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Designers Triangle: Choose 2

June 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Our customers must choose only two out of the three options. They can’t have it all. It’s a reality of life, and our customers must deal with it. Designers must deal with it.

1. GOOD & FAST = EXPENSIVE

Choose good and fast and I will postpone every other job, cancel ALL my appointments, make up an excuse for my wife just to get your job done, and stay up 25 hours a day to get your job done. But don’t expect this to be cheap.

2. GOOD & CHEAP = SLOW

Choose good and cheap and I will do a great job for a discounted price, but be patient till I have a free moment from paying clients.

3. FAST & CHEAP = INFERIOR

Choose fast and cheap and expect the inferior job delivered on time. You truly get what you pay for, and in our opinion this is the least favorable choice of the three. This could even be called Quick and Dirty. All I ask for is….

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Update on Twitter for Learning Professionals m

September 23, 2009 By 1 Comment

This is a re-posting from:

Follow all of these learning professionals here:

http://blog.elementk.com/element_k_blog/2009/09/update-on-twitter-for-learning-professionals-.html

Did you know that Element K is now on Twitter? We started using Twitter as an organization in late June, and you can follow us via the account “Element_K,” which can be found at http://www.twitter.com/Element_K. Through this account we are sharing links to interesting industry articles, blog postings, resources and more, as well as announcements about Element K webinars and other happenings.

Beyond that news, back in February I wrote a posting here at Element K Blog—“Twitter, Twitter, Tweet, Tweet”—intended to help people in the L&D industry get started with Twitter. Since then, of course, Twitter has exploded in popularity, brought on in part by celebrity and media attention, but also by very legitimate uses of Twitter, ranging from its role in political events, to its corporate use for marketing, customer service, and even sales, to its use by everyday working professionals as a powerful information gathering tool. It’s this last use-case that I still think is important for learning and development professionals to take seriously.

With that in mind, and because it comes up at every industry event I participate in, I wanted to provide another posting on this topic. Refer back to my earlier posting for a basic introduction and valuable links for more information—there are many more I could share that have come along since, but you only need so many “Twitter for newbies” articles to get you started.

More importantly, I wanted to provide an updated list of leaders in the L&D field that you might consider “following” on Twitter (most, but not all of whom, use Twitter regularly). For each, simply visit http://www.twitter.com/username, such as http://www.twitter.com/Element_K:

* Element_K
* Thomas Stone of Element K
* Anders Gronstedt
* Allison Rosset
* Bill Brandon
* B.J. Schone
* Brent Schlenker
* Cammy Bean
* Jane Hart
* Clive Shepherd
* Cushing Anderson
* Dave Ferguson
* David Mallon
* David Metcalf
* Stephen Downes
* David Wilkins
* Ellen Wagner
* Elliott Masie
* George Siemens
* Grant Ricketts
* David Holcombe
* Gary Woodill
* Heidi Fisk
* Harold Jarche
* Jane Bozarth
* Jay Cross
* Janet Clarey
* Jeanne Meister
* Josh Bersin
* Judy Brown
* Kevin D. Jones
* Karl Kapp
* Koreen Olbrish
* Lance Dublin
* Margaret Martinez
* Mike Cooke
* Tom King
* Mark Oehlert
* Clark Quinn
* Ray Jimenez
* Steve Howard
* Tony Karrer
* Tom Werner
* Will Thalheimer
* Michelle Lentz
* Travis Smith (<-ME, my addition) :)

No doubt I am missing several key people, but this is a good list to get you started (Not seeing someone you are looking for? Try the much larger directory of people in the L&D field who are using Twitter provided by Jane Hart’s excellent Connexions Directory.)

Consider also the following industry organizations and magazines that are on Twitter, as many provide valuable links and news as well:

* ASTD’s primary account
* ASTD Communications
* Bersin and Associates
* Brandon Hall Research
* Chief Learning Officer magazine
* TrainingIndustry.com
* Talent Management magazine

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Follow Learning and eLearning Professionals on Twitter

September 21, 2009 By 1 Comment

In light of Steve Boese HR Twitter List on TweepML, I thought I would make a learning/elearning twitter list that people can easily follow. Just as Steve said about HR Professionals, “Now to get any value at all from Twitter you need to find and follow ‘real’ HR professionals, recruiters, companies, bloggers, the kind of people you can learn from, engage with, and share your expertise with,” it is true with eLearning/Learning professionals.

Most, if not all eLearning professionals know about Jane’s Pick of the Day. Upon checking out her site for Twitter usernames, I discovered Jane’s 100 Featured Learning Professionals on Twitter (too bad I didn’t make that list!), but she had over 1,000 eLearning professionals on the rest of her website. So then I thought I would make my own Top eLearning/Learning Professionals. However, I also wanted to make her entire list available alphabetically below. How would you have liked to have approximately 250 people right off the bat when you started with Twitter?

My Top 250-ish eLearning/Learning Professionals

Since I am limited to only 100 people per list, I had to create 3 lists. Therefore, they are:

List A

List B

List C

Jane’s Learning Professionals

A B: List 1 List 2 C
D E F G
H I J K
L M List 1 List 2 N
O P Q-R S ““
T U-V W X-Z
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