Recorded webinars: Why they are not god’s gift to absentees

I recently had someone request a recording of a webinar they had missed and I refused to give it to them. I was not being difficult or trying to show some display of my (not so awesome) political power. Infact, in my eyes I was trying to provide them with the best service possible.
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What I want in a discussion board

As part of our big LMS adventure I have been writing a business requirements document, which has got me thinking in more explicit verbal terms about what I want rather than in my previous daydreams which have been fruitful but less determined.
I am currently a user of Blackboard and something which really annoys me is that [...]

What makes a good webinar?

Lately I’ve been involved in the introduction of webinars to my organisation. Webinars are like a really interactive online meeting, kind of like a cross between a powerpoint presentation, a teleconference, a whiteboard, and an instant chat message session. We are holding several hundred webinars in a few months, which is an absolutely herculean effort [...]

The Sound Of Silence

Last night I was musing over what is, why it is so, and what could be. This isn’t something out of the ordinary for me – I do it on a regular basis really. But this particular session was about a project I have been undertaking at work lately. We are rolling [...]

Design for dreams, not providers

I’ve been designing my first ever commercial collaborative spaces at work over the past month or so. By design I mean coming up with a whole heap of web 2.0 ideas and storyboarding them into one place so someone can build a mash-up containing and feeding in all sorts of stuff for us. [...]

What does e-Learning have to do with saucepans anyway…

I had a meeting with some Human Resource managers yesterday about how geographically broad companies can induct their staff. I had seen a presentation at a seminar about a new induction sytem one of the banks uses which had some good underlying principles, but staff still had to travel great distances, so uptake was [...]

If you’re going to dump something in my head, do it fast please

I have to admit. I am biased. Probably by my generation, probably by what I’ve been taught, probably by my learning style. I don’t really like boring self paced “click next here and read these words” kinda stuff. I mean those robotic recorded presentations which aren’t conducive to dialogue. There’s noone [...]