31 Oct 2005 (Mon)
A reflection by Elliot Masie in the latest LearningTrends newsletter:
Dear Learning & Training Colleague,
You have watched me, as reader of Learning TRENDS, experiment my way through the design of a very different event, Learning 2005, over the past 12 months. (Me: “It has been truly interesting to watch.”)
In just 3 days, I’ll have the incredible honor of welcoming 1,500 learning colleagues from two dozen countries around the world to the start of a very different type of “conference”. We changed a lot of assumptions during the design process and I wanted to share those with you, as a personal reflection:
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26 Oct 2005 (Wed)
CONFERENCE-BASED WIKIS seem to be the “in” thing nowadays. Did a simple Google search on “conference wiki” and straightaway I get 35,600 English pages for “conference wiki”. :-p
Yes, perhaps not all will be the kind of conference wikis that I’m thinking of. But a quick sampling yields the names of many conferences:
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24 Sep 2005 (Sat)
Elliot Masie’s newsletter today highlighted a fascinating article written by an analyst in the CIA about the experimental use of Wikis, Blogs and other “community knowledge” tools in the Intelligence arena. The article is (“The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community” by Dr D. Calvin Andrus – Central Intelligence Agency). Of particular interest to me is the comparison Andrus made between blogs and wikis and the need for three wrapper technologies (repository, search and feedback). Here’s an extract:
“US policy-makers, war-fighters, and law-enforcers now operate in a real-time worldwide decision and implementation environment. The rapidly changing circumstances in which they operate take on lives of their own, which are difficult or impossible to anticipate or predict. The only way to meet the continuously unpredictable challenges ahead of us is to match them with continuously unpredictable changes of our own. We must transform the Intelligence Community into a community that dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting as the national security environment changes.
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