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Found Time

You know, I have no particularly riveting articles to point anyone to today. I just have a thought about something called found time and how it relates to learning. Many of the students I teach tend to partition their professional time into two broad Read More...

YOU Publishing Implications

Following up on Time's Person of the Year , Elliott Masie considers implications in the learning space : The growth of MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Blogs and Wikis are at the center of this focus. As content is more easily created and disseminated Read More...

Connecting the Dots

To be competitive today, telecommunications service companies and equipment manufacturers must become true solutions providers that create value for their customers. Such providers understand all of the following: their products, the technology behind Read More...

Online Training As Marketing Channel

Hey, maybe we should follow Electron Hut's lead at Hill Associates: RadioShack Corp. thinks it has found a way to help consumers wondering how to edit digital photos or understand the difference between 1080i and 1080p high-def televisions: online Read More...

Security Guidelines Update - ISO 27000 series updates 17799

In October 2005 (yes, last year), the final version of a new ISO stanard was published. It was the start of an updated series of standards to support information security, and similar to the ISO 9000 QA series. It is still very much a work in progress. Read More...

Blogging Myself Out Of A Job?

Just got my Training Director's Forum newsletter and there was an interesting piece by Patti Shank : DO NETWORKS TRUMP TRAINING? YEP, SOMETIMES ... Knowledge- and information-era work increasingly involves … Tasks done alongside other tasks under complex Read More...

Understanding the Lifecycle of Corporate Training - Part I

If you are a manager or responsible for training in your company, how many of these sound familiar? "We should make it a job requirement that our staff take a minimum of "X" days of training per year." "We'll assess the success Read More...