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The Long Road to Standards Adoption

Virtual

With its much-anticipated announcement this week, Apple became the latest and the last of the leading smartphone vendors to adopt Near Field Communication or NFC technology. The company announced NFC will be in its forthcoming iPhone 6 models and will become the enabling technology for a new mobile payment ecosystem called Apple Pay.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The spread of both video and social—often in tight combination—has gone hand in hand with the widespread use of smart phones and the ever-increasing speed of mobile communication networks. And, of course, traditional certificates and designations are no longer the only way to signal that a learner has acquired specific skills and knowledge.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.13.20

Reid All About it

I like the curated approach of the MIT Technology Review’s Coronavirus Tech Report. – Crisis Communications: Coronavirus Edition. Whether you intend to cancel your event or not, the coronavirus outbreak has made one thing abundantly clear: we need to be prepared to communicate to our meeting’s stakeholders.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.6.20

Reid All About it

Tanya Basu at MIT Technology Review writes about private micro-networks , like Cocoon, which some believe are the future of connecting. “…[S]uch micro-networks and the control they offer might redefine how we think about and use social media in the next decade, whether it is Cocoon or another app that follows in its wake.”. 1 CAE credit.

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Today’s Conference Education Model Was Created For An Economy That No Longer Exists

Velvet Chainsaw

It is usually devoted to information transfer through a lecture or panel, rote learning and memorization of facts and figures to pass a certification test. More than 70% said they measured critical thinking, communication and collaboration in annual employee performance reviews. Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills.