As promised, here is the link to my first “Video Taste” to the eLearning Guild Learning Solutions 2010 conference last week in Orlando, Florida.
Let me know what you think: ….Learning Solutions 2010 – Part 1
Part Two, and my commentary, will follow shortly
Well, as I thought, not as easy to keep up with the blog. It takes time, and some sort of schedule to keep it going on a daily basis. Forget doing at night: That is when you want to go to sleep. During the day, too many interruptions. So I am going to try and do it first thing in the morning, or right before lunch.
It is now Tuesday and I have missed some days already. However, a little later this PM, I am going to send out the link to my first “video” tease of Learning Solutions. By tomorrow, I will post the link to a video summary of my impressions…. More to come!
Well, the first thing I discovered is that it is difficult to attend a show, and write about it at the same time. Next time I am going to put some time aside each day. However, first impression is that I need to get over my trepidations of social networking and get on board! I learned much from the tweeting at #ls2010 as I did meeting with people here. Nevertheless, the face-to-face networking can not (yet) be replaced in a virtual event.
I am completing my first video and will post that later today.
Thanks to all of you who have been following up on me.
It was a long trip across the country, but I have arrived in Orlando! The pressure is already on to complete today’s blog and start to tweet.
The good news is that I just learned that my good friend Chris Bond is at the show as well: His firm, Bluewater Learning, is one of the exhibitors at this conference. They are experts at taking the pain out of an LMS implementation, showing proven processes and best practices for evaluating business learning requirements and bridging the gap between technology, people, content. Yeah, I realize I now sound like a sales geek, but then why did Chevron, Sabic, Intuit and others follow his recommendations? Chris know his stuff and knows the LMS business better than anyone, so I hope his booth is swamped!
OK. Back to preparing for Tweeting tomorrow. I am also going to record some video at the show and add the links to this blog: Not so much reporting, but more of impressions.
BTW, I speak on Thursday at 1pm, Session 608
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/events/session.cfm?id=2200
More on this later….
I am preparing to leave to Orlando for the eLearning Guild Learning Solutions Conference & Expo 2010 in Orlando. So I figured, why not use all the tools out there to publicize my appearance and this event.
So, over the next couple of days, I will try to blog daily (never tried it), do a v-Blog (figure it is easier than writing), tweet, and maybe even start a Facebook site!
So stay tuned! I hope to make it worth your while.
For those of you who missed it, I delivered a live webinar presentation today on the topic of “Avoiding a Online Train Wreck” with my “virtual labs” Texan partner, Surgient. It was good, interactive presentation, focused on five steps to avoid having your students walk away from the online training event. It was well publicized, and over 100 participants joined me! If you missed it, here are the five “tips” I gave to avoid derailing.
1. Engage your audience
2. Train & support the instructor
3. Support the students
4. Use the right tools: Don’t compromise.
5. Always evaluate after each event.
In the short time I had, I had to skip some of my other best tips, but that I get hired! Don’t want to give away all my secrets.
On the other hand, if you want a link to this presentation, stay tune to this blog: I will post it as soon as I get it from Surgient. 
I’ve been out of touch for several weeks: I went on several long trips (Caribbean, Santa Barbara, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas), for mental relaxation, see an old friend, skiing with my daughter and learn!)
I’ll pick up on the trips at a later time. But the trip to Vegas for LMS 2007 was astounding: I never realized how much many people were so confused about LMSs and LCMSs and how many need help through the maze.
I was invited to this Elliott Masie sponsored-event (he’s a real nice guy, by the way) from an old friend, Chris Bond, at Bluewater Interactive of Dallas. The intent was to seek new business opportunities and to see how this side of the eLearning business is doing. And it is doing well!
Except this issue of need: Most everyone there (over 400 attendees) was looking for assistance to get to the next “LMS level”. Consequently, Bluewater Interactive and I left with more than 70 prospects. Not bad for a two-day event!
More on this LMS event in the next couple of days. In the meantime, I am presenting with Surgient tomorrow on “How to avoid a Train Wreck” (at http://www.surgient.com/news/webinars/20070424.html). Hope you are one of the people who join!
