I was fortunate enough to be able to spend 2 days down in Orlando for the Adobe Learning Summit & a great Pre-Conference Session on Social Learning with Mark Oehlert. A more detailed post on Mark’s session is coming later, but here’s a summary of the two days. Mostly for my own benefit, but hopefully for the benefit of others as well.

Adobe Learning Summit 2011 -

Why I went:

• Get more info on deploying to mobile devices (tablets).
• See any new functionality for eLearning suite updates or next version.
• See what’s being done with Flash in Captivate via widgets/snippets/embedded SWF’s.

What I got:

• A great Keynote.
• Some glimmers of hope for mobile development.
• A few minor updates for Captivate.
• A few interesting takes on integrating Flash w/Captivate

Quick Links

Right off the bat I wanted to provide some links to the valuable information I received. Enjoy!

From Adobe Learning Summit 2011

• Steven Berlin Johnson – Where Good Ideas Come From:
  http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2010/06/where-good-ideas-come-from.html
• Adobe Labs – Wallaby Flash to HTML5:
  http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
• Adobe ‘Tour DeFLEX’:
  http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/tourdeflex.html
• Fonts for publishing eLearning to Android
  http://www.droidfonts.com/

From Pre-Conference Session with Mark Oehlert

• SlideRocket:
  http://www.sliderocket.com
• Department of Defense is Social!
  http://www.defense.gov/registeredsites/socialmediasites.aspx
• Defense Acquisition University:
  http://www.dau.mil/default.aspx
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – In ‘Fast Company’ on Social Media!:
  http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/joint-venture.html
• IBM Social Media Policy:
  http://ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
• Kathy Sierra – Death by Risk Aversion:
  http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/death_by_riskav.html
• SocialText Enterprise Social Collaboration Platform:
  http://www.socialtext.com
• Jive Social Business Software:
  http://www.jivesoftware.com/
• Confluence by Atlassian – Enterprise Collaboration/Wiki:
  http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
• Traction Software – Social Media meets Project Management?!:
  http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/
• 37 Signals:
  http://37signals.com/
• oneforty – customizable social media ‘toolkits’:
  http://oneforty.com/
• Kongregate Online Gaming Site:
  http://www.kongregate.com
• TED – Technology Entertainment Design:
  http://www.ted.com/

Believe it or not, more links to come!