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Careful what you name your LMS

I was just brainstorming with a friend from our Corp. Communications on a name for our LMS. I’ve been looking into this for a bit, but it slipped my mind and now I need to come up with something. So we threw around the words “university”, “college”, “academy”, “elearning“, “online”, “intranet”. Finally we came up […]

Dear Boss: Let me tell you what I really think….whoops

I saw this post today via LifeHacker and them in turn from The Official Gmail Blog. Google labs is working on a feature, Mail Goggles, that once set will give you a series of math questions to test your own level of consciousness on whether sending that late Saturday night email is such a good […]

Getting addicted to Tweets? Maybe.

Last year at the Annual Gathering someone asked if I was hooked into Twitter that they would send me a message that way about where to meet up later during the event. I wasn’t but quickly did to give it a try and check it out. It did take me a little getting use to […]

Internet and Email Use at Work – Study Findings

PEW Internet and American Life Project have a great paper out right now with some interesting stats on use of the internet and email and how it effects workers. It is from September 24, 2008 and the data seems to have been collected earlier in the year. It caught my attention in relation to the […]

Starting to be a Collector (comment from Work Literacy Ning)

Susan Neva commented today, after seeing a graph (What People are Doing) that I shared, that they would like to become more of a collector and wants to learn how to accomplish this task starting with RSS feeds. I responded (and decided to share here) with a comment. Week 4 of Work Literacy seems to […]

Feeling behind, overwhelmed, leading to discouragement – LMS blues

So I guess I have the LMS blues. I’m coming to what should be the final stretch of getting the LMS functioning. I should have access to a new version of the system. I should have several courses on it for users to try out. I should have our HR system talking to our Active […]

Work Literacy – Workshop

Working through many of the postings, forums, info on the Web 2.0 for Learning Professionals workshop (http://workliteracy.ning.com/) lots to think about here. Many intriguing people to connect with and learn from. Mobile post sent by hamtra using Utterli.  Replies.

Exploring Electronically

Searching out new areas in SL, new to me, an unconference in secondlife://Jokaydia/114/158/23, and the creation of some discworld areas, and a book store secondlife://Elysian%20Isle/149/204/26 Mobile post sent by hamtra using Utterli.  Replies.

A new title for me….of course that means more work.

A little while ago I was asking out for any suggestions for a new job title for myself. Well today the goodness came and as of Oct. 9th (next pay date) I will be the Education Technology Specialist. Ooooohhhhh, Ahhhhhh, Wooooowwwww, (insert ticker tape parade, fireworks, etc. here). Okay really it’s not a new job. […]