Kineo Newsletter

Contents this month:

1. Free Briefing: Learning Strategy Master Plan Part 1 - Alignment.

2. Interview: Charles Jennings, Head of Global Learning at Reuters

3. Big Ideas: Google loves learning. We love Google.

4. View from the floor: Learning Technologies 2006 Show Report

Editor's note:

Hi,

Valentine's Day is looming and we at Kineo have already written our card: to Google, with love. If informal learning is set to be the most talked about topic of the year, Google has got to be the most important informal learning tool of the decade. We explain how in this month's big ideas.

We're not alone. Charles Jennings of Reuters talks about the "Googleisation of everything" in this month's interview. Even learning? Especially learning.

If we met you at Learning Technologies in London a few weeks ago - nice to see you. Alignment was one of the big themes, as Matt Fox notes in his show review.

Mark Harrison's been working on alignment for a while - he presents a structured approach to alignment in this month's free briefing, the first of four on implementing a learning strategy that works.

What else are you thinking about this month? I’d love to hear from you. E-mail me at newsletter@kineo.com

Best wishes
Stephen

1. Briefing: Learning Strategy Master Plan Part 1: Alignment

Kineo's Mark Harrison was recently part of a consultation process with over 100 learning professionals in the UK to identify what made for the best learning organisation. Four major traits emerged. The first is alignment. Mark's alignment recommendations form this month's free briefing, available here.

Look out for the next three installments over the coming months.



2. The February Interview: Charles Jennings, Head of Global Learning at Reuters

Reuters is the largest publisher of content to the internet. Its Head of Global Learning, Charles Jennings, has over 20 years of experience in technology enabled learning. Put those together and as you can imagine, Reuters is up to some very interesting things in learning. We had a lively
conversation about performance, management, measurement - and Google, of course. And what's this about a "conspiracy of convenience" between trainersand managers?
Hear what Charles had to say here.


 3. February's big ideas: Google

We're in love with Google. We imagine we aren't the only ones. But are you up to speed on everything that Google could do for your learning and knowledge management? We’ve created a Google homepage for you to explore how this powerful tool can improve your own learning and knowledge management. And we've reviewed the latest book on how they made it all happen.

Read about our Goolge ideas (and all the other ones) here.
 

4. View from the Floor: Learning Technologies 2006

Did you get to Learning Technologies in London a few weeks ago?  What did we
think of it? Matt Fox shares his view here.