Today kicks off Global Entrepreneurship Week and I'm celebrating with a Blab Career Clinic tonight at 7 p.m. EST) on starting a side gig with Melissa A. Rowe, M.Ed. who is a full-time educator and founder of Capture Greatness. We'll cover how she started and also give people a chance to join us through chat and video to ask their own questions. Melissa is fun and smart and I know it will be a lively conversation! . MORE >>

Sinclair is CEO and cofounder of Apprenda. . The idea that hybrid cloud is the end state of enterprise computing is no longer controversial. Nearly all technologists, IT executives, and analysts subscribe to the idea that public cloud and on-premises computing both have a place in modern enterprise IT strategy. A hybrid end state isn’t a bridging tactic or a strategic consolation prize, but a desirable outcome. MORE >>

Sarcasm has an unexpected mental benefit. » » Continue reading: Sarcasm Can Stimulate This Highly Desirable Mental Skill MORE >>

A recent post by my colleague in the Internet Time Alliance, Jane Hart , has created quite the stir. In it, she talks about two worlds: an old world and a new world of workplace learning. And another colleague from the Serious eLearning Manifesto , Will Thalheimer, wrote a rather ‘spirited’ response. I know, respect, and like both these folks, so I’m wrestling with trying to reconcile these seemingly opposite viewpoints. MORE >>

I have found something I wish I wrote called Screw Finding Your Passion by Mark Manson (h/t to Lodi Planting for the link) and it is fantastic. It is the advice we need to hear (note there is cursing so if you are offended by that, I apologize. Don't let that get in the way of absorbing the message, though). Here's what I loved: Today I received approximately the 11,504th email this year from a person telling me that they don’t know what to do with their life. MORE >>