BozarthZone

Notes from Jane Bozarth's BozarthZone, with special interest in Communities of Practice, capturing tacit knowledge, accessibility and inclusion, and creating effective learning experiences, along with general thoughts about Learning & Development. Practical, human-centered, slightly contrarian about tech hype, and deeply grounded in how work actually happens.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

"Social Media for Trainers" Blog Book Tour Starts Thursday!

The Social Media for Trainers blog book tour begins this Thursday, September 2, with a kickoff post from the Centre for Learning and Perfo...

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Microblogging in the Enterprise: Tips

Twitter not quite right for your organization? This came up in #lrnchat last week, and in a Twitter discussion yesterday. Here are tips most...

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

What's Your Objective?

[Note: This originally ran on Training Magazine’s former “Training Day” blog on 2/12/2010] Discussion of objectives in training could be ...

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Updates to "Social Media for Trainers"

Many thanks to those who have preordered Social Media for Trainers or purchased it for Kindle. A challenge with writing a book about techn...

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Look Inside "Social Media for Trainers"

Amazon has just added the "look inside" feature for Social Media for Trainers so be sure to go take a look! I'm offering dail...

Friday, July 09, 2010

Book Chat on Learning-in-Practice: Join us!

Some Twitter folks are getting together to discuss "how people learn" as evidenced in King's On Writin g and Gawande's Com...

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Getting Management Commitment to Training

"One of the frustrations in Learning & Development is the reality of what happens when the worker returns to the job. A thousand th...

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Review: Trainer's Handbook

A look at the 2nd edition of Karen Lawson's Trainers Handbook on the new Training Book Reviews blog sponsored by HRDQ .

Friday, May 28, 2010

Consider Your "Loose" Connections This Memorial Day

Monday is the US Memorial Day holiday, set aside for remembering those who gave their lives in military service. For me it has additional me...

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Review: Figuring Things Out

Revisiting Zemke & Kramlinger's wonderful Figuring Things Out , a must for any trainer's shelf--if you can find it. On the new T...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Travels With My Kindle

My husband and I spend 2 weeks in the Caribbean every spring, and while I don't unplug completely I do spend the bulk of my time unwindi...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

And ADDIE wasn't even there to see it...

There's been lot of talk in Twitterland lately about the usefulness of the ADDIE process model often used in instructional design (much ...

Monday, March 01, 2010

How the Snake Got Its Oil

There's been a flurry of activity this week on the topic of snake oil: First Harold Jarche said : "“As soon as the software vendors...

Saturday, February 20, 2010

RIP Training Magazine

I apologize for the length of this, but eulogies bring out the wordiness in me. Tuesday morning brought the sad, but not surprising, news th...

Monday, January 18, 2010

Learning in 3D blog book tour stop

Welcome to today's stop on the Learning in 3D blog book tour . Does the passage below sound familiar? Substitute “VIE” with any other ...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

OMG! Control freak much?

I've just finished up the first draft of my latest book, Social Media for Trainers , due out from Pfeiffer in summer 2010. It's pret...

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Trainer's Evaluation of Workshop

Trainers: My "Instructional Design for the Real World" online session yesterday, hosted by Ray Jimenez and ASTD-Los Angeles, inclu...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Wherefore Failure?

Malcolm Gladwell's new collection of essays, What the Dog Saw , includes a piece on the Challenger explosion. Essentially, he asserts, m...

Monday, November 09, 2009

Social Media in Training

I keep seeing lots of "tips for using social media tools in training" but not many concrete examples. Certainly the bigger goal is...

Sunday, November 01, 2009

What I learn from #lrnchat

Every Thursday evening there's a great fun live gathering on Twitter called #lrnchat. It's a fast free-for-all organized around a th...

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Jane Bozarth: Author, "Show Your Work: The Payoffs and How-Tos of Working Out Loud","Social Media for Trainers" Also, "Better than Bullet Points", and "From Analysis to Evaluation"

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