Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 19, 2011

The number one most asked question by social media marketers was, “How do I measure the effect of social media marketing on my business?” Trent Batson wrote a great piece on technology adoption in the classroom a couple weeks ago entitled Faculty ‘Buy in’ – to What? The webinar hosts didn’t have an answer. They both do great work.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 11, 2011

These dynamics have been around for thousands of years, and have been written about extensively for decades – like in this 1973 article by Mark Granvotter in the American Journal of Sociology, The Strength of Weak Ties. Ive been looking for some ammo t. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

Or you can challenge yourself and your client, allow them to see past what they’re used to and consider an approach that would produce results more in line with their business objectives. This article by Tom Kuhlman provides some great tips on helping your client see training differently. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

In her article* 10 Brainpowered Wonders in the King’s Speech , Dr. Ellen Weber nicely summarizes a few of the lessons this movie teaches us about learning. This movie should be required viewing for anyone in the learning industry – it demonstrates all the ingredients for effective learning. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

From a recent article at Knowledge@Wharton called Technology and Teaching: Flipping the Model : Khan stumbled upon the idea for his free web-based academy while trying to teach math to cousins in New Orleans. Quickly, the videos gained an online following, grew like wildfire, and today Khan Academy has delivered more than 42 million lessons.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Ive been looking for some ammo t. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Matt Blum at GeekDad wrote an article this week called Why Watson’s Jeopardy Win is Mostly Meaningless saying: IBM’s supercomputer software Watson’s win on the game show Jeopardy! The fact that a computer can win a trivia contest that relies on fast reflexes and fast information retrieval doesn’t seem much like news to me.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 7, 2011

In an aptly named article, “ Why Charlie Sheen Should be Your Social Media Manager ,” Osas Obaiza at iMedia Connection brings up an interesting example of how this plays in the external marketing world: Take a look at the McDonald’s Twitter account, it boasts at paltry 90,925 following. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. Business confidence is still extremely low. Businesses are increasingly organizing around shorter-term projects. And according to another story from the New York Times , that trend is expected to continue.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Using Wikis to Stop Brain Drain by Jolene on February 23, 2010 in Wikis In his December Training Magazine article Training in a Web 2.0 Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Ive been looking for some ammo t. Properly d.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I have read a couple of articles--and one book--saying that we will need to start proving that our training is effective by providing after-the-class assessment. Kirkpatrick and Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick, published in 2010, makes this case. Have they adopted new behaviors? Training on Trial , by Jim D.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

In his recent Wired article (March 2011) “Better Living Through Games,” Clive Thompson describes how editors at UK’s Guardian newspaper created a web app videogame to involve the public in analyzing millions of pounds’ worth of bogus personal expenses filed by British politicians. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis , describes how Intellipedia was used to create an article about how Iraqi insurgents were using chlorine in improvised explosive devices: They developed it in a couple of days interacting in Intellipedia … No bureaucracy, no mother-may-I, no convening meetings.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I Love To Learn While reading the article, specifically the excerpt above, I was blown away by how simple yet powerful an idea Best Buy was implementing. John states: “We’re committed to providing flexible, accessible, and customized learning opportunities. Going forward, our retail associates can learn where, when and how they choose.”

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Although Twitter has a relatively small user base (approximately 200 million users compared to Facebook’s 600 million), these are your early adopters, your super-users, your friends that seem to know a little about everything and your friends that know absolutely everybody. Twitter is a marketer’s dream. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 12, 2011

Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet. IOL is facilitated through the use of tools like Yammer that connect coworkers across the globe. ASL, by definition, can happen anytime, anywhere. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. Properly d.

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Unboxed

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The burden of learning now shifts to businesses, not academia. Learning must build on traditional avenues of knowledge acquisition such as articles and courses and incorporate more on-the-job skill building and knowledge-sharing among experts. Businesses must build skill agility into their workforce to remain competitive.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 7, 2011

That’s why this article from Terrence Wing is so intriguing. Tweets Follow @dashethomson on Twitter Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.

