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Changing Context

September 26, 2010
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| Categories: Blogging, Context, Contextual learning, Leadership, Management, organizational development, people management, Recruitment, Social Media

During a recent organizational development workshop that I attended, the facilitator talked about changing context. It was an interesting discussion that got me thinking about my changed context. I could recognize a few that I have experienced in the last couple of years.About two years ago my context as a manager and leader changed about the way I was managing my teams. I moved from "I have to do everything and I have get everything done” to “I have to enable people to do their jobs"This significantly changed my approach to…

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Social Media is a Waste of Time

January 26, 2010
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| Categories: Blogging, Facebook, Productivity, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

I am sure you’ve heard this before, what with 54% companies banning social media sites. Of course, Twitter and Facebook are complete waste of time. Reading and writing blogs is a complete waste of time too. I also hear some executives say email is a waste of time too. And phone? What does everyone talk about anyway? They should get off the phones and just work (and I have had managers complain that personal calls were affecting productivity of some people). I think books are a waste of time too.…

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Commenting Made Easier

September 21, 2009
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| Categories: Blogger, Blogging, Commenting, feedback

I have made commenting easier on my blog. Simply select the post you want to comment on by clicking the title of the post. Scroll to the bottom of the post and write your comment in the comment field. Select one of the profiles as your identity and post your comment. Simple! I don’t have a defined and documented comment policy but will stay with common sense. No spam, no trolls, no hurting sentiments, etc. Anonymous comments are fine, though I personally would encourage you to at least leave your…

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Blogs by Indian Learning Professionals and Companies

June 25, 2009
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| Categories: Blogging, eLearning, India, Learning professionals, Lists, postsofthepast

Last December I posted top 10 blogs by learning professionals in India. Since then I have come across many other blogs by learning professionals and companies in India. Here are the blogs by learning professionals and companies in India that I read.Individual blogs:Writers Gateway - Rupa RajagopalanSpeak Out - Archana NarayananFree as in Freedom - Sumeet MogheIDiot - Geeta BoseDesigned for Learning - Taruna GoelInstructional Design: On the road to learning - Sreya DuttaViplav Baxi’s Meanderings - Viplav BaxieCube, Collaborative Learning Environment - various authorsRandom Ideas - Mousumi GhoshEducation,Technology,Ideas,India -…

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My Top 10 Learning Tools, Apr 2009

April 17, 2009
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| Categories: Blogger, Blogging, bubbl.us, Chrome, compfight, eCube, Learning, LinkedIn, Lists, Mr. Tweet, Reader, Tools, TweetDeck, Twitter, Wordpress

It’s time to update my top 10 learning tools and techniques list. This time I’ll try to focus more on tools and services. You can view my previous lists of Aug 08 and Jan 08. My top 10 learning tools in April 2009: Google Reader – I read blogs via RSS feeds. I have tried Google Reader, NetVibes, Bloglines and Feedly, and I have stuck to Google Reader. It also allows me to share interesting articles from my feeds. In case you are interested, you can view my shared items…

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Top 5 Posts for Q1 2009 on Learn and Lead

April 16, 2009
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| Categories: Blogging, Lists

Here are the top 5 post on this blog in the first three months of 2009.Getting Started with Instructional DesignWhat’s your Web 2.0 Quotient?Results of Unofficial Salary Survey 2008Instructional Designer CompetenciesTop 10 Blogs by Learning Professionals in India

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Learn and Lead

March 7, 2009
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| Categories: About, Blogging, Leadership, Learning, Management

When I first started this blog I wasn’t sure specifically what I would write about but I knew it would be about my area of work. And so I named the blog to cover almost everything: ‘Life, the Universe and Everything about eLearning and Content Development’. About year into blogging, I realized that I was writing about more than just eLearning. And so I dropped the ‘e’ and renamed my blog to ‘Life, the Universe and Everything about Learning and Content Development’. A few months ago I created a Wordle…

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Top 10 Blogs by Learning Professionals in India

December 19, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, eCube, eLearning, India, Learning, Learning professionals, Lists

Jul 2009 Update: You can find an updates list of blogs by Learning professionals and companies in India here.Time magazine came out with an issue of ‘Lists’, publishing various top 10 lists for 2008. RWW has many posts on various top 10s of the year. Inspired I started working on top 10 blogs by learning/training professionals in India, about learning/training. I found it hard to find 10 blogs that are updated regularly (at least 1 post a month)!!! Obviously I am not reading enough. So where are the learning/training professionals…

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The Emotion Called Trust

December 16, 2008
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| Categories: Behaviour, Blogging, CEO blogging, Corporate blogs, Life, Online marketing, Survey, Trends, Trust

Continuing with the thread I started in my previous post Do you trust corporate blogs, and picking up from posts on Trust by Ken Allen and Tony Karrer, I came across Chris Brogan’s post Advertising and Trust. Chris wrote in response to Jeremiah Owyang raising questions about Chris’s sponsored post for Kmart. Chris does a great job at analysing and responding. In this process I discovered many posts that talk about trust and integrity of bloggers. Two posts that caught my eye were Lucretia M. Pruitt: What is Your Time Worth?…

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