So called 'motivational speakers' don't motivate people to change behaviour. Throughout my career I have been involved in organising, planning and developing a huge number of away days, events, conferences and the like. When you start working on ideas for the agenda, more often than not someone will suggest getting a 'motivational speaker' along. MORE >>

Some nice data on the demographics of LinkedIn has just been compiled, shortly after it has reached 100 million users. Here is the full slidedeck of the demographic analysis. LinkedIn demographics and statistics – 2011. View more presentations from Amodiovalerio Verde. The demographics above show that it is certainly a global company. MORE >>

An interesting article in the Harvard Business Review on The Happiness Dividend has me thinking this morning about how we can re-train our brains to be more positive at work. According to the article: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy and engaged workforce. First, recognize that happiness is an advantage at work. MORE >>

In this post on the EMPATIC project seminar on Information Literacy (IL) in the Schools Sector, held in Krakow, Poland I will summarise some points from about virtual mobility, and examining IL and information behaviour in people having a virtual mobility experience. She started by outlining her ideas on IL. MORE >>

Jeremiah Owyang, analyst at Altimeter, keynoted the opening day of the eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon conference. He talked about the intersection of mobile and social, talking mobile definitions, organizational structures, and core transitions, using a metaphor of bees. mobile social MORE >>