The art and science of online learning.
This ingenious little app is taking the cooliverse to new levels of fun.
Now, I’m asking for your help in an informal survey. If you’re playing Draw Something, please add a comment below that summarizes why it’s so much fun.
Consider a Vide Poche.
One of my favorite interior design websites, apartmenttherapy.com, gave me the idea:
French for empty pockets, the vide poche is simply a small bowl or container kept in a convenient location to empty your pockets into when you walk through the door. Having somewhere to put your keys, loose change and wallet when you take off your coat helps minimize clutter and reduces the chance that you will be scrambling around looking for your keys next time you are late running out the door.
Here are four easy ways you can use a vide poche for increased effectiveness:
How can you use a vide poche to make space for increased success and life satisfaction?
Every learning leader has faced the dilemma of being asked to cram too much information into a training course because of a customer’s belief that “more information is better learning.” You know the drill, and it usually starts something like this, “Hey Jim, thanks for designing that course for us. I was thinking, we should also add…[insert 438 data points, factoids, and might-use administrivia here] to our course.”
It’s the data dump. The fact frenzy. The overview overkill. It’s just difficult sometimes for folks to believe that less information could lead to more (and better) learning. 
Well, today we’re going to make the case for shifting the focus away from information altogether. Here, designing guru Cathy Moore makes a powerfully simple case for shifting from designing information to designing experiences.
Can’t access YouTube? Here’s a Flash version.
Wordle is one of the coolest free toys I’ve seen in a while. I’ll let author Jonathan Feinberg‘s description speak for itself and get out your way so you can read it then start Wordling…
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Here’s one I made for my colleague, Susan Jacobs, as a birthday surprise for her office door:
So, what words will you use to create your own Wordle cloud?
Yammer is a simple, scalable solution that lets employees share and connect with coworkers in a private, secure enterprise social network. It’s like Twitter for your internal organization. Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?”
Check out this quick, engaging and informative presentation on the What, Why and How of Yammer. Worth the 3 mintues it takes to view.
Susan E. Hendrich 