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Day 1: ASTD TK

I just got out of the opening session, and its Web 2.0 over and over again. Tony Bingham, President of ASTD kicked things off very well - pushing the audience to get into Web 2.0 stuff. I was surprised - not much of the audience of well over 1000 people hadn't connected the Web 2.0 movement to their training initiatives. It looks as if this ASTD crowd is still figuring out how to get their content to talk with their LMS and keeping their learners engaged, and few have made the leap to interactive learning. That's what Web 2.0 is all about...getting uses plugged in and engaged with EACH OTHER for information, content and discussion.

Tony talked at length about Twitter; about how it should be changing the way information is shared within an organization. I'm thinking about it...still wrapping my head around it...I signed up and have an account to please link to me! I am figuring it out...maybe you can help.

Tony was followed by David Pogue. David was funny and had lots of information about Web 2.0 including some sites that I didn't know about. I'll be sharing later today. Of course, I found myself wondering...so...how can we tie it to eLearning! David had lots of stories and links and such, but didn't tie it back to eLearning. After I review my notes and post, I hope I will be able to tie some things together.

So far, its been great. I'll have additional posts throughout the day, be tweeting about the sessions and adding information to my Facebook and LinkedIn profiles. Connect with me if you could not be here for ASTD TK 09.

P.S. I've lined up my next Podcast interview...who wants to know about synchronous learning?