Godfrey Parkin: President of MindRise, a full-service outsourcing shop that specializes in adapting and deploying corporate training for the Web - Surf Shorts - Brief Article

T+D, April, 2002

* www.mindrise.com

The Zen of Surfing. Many people perceive e-learning as technology, but to me it's not about technology; it's about connecting people, sharing experience, and building sustainable learning communities. The Internet has had an immeasurable impact on human communication and knowledge transfer. Yet, we're only just beginning to discover what it can do for us.

Favorite Websites

* www.elearningpost.com Great for updates on developments in e-learning. Provides articles and daily news summaries, neither myopic nor parochial. The site also covers knowledge management, learning communities, and instructional design.

* cyberatlas.internet.cam The best place to keep track of the Internet quantitatively. Publishes daily summaries of new research, covering everything from broadband-penetration levels in Japan to forecasts, such as the size of global b2b e-commerce by 2005.

* www.theonian.com The Onion purports to be a news magazine, but for high production-value humor that's dark, satirical, and clever, there's no better place.

* www.edge.org Edge is an offshoot of The Well, the first online community. A fascinating place to go when you want to exercise your mind and imagination. Edge has a resident panel of digerati in philosophy, technology, and society.

* www.blogger.cam Blogs may be the missing link between knowledge management and e-learning. You get great insight into how well (and how badly) blogging can work by visiting Blogger.com.