What will your MVP get you? 1. Idea validation If you are getting organic users it means your product is bridging up some gap in the market. Nothing is better than Your idea getting validated by the actual users. You get feedback you notice some glitches and you improve it iteratively.MVP is like a child which you teach, develop and bring up with time to be a mature product in the market. 2. Your initial users not only give you valuable feedback to improve product but will be your asset to showcase to venture capitalists. 3.
In case your product doesn’t get many users, you certainly get the clear idea of two things Either your product is not solving any problem or you are pitching in the wrong Audience, which may not be ready for your product or your product is not ready for them. 4. You get handsome list of features your audience want, which you may not have thought initially. Good news! 5. They get you more users and they spread the word of mouth. What else, what are you thinking? Workshop CEI’s Relationship Capital – The Currency of Abundance is a half-day workshop designed to offer a fresh perspective about how relationship capital is cultivated, created and deployed. You will be engaged throughout the four-hour session learning and practicing techniques that will: Broaden your perspective & understanding of how trust is earnedAccelerate how you impact and enrich relationshipsEnhance client loyalty in a thoughtful manner What You Will Experience Learn about the unspoken expectations of the clientPractice techniques for creating sustainable relationship currencyExplore how alternative forms of value creation impact client perception Benefits of Attending Learn techniques to enrich client relationships through deeper engagementPossess a deeper appreciation for how value creation can be fostered and communicatedDevelop a client engagement playbook with greater clarity, confidence, and meaning Who Should Attend.
February 1, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Presenters Marc Rosen & Judy Bodenhamer Professional service providers are being challenged like never before to distinguish themselves. Whether working directly with a business owner, key stakeholder or serving on a cross-functional team of experts, the need to develop greater relationship currency and trust is tantamount to sustained success. Technical and functional expertise is the foundation for effective performance; however, a growing body of evidence reveals that both client and other trusted adviser engagement is what truly advances & sustains relationships. You will be introduced to a five stage model with deployment examples so that you can better harness and leverage the distinctive assets of you and the firm. As you embark upon 2017, this webinar will be extremely pertinent and serve as a catalyst for building greater relationship capital across the stakeholder spectrum. Location: Ice Miller LLP250 West St.
Lunch will be provided. Topics. How We Think: John Dewey on the Art of Reflection and Fruitful Curiosity in an Age of Instant Opinions and Information Overload. Decades before Carl Sagan published his now-legendary Baloney Detection Kit for critical thinking, the great philosopher, psychologist, and education reformer John Dewey penned the definitive treatise on the subject — a subject all the more urgently relevant today, in our age of snap judgments and instant opinions. In his 1910 masterwork How We Think (free download; public library), Dewey examines what separates thinking, a basic human faculty we take for granted, from thinking well, what it takes to train ourselves into mastering the art of thinking, and how we can channel our natural curiosity in a productive way when confronted with an overflow of information. Dewey begins with the foundation of reflective thought, the defining quality of the fruitful, creative mind: Such thoughts grow up unconsciously and without reference to the attainment of correct belief.
They are picked up — we know not how. Dewey defines reflective thought, our single most potent antidote to erroneous beliefs: Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully. After the year’s most intelligent and imaginative children’s books and best science books, here are my favorite books on psychology and philosophy published this year, along with the occasional letter and personal essay — genres that, at their most excellent, offer hearty helpings of both disciplines. Perhaps more precisely, these are the year’s finest books on how to live sane, creative, meaningful lives.
Werner Herzog is celebrated as one of the most influential and innovative filmmakers of our time, but his ascent to acclaim was far from a straight trajectory from privilege to power. Abandoned by his father at an early age, Herzog survived a WWII bombing that demolished the house next door to his childhood home and was raised by a single mother in near-poverty. He found his calling in filmmaking after reading an encyclopedia entry on the subject as a teenager and took a job as a welder in a steel factory in his late teens to fund his first films. Sam Harris by Bara Vetenskap Why? Wp-content/uploads/2011/12/09-04-17-Social-learning-capability-v2.1.pdf.
