Learning Tech / Skills/ Frontier / Cloud continues, more later; #LT12uk

Am back in Exeter and getting ready for Wild Show on Phonic FM,

Olympia very interesting yesterday. You can get into four spaces on one ticket. The Learning Without Frontiers "festival" is a fringe exhibit to the conference. It is in blow uip yurts sor tof structure and the balcony has been walled off so you can't see the clouds below. You have to go behind the conference space to fins a balcony with view of the cloud show spoace. But you can visit. Ubuntu / Canonical giving away CDs but they charge for support.

Young Rewired State are in a spot quite close to the route from LT . They plan a series of camps in August for coders under 18. Bath or Poole closest to Exeter at the moment.

photos later

Grove Journal now on Scribd #mtw3 #GroveJournal

The first issue of the Grove Journal has been uploaded to Scribd and is available free. Future issues will be by subscription. Articles inlude "Beyond Leaqdership" by John Burgoyne. This can also be regarded as a keynote for the social media phase of Management Theory at Work 3, an update of a conference from 2001. Search LinkedIn groups  on "mtw3" or look at the blog

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Is Roy Greenslade thinking about Citizen Journalism? @arusbridger

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/24/news-photography-theindependent

Roy Greenslade takes a balanced view. Citizen Journalism a Bad Thing by default? Not when the paper cannot afford any photographs at all.

So when will this be? How much time is left?

Maybe the print journalists will say something polite about citizen journalism soon.

According to the Readers Editor, Monday p25 some readers feel they are "either being pushed towards reading online or subsidising the digital Guardian". Actually I think it is both. Print as cash cow, how little can be spent on it before the subscriptions drop away? 

The sad thing is that citizen journalism is the way forward for online news. If the Guardian cannot cope with this then moving online with the old model won't help much. 

Cloud for debate at Learning Technologies / Dark Side Critique in new book #winterlude3

Twitter finds a session tomorrow at Learning Technologies about the Cloud. So if I can't get in to the Cloud Expo or can't understand what I find there then at least Olympia 2 will offer some explanation of how this night support learning/

There is a critique of the cloud coming in book form this April, publication on the 27th..

There is a free PDF introducing this from the "Student As Producer" website at Lincoln.

I was at the Experimentality conference and the session that included the Cloud. My own presentation was about Plan-Do-Check/Study-Act so was at the practice end of most discussions. Dean Lockwood quotes from the description of what the Experimentality conference was about- 

The idea of experimentation was at the heart of modernity’s promise of human freedom and self-determination. But is the experiment now too complicit with power to act as a carrier of hope?

In many ways it seems to me that the Institute for Advanced Studies continued some of the themes from the first Management at Work Conference. Start with any aspect of modernity and then tend towards theory or critique. Practice has to struggle to survive in this sort of situation.  Conferences about the knowledge economy and  protection science followed the same pattern. The dark side of modernity interests academics and has to be a part of conferences. But I think it is possible that modernity has some benefits worth considering.

Comment welcome. Not much Twitter from me tomorrow but more later.

Closer Still website found, Olympia is making more sense already #LT12uk

I have discovered that the Learning without frontiers event is now run by Closer Still and they also run the Learning Skills and Technology shows and the Cloud event as well. So maybe it will be just one show really. I thought I had the wrong day or that there was a double booking for the National Hall.

The Cloud one looks a bit techy. Hope there is a simple explanation of the cloud somewhere.

Some of it is a proper conference. I hope to find the "pop-up university" in public space more or less.

Learning Technologies Towards Maturity as in agility and change #LT12uk

The academics who study organisational learning may be at Olympia this week or following Twitter. There is a "pop-up" university in the National Hall, not sure how this works, may require a QR code and device in the balcony.

But mainly the "Towards Maturity" research is about to cross over with mainstream organisational concerns. The technology could relate to agility and change. At least the surveys show this is an aim that is in mind.

So plenty to look out for, even if the results do not arrive all at once.

Graphics copied from a PDF guide to stands of interest

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Will it just be Flash for Adobe at Learning Technologies? #LT12uk

It is now very rare for Adobe to turn up at a UK show. No Postscript at IPEX. No Creative Suite at BETT. So where the page layout skills of the future will come from we just don't know. Off the web presumably.

But Adobe has two stands at Learning Technologies, Stand 6 near the entrance and also 113 for Adobe Connect. It used to be Macromedia that had a stand at LEarning Technologies and it always seemed to be more Flash than PDF. I was confused about Connect since around Acrobat 8 when the new features in Acrobat seemed to have nothing to do with PDF. And the features that were already there were not mentioned. So the JDF creation is still not widely known and print workflows still have occasional issues.

However UK bandwidth is now reasonable in some places so video conferencing is possible and worth looking into.

It appears Connect will extend to more devices through Android. This is interesting.

Also converters into HTML5. Only the paranoid survive, tech talk for watching trends.

Miami Dance in #Twinity not so easy but plenty of time till Aretha wedding

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It turns out that Aretha's wedding to  William Wilkerson may be in the Hamptons and not Miami Beach.

but I like the idea of Miami Beach as in Twinity. Thing with Twinity is that it seems to be mostly about dance music. I think it could be really useful for conferences about fairly serious topics but introducing it is not always easy. Aretha music reaches a wide audience. there is plenty of choice in decades.

So I have bought a small place near Miami Beach, bought a screen and linked to YouTube. Should be Spanish Harlem by Ben E. King. Then the graphics fell over. Something not quite right. 

Twinity without maps could make travel faster, CQI to Work Foundation in ten minutes

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As mentioned previously Twinity seems unable to offer anything based on maps, just at the moment or rather since about Jan 10th.

So there is scope for just mixing up sites as locations for each other. I had though that the space outside the Work Foundation could be used for meetings. But as it is not available I have been looking at the other places to visit. The "telecafe" is suitably round. There may be an upstairs floor of the Work Foundation that looks much the same even if it is for staff only.

Twinity has not yet reached the CQI even when fully working. It has got to Cursitor Street and this has got seats. But meanwhile we might visit my friend Source Dubious in Fleet Street. The result is to have one space to talk about quality ideas and another to talk about learning organisations and updates on such ideas. I think there is not as much of a gap as sometimes appears. Conversation could continue on a walk along the Strand. Or by other means.

Deming Secrets - flier for event and my own suggestions

I have uploaded a doc to Scribd promoting a day event on Deming Secrets. This is organised by the Deming Special Interest Group of the CQI in London. The aim is to explain the "secrets" - the parts of Deming ideas that are still not well known.

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I have two suggestions as "secrets"

1. A lot of the ideas are Japanese, not American. I don't think Deming had exactly the same view throughout his career. Quality circles continue to operate in Asia but not much in USA (or UK). The learning aspects of the Shewart cycle were taken further in Japan as far as I can tell. (This is either a secret or something not many people talk about}

2. "The New Economics" means "The New Economics". There is an explanation of how firms fail in quality theory. I am thinking about Kodak at the moment. The speed of change is sometimes too much for any system. ( I still hope the video cameras survive somehow by the way, love my Zi8} Quality ideas have not been studied much by those academics who only see a series of fads or prescriptions. But unfortunately there are enough examples of companies in trouble to offer some cases.