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MAY 8, 2011

In my opinion, it’s not that providing on-demand learning and performance solutions is a new idea. It has been around for all of my 15+ years as an instructional designer and training developer, and goes back much further than that. I hope you’ll share yours with us as well.

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MARCH 22, 2011

View the video below to get an idea of how important on-floor communication between teammates is in basketball. From the minute you start playing basketball, coaches will never stop demanding communication on the court. The same should be demanded at work. Properly d.

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MAY 4, 2011

Cammy Bean’s latest blog post provides many ideas as well as real-life examples for Using Social Media for Learning. Wikis are an easy place to start the promotion of collaborative learning spaces, and clients seem to be willing and able to accept this informal tool into their everyday lives. However, wikis are only the tip of the iceberg.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

The best aspects of the observed performances are emulated, and new ideas and innovations added. Ideas spawn from earlier ideas, bouncing from person to person and being reshaped as they go. As a result, the collective performance level of the group quickly skyrockets. Innovation has always been a group activity. Properly d.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Nothing new, really, but it reinforced the idea that effective training can only be accomplished by doing , not being told. Simple: as we all have, I drove someone home to a place I was unfamiliar with, and realized after dropping him off that I didn’t have the slightest clue how I had got there. So what did this teach me about learning?

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APRIL 23, 2011

This can be especially true in the training field, where the training department’s ideas of success can be vastly different from a harried team manager who wants to minimize lost productivity due to excessive training. Since you may have only one immediate contact, often within the training department, it’s a good idea to dig deeper.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Properly d. 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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MAY 18, 2011

The potential of such an idea is enormous, and its application is certainly not limited to the military arena. It’s those intersections where you see creativity occurring. The advantage of online crowd-sourcing is obvious: you have many more intersections and many more diverse backgrounds.” Properly d.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS eLearning Review: A Module for the National Security Arena by Jim on October 15, 2010 in Reviews , eLearning Most of the eLearning modules we design here at Dashe & Thomson are aimed at the corporate audience.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer. Properly d.

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APRIL 6, 2011

Properly d. 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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MARCH 7, 2011

People pay way more attention to ideas and comments that are “out there,” and therefore memorable, than to those that are staid and commonplace, and therefore boring. In about a week, he has amassed more than 2 million followers on Twitter, and his catch phrases (“ winning ,” “ tiger blood ,” etc.) What’s the cause of all this attention?

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MARCH 25, 2011

Properly d. 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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JANUARY 14, 2011

Here are some ideas for taking care of your SMEs. Clients will often ask what I see as the biggest risk or roadblock to end-user readiness. My answer is almost always SME availability; we simply cannot do our jobs without them. Properly d.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Here are some ideas for taking care of your SMEs. Clients will often ask what I see as the biggest risk or roadblock to end-user readiness. My answer is almost always SME availability; we simply cannot do our jobs without them. Properly d.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). There are whiteboard apps you can add for synchronous learning. There’s also an app that lets you develop and exhibit eCourses and track the learning experience in real-time.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Terrence talks of the promise Facebook shows as a tool for developing training, specifically in its role as an LMS (Learning Management System). There are whiteboard apps you can add for synchronous learning. There’s also an app that lets you develop and exhibit eCourses and track the learning experience in real-time.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Properly d. 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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MARCH 8, 2011

The gist of it was that even though we have an enormous amount of tools available to enable social learning across far reaching boundaries, the self-study type of eLearning seen in so many workplaces today can potentially cut learners off from any type of social interaction during the course of the learning. I’d love to hear yours.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Companies like Hubspot (love them, by the way) that market themselves as “social media” or “inbound marketing” experts do have some great ideas on how to leverage social tools to increase traffic, sales leads, etc. But, in the end, they’re just ideas. Properly d.

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MAY 11, 2011

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

Because this person had worked in training and development for a large mortgage company for many years and now works as a leadership development contractor, I thought she would be a great person with which to talk shop and brainstorm social learning ideas. Properly d.

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MARCH 1, 2011

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Properly d. 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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MARCH 11, 2011

by Jolene on March 11, 2011 in Gaming Theory , Instructional Design , Training Development , eLearning Over the last year or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to incorporate games into eLearning instructional design projects. What I hadn’t stopped to fully consider is why I would do that. Properly d.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Economists call this the 80/20 Principle or the Pareto Principle , which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the work will be done by 20 percent of the participants. Instead of relying on this collective to share ideas organically, however, try pushing a bit. Properly d.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

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MARCH 2, 2011

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Properly d. 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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MARCH 27, 2011

Organizations such as PACT, ASTD, MNISPI, and the Digital Learning Forum get my creative juices going to generate new ideas and synergies. In my role as Vice President of Client and Staffing Services, I know that training may not always be the answer. Properly d.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Properly d. 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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MARCH 13, 2011

Twitter is where these extraordinary few reside, so leverage the few to learn and to exchange ideas and information. TweetDeck – I recently read an article stating that if you aren’t salaried by a big company to generate brand new ideas, it’s a waste of your time to do so. It’s a great way to stay current on industry happenings.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Properly d. 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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