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Next Social and New Media Training Course

drsavi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:49:36 +0000

The next courseÂ ‘Making Social & New Media work for your business’ is scheduled to take place on 17th February 2010 at The Holiday Inn, Brentford, London.

With an increase in use of the Internet by clients and an emphasis of new media, there is no better time to discover how interactive approaches, digital marketing and effective corporate communication can help further develop your business and online presence.
Please click here to view the full course coverage.

On-line booking / Registration is now open at:

http://www.khlinteractive.com/book-now or directly via the Registration page

An early bird discount price of Â£224 is available until 3rd February 2010 midnight.
The cost includes all materials, refreshments and lunch. After this date the full regular price of Â£280 applies.

Enter Promotional code KHLVA for Web Virtual Attendance
Enter Promotional code KHLFCD for leather bound presentation pack, dispatched 1 week after the event.

You can watch previous courses run by KHLInteractive for free from their dedicated streaming page.

Twitter in the Classroom or Workshop

drsavi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:59:11 +0000

I remember attending a project definition workshop that focused on a Â£20Billion project to establish the UK National Programme for Information Technology project – focused on health. The workshop held had representatives from many medical departments and was being facilitated by one of the regional suppliers. It was one of the key early sessions to establish the initial entity design for the underlying infrastructure. In other words, get this wrong then there could be major gaps further down the line in terms of resilience!

Although the session had an agenda, it suffered from the following issues:

Long sessions for each subjectÂ – I could see the expressions on peoples faces, gasping for a water!
No time-outs
Simplistic use of note taking, for example: A list of issues parked on route on one flipchart rather than using consolidating techniques such as 6 hat or Yellow Post it. NB Over 26 attendees sat in a u-shape room layout and the room was very stuffy after the first hour.
Very quick introductions
Limited context outlined for the event
Other attendees who appeared as interested parties rather than main contributors
Loose agenda
Strategic importance not communicated
A dominance of resolution passing by a large number of supplier attendees
Low interaction between the attendees

The two latter items were of most concern. For example, at one point a resolution was agreed regarding the provision of data entities for the deaf. It emerged at the end of the workshop day that the attending representative of the deaf medical team felt shy about contributing. Maybe it was the facilitators responsibility or the structure of the day that contributed to this failing. Or, was it because sometimes people can feel it easier to communicate discretely!? Consider how vocal some people are by email and when you meet them in-person, they are as sweet as pie! It is almost as if they have a different personality or feel more liberated to speak their mind with the protection of the machine in sight, especially if you set-up a masked identification.

Using TwitterÂ could be one way of bringing greater contributions from the range of personalities in attendance at a typical project or discussion workshop, training session, classroom or website / development / test feedback session / webinar / discussion panel / public meeting.

A practical example can be reviewed here.

Twitter can support

Remote monitoring in the classroom or project workshop session – project #tags via a white board in the classroom
Remote monitoring for distance learners / Attendees – (see below for a list of on line tools)
Opening up discussion to students who would be reluctant to participate.
Collated writing notes can be posted later

The following on line resources can prove invaluable for getting people to engage either in public or via a protected name.

What the Trend?: Learn about what tags are currently trendy – suitable for research

Twubs: Aggregates tweets and imports pictures to help illuminate the topics being discussed.

Hashtags.org: Great at showing you its use over time and recent tweets.

Tagalus: A dictionary for hashtags.

Corporate Podcasting Show – Episode 22 – Corporate Podcasting and Training

drsavi — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:46:54 +0000

To subscribe and listen, head for i-tunes or listen now by clicking on the play button below:

Corporate Podcasting and Training
This week we are looking at how New media and Corporate podcasting strategies can help enhance / support learning.
For example:

Integrate audio and video into your traditional Internet / Intranet
Incorporate podcasting into training initiatives as refresher knowledge nuggets!
Develop eInduction strategies that contain New media elements (social bookmarking & then communicating associated findings)
Re-burn the content you develop into a SCORM object so that it can be both reused and accessed via a Learning management system (LMS), for example: MOODLE, Blackboard/WebCBT or SumTotal
Share knowledge about new products with a dealer channel through a separate feed mechanism

Until next time!

Best Regards

Dr Savi