220 - Counting the Steps to Instant Collaboration; e-Learning Advice: Buy Small and Fast!; Trainer Tip: Community Based Note Taking

#220 - - - October 9, 2001 - - - 42,224 Readers
*** Elliott Masie's TechLearn TRENDS ***
e-Learning, Training and e-Collaboration Updates
Published by The MASIE Center: http://www.masie.com
Host of TechLearn 2001 - Oct 28 - 31 - Orlando, Florida

1. Counting the Steps to Instant Collaboration
2. TechLearn Keynoter's Daughter on Survivor 3
3. e-Learning Advice: Buy Small and Fast!
4. Trainer Tip: Community Based Note Taking

1. Counting the Steps to Instant Collaboration: As we build Digital
Collaboration capacities in our organizations, a great metric to use is
"Steps to Instant Collaboration". This basically is the number of steps
it would take for 2 individuals or 2 groups of people within your
organizations to start collaborating via technology.

For example, most people that are using Video Conferencing still have 4 to
6 steps to have a video call, including scheduling, technical testing,
establishing connections, etc. That would be far from instant, especially
when compared to the number of steps it would take to have a telephone
call between 2 people.

We are using the Steps to Instant Collaboration as a way of measuring the
ease of use and extent of integration that exists within your organization
for enabling rapid and easy digital collaboration. We have to make
launching a shared web view of data or slides as easy as picking up the
phone. We have to make launching a video conference as natural as going
to a meeting room.

2. TechLearn Keynoter's Daughter on Survivor 3: If you follow the series,
Survivor, there is another connection to the world of training on this
current season of the show. Kelly Goldsmith is a member of the Boran
Tribe. She is the daughter of Marshall Goldsmith, one of the leading
management coaches and a keynoter at TechLearn. No one knows how well
Kelly did on Survivor, but if you are a fan, you can check out her
biography (and root for her). Info at:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor3/survivors/kelly_b.shtml

3. e-Learning Advice: Buy Small and Fast! In a dialogue today with one
of the leading CEO's in the e-Learning field, I got a bit of insight into
how their company is handling the current economic challenges. The motto
they are using with clients is to: Buy Small and Fast! In other words,
if you can't make the large scale enterprise level purchase, scale back
your budgets but move quickly. That gets you started and moves you
forward.

4. Trainer Tip: Community Based Note Taking: This is a tip that I have
been using for 20 years! Buy a notebook and offer this to the class a
set of group notes. (You can also use a laptop if you have good
keyboarders). Each person is responsible for one hour of note taking.
They really dig in and do extensive note taking for their section, then
pass the notebook or laptop to the next person. At the end of the class,
everyone gets a copy of the notes. This creates a great set of
perspectives on the content and also can be combined with notes and slides
from the instructor.

TechLearn 2001 Update: There are 1,600 folks registered for TechLearn
2001 to be held in Orlando on Oct 28 to 31. We have just added several
additional sessions dealing with Computer Security Education,
Intergenerational Learning and e-Coaching. The main hotel will sell out
the room block by the end of this week, but there are secondary hotels
available at Disney. Complete information and registration is available
at http://www.techlearn.com