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Consulting Community
As a consultant, you can find a myriad of resources available in this community to support your training and workplace performance practice.
E-Learning Community
The E-Learning Community is designed to be an area where you access practical, hands-on resources and connect with peers for advice that will help you design, develop, facilitate, and manage effective e-learning solutions at your organization.Evaluation and ROI Community
The Evaluation & ROI Community is an area to access practical, hands-on resources and connect with peers for advice on how ROI is used to determine the value of human resource development investment and how organizations can use evaluation to forecast the effectiveness of performance improvement programs.
OD & Leadership Community
The OD/Leadership Community offers practical, hands-on resources and connections with peers for insight and knowledge on current issues and trends affecting individuals and organizations.
Performance Improvement
Performance improvement is the process of identifying and analyzing important organizational and individual performance gaps, planning for future performance improvement, designing and developing cost-effective and ethically justifiable interventions to close performance gaps, implementing the interventions, and evaluating the financial and non-financial results.
Training Fundamentals
The Training Fundamentals Community is designed to be an area where you can access practical, hands-on resources and connect with peers for advice that will help you design, develop, facilitate, and manage effective training solutions at your organization. | 
TechKnowledge 2008
February 26 - 28, 2008
San Antonio, TX
Visit the official ASTD TechKnowledge website.
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The Buzz
An executive summary of noteworthy articles pertaining to training, workforce development, e-learning and other topics of importance to human resources and training professionals.
Consulting News
Increase your knowledge and get practical tips on basic business skills that consultants need to be successful.
eLearning News
E-Learning News offers advice and resources on how to use technology efficiently and effectively for learning.
Learning Circuits
Its goal is to promote and aid the use of e-learning, creating a body of knowledge about how to use technology efficiently and effectively for learning.
LX Briefing
An ASTD newsletter for senior learning executives. We know you have little time to read long articles or search the Web for business-critical information, yet you want to keep up with trends in the field and find out what your peers are doing.
Measurement, Evaluation, and ROI News
Its goals are to provide useful, how-to information on current best practices, to report emerging trends and to link applications to business results.
OD and Leadership News
Offers expert insight on trends affecting organizations and individuals and explores groundbreaking theories, provides practical applications, and more. | 
ASTD International
Conference and Exposition
June 1 - 4, 2008
San Diego, CA
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Current Legislative Issues |
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ASTD monitors all bills introduced in the United States Senate and House of Representatives that may affect the workplace learning and performance profession. See all federal legislation ASTD is tracking in the 110th Congress (2007-08). |
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Mobile Briefs |
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Innovative solutions in delivering mobile audio content. |
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Public Sector Resources |
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Workplace learning and performance (WLP) professionals should be familiar with the various public resources available for worker training in the United States. These resources can play an important role in maintaining a competitive edge and can allow for innovative approaches in developing your workforce. WLP professionals should also be familiar with the political process that drives public investment in job training, and be comfortable engaging policy makers on the needs of your organization, industry and community. |
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Chapter Incentive Program |
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The money you spend at ASTD National can come back to benefit you locally! Use the Orange County ChIP when purchasing books, registering for seminars or conferences, or renewing your ASTD National membership! A portion of the money you spend will be directed to your local chapter.Like so:
Orange County ChIP: CH8091 |
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Consider National Membership |
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In addition to chapter membership, please consider adding ASTD national membership to your professional resources. National ASTD membership complements chapter membership by providing you with unlimited access to the research, publications, and industry leaders driving the workplace learning and performance profession. For more information about national membership, please visit www.astd.org/membership.
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February Issue |
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Available Now: Free Chapter of Tony Bingham's New Book and BEST Awards Application in This Issue of LINKS
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Talent Management Playbook
 Over the next decade, the ability to manage talent will be critical to the success of any organization. The cost of not doing talent management is staggering—including lower retention and increased turnover, lack of workforce planning, reactive rather than proactive management, compromised succession planning, and the cost and time of hiring from outside because talent has not been developed internally. In this new playbook, which includes actionable strategies for implementing an integrated talent management system, ASTD and i4cp examine various aspects of talent management including its definition, its valued components, who manages it, and how its success is measured. The playbook features case studies, challenges, solutions, strategic insights, and research. Download your copy today.
