561 - Fake Work, Website Personality Profiles, LMS Shifts
February 8, 2009 Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie - Feb 8, 2009.
#561 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology.
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1. Myers Briggs of Your Website? Mine is ENTP
2. Fake Work - PodCast with Author
3. Learning Systems Reframed in Tighter Times
Hello from UnCommon Grounds, the Saratoga Springs cafe where I spend most mornings meeting with my breakfast club of friends. The first item [below] came from a colleague who asked about the personality of websites.
1. Myers Briggs of Your Website? Mine is ENTP: If you don’t take it too seriously, here is a very cool website. Type in a url of a website or blog and it will give you a reading of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator that the text seems to indicate. I did www.masie.com and was shocked to see it return ENTP, which is the result I have gotten on dozens of instruments over dozens of years. Try it for a few of your favorite sites:
Look at the difference between two airlines such as JetBlue or United. Once again, don’t take it too seriously, but it is fascinating. I wonder if we will start to analyze applicants’ social network sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook?
2. Fake Work - PodCast with Brent Peterson: I recently interviewed the author of a great new book: “Fake Work - Why People are Working Harder Than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem!” Brent Peterson is a thought leader in looking at how organizations and individuals can shift from doing fake work (hint: endless email or useless PowerPoints) to real work that yields business results. This is a 15-minute audio PodCast:
3. Learning Systems Reframed in Tighter Times: At our upcoming Learning Systems Roundtable, we will be taking a vendor-neutral look at how organizations are shifting their use, procurement and reframing of LMS, LCMS and Collaboration Systems. These systems are more important in tough economic times as Talent issues are enormous; yet, budgets and political realities of making large investments in new systems are creating real hurdles. Join us for an honest conversation about Learning Systems in 2009, ranging from stalled RFPs to adding thinner systems in front of legacy LMS and LCMS systems. Registration is now open:
Learning Systems Roundtable
Our Annual LMS & LCMS User Group
Chicago - April 15 & 16, 2009
http://www.masie.com/learningsystems
Warm regards,
Elliott
Contact me at emasie@masie.com
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