CMED Conference concurrent session, Don't Miss Your Upcoming Lifelong Learners While Clinging to the Ones You Know Today. Background images are originals by VJ Maris Photography. If you'd like to use one of the images for your presentation, please send me a note requesting permission.

1. Welcome to the CMED Conference!

2. Don’t Miss Your Upcoming Lifelong Learners While Clinging to the Learners You Know Today

5. My Influencers

9. Who are your influencers? How will you engage one or more of your influencers to learn more about a generation other than your own?

15. Ys comfortably assume a degree of personal ownership and control over their technology. In their world, technology is not the domain of the specialist, and it is as much an extension of them as a handbag or briefcase may be to their parents. Tamara Erickson Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work

18. “… clear protocols and explicit, simple rules, communicated among your friends, for technology use; use email only if you must send a document (and don’t expect a response); send a text message to coordinate or address an immediate need; share general information, updates and photos on Facebook; and never leave a phone message (unless it’s for someone’s parents)” Tamara Erickson Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work Blog http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/erickson/

23. Fans of the page Photo albums

24. Different Faces of Lifelong Learners

29. Look back on the old days and old ways or you can lead in a brand new way from a position of understanding this next generation

32. LinkedIn Reading List

33. See ya’ at CMED in 2010!