In This Month's T+D Magazine
 This month's issue of T+D tackles a critical issue that has been magnified during this economic recession and one that many believe will intensify in the coming years: the growing skills shortage in the U.S. and global job market.
The February e-dition is now live and available for viewing.
Leverage Social Learning
 Get a free chapter of and other pre-release opportunities for The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner (co-published by ASTD Press and Berrett-Koehler). Social media has the potential to revolutionize workplace learning. People have always learned best from one another—social media enables this to happen unrestricted by physical location and in extraordinarily creative ways. Bingham and Conner explain why social media is the ideal solution to some of the most pressing educational challenges that organizations face today.
Send an email or text message to publications@astd.org with the word SOCIAL in the subject line and include your name and email address to receive a free chapter and other pre-release information.
ASTD LINKS
Read the February 3 issue of ASTD LINKS here.
FEATURED ASTD LINKS ARTICLES
The Commonality of Classroom Training
By Jennifer Hofmann and Nanette Miner
Even with all the hype surrounding the “whiz bang” training technologies now available, most corporate training is still delivered face-to-face. However, organizations show an increased interest in blended learning, which takes the best of all training methodologies from the perspectives of demographics, economics, and instruction. Employee Surveys Find Missing Links Between Training and Application
By Amy Pearl
Traditional needs analyses identify knowledge, skills, and behaviors to be developed. Employee surveys take the extra step to identify organizational changes necessary for new skills to be applied. A Softer Approach to Software Training
By Melissa Westmoreland
Even the non-techies among us are sometimes asked to train employees on software products. Here are some tips for providing effective technical training. Access the full newsletter here.
TK VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Were you unable to attend the ASTD TechKnowledge® 2010 Conference and Exposition? You may want to register and participate in our upcoming Virtual Conference between February 8th and March 8th, 2010. At just $199 for members and $299 for non-members, the engaging content from the conference is well within your reach!
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Brandon Hall Research |
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Since 1992, Brandon Hall Research has been providing independent expert advice in the form of published reports and phone consultations on the tools of e-learning: LMS, LCMS, authoring tools, content providers, and other tools that help organizations develop successful e-learning solutions. |
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Bubbl.us |
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Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. With bubbl.us, you can create mind maps online that you can share with others. |
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Chief Learning Officer Magazine |
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Subscriptions to CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER are free to persons residing in the United States. To receive your FREE subscription, simply fill out and submit the linked form. |
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Coachville |
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In its finest form, coaching is a highly evolved form of relating. It is also the most amazing process for personal development ever invented – you naturally grow in wonderful ways when you coach others. Whether you pursue coaching executives or little leaguers, as your profession or as part of your job, you are someone who has dedicated a part of your life to adding value to others. |
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Coachville.com Knowledge Base |
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Search from thousands of Knowledge Nuggets and Top Ten lists full of rich information based on research and experience. |
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Corporate Leadership Council |
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Leading Edge Content:
- Best Practices Research: Exportable strategies and tactics from leading companies for overcoming major benefits challenges.
- Quantitative Analysis: In-depth analytics of proprietary and other data sources to solve members' most pressing challenges.
- Issue Briefs: Shorter research briefs responding to current HR tactical challenges.
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eLearning Guild |
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The eLearning Guild is a Community of Practice for e-Learning design, development, and management professionals. The Guild offers members high-quality learning opportunities, networking services, resources, and publications. Members represent a diverse group of managers, directors, and executives focused on training and learning services, as well as e-Learning instructional designers, content developers, web developers, project managers, contractors, and consultants. Guild members work in a variety of settings including corporate, government, and academic organizations. All members share a common interest in e-Learning design, development, and management. |
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Encyclopedia of Educational Technology |
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The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages. |
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Experiential Training And Development Alliance |
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The ETD Alliance is a not-for-profit organization of experiential training and development (ETD) professionals. Our mission is to promote the awareness, appreciation, and use of first-rate ETD services for business transformation and success.
