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Bill Gates Appears on Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” (AMA)

Bill Gates entered the Wild, Wild, Web this morning by starting an “Ask Me Anything” Reddit thread, where he answered questions live.  Bill Gates joins a very eclectic list of people who have braved Reddit’s AMA: Woody Harrelson’s (pulled), scientists and engineers as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, President Obama, professional poker players, and a host of others. Mr. Gates talked…

ELCE 2013 Call for Papers

The ELCE 2013 Call-for-Papers will be open until March 15th, 2013.  The Enterprise Learning! Conference & Expo will be held on August 26th to 28th, 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center.  Please go to this link to submit your speaker topic: http://www.2elearning.com/fileadmin/elce2013/ELCE_Callforpapers2013.html.   You can choose any range of topics in any of these 4 categories, and/or you can facilitate a…

How to Find Your Droid, iPhone, or iPad

Subtitle: How to Use Your “Recently Found” Device to Submit Your ELCE 2013 Call-for-Papers Ever lose your Droid, iPhone, or iPad?  It’s maddening.  Good news.  There’s an app for it.  Found a great new free app that you can download from the Google Play Store.  It’s called “Where’s my Droid?”  Once it’s on your smartphone, sending a text to it…

The Mobile Revolution – 25 Apps on the Near Horizon

In 2009, mobile devices began outselling PCs.  On January 27th, 2010, the iPad was announced at an Apple press conference by Steve Jobs.  The iPad has now become the fastest-selling consumer product of all times. These mobile devices have an enormous penetration in the world’s population.  In fact, 90% of all people on the planet now have potential access to…

Is Bina-48 the new “Personal Tutor” of the future?

(See video at end of blog post.)When I was running education for one of the big software companies, one of my managers asked me this question at an off-site meeting: If you could describe the perfect “learning agent” or “personal tutor” of the future, what would that look like?  Inspired by the original Star Wars movies, I used that as…

Taking Social Learning to the Next Level by Marcello Hunter

Taking Social Learning to the Next Level submitted & written by guest blogger and Enterprise Learning! Summit speaker Marcello Hunter Today, the technology industry is challenged with delivering talent development, training and certifications to evolve the current workforce to meet the demands of tomorrow and to shrink the global technology skills gap. As sophistication of the network increases, the skill…