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The Future of Learning
Those of you who read this blog often know that I’m a cyclist and generally a fitness kind of guy. I’m actually fairly obsessive, and on a recent day entering my daily food and caloric intake into my smart phone,…
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Style and Strategy: Nadal versus Federer
I love tennis. I prefer to watch it than to play as I’m not really very good, and I seem to have a bum shoulder. Each year, my wife and I record the coverage of every grand slam, and to…
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Employee Portal Experience Fundamentals
Portal redesign is fun these days. Creating widgets from our talent management systems and plugging in cool looking, drillable analytics from the business intelligence engine (also widgetized) is pretty cool. The technology advances in the last few years that allow…
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The “Other”
Why can’t we get along with payroll? What makes them so different? It really does not matter when Payroll reports up to HR and when they report up to Finance. There always seems to be some friction. Often we like…
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Business Intelligence and Data Dispersion
Data Encryption with business intelligence and reports has always been a problem. Users are constantly requesting reports, and once data is in someone’s hands, it’s almost impossible to control data dissemination and what I’ll call data diaspora. One must admit,…
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Immediacy without Details
I’ll have to be honest – I’m having a really hard time with some of the new technology. I’m supposed to be a technologist and be up on all the latest stuff. But I find myself at odds with some…
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Real Life is Analog
Not Digital. We all love digital. It makes our lives easier and faster. But I’m not sure we all have an appropriate understanding of what digital and analog really mean. The fact of the matter is that we don’t live…
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CedarCrestone’s HR Systems Survey
It’s that time of year again, for what Bill Kutik of the HR Technology Conference calls “the most thorough, highly respected and useful survey on technology usage in HR.” Each year, I send out a link to the readers of…
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Gaming: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste
I’ve been writing a lot about gaming and being an advocate for the learning activities that it promotes. In many cases and for many games, there is active online collaboration, leadership, decision-making, team building, and project management going on. The…
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Inspiration or Engagement?
I’ve been away for a little while. No, I have not been on vacation, or away from the country. I’ve just not been writing. I don’t know if other bloggers have this problem, but I don’t bother writing if I’m…