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Public Sector Learning
Fresh Ideas for Tomorrow’s people
Date Wednesday 20th May
Place Hilton London Kensington Hotel
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What’s it all about?
Learning Pool’s first ever annual conference will benefit smart organisations who want to find out how to use new media to create efficiencies and service improvements.
Having a well trained and motivated workforce is the key for the [...]
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Ben Page, MD of Ipsos MORI and one of the 50 most influential people in local government according to the Local Government Chronicle, will be speaking at the Public Sector Learning Conference on Wednesday 20th May.
Ben’s keynote speech will critique today’s social networking phenomenon and how it has evolved from being the domain of techno geeks to the fabric [...]
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E-learning has rarely, if ever, been called a weapon of mass collaboration but if the cap fits wear it.
Donald Clark, board member of UFI LearnDirect and blogger extraordinaire, cites Audit Commission statistics that show that local authority spending on training per annum is over £500m and two thirds of this spend is duplicated.
Shocking statistics in [...]
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I was at an unconference yesterday. It was called Geek‘n’Rolla Tech Crunch and, despite the intermittent whooping and air punching, it was a motivating, inspirational and frenetically busy event.
I call it an unconference, to use an achingly trendy term, because it was cool, unstuffy and informal. There was a bit of swearing and not a [...]
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Do you remember a BT ad from the late ‘80’s where the dad answers the phone and immediately passes the caller, his daughter, to the mum to chat to?
Well, I was one of those daughters.
Whenever I called my parents my dad would answer and say, “Hang on, I’ll get your mum…” and would only spend a [...]
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It’s that time of year again. Yes it’s Easter, every chocolate lovers paradise where friends and family send you lots of hollow chocolate eggs, if you’re very lucky.
This time last Easter I was in quite a dilemma. After buying lots of lovely chocolate eggs for my friends I then didn’t want to give with them [...]
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… and make a living out of playing pool.
I met up with a friend and former colleague on Saturday.
Sat in the sunshine, had a few beers, caught up on the news, put the world to rights and got the full story on his amusing, but often obscure tweets.
So the conversation moved on to work and [...]
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I had another experience today of how social media really does work.
Everyone who knows me knows that I never leave the house without a reasonably polished PowerPoint presentation in case I might need one. You just never know who you might meet on your daily travels.
A few weeks ago I delivered a presentation to the NILGA [...]
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