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One of the best critical analyses of learning organisations is John Nagl's book comparing the British and US armies in Asia post World War 2. The specifics of each organisation in its particular context are interesting from a historical perspective. However, of more importance are the general principles

Just back from a planning session with @robynjay for the eLearning 08 Conference, which is  scheduled for December 2008 in Sydney.  It sounds like an interesting conference.  Mark Pesce is going to deliver the keynote and I will be facilitating interactive panel sessions. And for these panel sessions interactivity is

Had an interesting conversation with Juan Mann today in Sydney (accompanied by free hugs, of course).  We discussed free hugs, free stuff in general and it made me conscious of how many offers for free stuff that we receive that are actually not free.  Instead, they are usually designed to

Have been thinking and talking to lots of people about Enterprise 2.0 recently and came across an interesting blog by some people at Oracle in Australia. Their blog - The Red Room - is a great example of grass roots corporate blogging to reach out to stakeholders. It is really worth

A conversation with Simon Sharwood at Tech.Ed Sydney regarding his recent article on small business technology really helped to crystallise some thinking for me. Because most of my working life has been inside large organisations like GE, AMP, Citigroup or government the problems of technology pricing had never really

I have been watching the iPhone clutching hordes of my acquaintance with their pretty new phones and wondering if that was the answer for me.  But something stopped me from queueing up to collect my iPhone overnight in the winter cold with my buddies.  It was the thought that my