Robin and Jeffrey are heading to Vancouver next month for the Northern Voice conference to conduct a qualitative research on the viability of the R.U.B.R.I.C. model they published a year and a half ago to both professional and personal blogs.
Want to participate in the study (its anonymous) or happen to be in the area at that time, let us know and we're sure they'd love to chat with you!
Want to have a chat with Robin after his talk at the CSTD Toronto Chapter event on March 1? Register, participate, enjoy and you get to have freebie consultation with him afterwards. Maybe he can even talk you into discussing about your certification programmes and how Phronetic International, can assist in enabling you to have consistently high performing stellar employees. What will Robin be talking about? The implementation of next generation organisational certification programmes. It'll be interactive, you have to stand up, move around, participate. No sitting by the corner.
See you there!
We will be at the HRPAO cocktail event tonight at 8p at the Westin Harbourview in Toronto.... If you happen to be in the area, email us so we could chat in person....
Also we do provide a 10% to HRPAO* members for all our publicly scheduled web-based and face-to-face sessions.
See you there!
*cannot be combined with other offers and valid until 12/31/07
Robin reports from the Northern Voice's Moosecamp 2007 conference ~
Our Day 1 started with a new approach I've not experienced in a pre-conference session - an editable conference scheduling activity! Maybe not new for the regulars at Nothern Voice but since this was my first Moosecamp, it was a great idea. Topics were pitched and a blank grid was filled in minutes with hot topic sessions. Isn't this what we do when we teach? We need to be flexible and be able to pattern our classes to our current classroom's landscape so that its fluid enough to determine which works best. 
This constantly refitting, for most experienced stand-up speakers, is an unconscious activity so as to ensure viability, creativity, and vitality to the classroom.
Back to the conference in Vancouver - Roland Tanglao's session on cultural diaspora was very engaging especially since we're kababayans, I enjoyed Lee LeFever and Nancy White's community session, learned a lot about Mac widgets, plugins, nifty tools that I can't use since my XPs would cough 'em up, Tod Maffin's open forum with the new CBC website look [a CBC insider in the room whispered about Zed's reincarnation so I am looking forward to that], met and seen interesting people (dragons, interesting hat person, and jugglers included), enjoyed Vancouver weather and BC's very accommodating and lovely people.
Anil Dash kicked off our Day 2 Northern Voice 2007 conference. Two words - persistence and awareness - were his main message of developing relationships using online tools. I attended sessions by Nancy White, Kris Krug, Brian Lamb, and Stewart Mader. Discussions on use of edublogs, edu-wiki's, and overall edu-connections proved to be thought provoking and left me with questions on usage, continuous viability, and choices that I'd need to further process in the coming days.
We had a giveaway at the Northern Voice conference and gave one to Tod Maffin who blogged about us here. They're a great idea we think because you can see who is calling you without actually holding your phone as its facing you. Quite a clever office accessory.
If you want one of these cell phone holders, see Robin at his CSTD presentation on March 15th in Toronto.
Have a great weekend ahead ~
Robin Yap is one of six North American delegates to create the updated ISO 2009 Education Standards in Berlin on March 26-27, 2007. This is a great honour and prestige to be part of as these standards shape the world of higher and corporate education.
ANSI US/TAG (Technical Advisory Group) invited Robin as a representative of ibstpi and Phronetic as well as representatives from ASTD and Wilson Thomson to deliberate the new standards especially including Web 2.0 tools and other emerging technologies.
Look for more postings on these deliberations in the coming weeks.
Read Robin's Blog on the Next Generation Organisational Certification Programme, Web 2.0 Tools and Organisational Change and Transformational Models.
Jeffrey and Robin will be presenting a paper on Critical Thinking at the Adult Education Research Conference in Halifax at Mount Saint Vincent University on June 6-9. If you'd like to meet us please email us to setup an appointment.
Edward was voted as Secretary of HEDNA - The Hotel Electronic Distribution Network Association recently. HEDNA is an international association focused on identifying distribution opportunities and providing solutions for the lodging industry and its distribution community. HEDNA is able to meet its objectives through:
* Optimizing the use of current and emerging technologies
* Influencing development of current and emerging electronic distribution channels
* Providing an opportunity for an open exchange of information among members
* Educating industry members
Congratulations Edward!
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