One of the guys from Nielsen was at the Web 3.0 conference and presented six emerging technology trends based on the results in their “Australian and Internet Technology Report 2010″. For a summary of what he had to say check out the full post.
I had the pleasure of hearing Nick Love speak at the Web3.0 & the Future of Social Media last week at the Sheraton in Sydney. He was discussing the trend that more and more sites are providing a social experience.
If you’re interested, check out the full post.
The clear buzzwords for the first day of DevLearn2009 were: social and mobile. Both topics have a dedicated breakout area and a host of sessions covering various aspects of these topics. These are two of the key areas learning professionals should be paying distinct notice to. Until now, we’ve been so focused on other areas that we may not have given mobile and social learning the attention it deserves as two of the hottest educational frontiers to be faced in the near future.
The discussion around Acrobat Connect Pro continued with Andrew Chemey highlighting a few ways in which Adobe products can integrate with an existing LMS to: enhance your offering or increase productivity.
He mentioned that Captivate and Presenter output can be tracked by an LMS using either the AICC or SCORM (which uses a structured ZIP format called SCORM-PIF) eLearning standards. If any of our team don’t yet know what SCORM is, please yell out as I think it’s vitally important you understand the 10,000 foot view. These products are also able to include quizzes and other interactions. Although these products are nice, they seem to be much better suited to those looking to deliver PowerPoint style content, online. They don’t hold a candle to the level of multimedia, animation and quality components that our clients and us are accustomed to seeing in courses. (More …)
This session was delivered as a showcase of the capabilities of Acrobat Connect Pro. Put simply, the Connect product is a framework for delivery of real time communication applications. There a bunch of pods (the small applications that run inside a session) that are available out of the box for a variety of video conferencing and virtual meeting scenarios. These include text based chat, pre-recorded and real-time video, voice chat, desktop sharing… and the list goes on.
Summed up by Terry Shane, the iPhone has been so successful because of what the platform (device and App Store) makes possible. He believes that Connect Pro is the iPhone of web conferencing.
Steve Howard was discussing the advantages that the eLearning Suite has over the products individually. There are a host of features that become available when certain combinations of the Adobe products are purchased together.
Some of his favourites included the speech analysis included in SoundBooth and the Adobe colour pallette creator Kuler (which I’ve seen our designers using already).
Media is changing. In the social environments that now exist; once a problem is solved once for one person, it’s solved for everyone, everywhere. People with seemingly nothing in common can band together, become organised and cause change. Media has moved from information to co-ordination.
Old fashioned media revolved around a few central publishers. As the number of citizen journalists is exponentially increasing, traditional media is losing the monopoly on publicly available information. They are required to adapt their businesses during this new era.
Adobe CEO Mr. Shantanu Narayen was able to relate the four straight-forward observations Adobe have made back to their strategy.
