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About Elliott Masie - Futurist and Speaker on Technology and Trends:

Elliott Masie is an internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher and humorist on the critical topics of technology, business, learning and workplace productivity. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, an Internet newsletter read by over 46,000 business executives worldwide, and a regular columnist in professional publications. He is the author of a dozen books, including the recently authored free digital book called My Most Memorable Teacher (or Trainer). He is the convener of Learning 2008.

Elliott heads The MASIE Center, a Saratoga Springs, NY think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning Consortium, a coalition of 240 Fortune 500 companies cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies, including Target, UPS, Allstate, Sears, Bank of America and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Labor.

Elliott's professional focus has been in the fields of corporate learning, organizational performance and emerging technology. He has developed models for accelerating the spread of knowledge, learning and collaboration throughout organizations. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term e-Learning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises.

Elliott serves as an advisor to a wide range of government, education and non-profit groups. He serves on the Board of Trustees of several colleges, as a Board member of national organizations and is a member of the Executive Committee of Operation Respect, an anti-bullying education project. He serves as a pro-bono advisor to the Department of Defense and was appointed by the President to the White House Advisory Council on Expanding Learning Opportunities.

What Elliott Masie Talks About:

Elliott is known as a highly approachable speaker and trainer, blending humor, applicable stories of best practice and high levels of audience involvement. Over the past thirty years, he has presented programs, courses and speeches to over 1,600,000 professionals around the world.

Some of Masie's Topics Include:

Fingertip Knowledge
Staying Smart, Current and Strategic in the Age of Google (plus the end of the Memorization Era)

Next Generation Workers in the Workplace
A very funny speech about the Starbucks, iPod wearing generation at work.

Gadgets, Gizmos and High Tech Changes in a Flatter World
In this entertaining and insighful presentation, Elliott brings to the audiences the new and cool technology that can help associations, people and organizations.

WiseCrowds, WiseMeetings and WiseWriting
What happens when EVERYONE's wisdom is tapped, included and involved? Elliott has some very interesting observation from the world of the CIA and Intelligence Community about this. It includes Facebook, MySpace and other implications.