E-Learning Symposium 2009 was a tremendous success.   We had over 100 folks join us and some of the best presentations I've seen at any conference.

E-Learning Symposium 2009 presentations are being posted at E-Learning Symposium 2009 Agenda

We are also working to get pictures from the Symposium up as soon as possible.  Planning for ELS 2010 is already under way!  Several sponsors were so impressed that they signed up for next year already.

We’ve all heard of Wikipedia, but have you considered that corporations can create internal and external wikis to further corporate knowledge and gain competitive advantage? John talks to Ross Mayfield, CEO of Social Text, at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
http://businesscommunicationblog.com/blog/2009/05/06/using-wikis-for-internal-and-external-communication

Clive Shepherd' short, free course provides subject experts and many others with the skills needed to design engaging, rapid e-learning materials for use in the workplace.  You can go take the course at

http://www.kineolearning.com/60minutemasters/

To motivate, I've included my notes from Module 1. 

Module 1 - Preparation "More haste, less speed"

Establishing Goals

 YouTube and Facebook video will alert consumers about important housing issues

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it has produced videos for YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/FHAHUD) and Facebook