Lots of Motivations
Last week, I posted an entry on Economic Incentives that Don’t Cost Money.  Not long after posting, some notable minds in my PLN weighed in: Marcia Conner… Incentives that http://sn.im/dont-cost money any better? @mrch0mp3rs has me wondering. Constructivists+ ready to weigh in? Koreen Olbrish

Economic Incentives that Don’t Cost Money
A huge insight between Zimmerman’s and McAfee’s keynotes came in the form of incentives for participants in a system.  It is possible to have economic incentives to motivate, recognize and/or reward behaviors (and behavior change) that don’t cost a dime — the key is in creating and valuing a non-financial economy in the organization. How is that even possible? Scoreboards, titles, designations and certificates are all forms of recognition, right?  Points, credits earned — some form of scarcity can be quantified and recognized in an organizational system.  The ability to earn some kind of points or credits to earn designations, or to recogniz

Community is the New Content
Post-DevLearn, I’ve had some very heady and wonderful exchanges with my learning network. Mark Friedman has been especially helpful in putting what I’ve learned into a different perspective.  The title of this post is his encapsulation, and I think it’s pretty significant as a concept.  As Mark wrote me… [We ALWAYS interact] with information resources in some social context. The application of community to content, in terms of discussion, recommendation, reviews, ratings and so on, is evident in ma

The DevLearn 2009 Write-Up
Who was at DevLearn 2009, and what were their goals? There were about 1,200 people at DevLearn (guesstimate) with a large majority interested in doing better E-Learning, interest in serious games and social learning with a subset of that group, maybe 200 people, very plugged into the Twitter community and interested in networking with each other face-to-face. How was DevLearn 2009 structured? On Monday, there was an Adobe Software Summit showcasing what’s latest and greatest in their E-Learning development tools, with reception following (which I crashed).  On Tuesday were a number of concurrent all-day certificate sessions.  I attended the track on Virtual W

Conventions for Virtual Collaboration
I had a discussion this morning that introduced an interesting thought into my head. I assume we all have at least a cursory awareness of Robert’s Rules of Order. If you’re anything like me (and you probably are in this case), you tend to think of them as stuffy, archaic — even antique arbitrary rules about who gets to talk about what and when in a meeting. Procedural, top-down, forced — that’s how I’d look at this normally. I mean, hell — it’s got “rules” in the title, right? So the thought that occurred to me is… what if we’re not putting it in a proper context? Maybe Robert’s Rules are more about