People can use technologies that aren't typical learning technologies to enhance learning. That's what the digital beat is all about. The Internet, mobile technologies, instant messaging, wireless networks, and any other type of technology that is creating a digital beat in the world. There are breakthroughs with technology that have direct and indirect implications for how people live, learn, and work. As training and learning professionals for organizations, whether they are big or small, or as independent consultants, people often have to hunker down in response to meeting a client's needs so that it's difficult to get outside of the office and see what's happening in the world.