The Alliance’s initial effort was to create a definition of ethical conduct and a set of exemplary practices for the field of experiential training and development. The resulting DEEP Document (Definition, Ethics and Exemplary Practice) achieved a clearly articulated definition of ethics and sets of exemplary practices for the industry to voluntary strive toward. |
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Integral Leadership Review |
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The Integral Leadership Review is the premier publication of integrally informed approaches to leadership. We serve academics and practitioners engaged in the theory, development and practice of leadership. Now in its sixth year, the Integral Leadership Review provides a link and a bridge among leaders, theorists, educators, consultants, coaches and trainers in over thirty countries. |
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Interactive Lectures |
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Interactive Lectures involve participants in the learning process while providing complete control to the instructor. These activities enable a quick and easy conversion of a passive presentation into an interactive experience. Different types of interactive lectures incorporate built-in quizzes, interspersed tasks, teamwork interludes, and participant control of the presentation.
This web page maintained by University of Wisconsin - Stout explores the use the interactive lecture strategy. |
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International Association of Facilitators |
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The mission of the IAF is to promote, support and advance the art and practice of professional facilitation through methods exchange, professional growth, practical research, collegial networking and support services. This is accomplished through peer-to-peer networking, professional development and annual conferences which are critical means for fulfilling the mission and reflecting our core values. |
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International Simulation and Gaming Association |
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ISAGA is an international organization for scientists and practitioners developing and using simulation, gaming and related methodologies. They include: simulation, gaming, role-play, structured experiences, policy exercises, computerized simulation, play, virtual reality, game theory, debriefing, experiential learning, and active learning. They are used in a broad range of professional areas, including: university, industry, government and business. |
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Keirsey.com |
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People are different in fundamental ways. They want different things; they have different motives, purposes, aims, values, needs, drives, impulses, urges. Nothing is more fundamental than that. They believe differently: they think, cognize, conceptualize, perceive, understand, comprehend, and cogitate differently. And of course, manners of acting and emoting, governed as they are by wants and beliefs, follow suit and differ radically among people. |
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Learning and Development Roundtable |
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- Best Practices Research: Exportable strategies and tactics from leading companies overcoming major L&D challenges.
- Quantitative Analysis: In-depth analytics of proprietary and other data sources to solve members' most pressing challenges.
- Emerging Issue Decision Support Centers: Online repository of tools, member artifacts, data, case profiles, and trade press articles to help members quickly "get smart" on urgent topics.
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Learning Leaders Fieldbook -- Masie Center |
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Senior learning leaders live a precarious life these days. As a result of our tumultuous global economy, we’re witnessing massive change in the world of business and within learning organizations. The role that learning plays within the larger context of business is evolving too. |
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North American Simulation and Gaming Association |
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We are a growing network of professionals working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of games and simulations to improve learning results in all types of organizations. Started in North America, NASAGA has members from more than 50 countries from around the globe. Membership is open to all. |
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Thiagi |
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Mission: To help people achieve more through performance-based training that is motivating and effective. |
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The Training Registry |
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We are a directory and locator service that lists training companies and vendors, training seminars and training workshops, consultants, trainers. We list thousands of training topics, workshops and seminars covering all delivery media, including instructor led, web based / online training courses (online courses), computer based training, videos, training materials, and more. We also list consulting companies, keynote speakers and presenters, coaching services, training facilities and rooms, facility rentals, business services and opportunities, books and magazines, and a variety of training products and tools. |
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White Stag Junior Leader Training |
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White Stag was founded in 1958 by educational psychologist Dr. Bela Banathy. He conceived of the idea of a program that defined and taught specific leadership competencies to youth.
Perhaps an unlikely source for training and development, but sections on the web site provide competencies and resources for teaching leadership. |
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Workshop Exercises |
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Workshopexercises.com is a community of professional trainers who are willing to share outstanding exercises and activities that have worked for them.
