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Touchscreen Toddler

If you haven't been to the front of my web site, you haven't seen my daughter using my cell phone at 18 months, and better than my parents use theirs....
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Is Instructional Design Like Choreography?

I often find myself glancing at the TV while Sesame Street is on for my daughter, and admittedly I watch it more than she does, so on many occasions I've...
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My Personal Portfolio Hashtag – #nickleffportfolio

About a month ago I ran across this great post about using a personal hashtag to promote your portfolio. It took me some time to start using my new hashtag...
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How do you get people talking on an enterprise social network?

I presented this question, and an overly simplified answer last week on Twitter. I say it's an overly simplified answer but really it's not, it's so perfectly expressed in as...
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What I Learned Today

Tweet what you've learned today, use the #LrnToday hashtag to share what you've learned and learn something new. We live in a social learning era, share and be shared with. Please...
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What’s My Development Process?

A few weeks ago there was a bit of restructuring in my company within my greater department. Several teams had been re-organized into an easier structure. This also meant a new...
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Command and Control

Many things have gone through my head lately about how safety of private information can be balanced with freedom of information exchange in the enterprise. It wasn’t until I read...
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Learning Experience As a User Experience

Update: Would this be Training Experience As a User Experience? I read an article a while ago about user experience design likened to an experience at a restaurant, unfortunately I...
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Smartwearables (vs?) Smartphone

Everywhere I look these days there's news about wearable computing. Wearable computers are those mini computers that attach to you somehow. In the current form that includes Google Glass and...
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