• Develop the ability to discuss some current and potential impacts of Web 2.0 for individuals, organizations, and society.
• Understand how Web 2.0 is really a social community and what that means for individual success and social harmony.
• Develop balanced perspective on opportunities and impacts of social networking sites, including ways that individuals and organizations can survive and thrive in this networked environment.
• Appreciate and understand key ideas and implications of social network analysis as applied to Web 2.0

Few organizations have the luxury of providing training the old way. New products come out in less time than it takes to develop training for them. Training's messages often lose out to a tidal wave of new information, e-mail, and spam. Employees do not have time to attend courses. Self-service learning can overcome these obstacles. Jay will explain how to overcome training's dilemma naturally by providing and nurturing informal learning opportunities. Let's share what we know about:

• BEST PRACTICES for communities of practice, culture change, and systems thinking.
• LEVERAGING informal learning (which is, after all, most of the learning going on in your shop).
• MAXIMIZING THE RETURN from the ultimate learning technology, conversation.
• CONVINCING EXECUTIVE management to invest in informal approaches.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify opportunities to improve performance by replacing formal training with informal learning.
• Sell non-traditional, informal learning solutions to management.
• Apply the bus/bicycle analogy and the learner lifecycle to in-house learning situations.
• Discover how informal learning improves performance

Learning 2.0 is not about totally discarding what we’ve learnt from first generation e-Learning, Learning Management (LMS) and Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), but it’s about assimilating and expanding it – it’s all about breaking out of the classroom into a more natural way to learn, communicate, and perform!

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0 trends
• Apply Key Web 2.0 trends to Enterprise Learning and Performance
• Integrating formal and informal learning and knowledge management into the workplace

For over two decades, Dr. Tom Hoban's teaching, research, and consulting have focused on the social impacts of technological change for individuals, businesses, and society. For almost 20 years, his consulting practice has helped companies manage social change, foster innovation, and negotiate the external environment. Dr. Tom Hoban received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1986, where research pioneered the use of social network analysis to analyze communication and cooperation among organizations.

As professor of sociology at North Carolina State University, he is recognized as a pioneer in using Web 2.0 to teach social science – both through the university and his own online initiatives. Dr. Tom Hoban uses Web 2.0 to promote his music and teach as an engaged sociologist reaching people informally. He is now working with Instancy to develop a Web 2.0 community aimed at enhancing individual creativity and social connectivity -- especially among the leading edge youth.

Jay Cross (internettime.com) has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix thirty years ago. “I am dedicated to making people more effective in their work and happy in their lives,” says Jay. “My calling is to change the world by helping people learn to learn.”

Jay coined the term eLearning. He co-authored Implementing eLearning, founded Internet Time Group, served as CEO of eLearning Forum for its first five years, and writes a column on effectiveness for CLO magazine.

He is the author of Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways that Inspire Innovation and Performance (Pfeiffer, October 2006). An internationally acclaimed strategist, speaker, and designer of corporate learning and performance systems, Jay is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

Jay and his wife Uta live with two miniature longhaired dachshunds in the hills of Berkeley, California.

Harvey Singh is the CEO of Instancy and co-founder of TrainingOutsourcing.com. Harvey is internationally recognized as one of the key thought leaders in technology enabled learning, performance improvement, and knowledge management. Based on his pioneering work in the online learning industry, eLearning standards, and off-shore outsourcing models, Harvey develops strategies and architectures for global organizations and training organizations that leverage technology and off-shore outsourcing models, business processes, and best-practices.

Prior to Instancy, Harvey served as the Chief Learning Technology Officer at Centra Software after the company he co-founded, MindLever, merged with Centra Software. Harvey also served as an advisor to eLearning standards organizations like ADL/SCORM and IMS and was nominated as eLearning Executive of the year in 2001.

At MindLever, Harvey was the visionary and principal architect behind the industry’s first Web Services and eLearning standards based outsourced learning infrastructure company. Prior to MindLever, Harvey co-founded Empower Corporation, an Online Learning product design and development outsourcing company with off-shore development centers.

Harvey is frequently invited to speak at national and international training conferences and to contribute in books, magazines, and webzines on the topic of enterprise learning. Harvey has graduate degrees in both computer science and education technology from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.