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I am writing live from Black Canyon Conference Center in Phoenix doing session on so-called “new technologies” for people who work in workforce development centers and job training place. The “presentation” was whipped up this morning (it shows) as a wiki (a) because it is fast; and (b) I can demo a wiki. See “Rip. Mix. Learn… The Digital Generation, Social Technologies, and Learning” This was written to show the instant publishing power of blogs. The audience is stunned. I think they are breathing. Actually they were very responsive.. I was asked to toss some new things at them. And hats off to Rudy for taking the camera and taking some pictures to use for a flickr demo– the audience chose his self portrait. I did a quick upload to flickr and then a reload to show how Flickr updated the from of CogDogBlog– they were astounded. And I ran [...]

Philosophical question: If a presentation falls in the woods, and there is no one there, does it make a sound? Or for that matter, if you miss a conference presentation, does an abstract, a paper, or even the PowerPoint itself really provide information (worth the weight, er… wait, of the download?) Like Jay Cross’s recently posted audio narrated ASTD presentation, we had done the same for a keynote presentation by Diana Oblinger at our May 18, 2004 Ocotillo Retreat — it is part of my compulsion to make sure we have materials from our events that can be useful afterward, and for those who were not there. First of all, it certainly helps to have a compelling speaker, and Oblinger has done that again on a second visit in 2 years to Maricopa (see Into the Future: What is IT?, Feb 2002). Recently named as a Vice President of EDUCAUSE, [...]