Welcome
There's too much to remember, too much to know. Sometimes the best place for knowledge isn't in your head. This month we focus on the upsides - and the downsides - of having the whole world at your fingertips...
The Digital Issue
- Top Ten Tips - Fingertip Learning with Steve Barden
- Views - 'The Blackberry Prayer' by Dominic Mason
- Reviews - John Helmer handles Charlie Leadbeater's WIP with care
- News - Epic gets down with the kids and taps out a new white paper
- Venues - Hit the road to Rapid with Epic and Adobe
Top Ten Tips
Fingertip Learning
Steve Barden of Epic Consulting provides some pointers on how organisations can prepare for and manage their fingertip learners.
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Views
The Blackberry Prayer
"There they sit, head reverently bowed, silent in their prayer, hardly moving. How committed... How ignorant! If you've ever been in a meeting with someone doing 'The Blackberry Prayer' then you'll know what I mean..."
Dominic Mason touches on a question of meeting e-tiquette.
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Reviews
We Think Therefore We Am
Reviewers often get to thumb through titles ahead of publication, but usually the books are finished, and they're sharing the experience with a handful of other hacks - not with thousands of members of the general public.
John Helmer gets to grips with Charles Leadbetter's paean to the Pro-Am movement, 'We Think', pre-released on the Web last Autumn as a first draft, blog & wiki.
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News
Open Source LMS white paper
So you thought Moodle was the only Open Source LMS worth bothering about? Think again. The latest in a long and illustrious tradition of Epic white papers deals with Open Source Learning Management Systems and is released next month. Get a sneak preview...
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School's out at Epic
Earlier this month Epic experienced something novel at its teeming headquarters building in Brighton - a sudden influx of learners. The company played host to 30 Year 10 students from Littlehampton School, there to sample at first hand the reality of working life at the cutting edge of ICT. But with production running at full tilt, and instructional designers hanging from the rafters, would there be anywhere to put them..?
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Venues
Epic gives rapid support to Adobe roadshows
In support of our rapid e-learning programme, Epic is partnering with Adobe to support the company's half-day City Roadshows. These will showcase new Adobe products aimed at corporate information delivery. Epic consultants will be on-hand at four events in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin to support the events, and provide advice and practical guidance on using rapid techniques to improve the usability, impact and cost-effectiveness of business information exchange.
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