This month’s “Big Question&# from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: In a Learning 2.0 learning professional (or any learner, for that fact. What the heck IS a learning professional??) Twittering! Jay Cross - Informal Learning blog. Trying. MORE >>

It took email over 30 odd years to reach that status where more and more people started to question its long-standing status quo within the corporate world and it looks like Twitter has accelerated that same perception to just a few years within the Social Web, without even entering the corporate world  altogether!, Twitter used to be fun. MORE >>

Could we say that this ‘go with the flow’ attitude is going to be an essential ingredient of effective learning in the 21 st century – or would that be a step too far? True to the spirit of distributed learning, this BBB crash did not prevent the show from going on. Retention has always been an issue in distance learning programmes.  MORE >>

Jay Cross states that 80% of learning is informal (in his book informal learning ). Personally, I buy this estimation because it links with the way I personally learn. Nevertheless, I guess other people with different learning styles may get more out of it. Tags: learning styles informal learning MORE >>

When brands struggle on Facebook or Twitter it is usually because they haven’t thought through what is in it for the people they are engaging. But he has made a big mistake… The story is simple but it is one many brands can learn from – understand the motivations, needs and interests of the people you are looking to engage. MORE >>