Amplified individuals are the new superheroes in organisations and networks. They are the people who embrace new tools and applications, try out new practices, experiment and make them work. Others in the organisation can then follow on behind, taking advantage of their research and expertise. Such individuals present a huge
Predicting the future and tailoring your business strategy to suit can be difficult at the best of times, but did you know that effective futures scanning can help companies through a downturn such as we are experiencing today? Particularly in difficult times it’s vitally important to think creatively about the
ELESIG – the Special Interest Group for those interested in Evaluating the Learner Experience of E-Learning – invites academics to a seminar on Impact of learner experience research – digital literacies. It’s on Thursday, 20th November 2008 at the Evolution Suite, Longbridge Technology Park, 1 Devon Way Birmingham B31 2TS.
Have you ever been misunderstood online? We’ve all experienced occasions when an email didn’t quite convey the message it was supposed to. Such problems can take a surprising amount of time to clear up – to establish what was really being said. An amusing email mistake was reported on the
Online conferences are BIG these days. Some organisations have been running virtual conferences for a while and others are just starting out, or experimenting with an online element to a face-to-face conference. Technology has moved on a lot and there are a variety of options for online conferences and webinars,
Tuesday 21st October 11 am – noon BST. Seminar title: Mobile technologies for education in development contexts – challenging the obvious, with John Traxler, Reader in Mobile Technology for e-Learning (School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton). In the seminar John will talk about his work on mobile learning
At Reach Further it’s one of our fundamental beliefs that bringing people together helps solve problems. Our vision is “bringing people together online, to share, to work and to learn”. Whether you call it social media, social networking, Web 2.0, online communities, the blogosphere, ebusiness or any of the other
The presentation we gave last month at the ALT-C conference in Leeds is now online: If you build it will they come? A model for sustainable online community networks for practitioners Helen Whitehead, Liz Cable Reach Further Ltd., United Kingdom Thursday 11th September 2008, University of Leeds Community model powerpoint
It’s National Poetry Day and this year’s theme is “work” so in the spirit of this here is a haiku: Is a poem work? A poet would say yes, though poems feed the soul. Please feel free to contribute a haiku or other poem on this year’s subject of “work”
1. Use a to-do list I use a weekly list rather than a daily list and even then it is sometimes an “everything I have to do” list. There are several online tools that can help with making lists, including wrike.com, rememberthemilk.com and joesgoals.com (see previous post). 2. Prioritise Do