News on the Blog Front

I will officially be working with Ted (thank you Cheryl) under Tessa's tutelage to create a secure blog site for EHE so we can post information/communication that is EHE proprietary on the site. Stay tuned!

In the meantime here is a great site David Stuart found on www.salon.com on the future of distance learning (as well as the past). You can get a one day pass to view the article, so don't need to join for the $35 membership fee.


http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/01/26/distance_learning/index_np.html

Have a great week...I'll post some articles I've gotten from Jenny about the state of network analysis globally as we prepare for our trip to London.

Blogging: A Viable Tool?

Missed a day, but hey, who noticed? (Only five people have the site address...)

ZDNet's David Berlind asks us to think about whether we feel that “blogs are insignificant” and “podcasting negligible” or not. Great article! Check it out at the link below.

Pre-read cheat sheet:
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) the enabling technology behind blogs
Podcasting is the audio Web (okay, I don't get it, like audio TiVo--Ed will have to explain it to us...)

Go ahead, just dive in, the water's great...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=914

Great tutorial (presentation from ASTD 2004) from my favorite colleague-from-a-past-life. Jay Cross (Internet Time). 87 slides, but worth it:
http://macromedia.marketing.pr.breezecentral.com/p51746849

Happy browsing!

Other Links and Our Own Broken Links

Here is a link to the Otter Group. They do online learning using blogs, very interesting, check it out:

http://ottergroup.com/blog/ELearning/_archives/2004/12/9/201530.html

(I'll learn how to do links properly, really really soon!)

And Cheryl's email message to fix our own broken links:

"For those of you who haven’t already heard the news, SumTotal has installed a fix on our servers to remedy our broken links problems.

Before you get too excited about this news, let me warn you that this fix does NOT actually correct existing broken links, but rather is supposed to prevent the links from breaking again in the future.

What does this mean for you? If you come across a broken link, or it’s reported to you through QA, fix the link by removing the existing page link, and reinstalling it on the screen. The link should stay fixed now.

You do not need to go back and re-fix previously broken links. They should stay fixed now, based on the information we received from SumTotal.

Any questions? Please ask Keith or me.

Please forward this email as needed."

No need, it is now posted for all to see!

Links and Things

I've created links to several sites having to do with Knowldedge Management and Social Network Analysis. Rob Cross, from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, will be working with us to build Alcoa's Communities of Purpose project. Rob's principal interests are with the application of social network analysis to critical business issues and improving effectiveness in knowledge-intensive work. Here is the link to his site http://www.robcross.org/ .

At the conference, one of the presenters was Bill Ives, a consultant and writer covering knowledge management, blogs and emerging technologies. He was the Knowledge Management Practice Lead for Accenture and spent nearly twenty years develping knowledge management, performance support and online learning systems. Here is a link to Dr. Ives' blog site http://billives.typepad.com/portals_and_km/

More links to come!

Training Post (Like Training Wheels)

This is the first post on EHE World's Blog site. We'll keep all company updates, policies,technology updates and relevant links. It will also be a place for all departments to exchange information.

I just got back from the New England KM Cluster's Spring 2005 in Boston. (Friday morning we walked from the Royal Sonesta Hotel to IBM's Watson Research Center in 0 degrees--it did not feel like spring!)

Focus of the event:
Recent research has identified the importance of social networks for communication, information sharing, decision-making and particularly innovation. Since networks are how much work gets done, it is importanct to know how networks within enterprises get created. Does it happen by chance or design? Can managers influence the growth of networks and if so should they?

There were three panel discussions which explored the issues that affect network growth, the role of personal and corporate responsibility in leading effective networks, and how technology can accelerate the hpace of forming new connections and how networks evolve over time in physical and virtual space.

I'll post more information about the event as the week goes on including links to Bill Ives' blog site which focuses on Knowldege Management during the week and food and music on weekends.

New Yorkers, stay inside and stay warm--it's a blizzard out there!