[link] This classic film Jazz Funk Movie from August 28, 1989 was shot at the legendary Mikell’s in New York City at Columbus and W. 97th St. They’re playing Jon’s funky composition Pocket Funk. This film smokes! Musicians playing for musicians. In the house was Hugh Masakela all night long. Mikell’s was the traditional Hang for NY Studio Musicians. MORE >>

Followers of my company Straits Knowledge will know that we have produced a number of KM job aids out of our consulting experience. Now we’ve produced our latest product which helps to integrate these tools in a single facilitated conversation with operational managers: the KM Planning Canvas. You can buy all of these from our web store ! MORE >>

The local Boston chapter of the SIKM Leaders group met Thursday morning at the Information Architected offices (thanks, Dan). The usual way of this group is to do introductions and elicit topics. took a pass when it came to my "turn," but then the moderator remembered to ask me again at the end. Conversation. Thanks, Art Shelley for that one. MORE >>

I was just asked about trends in open source for eLearning and particularly open source eLearning tools. Probably one of the better sources on this is Jane Hart’s Instructional Tools Directory. In addition, she indicates if they are free or cost money – which is not quite the same thing as open source. Here’s some of what I pulled out. MORE >>

Today I was in a meeting with a number of consultants to a very large technology company. Their job: market research, essentially. They called to ask me my thoughts on the media and technology world, in particular as it might play out in the next five or so years. So when I got this question: "What's the next big thing after social?" MORE >>