Wp-content/uploads/2011/12/09-04-17-Social-learning-capability-v2.1.pdf. How to Build Support for Education Technology. Image credit: iStockphoto Acknowledging that success -- for individual students, communities and the nation as a whole -- in the 21st century is being driven by new technologies, President Obama recently announced ConnectEd. This initiative aims to connect 99 percent of America's students to high-speed internet within the next five years.
It also intends to increase teachers' skills in using education technology tools to improve student learning and encourages the private sector to develop educational devices and digital content. The White House reports growing bipartisan support for the initiative, and many in the education community applaud it as a much-needed effort to upgrade our schools' broadband capability. Convincing community stakeholders to support education technology can be challenging. Those are real challenges that need to be addressed. Instead, they should focus on the impact technology has on children. Belief: Education is a right. Belief: Options are good.
Alliances. Connectivist. The networked enterprise and learning support. Would you rather go to a doctor who is in the band-aid business or the healing business? Prescribing training for all organizational learning is like handing out band-aids without a diagnosis. Training is often a solution in search of a problem. This becomes evident when ~80% of learning on the job is informal and less than 10% of the knowledge needed for work is in our heads. But how much organizational effort is put into training, above all else? If it’s more than 20% of the learning support budget then it’s probably being misspent. For instance, Peter Senge’s comprehensive research showed that the average life expectancy of large companies is about 30 years, but some are over 200 years old. Enterprise training and its ADDIE framework are designed to develop individual skills, where the objective is always, “the learner will be able to …” not, “the organization will be able to …”.
We need to understand, encourage and support social learning in the enterprise. Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – d. Today I took part in the inaugural live online session run by the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD). It used The Open University’s Flash Meeting platform, which was a new one for me. The session debated the following motion: ‘Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss’ I happily presented the case for the motion. These were my arguments: 1. 2. The use of online content, in its many forms, typically asynchronously (self-paced). 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
That’s what I presented. ASCD Home. 5 Powerful Forces That Are Keeping You From Learning | Goodlife. A Guest Post by Jeff Cobb of Mission to Learn Are you a lifelong learner? Given that you are reading a blog like Goodlife Zen, I’m betting that your answer to that question is a resounding ‚”Yes, of course!
‚” But here’s an important follow-up question: Are you always a successful lifelong learner? Do you always achieve the learning goals you set for yourself? I know I don’t. Happily, many of my failures are of the good kind, the ‘pick yourself, dust yourself off, and try something different next time’ kind. Why do we get stuck in ‘learning ruts’ like this? Consistency Developing strong, consistent habits can be a very positive part of personal growth, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson suggested long ago, our lives are full of routines and rituals that we unconsciously adopt and that often blind us to our real passion and purpose in life. Take a close look at even the most trivial of habits in your life. Common Sense Baggage Noise Fear How can this be? Stay Alert Here are the themes we’ll explore:
Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Web 2.0 Tools - Wikib. Shen-yu Huang Institute of Education The Program of Learning Technology National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Introduction of Web 2.0 tools[edit] Web 2.0 is an emerging applications between knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, which accumulates collective knowledge in a spiral fashion. Web 2.0 is concerned with active knowledge sharing and creation, whereas Web 1.0 is about passive viewing of content. Associated with the impact on human life, take for example, Web 2.0 help enterprise gather the new information or idea through on line community embedded in the intranet. Web 2.0 technologies give learners and instructors a new perspective to consider how these tools can be enhanced in educational settings, and the tools can be inferred to “Web 2.0 tools”? There are some common characteristics of Web 2.0 tools, for example : • Web as a platform (O'Reilly, 2005) • Who has the high degree of choice • Participants act in a collaborative way Pods and Blogs: Pros & Cons[edit] Podcasts Blogs 1. 2. 3.
TheFutureOfLearningInTheKnowledgeSociety.pdf (application/pdf Ob. Learning 3 – what are the key competencies for learning professi. On Friday I attended the Learning 3 symposium at the British Museum in London along with Jane Hart, Laura Overton and a crowd of others, mostly from the UK Further and Higher Education sectors. Here’s a picture of me at the event producing a 30-second series of sound bites on what the future of Learning and Development needs (the picture links to a video on the Learning 3 Ning site). What our hosts LLUK (and particularly Briony Taylor) wanted to stimulate was a dialog around this question: What are the skills and competencies needed by the lifelong learning sector now? During the day I put out a quick Twitter poll on this, as it seemed odd to be discussing Learning 3 in a room without pulling in the wider learning community.
