Unconference
If you love social media – you will love the informatology unconference – as it’s run by and for the participants. With a focus on “New Media @ Work” you can expect a refreshing mix of lively “Pecha Kucha” talks, such as on how to choose and how to introduce social media; followed by informal cafe style conversations.
At the learning cafe you talk through ideas in an informal, open and supportive atmosphere. It is here that you get to grips with the issues as they pertain to you, and can make great new contacts for your network.
There may also be demo sessions.
Talks for the Unconference:
Jon Ingham is a consultant, researcher, writer and speaker focusing on strategic human capital management and HR / management 2.0.
His talk Using new media to develop social capital is introduced here…
Leon Benjamin is an independent social media practitioner and has managed a number of successful social software implementations with clients including British Airways, Microsoft, British Telecom and most recently with Carphone Warehouse. Leon currently heads the social media practice of Group Partners, a London based business performance improvement consultancy that uses a unique process and set of tools to solve ‘wicked’ problems.
His talk Change Comes From Within covers how social software can be at its most transformative at work inside the organisation, touching on employee engagement and productivity, how to harness the indisputable benefits, and how to construct a business case for its widespread adoption within the organisation.
Karyn Romeis is an international speaker and writer with a Master’s degree in Education, for which she researched the use of social media for workplace learning.
Her talk Getting in Under the Radar is about how to introduce new technologies into the business without giving the powers that be a heart attack – even if it means going subversive.
Patrick Dunn is a prolific writer on e-learning, and has worked for leading e-learning companies and with world-leading creative and branding agencies.
His talk Leaping the Chasm from Instructional Design to Games Design is about how those with instructional design (learning design) skills can transition more easily over into designing games for learning.
Peter Casebow is Chief Executive of GoodPractice. He was formerly Head of Strategic Communication at Royal Bank of Scotland.
His talk on Using New Media to Improve Organisational Performance questions how we are using informal and social learning, given that informal learning currently accounts for up to 70% of all organisational learning.
Dr. Anthony ‘Skip’ Basiel is Sr. Post Grad. Programme Leader at Middlesex University.
His talk on The Power of Webcasts considers the potential for using webcasts and webcast recordings as a means to support the development and growth of your online network.
Mark Berthelemy is a Senior Consultant / Learning Solutions Architect at Capita Learning & Development.
In his talk on Choosing and using social software he shares his top tips for choosing and using software that will help HR, L&D and IT, and their senior managers, achieve their goals.
Clive Shepherd – read his bio here – is chairing the morning session of today’s conference.
Time permitting he also plans to contribute to this afternoon unconference with Enjoyable e-learning: is this an oxymoron?
Charles Jennings was Chief Learning Officer at Thomson Reuters, and in 2008 received the UK World of Learning ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Learning Industry’ award.
His talk Conversations build Markets and Capability is in acknowledgement of the 10th Anniversary of the publication of The Cluetrain Manifesto.