Some challenging questions are being raised in this month’s Big Question - Voice Over in eLearning. Some of the key questions: Given the range of solutions for voice-over from text-to-speech, home-grown human voice-over, professional voice-over: how do you decide what's right for your course? Are there places where text-to-speech makes sense? MORE >>

My colleague Edgar dropped me a note about some workshops on knowledge sharing that he’s preparing for about a hundred practitioners in a knowledge sharing programme organised through the FAO. He asked me these questions, which he believes need to be answered in the programme: 1. what’s knowledge sharing? is all knowledge sharing good? MORE >>

Tweet. Jane Hart alerted me to this cartoon, which is already being spread throughout the Net. My first thoughts on reading this, after I laughed, are that social media are not about the latest web technologies and that they are of importance to more than just the marketing department. Social learning is getting things done in networks. MORE >>

There has been a lot of coverage on Hurricane Katrina during its fifth anniversary. Marc Meyer wrote a nice post on Social Media Today, Social Media and Hurricane Katrina: What If? He was there in the week after and experienced some of the sense of isolation as many traditional means of communication were down.  did some work on this. MORE >>

I’m an RSS junkie , and while I realize that not all of the world’s problems can be solved using RSS, for many of us, more efficient use of our RSS readers can have a big impact on our overall productivity. Learn Keyboard Shortcuts. – get a list of keyboard shortcuts. j – move to the next item in the feed. Go Full screen. MORE >>