If you work in learning and development, chances are you’re following the same blogs, articles and posts as everyone else. But that’s not where the good stuff is. As Connie Malamed says in a post about newsletters: …help me stay in touch with other people, fields, topics and ideas. They get my brain and spirit… Read More Stop reading learning blogs
Buying content from different providers and sticking it on your LMS is not curation. I heard someone suggest this was the case yesterday at Learning 2022 and it couldn’t be more wrong. I’ve mentioned before but a reminder curation is 3 steps: Stop assuming that by just aggregating that you are curating – you are… Read More Once more with feeling
One reason I blog is to have a record of things I’ve spoken to people about. Some 1100+ posts later there’s a lot of advice in this record. If you tried to read these articles in date order, they’d have some sense but the nature of how I write means there is little order or… Read More Offering advice
I was talking curation a few weeks ago with Amber Hyde at the Charity Learning Consortium. We talked through aggregating, sifting and filtering and Amber said this: It’s like panning for gold; with experience you recognise the few worthwhile nuggets. AMBER HYDE Knowing which rivers are gold heavy, knowing which tools to use – the… Read More In them thar hills
With the absolute deluge of information available online, updating every minute of every day, it’s really easy to be overwhelmed. Every platform seems to have a favourite, like, or bookmarking feature to identify the content that stands out. Apparently, you’re meant to save these for later. How many times do you favourite and forget? How… Read More Fave and forget
Lost and Desperate 