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I've received very positive feedback and lots of good ideas on the concept of having a combined calendar of Free Webinars . The really nice thing about the way Jon Udell has set up his elmcity project (the system we are using) is that it acts a lot like social curation on RSS sources as provided by Browse My Stuff , but brings together designated calendars instead of blogs or other RSS sources. In English, that means that we can have many different people each own their separate calendar and we can bring it together. The initial list of calendar entries, we added ourselves. But I'm pleased to announce that we've just signed up our second calendar curator - Coaching Ourselves . Their events are now appearing in the listings: Free eLearning Webinars For now you won't be able to necessarily distinguish the source, but we will work on exposing that in the future. One of the recommendations we've already received. It is exactly because we can distribute the load o...

The Business of Learning (see Free Online Conference – Future of Learning with Recordings Here ) event went really well. One of the really interesting ideas came from Allessandria Polizzi who is Group Manager for Accountant Training & Relations at Intuit. Her role is to make sure that accountants are trained on the Quickbook products. You can see Allessandria at 21:30 of the following video: If you have problem seeing the video you can view them here as well. Intuit used to produce the content themselves, but they have transitioned to hiring their Accountants (their customers) to produce the training content for them. This includes a varied mix of solutions - webinars, seminars, self-paced eLearning. One of the examples of how they did this was to give the Accountants camcorders and software (along with training) so that they could produce small training pieces. One example that she mentions is a video piece on mobile access showing how they can access client informa...