Effective this morning, XPLANE is joining the Dachis Group , the world’s leading social business consultancy, as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Initially, the only change employees and customers will notice is the Dachis Group logo on our home page. But joining the Dachis Group is a strategic move for our company and for our customers. MORE >>

Since (surprisingly) no-one appeared to have done it yet, I have set up a group on Flickr called Information Literacy. At the moment anyone can join and add photos immediately to the pool, so please do if you have photos you think are in some way related to information literacy. link] Photo by Sheila Webber: Spot the penguin. MORE >>

Groups of soldiers who will work together usually participate in “collective training&# and this typically follows some kind of cycle of preparing for operations, performing missions and coming back from missions. For instance, one group exercise may solely focus on communications systems and processes. Individual Training. MORE >>

25 November 2005 Group brainstorming with index cards Douglas Johnston , creator of the DIY planner has a great method for group brainstorming with index cards. Set your group or team around a table. Each idea is read alound, and the cards are then arranged and grouped on a whiteboard or wall, with duplicates discarded. MORE >>

In this post, I want to focus on a specific scenario that involves Personal and Group Learning and how Web 2.0 They will be creating this strategy over the next few months and have many strong feelings among the group about different things they can and should be doing. Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. MORE >>