Learning Without Frontiers from previously, continues at Olympia

 
Could be a keynote at Online Information. BETT is soon, then Learning Technologies and Without Frontiers in the same building.
 
So far I have only watched about five minutes of this. Seems about right for YouTube but I will come back to it. He starts with comparing the large effect of the internet on informal learning and the apparently stable situation with formal education. This is still the case. Academic journals continue on a print model even though the libraries now prefer the digital versions.
 
Will disruption be sudden if it ever happens?
 
Tomorrow I am doing the whole two hours of the Wild Show on Phonic FM. Previously I have either done short bits when Chris is there or JD has been in the studio with his excellent har disc that copes with any situation. So there may be some pauses. But I think sound is now where print is heading.

#winterlude3 wake up to BBC Radio 4 but can't remember details on eBook etc.

Woke up this morning to Today onRadio 4. I think it was someone from Harper Collins but can't be sure. Anyway the point seemed to be that a lot of devices were given over Christmas so e-book sales will have another boost. Then there was discussion about how printed books are still wonderful and you would not want expensive gadgets in a messy kitchen. Actually I think there could be a screen in the fridge for restocking or next to the microwave with how things ought to look.

As this was part of the business news it is hard to find on the BBC Today page. A search on Harper Collins finds the New York Times and      a guess that this will have been another e-book Christmas. But the news seems to be that libraries are now the big danger to builing eboook sales on the gadget gifts.

Apparently Simon and Shuster have never allowed public libraries to stock e-books.

So this could be the next topic for the guardians of civilisation close to the Today studio and worried about The Book. For Public Libraries, it could be a difficult new year.

For #winterlude3 this is a step change. After Christmas is definitely different.

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if this can find it somewhere

Radio links, Seasonal greet from Wild Show on Exeter Phonic FM

Couple of mp3s loaded to Soundcloud, the party one was broadcast on Thursday as part of an extended Wild Show.

not sure if they can be used during the holiday. Phonic and most radio should develop as an extension of social media but at the moment it needs someone in the studio quite often.

I tried to do another sequence round Otis but Soundcloud objected on copyright grounds. So here is a YouTube version-

more next year in various formats

or search on "Otis, Christmas"

hope all well

after the Winterlude things may be different #winterlude3

The world seems to be closing down for the holidays. But things shift as well. Theere could be a lot of mobile devices as presents so thbis would sink in.

I discover that Haymarket will speak at an event about virtual events and hybrid. 

Strangely there is not a lot else online about this virtual event that I can find at the moment. But this is something to come back to in 2012. Will Haymarket be asw interested in hard copy business to business magazines?

Also to look forward to is the Higher Ed Tech conference day at the Consumer Electronics show

I won't be in Las Vegas myself but will be watching the tweets with interest. Much tech becomes consumer electronics and higher ed can benefit just like the rest of us.

Test of Giraffe videoconference at Wild Show on Phonic FM

Giraffe

Really interesting Wild Show today. We had al ook at a transister radio. Sound will turn up later pn Facebook - Wild Show.

Meanwhile I have a new Twitter friend = Gifted Giraffe.

@gifted_giraffe

I am hoping for an image without any copyright problems, not always easy when a gallery is involved. It will have to be Photoshop or something, we are not going to fit a giraffe into the Phonic studio for an interview.

This collage has a photo by Chris / JD and Creative Commons photo from Chester Zoo,

Deming Secrets / #mtw3 practice

The promotion for Deming Secrets and #mtw3 will include LinkedIn and other social media. ( see previous post for details)

Social media allows the same basic content in many formats - email text edited for print, fiction read aloud for mp3, video options on an e-reader. So references from a conference can go back to journals or contribute to future TV or in variations of loop.

Social media can exist on very low budgets, including almost free video. Phone cameras are getting better, especially the wifi options that make rapid uploads realistic. There is a budget constraint on broadcast video but this can be explored. It might be an option for the face-to-face version of #mtw3.

Twinity and other virtual worlds could offer linking clips between bits of video. Twinity London now covers a fairly wide area, including the Work Foundation and Cursitor Street, fairly close to the CQI. With a budget it may be possible to recreate the interior of both the CQI and the Work Foundation. Both have kitchens so another Twinity kitchen could serve as a location.

Meanwhile there is a Twinity St Pauls so Tent City University can be collaged with a virtual world. As I live in Exeter I am also looking at the Free University near Exeter Cathedral.

My guess is that Critical Management Studies (CMS) is now so widely citated in journals that it may be difficult to find representative content in social media. The conversations around Tent City University could be another route. The aim will be to maintain at least a balanced set of options through a range of media.

By the way, the Twinity interior for St Pauls is fantastic.

Deming Secrets / #mtw3 - theory

I am helping to promote two events for nexdt year. Both exist online in varying proportion. Deming Secrets will be live on March 1st and is based on theMoSO model. There is a LinkedIn  page for a CQI subgroup. Management Theory at Work 3 ( #mtw3 ) continues conderences from arpoind ten years agao. It is currently a blog and LinkedIn group and a cloud on Cloudworks. There may be a face-to-face version ion September at the Work Foundation, now linked to Lancaster University.

http://mtw3.blogspot.com/

I did papers for the first two mtw conferences, on ISO 9000 and Deming. I think the "Deming Secrets" may turn out to be what Deming discovered in Japan, possibly described as HR rather than QA. I don't think Deming had just one set of ideas for ninety years.

I used to work in the print industry and it seems to me this is now definitely in a time of disruption. It is quite hard to tell because in the UK you need to read Printweek to discover how the Guardian print operation is re-organised and then read the Guardian to find out how Haymarket is gradually moving magazines online. But in general it seems the scope for continuous improvement is limited. Media organisations are part of a wider social context. Deming did explore this sort of situation but it is not often considered.

Quality theory is seen by academics as an application so not very interesting. The "new economics" can include a theory of the firm and why they close.

I hope there will be some connections between the conversations about learning and quality. One way to support this is by imagining a walk between the CQI near Chancery Lane and the Work Foundation near Victoria. In Twinity, a virtual world, this takes about half an hour if you run. There can also be still photos and collages for people not frequenting virtual worlds. And txt.

Stephen Heppell on BETT Radio today - expect the unexpected again?

Later today there will be another BETT Radio. This time from the offices of Facebook.

On YouTube you can find Professor Heppell suggesting we should expect the unexpected. Or rather we should learn how to cope with the unexpected.How this is taught I don't know.

So he may say much the same thing on several occasions. It could only change if ways of expecting the unexpected are better arranged.

Will he say much the same at thje actual BETT ? Will BETT Radio be at Learning Technologies? Will Facebook? I'm living in a permanent Olympia this holiday season. It is hard work but also quite interesting.

I contribute to the Wild Show on Phonic FM. I guess we can lift bits out of the BETT Radio archive. I will try to check this through a Tweet or something.

BETT Radio starts at 12 or there will be an mp3 later.

Online Information morphs to Convention at EXCEL #online11

Half a day so far at Olympia.
 
The Online conference board is advertising entry to Apps so the connection is recognised.
 
Online will become a convention to mix the conference and show. This moves to Excel for 2012. Apparently there will  be a cable car across the Thames from Grenwich.
 
Face to Face Events have to compete with the Cloud by any means.
 
My friend known as source.dubious tells me that London Transport are planning to stop an underground link to Olympia. Could this be true?
 
Will there still be a free entry aspect to Online? Not just that source.dubious and myself are cheapskates. We also find that unless the show is free there may not be much confidence in the future of the products.