Almost 18 years ago David Holcombe and Heidi Fisk looked at the learning and development industry and noticed a hole. The industry was increasingly shifting towards technology-based learning solutions. Computer-based training and education had passed a tipping point and were rapidly becoming mainstream in their use. However, there wasn’t a …
Last month Marc Rosenberg wrote his 100th Marc My Words Column for Learning Solutions. It marks the end of an amazing run lasting almost a decade; one full of great insights and learning. I’m glad to know that all of his articles are available for people in our field to …
Each Thursday between now and DevLearn, I will be sharing a small peek behind the scenes of this year’s conference. When I sit back and look at how technology is changing the world and our place in it, it’s both amazing and terrifying. Consider the smartphone you likely have with …
Each Thursday between now and DevLearn, I will be sharing a small peek behind the scenes of this year’s conference. DevLearn is more than just a conference; it’s a conversation that shapes the future of our industry. That’s actually one of the core principles our team uses when we’re building …
It’s that time again – conference proposal review season! If you’re curious about what exactly goes in to our conference building process, you may want to check out our series of behind the scenes TWIST posts in which we share the full journey, start to finish, of how we craft the program …
In the previous posts in this series you’ve explored the entire main conference session programming process. It starts with the Program Team (me, Mark Britz, and David Kelly) evaluating all the proposals individually, continues with us comparing and contrasting our evaluations with each other, and then finishes with us using the strongest sessions to build the final program. But …
This post is the third in a series of posts that look behind the scenes at how we build a conference program. In the first two posts in this series, Bianca Woods looked at the criteria we use when evaluating a session proposal. In the second post, Mark Britz looked …
When I talk about the eLearning Guild Community, the phrase I always use is “Together we are better”. This simple 4-word phrase describes the WHY of our community. It’s about people with a common bond coming together for a greater good. This is true in the context of our goals as …
In our first look at the conference programming process Bianca shared our individual review process. In this next post I’ll provide you a closer look at how we go about collaboratively selecting sessions for the conference. After we have individually gone through each of the proposals and entered either a Yes, …
If you’ve ever proposed to speak at a conference then you’re pretty familiar with your end of the process: you fill out a proposal form describing the session you’d like to present, submit the form, wait for what might feel like a weirdly long period of time, and then hear …