My friend and mentor Thomas Toth’s new book Technology for Trainers arrived in my mailbox today.  I already had the chance to read it and I really enjoyed it.  Maybe I’m a little bit of a geek but I think building eLearning is fun and Thomas’ book is full of best practices for doing just that.  Thomas…
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I’ve been stumbling on some really interesting tools from the blogs and Tweets of L&D people that I follow. Â Some I’ve tried and some I haven’t. Â I thought it would be cool to start a page to keep track of them all. Â I have more that I’ve been bookmarking – more to come. Name Date…
Read More The company I work for has IBM Connections.  If you’re not familiar with it, I cut and pasted a description from Wikipedia below: IBM Connections is a Web 2.0 enterprise social software application developed by IBM. The goal of IBM Connections is to empower companies to be more innovative and help them execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of co-workers, partners and…
Read More A coworker of mine recently watched the replay of Catherine Lombardozzi’s presentation from ATD ICE and suggested that I do the same. Â The session was titled Fostering a Learning Culture: Six Strategies for Enabling People to Drive their Own Culture. Â I was pleasantly surprised by the topic because I only caught the first part of…
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Maybe a better title for this post is MOOCs vs. Lynda.com.  In the past 6 months I completed Kevin Werbach’s MOOC on Coursera and Karl Kapp’s course on Lynda.com both on gamification.  I really enjoy gamificaiton because I think it makes learning fun when used properly.  I read both Werbach’s For the Win: How Game Thinking…
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