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| Page 1 of 2 | Previous | Next | FROM THE COLEFACE FEBRUARY 15, 2013 So does Linkedin really work? I’m often asked the question does Linkedin really help or is it a waste of time? Like most social media it allows us to do things that we do in real life faster, more cheaply, with more reach and more publicly (or with less privacy, if you prefer). The answer I usually give involves a game I used to play as a student. Fast forward about ten years and I get introduced to Linkedin. learning | FROM THE COLEFACE APRIL 19, 2013 News is bad for you 'A really thought-provoking article by Ralf Dobelli (based on a longer essay) about information overload and in particular, news. To pick out some headlines, “news inhibits thinking, kills creativity, makes us passive and wastes time” So if Dobelli’s arguments are valid, why would anyone read or watch the news? Who would not want the reputation for being well-informed? | | | | | | | FROM THE COLEFACE NOVEMBER 30, 2012 Pitfalls in mobile learning #5: Although this is my fifth pitfall it’s probably the most fundamental – it’s just that I was hoping that this time round the e-learning industry had got its heads round the idea that emerging technologies are not solutions that we need to find problems for. Ask the right questions and your business has several problems that L&D can solve and a few of those solutions will involve mobile learning. | FROM THE COLEFACE JANUARY 24, 2013 What a fantastic widget! You may have noticed that more and more websites are allowing you to download appointments into your calendar e.g. www.nationalrail.co.uk lets you get the train time you have looked up straight into Outlook with just the click of a button. Though the technology for sending iCalendar files (.ics) can hand on heart claim that I had the same brilliant idea years ago before the technology got built. | FROM THE COLEFACE AUGUST 30, 2012 Tricks of the trade for instructional design One of the best things about working in instructional design is that you get to work with a variety of organisations and ask some of their smartest people about the tricks of their trade e.g. What does best practice look like? What are the common pitfalls? What are the early warning signs that something may not fit the standard process? Here’s a photo from a hotel I stayed in a few months back. | FROM THE COLEFACE JANUARY 29, 2012 What can L&D learn from marketing? For months I’ve been immersed in the zone where marketing and learning overlap – helping marketers become as confident and astute with digital media as they are with traditional media. Although Marketing and L&D departments tend to attract different types of people, in essence both roles involve communicating in a way that is designed to change people’s behaviour. And where two fields of expertise overlap there’s learning to be had… here’s 5 points to start with: . Brand is all important. Hence the brand needs to be nurtured and nurtured consistently. Focus on the benefits not the process. | | | | | | | | | -
FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2012 eLN Insights advent calendar After a weekend of getting advent calendars underway, once again it’s great to see that the eLearning Network has its own advent calendar up and running. Check it out at [link]. learning MORE >> -
FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013 Chain of fools 'I chose the title for this blogpost because I like the tune , not because I wanted to offend… Anyway, here’s a chain of events that’s been played out in hundreds of organisations. Often it has pretty depressing outcomes, but in case you get too despondent, let me assure you there is a happy ending, especially if you like flowcharts. Management have a problem that they don’t want to or can’t solve personally. So they give a budget to L&D. So they think “let’s make this into e-learning” They give the budget to an e-learning company. Sounds familiar? MORE >> -
FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013 Did you get potatoes in your stocking? Now that the festive season is becoming a distant memory and the kids are back at school, the magic fabric of Christmas has begun to fray a bit in the Cole household. And I admit, I’m to blame. Let me try to explain… It all began with me telling my children that if you’re good, Santa will fill your stocking with presents. was delighted that neither daughter had behaved in a way to deserve a potato and a happy Christmas was had by all. It was upon the return to school that the issue came into focus. Whereas for managers, people on your team could be underperforming daily. MORE >> -
FROM THE COLEFACE | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2012 Mobile pitfall #4: Are you really compatible? Many development tools claim that they produce learning content which will publish automatically to different models of mobile phone. So for the L&D manager commissioning mobile learning it’s just a game of finding out from IT which phones are on the standard list, cross-checking and then away you go…if only it was that simple…. Faced with the technical challenge of rendering content on different screen sizes and with different operating systems, developers have taken the pragmatic approach of covering off the main phones that are currently on the market. accountancy e-learning legal MORE >> -
FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012 Five key questions when buying e-learning For many years I’ve designed practical e-learning to help explain the tricky technical intricacies of CPD topics to accountants. thought I’d flip this around to invest some time demystifying the tricky technical intricacies of e-learning for accountants. The difference between good e-learning and bad e-learning often comes down to decisions made early in the purchasing process so this means knowing what questions to ask (and what the replies really mean). To download the white paper go to [link]. accountancy e-learning MORE >>
- 10 top tips for using audio in e-learning FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
- Bad science masquerading as fact FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2007
- Balancing the tangible with the intangible in e-learning FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2007
- Mergers a-go-go FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2007
- Did the e-learning revolution flounder because the trainers carved it up? FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2007
- Why buying e-learning is like buying a fitted kitchen FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007
- Digital native or digital immigrant? FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2007
- E&Y offshores tax compliance: what does this mean to you? FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2007
- Testing your integrity FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2007
- In search of the perfect authoring tool FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2007
- Judging the e-learning awards FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2007
- More e-learning benchmarking, vicar? FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
- Tipping point at the Northern Rock FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
