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Duke Magazine-Brave New World by Jacob Dagger-September/October 2008
... librarians—conduct research, but also how they communicate, he believes the old model of a desk staffed by highly trained ... through stacks of hard-bound indexes, which would in turn point to reference books and journal articles kept in library ... with a Google search," observed W. Lee Hisle, a Connecticut College librarian, in a 2005 article in The Chronicle ... , a searchable archive of full-text scholarly articles that is similar to, if less comprehensive than, many of the ...
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Seed Company Finds Growth with Online Learning
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Golden Harvest Seeds , Inc. was frustrated with its sales-training ... training. The training has contributed to setting records in new customer acquisitions and new dealer recruitments. In fact, in the first full year of the online training, the company's revenue jumped 14% or about $30 million. Check out the article for yourself... Firms Go Online to Train Employees The article also discusses how small business are using e-learning. The image below describing how small business use different training delivery methods accompanies the article ...
Kapp Notes
- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Professional Networking: Just for Fun or Part of Your Job Or Combination? Tips for managing multi-memberships in social networks?
... technology training
technorati
training ... there. I is tough in this day in age to not read articles about "How GREAT ______ is" and then immediately join without ... Mashable.com article about social media friends.
Louis Gray also linked to that post in a recent post with ...
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Work Literacy 2.0
... different today. AND his 11 year old son edited the wikipedia article on the CA Gold Rush.) Today - many of us start ... , Podcasts - steady drip These are small, tactical adoptions. We have an interesting opportunity. - We have been trained to ...
In the Middle of the Curve
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008 -
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Social network ROI? Oh heck, I don't know. What's the value of a relationship?
... training . Those in the learning profession tend to speak of the fourth level as some elusive holy grail for training ... impact of an investment in training .
It's challenging. For example, if you spend a lot of money training all your employees and then revenue subsequently spikes, can you really say it was due to the training? Or, would it be more ... for determining social network ROI and a Level 4 training evaluation. And, with it, my thought to explore this a little ... do you think? Any similarities?
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Business Casual
- Wednesday, November 12, 2008 -
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Carrying off the prizes
... it's easy to get cynical about these things, I thought I'd revisit an article I wrote on the subject back in 2004, but ... events for just about twenty years now, it seems fitting to reflect on what they have contributed to the training industry ... peers in other training departments or with other providers? Isn’t the very purpose of training to foster collaboration rather than fuel competition? And anyway, how can anyone judge whether one training project or programme is any ... of the combatants. We do training no favours by trying to isolate it from the competitive world for which it is ...
Clive on Learning
- Tuesday, November 11, 2008 -
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Here's a one-stop shop that aggregates the best of topics about learning.
... training resource sites to visit on the web.
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Business Casual
- Friday, November 7, 2008 -
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Some Facts about Immersive Learning Worlds
... Straditionalâ¬ý business press. The May 2008 issue of the Harvard Business Review ran an article titled Leadership's ... actual equipment. Several pharmaceutical firms use virtual worlds of one form or another for training and social ...
Kapp Notes
- Tuesday, November 4, 2008 -
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