Feedback on April Learntrends

[Jay Cross]

What did we learn? How can we do better? Sugestions, brickbats, etc. please

[Sreya Dutta]

Hi Jay,

I think it was a great session. Thanks so much for organizing it. Even though I could attend for just a couple of hours, i think that experience was really beneficial. I look forward to a lot more great sessions. The time zone is definitely a problem, but we can try planning in advance, or is it possible to organize them on non-working days or even weekends, especially the full day ones, so that people in other time zones maybe able to stay up late or get on early. For me i had to get off as I had to get to work the next day. But thanks for the initiative. This is a much needed one!

Sreya

[Eduardo Peirano]

I still need to give thanks to Jay Cross and Learntrends , hosts of online corporate learning online conferences. They allowed me to present at the April 2009 Learntrends Online Conversations on boosting the performance of organizations through learning. It was a wonderful online event – a whole 24hs day event – of online conversations and you were always online attending the conversations!!! I posted Thanks Jay for my 61 Min of Fame Online Sorry Jay for this late post. It was a long post and not so easy to write for me. Thanks again.

[Eduardo Peirano]

During my presentation I talked about the importance of using email in elearning Everyone uses email in organizations. They are all used to communicate and collaborate using email.

An example I have found is that the University of Phoenix was using Outlook Express and Newsgroups to teach online courses.

Now I read about Google Wave

"Millions of companies have sharepoint, wiki's etc. and they ARE NOT USING THEM. They keep sending emails to each other with recent updates in documents. They have done so for years.

So what is the solution? Stop calling it google documents and start calling it google wave. Make it look like email. Make it feel like email. Make it just replace email all together.

It's like giving all the idiots out there shared revisioned document control, but putting an email-like interface on top of it and tell them 'its just like email'.

It's brilliant because this one will actually work. The challenge was never technical. We have seen all this before. But not integrated like this and masquerated as if it's email.

And you have to be a real out-touch-with-reality geek to not realize that."

Even Google recognizes the importance of email!!