Notes from the Learning Practitioners Forum

Posted by luke on Jun 17, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

I attended the Element K Learning Practitioners Forum at the start of June, a ½ day event in central London with some excellent speakers.

The focus of the event was e-learning and learning technologies. I’ve had a couple of people ask for a copy of my notes, who were unable to attend, or who saw my tweets and wanted to know more and so I’ve (finally, sorry!) typed up my notes here.

All of the talks were excellent;  there were a few key topics I was listening out for and I’ve paraphrased the bits from those talks I especially took away and added some of my notes to them.

NB: Quotes are in “double quotes” my notes are in italics.

Bar Camp Bomo 2 – now with sponsors

Posted by luke on Mar 16, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments

Big thank you to C4L and Fibreband our main sponsors of BarCamp Bournemouth 2.

If you haven’t signed up to come along… why not?

** Sign up for BarCampBournemouth2 here **

LinkedIN status updates are dying

Posted by luke on Jan 22, 2010 in Blog | 2 comments

Allow me to explain.

It used to be that the status updates on LinkedIN were actually quite useful, to see what people were up to, get a snapshot of what they are/were working on… but alas no more.

Given the option to link a twitter account to LinkedIN (good) most people have chosen to send ALL tweets to LinkedIN (bad) rather than use the selective “#in” option which only sends selected tweets to LinkedIN (good).

The result?

The status updates are all RT’s (the twitter version of forwards) and off topic, no where near as useful as it used to be.

To me, it devalues the activity stream quite a bit – which is kind of a pity as the other things on there are still great – Q+A, groups, events…

Have you noticed this too, or is it just my network of people?

Please, if you link twitter and Facebook together use the selective updates function – make sure your messages are “fit for purpose”, does everything you tweet, really need to be on LinkedIN?

Select “edit my profile”, then click on the “edit” link next to your twitter username and select the option highlighted below.

Next time you want to send something to LinkedIn just include “#in” in your message.

Thanking you in advance… Luke.

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Luke Williams on LinkedIN – I run 1/2 day LinkedIN courses in London and Bournemouth if you’d like to make more of this great business platform.

magus

Posted by luke on Oct 12, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been asked to facilitate the new Magus E-business group.

Magus members “share their challenges, opportunities and issues with a group facilitator arranging the agenda and chairing the meeting.” – I’m especially excited about some of the future plans for Magus, that are more focussed on the startup side of things to be announced in the near future.

Although it is called the “E-business group” it is not aimed exclusively at those who sell on-line, but at those businesses where the significant customer relationship is on-line.

I’d like to invite anyone interested to attend the open evening on the 28th October at 630pm (for more details see here), please drop Magus (or me) a line if you would like to come along.

The slight problem –> Magus meetings are scheduled for the 3rd Wednesday of the month, almost exactly where we’d planned to move startup-meetup to – I’d like to propose the 2nd Wed of the month (11th November) 5-7pm – venue ideas anyone?

Announcing the Shape Your Idea seminar

Posted by neil on May 21, 2009 in Blog | 0 comments

Hello, I’m Neil Moodley. Luke has kindly allowed me a guest spot on his excellent blog to tell you about a new project I have recently launched.

I have been working on a new seminar for people who want to take the first tentative steps to being their own boss and run their own small or micro business, but are worried about the risks and uncertainty involved.

I’ve certainly faced these worries myself and have found, through experience, discussion and education in the MBA programme, that there are concrete, actionable steps you can take to reduce those risks and clarify much of that uncertainty.

That’s why I have created a 2-hour seminar, aimed at giving people the confidence to take that first step. And where does that journey begin? With the idea, of course!

This low-cost, high-value seminar, Shape Your Idea: How to Find a Business Idea and Tell if it’s a Good One, will give attendees the tools and knowledge to be able to find ideas, assess and refine those ideas, value those ideas and start planning the execution of those ideas.

So if you find yourself in those uncertain shoes, you can find out more here, or register a place now. You never know, it might change your life!