Today, January 27, 2014 is Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD). The day was an initiative in 2010 by Jeremiah Owyang who wrote a now seven-year old article called The Four Tenets of the Community Manager. For L&D those four tenets look something like this: Advocate: Representing the learner (listening, monitoring, being active …
OK, so I should warn you here that this isn’t exactly an upbeat blog post. It’s loaded with words like “don’t.” It was…how shall I say…a challenging, invigorating, and humbling 2013. I transitioned from seven-ish years as an L&D analyst and researcher to an L&D practitioner/director. Here’s are some random …
I love attending industry conferences. The ability to spend a few days immersed in a topic, learning from experts and building new skills that I can use in my work is an opportunity I am always grateful to have. When I consider attending an event there are a number of …
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on my personal blog titled “How is Technology Redefining Training?“. In that post I shared some of the different ways technology is impacting the way people are trained and learn. That post focused on the technologies themselves. This post explores the concept …