Jay Cross wrote that he and his co-authors will be signing copies of their book “The Working Smarter Fieldbook” at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin on Thursday July 22nd.

We are delighted Jay will be joining us for the Irish Learning Showcase 2010 event and wanted to let folks know that he will also be signing books with us at our evening event at The Brazen Head pub at 6pm on the same day.

We will be out in force shooting video and taking photos and will have them up on the site after the event.

We are getting excited as final preparations for the upcoming Irish Learning Showcase 2010 event are underway. We have a great agenda prepared including some preeminent speakers from the Learning & Development world.

Speakers at the event include:

• Jay Cross of Internet Time Group on Informal Learning
• David Mallon from Bersin & Associates on how to build a social learning strategy and
• Larry Israelite, VP HRD at Liberty Mutual on Talent Management: Strategies for Success from Six Leading Companies

The event will be held in Dublin, Ireland on July 21st and 22nd 2010.

If you are interested in attending, please get in touch.

Sharon is at Bersin Impact 2010 in St Petersburg  FL this week.

Event report to follow!

Sharon [SVP Learning Solutions, ILA] was at the Launch of IBM SmartCamps Boston, as IBM’s Senior Vice President of Software Division, Steve Mills and Irish government Minister Dara Calleary marked the occasion.

Two innovative Irish firms, Treemetrics and Resourcekraft were showcased at the launch event, having reached the finals of SmartCamps Dublin last year.

- Phil

We’re currently gearing up for the launch event for IBM SmartCamps Boston, taking place on St Patrick’s Day, March 17th. Irish Minister for Labour Affairs, Mr Dara Calleary T.D. will attend as part of his Trade Visit to Boston.

Hello everyone – I am new to Enterprise Ireland’s Boston office and will be working with the ILA. This will be my first of many posts. I look forward to hearing your comments and questions!

The Fourth Annual Irish Learning Showcase was recently held on December 2nd & 3rd in Dublin. This was a new and very exciting experience for me. One of the biggest things to impress me was the amount of energy and activity packed into a two day learning event. Senior executives attended from the US, Benelux, Dubai, Australia, France, Canada and the UK, each bringing with them unique perspectives on the present and future of learning solutions, as well as the specific business needs of their companies.

It was a great opportunity for everyone to learn more about the industry and see all the valuable innovation coming out of Ireland. The days were packed with networking activities, workshops and interactive client presentations on emerging trends such as mobile learning and social media.

Check out the blogs written real-time by our HCMS invitees on their Facebook page.

Look for more posting coming from attendees and the Enterprise Ireland global team members later this week!! Let us know if you are interested in attending our 2010 Irish Learning Showcases.

-Philip

Looking forward to the most global Irish Learning Showcase (ILS) to date!!

The ILS is scheduled for December 1st – 3rd, in Dublin, Ireland. We are preparing to share highlights of the ILA research into technologies such as Social Media and Mobile Technologies and their impact on the commercial world – your businesses; to the attendees! ILA member companies will also present case studies, best practices and industry related topics.

Lots to do with a little over a week remaining (and the US holiday Thanksgiving will ‘eat’ up some time At this event we will host senior executives from the US, UK, Benelux region, Australia and Dubail. Look for their feedback to be posted directly ON THIS BLOG in the upcoming weeks!!

- Sharon

We just returned from a fabulous, informative and valuable Learning 2009 event.

Listed below are a few top line impressions and observations from Elliott Masie (pls note: these are partial quotes – for more information go to the Learning 2009 web site):

• Video: There is a strong interest and deployment of video in the world of learning
• Capt. Sully: Our time with Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger was fascinating. I am still thinking about his comments about the need to balance Teamwork, Trust, Shared Work Process Expectations and Learned Procedures.
• Social Media, Twitter and Back Channel Learning: Interesting to have a Twitter Scan going on in back of some of our keynote speakers. … The conversation is contiuning on #L2009 if you search on Twitter for comments and contributions.
• Virtual Leadership Skills: Lots of focus on how to add Virtual Leadership to the skillsets of new and existing leaders. How to build Digital Rhythm and More.
• Deconstructing Content: A number of speakers talked about reducing the investment in formal content and harvesting more of the content from Open Source or existing corporate content.

The ILA presented a very interactive presentation on ‘our journey’ in learning and how to leverage Irish investments. We will blog more on that and share with you the outcomes of our dialogue. Take a quick look at these first few photos:

Capt. Sully not only signed books (of which I have one) but also KINDLES. Here is a photo of us proudly displaying our ILA logo at the ILA stand including; Jonny Parkes, Jackie Stanforth from MindLeaders – who are now Masie Consortium Members, myself, Amy Martin from Interactive Services, and Declan Dagger from Empower the User. We also had strong representation from Intuition (missing from the photo) who had a very well attended presentation on thier success and best practices in Mobile Learning!

Look for more Learning 2009 blog postings – until then – to our US readers; Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello everyone -

We just returned from the CLO Event a few weeks ago and what a great week of networking!

I started the week out – before the conference even started – early on the Monday morning; sharing a tour of the Cheyenne Mtns with other CLO attendees (you can see them on the photo!) – on horseback. Must say it was a bit cold and very early; but it really set the tone for the conference that week – a lot of social networking -with and without the technology!

We then went into a full schedule of sessions, keynotes and events. Must say the networking, as always, was some of the best parts of the week.

You can see in the photo we all grabbed a delicious meal and shared great company/conversation on the Wednesday evening.

At our ILA session Jonny Parkes discussed the highlights of the ILA ELITE research regarding the technologies such as social media, mobile technologies and virtual worlds and how they impact the commercial world — your businesses. We shared the good times and the ‘challenges’ – as we are just at the beginning of this journey and we are still learning!

Our ILA member colleagues -Philip Payne from MindLeaders (in photo with Jonny and I) as well as Glenn Kenny from Interactive Services (who was obviously still networking when our photo was taken) helped us with our session. If you would like to see the presentation – it is located on the download section of the website.

We look forward to hearing from you in regard to our presentation – and if you were at CLO Symposium, if have some great networking photos from the event and comments – please send them on to us!

- Sharon

We are pleased to be able to offer some more video clips from Dr. Tony O’Driscoll’s talk at our New York event from earlier this year on “The Evolution of The Web”. We hope you enjoy them!

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