Whether it was Twitter, podcasts or more conventional e-learning, delegates at this year’s HRD conference could hardly avoid hearing about the lure of new technology.Charles Jennings, former global head of learning at Thomson Reuters and now an independent consultant, said learning and development (L&D) specialists were not innovative enough around e-learning. His concern was fuelled by this year’s CIPD L&D survey, which showed a 6 per cent decline since last year in the number of organisations introducing or extending e-learning.