By sharing everyone benefits--students, participants, facilitators, trainers, teachers, specialists, coaches, etc. The mission of Workshop Exercises is to support the best practices of a broad learning community. |
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Your Guide to Social E-Learning |
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In this resource you can explore the opportunities and challenges that you might discover with social e-learning in practice, and get practical guidance and tips from e-learning practitioners. Listen to the following keynote from Anne Bartlett-Bragg to find out more about the practice behind the case studies, strategies, tools and activities presented in this resource. |
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Appreciative Inquiry Commons |
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a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change. |
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Association of Business Contingency Planners |
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ACP is the premier, non-profit trade association dedicated to the advancement of business continuity professionals. ACP provides a powerful peer-to-peer networking and learning environment for its members through chapters across the country.
Business continuity planning integrates knowledge from related disciplines such as information technology, emergency response, and crisis communications to create a strategy that ensures a business will remain resilient in the face of adversity. |
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bNet |
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Business white papers web casts, and case studies.
- Manage your career and increase your productivity.
- Improve your firm's competitive positioning.
- Work more effectively with others.
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Change This |
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ChangeThis is creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.
We're on a mission to spread important ideas and change minds. |
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Edward Tufte - Beautiful Evidence |
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Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. |
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Effective Meetings |
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Whether you're a newcomer to meetings or a seasoned pro, the EffectiveMeetings.com resource center offers hands-on meeting advice for every possible situation. Plus, our sage advisor, the Meeting Guru, will help solve your meeting dilemmas. |
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eHow |
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What would you like to do? Tie a tie? Kiss on a date? Lose weight? Negotiate a raise? Win Every Time in Monopoly? The eHowTM database of over 35,000 articles can help you. It's the world's most popular place to find clear instructions on how to do just about everything. |
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Executive Book Summaries |
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It's the executive dilemma of the age: Information overload. With all of your professional reading burdens, you probably find it impossible to keep up with the new business books.
Soundview Executive Book Summaries® give you an easy way to familiarize yourself with the key points of today's top business books. Successful executives worldwide benefit from them. Now you can too.
Membership is free to ASTD National Members! |
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Improv Encyclopedia |
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Improv Encyclopedia is the largest collection or resources for improvisation theater on the web. Here you will find tons of stuff related to improvisation theatre. Look for improv games, handles, exercises, drama techniques, warm-ups, (long form) improv formats, improvised show formats, tips for improv workshops and much much more. |
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The Inside Edge |
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The Inside Edge is a membership organization where intellectually-curious and spiritually-conscious people meet for
learning and fun! |
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Learn out Loud |
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Browse the Net's largest Catalog of educational audio books, podcasts, downloads, & free resources. |
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Meetings and Mixers |
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We simply post a FREE online calendar that publicizes events held by business and networking meeting hosts or groups, making it easy for you to find out about business related functions. Meetings and Mixers is NOT a group; we do NOT host any business or social meetings or networking events or mixers, nor are there any fees charged to you, the viewer. |
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National Association of Women Business Owners |
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National Association of Women Business Owners propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social, and political spheres of power worldwide. |
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Professional Speakers and Consultants, Inc. |
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Professional Speakers and Consultants, Inc. provide services that assist in the selection of speakers, trainers, and consultants. Professional Speakers and Consultants, Inc. represent some of the best speakers, trainers and consultants nationwide. When you become a client you have access to top-rated professional speakers, trainers and consultants with proven records of success for meeting and exceeding clients' expectations. |
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SCORE (OC Chapter) |
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SCORE is a nationwide nonprofit organization affiliated with the U.S. Small Business Administration dedicated to the formation, growth and success of small business. Over 10,500 successful executives located in 389 local chapters volunteer to provide free, confidential business counseling as a public service to all types of businesses, in all stages of development. SCORE is the best source of free and confidential small business advice to help you build your business—from idea to start-up to success. |
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Slideshare |
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What is SlideShare?
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar |
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Survey Monkey |
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SurveyMonkey is an online survey tool that enables people of all experience levels to create their own surveys quickly and easily |
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Toastmasters |
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A company's success also depends on communication. Employees face an endless exchange of ideas, messages, and information as they deal with one another and with customers day after day. How well they communicate can determine whether a company quickly grows into an industry leader or joins thousands of other businesses mired in mediocrity.
