Flash For Learning

I wanted to first put out a quick promo for a new blog I’m writing for in addition to the 75 other (actually four other) blogs and podcasts I currently contribute to. Becoming Legit is a blog I started up with two peers in my company about what we’re doing to make social media (blogs, wikis, podcasting, collaborative tools, social networking) and make it legitimate (blessed) inside our organization. It’s an uphill battle as I’m sure you are feeling yourself (maybe?). It’s a young blog, but we’re going to be posting to it weekly and we’ll be covering a number of subjects, technical, political and otherwise on what it takes to go from working in the shadows to stepping out into the light. It should be interesting if you’re into social media and/or knowledge management.

Second, there’s SO MUCH I want to write about concerning IMS and their passive aggressive overtures towards open licensing with Creative Commons and the on-again/off-again romance with SCORM (right now it’s off again), but there’s a lot of drama and it keeps changing, so I can’t really write to it without sounding like a guy with way too much time on his hands. And it has never been my intention to be the “Comic Book Guy” of the E-Learning world. So I’m sorry to Philip and others for being silent on this subject — there’s a lot of marrow to boil out of this stew yet.

Third, I hope you’ve been enjoying the ActionScript 3.0 stuff I’ve been tossing up here. There’s more coming.

An interesting article just came across my Jaiku feed from the website for Wikinomics. The article sketches what an organization flattened for a knowledge meritocracy would look like.

I think it’s a radical shift from what many corporations look like… but looking at all the GenX and GenY workers that are making up the workforce, I don’t think organizations will be able to retain talent unless they feel like they have a voice in the organization.