I alwasy thought of YouTube primarily as a place where quirky (often involving dogs or kids) and occasionally informative videos could be viewed (and, of course, posted) but I never gave it serious consideration as a tool for supporting performance. That is, until a few days ago.
I am doing pre-work for a workshop about understanding [...]

Different opinions make the world go around. Not a day after finishing Saul Carliner’s article suggesting that measuring the ROI of training is largely a futile effort and writing about it here, I picked up my June, 2009 issue of CLO magazine and read a couple of articles expressing a generally opposite view of the issue.
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Saul Carliner wrote a thought provoking article in the June, 2009  Training magazine about the problems associated with attempting to measure ROI (return on investment) in training. Carliner points out, I think rightly, that measuring ROI at a course level is futile for a number of reasons. The one I found most interesting is simply that [...]

I recently invested an hour and a half of my time watching a video of the announcement of Google Wave to developers at the Google IO Conference, and I have to say it was one of the best uses of my time in recent memory. When it debuts later this year, Google Wave will truly be [...]

I spent some time today playing with WolframAlpha, a relatively new option for searching the vast knowledge base that is the Internet. Rather than offer up links to various sites that may contain relevant information like Google or other mainstream search engines, WolframAlpha makes intelligent inferences about what you want to know and offers additional [...]

Related to my earlier post about using Twitter as a workgroup collaboration tool, enterprise solutions are also emerging, tailored to the needs of a corporate environment. Yammer is one example. With much of the look and feel as well as the functionality of Twitter, it offers a simple way for companies (or any workgroup for [...]

By now, nearly every one knows something about Twitter, even if they aren’t using it themselves. The uses of Twitter are evolving rapidly and in a year, we may be seeing uses no one has yet dreamed of. But even now, uses are emerging that can benefit those of us concerned with human performance beyond [...]

I ran across an interesting article by Greg Williams in Chief Learning Officer Magazine recently that I found thought provoking. Most of us know about portfolios in the context of the artistic realm, but their use has been infrequent in the world of corporate training and development. Williams points out that portfolios can have value [...]