Engaged Learning

Overcoming Objections to Social Learning – One Week at at Time

May 9, 2009 SlideShare, Social Learning SIG, objections, slqotd

Last year at DevLearn I presented a session about the top 15 objections to social learning and how to overcome them. It was a GREAT session. In fact, it was where Dave Wilkins and I met and where we started doing the podcasts, webinars, Social Learning Question of the Day on Twitter and other projects.

A couple of weeks ago, Dave and I did a similar session, but as a webinar. There were over 200 people that attended. We thought that was good and we were happy with that. Then Dave took the webinar, slides and audio, and put them on SlideShare. Over these last two weeks, to our surprise, the webinar was viewed OVER 1400 MORE times! We are blown away!

Obviously, there is a need for this. So, to fulfill the need, we will be taking one objection a week and discussing it on the Social Learning NING group. It will give more people more space and time to give suggestions, voice concerns and really network ideas together.

So come join the 230 other people in this network.  Tell us your real live objection here, and we will add it in the mix.  Then put in your two cents (or more if you would like) for each objection.  Together we can get some fabulous perspectives and solutions!

I have embedded the webinar once again just to give you a feel for some of the topics we will be talking about.

Here’s to solving all our problems (or at least a few of them!).

Tags: 15 objections, ning, objections, Podcast, SlideShare, social learning, webinar

AmeriCorps Conference – How Conferences Should Be Done

Jan 23, 2009 Social Learning SIG

Last year I did a 1/2 day session at the NW Network Conference and had a fabulous time and learned some great things from eachother.   This conference caters to AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Vista – volunteer organizations with a great purpose and reach.  This March they have invited me back to do the opening keynote and four sessions and I couldn’t be more excited not only because I get to come back and talk with some really great people, but also because of the way they are organizing it.

They were self-admittedly a little late in staring the planning, but their planning is all over a wiki which speeds things up.  They are creating a NING page for discussions and  to post pre & post-conference materials.  The conference itself is very hands on – everyone is invited to bring their laptops and there is wireless access for all attendees.

I wish more conferences engaged attendees before and after and during like they are.

(semi-aside) A few months ago Christine Martell, the president of the local chapter of ASTD, and I talked about doing a follow up to the one day conference we put on late last year on Social Learning.  My thoughts would be to do more of an BarCamp or unconference for this next one.  Sounds like fun.  Now, if I could just find the time to squeeze in the planning…

Tags: americorps, astd, ning