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WhatFix

MARCH 31, 2023

With the growing importance of L&D departments in digital transformation initiatives, there is a need for L&D teams to demonstrate how effective each training program is and how it contributes to business outcomes and objectives. All this can be done by implementing a digital adoption platform.

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Lambda Solutions

JUNE 14, 2020

This article is designed to be your A-to-Z guide to learning analytics. As a refresher , here is an article on What is Learning Analytics ?). The widespread adoption of digital technology has created an explosion of data. For some companies, learning analytics has a ripple effect throughout the business. Introduction.

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Training Industry

JULY 7, 2015

One of the challenges that training professionals continue to face is how to align their learning programs with business objectives. contributed an article to the Association for Talent Management where she described this linkage as the underlying reason that companies keep trainers on the payroll.

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Training Industry

JULY 7, 2015

One of the challenges that training professionals continue to face is how to align their learning programs with business objectives. contributed an article to the Association for Talent Management where she described this linkage as the underlying reason that companies keep trainers on the payroll.

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Convergence Training

JULY 9, 2020

In this article, we’ll share some tips for improving your industrial training program. Industrial Training Tips for More Productive Employees & Better Business Performance. Tip 2: Understand Your Organization’s Business Goals. Organizations don’t hire and pay trainers for fun.

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CrossKnowledge

JULY 13, 2020

Building on the groundwork that was established in the 1950s with Bloom and Kirkpatrick, other methods were developed in the 1990s to objectively evaluate how the implementation of training programs impact companies. Did you like this article?

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Petra Mayer

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It became widely adopted in the 1990s. It involves a set of rules for xAPI which narrow the ‘umbrella’ or extensive specification to enhance its adoption rate in the industry. Kirkpatrick Model. The Kirkpatrick model is a standard used for evaluating the results of the training programs. Agile Learning.

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Adobe Captivate

MARCH 7, 2018

In this article, I outline a popular ROI methodology (using Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation), and 5 tips that you can use to maximize ROI in corporate training. Level 4: Business Impact. As an extension to the exercise for Level 2 and 3, we now need to identify how will the desired business impact be measured.

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Spark Your Interest

JANUARY 11, 2022

You have probably heard of the Kirkpatrick method of training evaluations. NPS measures a consumer’s experience and helps predict your business growth. Imagine you sell project management software to other businesses. Your boss – you want to prove that investing in education is a good thing for the business.

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CLO Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Over the past decade or so, learning professionals have been publishing articles like: . “ In an Insider Higher Ed article, “ Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight ,” employers were looking to hire “for a new role, and they didn’t want to call it an instructional designer.”. Is Instructional Design Thriving or Dying? ” .

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

A truly excellent article by Matt Thompson, titled An Antidote for Web Overload , addresses the reasons behind Wikipedia’s increasing replacement of traditional news sites as the go-to source for breaking news items. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Ive been looking for some ammo t. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff!

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Thank you so much.

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Acorn Labs

APRIL 12, 2023

link] This article is a transcript of a podcast first published in November 2022. I think people are people, no matter what industry or business you're in, you know, I tell people don't—I don't consider myself a learning and development or talent management leader, I consider myself a business executive.

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Acorn Labs

MARCH 31, 2023

link] This article is a transcript of a podcast first published in November 2022. I think people are people, no matter what industry or business you're in, you know, I tell people don't—I don't consider myself a learning and development or talent management leader, I consider myself a business executive.

Business 52

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Learning and the Role of Mobile Devices → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Thank you so much.

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Dashe & Thomson

AUGUST 3, 2012

To see what I mean, let’s take a look at the four levels of the Kirkpatrick method: Now think of your favorite video-game. So did Skyrim -as-training score well on the Kirkpatrick model? The Kirkpatrick level that may or may not be measurable simply through playing a game comes at Level 4. So we can check off Level 3, as well.

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