Jane Hart did the same. The learning Twittersphere was engaged: we generated quite a few replies…. Here are some suggestions of key competencies needed for today’s L&D professional: For more on the continuing conversation, visit the debate on the Learning3 Ning community. v3p313-323-131.pdf (application/pdf Object) Collaborative Learning – for the people, by the people by Josh L. Should training organizations cancel their LMS subscriptions, take a hammer to their laser pointers, and bury their Webcams? By all means, NO! Formal learning is needed in most organizations. What we must do is redefine ourselves as learning construction experts. Traditional approaches to training are facing disruption.
When I say “traditional,” I mean more than instructor-led training located in classrooms. The basic reason is simple. Traditional training programs will not be able to supply the large pipeline of knowledge, skills, and information that your workers will need. Figure 1: Traditional hierarchical structures are a bottleneck between learners and the knowledge pool. Any astute training manager will tell you that they can feel this in their bones. “Josh, I need to create about 15 new programs this year. I can empathize with this. Even doing all of this, I still felt like I was only scratching the surface. So what is this all about? Learn or die – It’s the truth. 25 Free Lifelong Learning Resources | Free Online Learning. The Internet has made the lifelong pursuit of knowledge easier for nearly everyone in the world.
There are tons of websites dedicated to providing free courses, reference books, education apps, and other learning materials. Here are 25 stand-out sites that would be useful to almost any lifelong learner. Clusty – This unique search engine sorts results into clusters of related information so that it is easier to sort out the relevant from the irrelevant. Schoolr – Schoolr is a fully-customizable search engine that can be used to search Google, Wikipedia, and other popular sites.
It can also be used to translate text, convert units, and cite sources. MyStickies – This site offers an alternative to bookmarking. Diigo is a handy research tool that can be used to highlight and annotate pages on the web. Hooey – Hooey is a unique tool for people who like to surf the web. Internet Public Library – The IPL is a free public library for the Internet community.
P.S. Posted on June 18, 2009. My Learning Tools « ID and Other Reflections. I just finished reading Harold Jarche’s post: Seek, Sense, Share In the post, he talks about how seeking information, then applying our personal sense-making filters to it, and finally sharing it helps us to see the interconnections, patterns and the larger whole. This is why the process of “seek, sense, share” becomes so important in one’s personal learning and knowledge management. This set me thinking about how I manage my personal knowledge and from there it led to the tools I use to do in this networked world. Lately, I have started using a number of Web tools actively. I have listed the tools in their order of frequency of usage (at least now and this is liable to change)… What do I receive (tangible and intangible)/how do I use each of the tools… Twitter: Amplify: 1. 5. Blog: As Harold Jarche has said, my blog is where I hammer out my ideas. Posterous: A place for my half formed ideas—those that are too big for Twitter and too scrappy to be a post.
Readernaut: Evernote: Xmind and Freemind: eLearning Guild Learning in 3D Webinar Resources. Top 100 Learning Game Resources. Upsidelearning. Learning and KM insights - Friday, September 10, 2004. Personal KM: one-person enterprise Still thinking of personal KM... There is a very funny analogy here with KM in general: some people are fixated on PKM technologies and others saying that this is wrong (next to it, of course, there is a whole discussion on using the "wrong" term to label the phenomenon :) For me the truth is somewhere in between. You can hardly think about successful KM initiatives that do not employ any technology at all, but at the same time it's almost obvious that technology is not the solution, but only part of it and, probably not the most critical part.
It's about why and how you use technologies and, most important, how they fit working practices and social fabric behind them. Explaining my PhD research and ideas behind personal KM I find one-person enterprise metaphor useful (please, note that I stole this idea and some others from time management book by Gleb Archangelsky). So, think of yourself as about a knowledge-intensive company: A List of the Top 200 Education Blogs.
Fortress, Gated Community, and Free-range Learning at Sims Learn. Open and distance learning profession. Experiential Learning & Experiential Education: Philosophy,