Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

12-10 ISTE conference keynote update – All is quiet on the voting front

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Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. No major changes in the last four days. Voting is slowing. Chris Lehmann still holds his lead over Jeff Piontek.

I’ll try to post an update every day or two between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?

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