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March 24, 2006
Seriously Mobile Presentations Now Available
The video archive from the Seriously Mobile Series event held on 22 March, 2006 is now available here.
You can access the slides and video of each presentation which covered a range of topics from organisational needs driving new approaches to support performance for increasingly mobile workers to solutions available today and in the near future.
Speeches included:
Charles Jennings, Global Head of Learning, Reuters, The business imperitive to take learning to the learners
Gordon Bull, Director of Global Learning Services, Vodafone, Future look, sales and consumer phone and BlackBerry performance content delivery examples
Wolfram Spoenlein, Learning Solutions Architecht, Motorola, Customer Needs better met through emerging and increasingly ambient solutions
Donald Clark, Epic Co-founder and former CEO, Simulations and Games for Learning
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs, Towards Personalized learning, Mobile delivery to any platform including phones, BlackBerrys, PDAs, hand held game devices including location based ambient services with Wifi, GPS and RFID.
Ron Edwards, Managing Director, Ambient Performance, The Performance Pathfinder approach to help organisations assess where to address performance opportunities and how to address them through planning, proof of concept development, scalability and change management
Stephen Clee, Managing Director, Datmedia, streaming video to mobile phones and more
Jonathan Shaw, Director of Business Develpment and Strategy, 7 City Learning, interactive email to BlackBerrys
Jonathon Levy, Senior Learning Strategist, Monitor Group, 4th Generation Performance Platform
Dick Davies, Executive Producer, Ambient Performance, Forterra Systems MMOG environment for performance rehearsal
Dr. Gilly Salmon, Professor of eLearning and Learning Technologies, University of Leicester, Profcasting, podcasting success in university.
Expert panel on implmentation considerations, William Ward, Cable and Wireless, Gilly Salmon, Charles Jennings, Fabrizio Cardinali, moderated by Ron Edwards
Your comments on the presentations and the event are welcome to be posted here as well as in the discussion area set up in the archive for the Expert Panel where we can continue the conversation.
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March 23, 2006
Seriously Mobile Success
Our first event in the Seriously Mobile Series 'Mobile Knowledge Workers, Solutions for Performance' was attended by 50 people from 7 countries and we've received great comments from participants already. The day ended with the majority of people indicating 'Thumbs Up' in their vote on value of the day. Yea!
Several of the presentations focussed on performance needs and support as the model forward over traditional training methods. I was glad to see interest in the application of simulations and games to better reach and engage generated in discussion around presentations from Donald Clark, Fabrizio Cardinali, Wolfram Spoenlein, Dick Davies and William Ward. Overall, it seemed to be a good mix of discussion of trends and innovative solutions.
The video archive will be posted here later today with all presentations. Comments are welcome here as well as in the Expert Panel discussion area in the archive.
Thank you to all those who helped make the day fun, interesting and full of lively discussion (all of you!)
Special thanks to Charles Jennings and Reuters for hosting us in such an outstanding facility with great staff!
Charles Jennings, Global Head of Learning, Reuters
Gordon Bull, Director of Global Learning Management, Vodafone
Networking & Demo Buzz
Dick Davies, Ambient Performance, Charles Jennings, Reuters, Gordon Bull, Vodafone, Wolfram Speonlein, Motorola
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March 18, 2006
March 22 Events: Seriously Mobile + Sony PSP Drops Price!
Two great things are happening on March 22, the Seriously Mobile Series: Mobile Knowledge Workers: Providing Solutions for Performance event in London AND it's just been announced this week that Sony will drop the price on the PSP handheld gaming device on the same day! Coincidence? You decide. With the story here on GameBizDaily you can also read how the PSP will be adding GPS, Camera and Flash capabilities as well as RSS. What's that all mean? A powerful, getting more affordable handheld which will support location based learning with augmented reality applications, and the ability to subscribe to rich media content including podcasts and videocasts which can be downloaded instantly via rapidly proliferating WiFi. I can't wait!
Posted by Ron Edwards at 08:10 PM | Comments (0)
March 12, 2006
Ultra Mobile PC - Innovation in a new form factor...
I am looking forward to getting my hands on one of these new 'Ultra Mobile PCs' launched this last week by Microsoft, Intel and Samsung. It's a new form factor that is a sort of mini tablet pc which runs XP. I'm especially glad to see support for GPS applications with partners already lined up such as Pharos GPS so hope we soon see creative ways to add location based services for increasingly mobile everyone! Microsoft is betting on the future that's just around the corner with increasing support for location services, including support for it with their new OS Vista.
This new device connects to WiFi and can accept a sim card add on for data and calls. Speaking of Wifi, it's great to see the recent announcement that the City iof London will soon be WiFi enabled, and encouraging that various accounts will work on it but even better to see Islington's approach of open access for free. rather than 5 quid an hour!
Wireless broadband to all without having to logon to multiple accounts as you move across the city will be a welcome change!
Posted by Ron Edwards at 10:06 PM | Comments (0)
March 03, 2006
Wikipedia on Your iPod!
I delivered a brief overview of emerging ways to better reach and engage people yesterday and a question arose about why 'blogs, wikis and podcasting' are often thrown together and referenced as examples of current learning innovation because it's hard to see how they are related. I suppose they are related in a way if you take out the underlying technologies and just focus on the concept of 'people creating content' ...which is a pretty good idea and represents a powerful way to increase engagement at low cost. Of course, there is a technology linkage between blogs and podcasting because they both utilize RSS to enable people to subscribe to updates. Now, thanks to the video blog Rocket Boom I've learned of a link between iPods and Wikis! You can get a version of Wikipedia on your iPod called Encyclopodia to use as a portable reference guide. Unlike Podcasting, there isn't a subscription in which you can stay up to date, and unlike Wikis, you can't change the content yourself, but it's a great example of a mashup of technologies with learning potential!
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