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Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis

Tony Karrer

This is happening in many situations: major publishers (CNN, Yahoo, Cnet) competing with niches publishers, competing with blogs; TV production facing a widely distributed audience across 500 cable channels and YouTube. If you think about the Long Tail graph, it works just as well when we substitute Attention instead of Sales.

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Silicon Valley Parents Question Value of Technology in Learning. Should We?

Dashe & Thomson

In Silicon Valley, the chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to the Waldorf School of the Peninsula , a nine-classroom school, and so do employees of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard. … the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Good attention getter–started by showing a rectangle on a dark screen & asked people what it was. Knowledge Sharing Spaces (SharePoint, Blackboard, Yahoo Groups). Four technology arenas, 2D Synchronous Learning, Knowledge Sharing Spaces, Web 2.0 Without context, we don’t really know. Virtual Worlds.

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This Yahoo Leader’s Key to an Impactful Career? Fix What’s Broken

Everwise

From there, Bui-Pham moved towards project and people management during the dot-com bubble, ultimately landing her current job as the VP, Operations and Chief of Staff of Publisher Products at Yahoo. in Chemical Engineering leading up to Chief of Staff of Publisher Products at Yahoo. You have a fascinating background, including a Ph.D.

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Pay Attention!! | Xyleme Insider

Xyleme

Home > Executive Perspective , Learning Technologies > Pay Attention!! Pay Attention!! September 16th, 2009 at 06:03 | #1 Facilitating a successful online event Investing in your Single-Source Nightmare RSS feed Google Youdao Xian Guo Zhua Xia My Yahoo! Home About Xyleme Insider Podcasts Xyleme Inc.

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Develop Yourself in Addition to Training

Integrated Learnings

A few organizations I pay attention to include the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and the eLearning Guild. --3-- A few popular RSS readers include Feedly (my favorite), Google Reader , and My Yahoo (of course, there’s many more!). --5--

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Mobile Learning: A Designer’s Guide to Fighting Learner Distraction

SHIFT eLearning

The average mobile user also has a short attention span — most people skim headlines and prefer bite-size content to long articles. In order to be successful, developers must create mobile learning courses that gains and sustains the attention of a user and can compete against distractions. A research conducted by Yahoo!