boat that you are. In my organization, social learning and Web 2.0 (not to mention Learning 2.0) has not really taken off due to a top-down information-sharing structure that is necessary to some extent in my industry (health insurance). We're still very course-driven, but we're seeing a definite need now (and requests for) more informal learning. I'm looking forward to learning more about starting small, as you mention above.

Thanks,
Maureen

[Jay Cross]

I'm pleased to announce that Deb Schultz of Altimeter Group will be speaking this year. I believe another heavy hitter in the enterprise 2.0 space will join us, too.

Maureen, it's ironic that the seminal research in learning via communities of practice took place among claims processors in an insurance company. The informal learning is there -- it's just not official.

[rani gill]

Would it be possible to list the twitter hashtag on the front page -- so it's one of the first things you see? #learntrends

Is it possible to have that feed somewhere on the home page? similar to a blog.

Just a thought - thanks.