Well, I was on the live session tonight (read about my experience with last week’s recorded session). For the most part, as I expected, the experiences were the same. There were some bumps in the data stream early on (and once later), but it got ironed out within about 15 minutes, so I was satisfied with the transmission itself. I was very worried at the beginning because the resolution was dropping significantly at times to . . . → Read More: Oprah’s Online Training – live experience review
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I’m currently watching the recorded version of Oprah’s first session of her “class” on A New Earth, which is about “new spirituality”. For the purposes of this post, however, the topic is irrelevant. What I’m interested in is how it’s being pulled off as an example of a massive, live, online facilitated event. This is, I believe, the single largest event of its kind (Oprah says there are over 700,000 people connected to the course), . . . → Read More: Oprah’s Online Training – experience review How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free – New York Times (You may need a free account to read that article) Okay, I’m on Facebook. I have a love/hate relationship with Social Networking sites. I see the benefit they could offer (though I don’t think it’s truly being realized), but I also see huge opportunities for abuse in multiple areas, including security. There have been commercials lately, targeted at teens, mostly, that . . . → Read More: How long will your face be on Facebook? A few posts back, we got into a bit of a discussion that significantly hinged on fair use. I mentioned that I had a fair use reference but didn’t have it handy. Here it is: [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/CJn_jC4FNDo" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] And here’s something similar but shorter (though not as good): [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Lf05MDTsPHU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Neither really change the argument we were having much, but I thought I’d at least follow through with . . . → Read More: Fair Use Afternoons with Amit: How to watch TV online…legally See, that’s the kicker – doing it legally. Anyone can find illegal TV. Given the option, though, I’d much rather support the companies creating these shows by going the legal route. If that means I have to put up with four 30-second commercials, I’m okay with that. Just don’t skimp on the quality, and make it easy to navigate. Amit puts a description of each along with . . . → Read More: TV online – legally I’m pretty impressed with the CommonCraft videos. They’ve found a way to make YouTube a marketing and profit center for themselves, and a lot of their work is in the training and marketing industries. They’ve found a nice niche for themselves. One of their recent blog entries catalogs some lessons learned in their previous year of business. I’ve pulled a few of the tips out below that I think apply to a training department – . . . → Read More: Tips from CommonCraft Slice of SciFi News Briefs – Slice of SciFi Watch the pilot episode of The Sarah Conner Chronicles online! Today only! Fox will post the pilot episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” exclusively on tv.Yahoo! for 24 hours beginning January 4 at 9PM PT/12AM ET. The commercial-free premiere will also feature an exclusive introduction by star Lena Headey (Sarah Connor). Here’s the cure to boredom! Over 200 Christmas specials on Fanpop! Yes, this includes all the old favorites you’ve come to know and love: A Charlie Brown Christmas… Frosty the Snowman… The Year Without a Santa Claus (the one with Heat Miser and Cold Miser – best Christmas special song ever)… And a few you’d probably never expect to see: Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration (the one with the California Raisins!)… Mr. Bean: Christmas Sketches… . . . → Read More: Stuck in the office (or your in-laws’ house) during Christmas week? I can’t believe this didn’t occur to me before. I’ve been trying to come up with a good system of sharing gift ideas with my family for quite a while. I wrote a static page to do that at one point, but it’s proven to be a bit of a pain to keep updated. This idea fits much more easily into the “stream of work” as I surf the web. Combine it with Firefox’s del.icio.us . . . → Read More: Keep gift ideas on del.icio.us I managed to get to David Snowden’s talk this morning about, essentially, the nature of learning. What does science say about how we learn? Is that different from the way we, as trainers, try to make people learn? It seems that we are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. And what we’re ending up doing is, sometimes painfully, reshaping the hole (the trainees) to become square, rather than filing our peg . . . → Read More: Corporate Learning conference: Day 3 |
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