Why is web 2.0 different?

Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web as a platform. According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."

Check out this video on YouTube that shows you which sites utilize web 2.0 capabilities at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsa5ZTRJQ5w

Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003^[1] and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004^[2] , refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.

Who is Donald Kirkpatrick and why are there 4 levels?

Donald Kirkpatrick is known for creating the training evaluation model. This model consists of four levels of learning evaluation. Kirkpatrick's ideas were first published in 1959, in a series of articles in the US Training and Development Journal.

The four levels of Kirkpatrick's evaluation model essentially measure:

• reaction of student - what they thought and felt about the training
• learning - the resulting increase in knowledge or capability
• behaviour - extent of behaviour and capability improvement and implementation/application
• results - the effects on the business or environment resulting from the trainee's performance

For more on Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Evaluation, see this wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kirkpatrick

What does SCORM really mean?

SCORM is a word (an acronym really) used extensively in the education and learning world to describe an online course that has been packaged up for transportation to other learning systems. It's knd of like an email sent from Lotus being received in an outlook box, while it travels through the Internet it is packaged up so as to not be disturbed. Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning.

For more nonsense of this acronym, visit this wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorm

Where did the term "Talent Management" come from?

This term is usually associated with competency-based human resource management practices. Talent management decisions are often driven by a set of organizational core competencies as well as position-specific competencies. The competency set may include knowledge, skills, experience, and personal traits (demonstrated through defined behaviors).

Older competency models might also contain attributes that rarely predict success (e.g. education, tenure, and diversity factors that are illegal to consider in many countries).

In the late 1990s, technology companies engaged in a 'war for talent'.

The term was coined by McKinsey & Company following a 1997 study and then it was the title of a book by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod.

McKinsey and Co first coined the term...read this wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_management