Toastmasters provides the tools that enable employees to become effective communicators and leaders all at a very low cost. |
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Toastmasters (Orange County Club Listing) |
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At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once a week for about an hour. |
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Triz Journal |
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TRIZ is a problem solving method based on logic and data, not intuition, which accelerates the project team's ability to solve these problems creatively. TRIZ also provides repeatability, predictability, and reliability due to its structure and algorithmic approach. "TRIZ" is the (Russian) acronym for the "Theory of Inventive Problem Solving." G.S. Altshuller and his colleagues in the former U.S.S.R. developed the method between 1946 and 1985. TRIZ is an international science of creativity that relies on the study of the patterns of problems and solutions, not on the spontaneous and intuitive creativity of individuals or groups. |
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Type Logic |
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Links to several different personality type websites. |
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ASTD OC Chapter Blog |
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From training fundamentals to discussions on informal learning, the ASTD-OC Chapter blog is written by ASTD-OC members, for members (current and prospective).
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BusinessCasualBlog.com |
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Learning x Business x Social Media.
By Mel Aclaro |
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Clark Aldrich's The Elements of Interactivity |
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Why you can't learn to ride a bicycle from Google. |
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The Connection |
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A collection of sales tips that can be useful for the Sales Trainer. |
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Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development |
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Corporate Learning blogger, strategist, consultant exploring the crossroads of technology and learning. |
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The Echo -- Your Weekly Presentation Tip |
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An archive of weekly presentation tips from everything from microphone usage (it amplifies the monotonality of your voice) to answering questions (don't just look at the questioner when responding -- others tune out). A collection of quick tips to enhancing your presentation skills. |
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eLearning -- Rapid eLearning blog |
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The Rapid E-Learning Blog shares practical tips and tricks to help you become a rapid elearning pro. |
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eLearning Technology |
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Winner of Edublog's "Best eLearning Blog" award for 2007. written by Dr. Tony Karrer. |
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HR.com blogs |
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Wide variety of blogs focussing from eLearning to Leadership. |
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Human Resource - Training and Development Blog |
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Powered by JobIng.com |
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Jay Cross -- Internet Time Group |
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Jay Cross is a champion of informal learning, web 2.0, and systems thinking. He puts breakthough business results ahead of business as usual. His calling is to change the world by helping people learn to learn. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn to be productive since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix thirty years ago. |
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Learning Circuits Blog |
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Learning Circuits Blog is affiliated with Learning Circuits Online Magazine, an ASTD publication. |
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Making change -- ideas for lively eLearning |
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In this blog, you'll find practical ideas that will help you create lively, powerful elearning for adults in the business world. |
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Organizational Engineering |
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Kolb has its limits. Most importantly, it is based on psychology—the science of the individual. Most instruction occurs in a classroom setting. This is the realm of sociology—the science of groups. Kolb provides no set way of getting from the individual to the group. This is a serious shortfall for those interested in large scale training efforts.
This research blog estimates the size of the shortfall. Data was collected from 185 actual adult classes involving 3,116 individuals in 5 different organizations. Classes were held in cities in the United States, Asia and Europe. While not random, the sample is broad enough to suggest a level of credibility. |
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Presentation Zen |
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Provides content and design principles for creating compelling presentations. Good for anyone creating elearning in PowerPoint. |
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Stephen's Web |
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Welcome to the home page of Stephen Downes. I work for the National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology, in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
I want and visualize and aspire toward a system of society and learning where each person is able to rise to his or her fullest potential without social or financial encumberance, where they may express themselves fully and without reservation through art, writing, athletics, invention, or even through their avocations or lifestyle. |
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T&D Blog (ASTD National) |
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Written by Paula Keter, editor of T+D magazine at ASTD (the American Society for Training and Development), the T+D Blog covers training, learning, business, and technology topics. It also includes links to relevant content from T+D (Training and Development) magazine, Learning Circuits, and other ASTD publications and services. |
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Training Day Blog |
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Will at Work by Will Thalheimer |
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Will Thalheimer is a learning-and-performance consultant and researcher who specializes in helping clients build more effective learning interventions. |
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Word of Mouth |
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Word of Mouth is the Articulate blog. |
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