- Second Life and e-learning FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
- Brand new theory: “The committee member life cycle” FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007
- Having an adult to adult conversation FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007
- RateMyTeachers – coming to you soon? FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2007
- Retention – a KPI worth retaining? FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2007
- Legal Services Act – the end of the world? FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2007
- Companies Act – time for some more “tick and bash”? FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2007
- Monkeys typing? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2007
- Bored of management speak? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2007
- Free e-learning: The Top 10 barriers to adoption FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2007
- Transactional analysis and time management FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
- Bluff your way in management books FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007
- e-learning fails to walk the talk? FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2007
- Diversity is…err, too diverse? FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2007
- Is CPD a complete waste of time? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2007
- Happy 2008 FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2008
- Harvard study? Man down pub, more like… FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2008
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- How was LT for you? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2008
- Is it all about the technology? FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
- Making it up as you go along FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008
- Time to retire Kirkpatrick? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008
- Beware of the buyer FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 2008
- Advanced personal learning? Can we get solar power instead? FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2008
- Wii Fit and compliance e-learning FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008
- Web 2.0 and its impact on learning FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008
- New shiny website FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008
- What Web 2.0 will do for you FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008
- e-learning best practice FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
- The cost of going blended? FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2008
- TJ no longer has to be nice about e-learning FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008
- Fun & games in e-learning? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2008
- Learning styles – where’s the science? FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008
- Live e-learning at the ELN FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
- 3rd sexiest knee captured on film FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2008
- Don’t waste your budget on a magic bullet FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008
- 9 ways to design better conferences FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2008
- Managing for strengths at TDN FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2008
- Mind the gap: culture vs. good practice FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008
- Are urban myths good enough? FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008
- Recognising strengths FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
- Best media of 2008 FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2008
- Aghast of Haywards Heath FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009
- Making your events better @ IofAM FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009
- 2009: the year of bad measurement? FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009
- This blog is ENTP FROM THE COLEFACE | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2009
- Redtray acquires Academy Internet FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009
- Calling all you customer service trainers? FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2009
- Pedantic professional arguers not best for leading people businesses shocker! FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2009
- Formalising the informal? FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
- What’s happened to this blog? FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009
- Viv @ Memnet on 16 July FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009
- Content? or malcontent? FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009
- Sustaining a learning community: top down or bottom up? FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2009
- e-learning on the up in professional services FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2009
- Instructions….ggrrr FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2009
- What every L&D professional needs to know about e-learning FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
- Line managers – gotta love them FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
- 21st century Learning Management Systems FROM THE COLEFACE | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009
- Say “cheese” for social networking FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2009
- Bad Science FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2009
- Meta learning @ TDN 4 Dec FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
- How professionals learn FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
- Talking about my generation…effect FROM THE COLEFACE | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2009
- Once, twice, one thousand times a knowledge worker FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2009
- Social media – big in 2010 for L&D…or not FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010
- Happy sheets and comfort zones FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010
- Why I blog, in a Pechu Kucha style FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010
- 5 myths of time management reprised FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010
- 12 tips for on-line facilitating glory FROM THE COLEFACE | FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010
- e-learning gets it own advent calendar FROM THE COLEFACE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2010
- Tips on e-learning questions FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010
- ELN insights blog FROM THE COLEFACE | SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2011
- Professional Services e-learning Forum meeting 14 March FROM THE COLEFACE | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012
- What is social learning? FROM THE COLEFACE | TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012
- 5 free technology tools for trainers to enhance face to face training FROM THE COLEFACE | MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012
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