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Learning 2007::Tuesday Afternoon General Session

Back at it this afternoon... (quotes are loose)John Howley, legal expertise"Tell your lawyer what you need from them." This is the great incentive to get your lawyer up to speed on the things you require.We have developed in the common law tradition, in which judges…

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Learning 2007::Session 646

Session 646 was titled "What if Amazon and Google Partnered to Build an LMS?" Good thought, and something we're thinking about all the time. Google and Amazon are doing some things really well, and we'd love piggy back on many of those concepts.Thoughts from the…

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Learning 2007::Tuesday Morning General Session

Don Tapscott (Wikinomics) talked this morning, and spoke on his vision of the future. This is a guy with tremendous credibility in predicting the future. The most interesting thing he shared (to me) was this: Technology, to kids, is like air. It's just there.I'm pretty…

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Learning 2007::Session 320

Yup, I skipped my 200 level session for the blog... it was basically more of the same from my 100 session.So, Session 320::Rapid Online Prototyping. (The link is the wiki page from the conference... pretty cool stuff.)Richard Culatta led the session, demonstrating how freely available…

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Learning 2007::Session 108

Session 108::Special Session for Learning Suppliers, Vendors, and Freelancers.Elliott Masie and Cushing Anderson got us (learning vendors) together to give us some of their insights on the industry. Again, more thinking follows, but the biggest thought for me was this (again, paraphrased)We need to find…

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Learning 2007::Morning Session

Sorry for the loss of momentum... lack of connectivity is a blogging killer.We got started this morning at 8am with another excellent general session. Again, great guests.Dan Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, was certainly interesting. He had a number of interesting things to…

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Learning 2007::Opening Session

Part of the excitement about attending a conference like Learning 2007 is that it isn't about SCORM and the related technologies exclusively.Highlights of the session for me:Elliott, as he is wont to do, sent us to talk to two people we didn't know. In each…

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Learning 2007::Getting Started

A quick note of warning... several posts are forthcoming on Learning 2007, a conference put on by Elliott Masie and his crew. Each year, I attend several conferences related to SCORM and the eLearning industry. Some are exciting, others are not.Put simply, this is a…

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It’s Getting a Bit Crowded In Here

Three Mondays ago, we got a resume from a guy down in Orlando named Lewis Vance. We liked his brains and we liked his vibe. Two Mondays ago, "Andy" Vance stopped in to interview after spending the weekend driving the tractor on his Dad's Tennessee…

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It’s getting a bit crowded in here…

Three Mondays ago, we got a resume from a guy down in Orlando named Lewis Vance. We liked his brains and we liked his vibe.Two Mondays ago, "Andy" Vance stopped in to interview after spending the weekend driving the tractor on his Dad's Tennessee farm.…

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Convert C# to Java Source Code

The users of our SCORM Engine predominantly run their LMS's on the Windows platform. To best serve their needs we coded the SCORM Engine using C# on the ASP.NET platform. We've long known that we were ignoring the significant population of customers who prefer to…

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Growing Up

Just like your kids, it can be amazing how fast your business grows up. It happens in bits and pieces and it's not until you take a moment to look back a couple years that you realize just how far you've come. For the second…

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