When Office Technology Overwhelms, Get Organized The problem is that better overall productivity in an organization may not translate into increased productivity for an individual worker. Though one person may now be producing the previous results of three, she’s not being paid three times as much. That’s the whole point of companies using technology and other improvements: fewer people are now needed for the same results. But the workers who remain also tend to have much more responsibility. And they can’t just comfort themselves with the notion that their companies are more efficient than they used to be, because all of their competitors have the same new tools, and are using them to gain any advantage they can. Cranking out widgets is one thing; deciding which widgets need cranking first, and in what quantity, is quite another — especially if you are now charged with continually improving the system, or determining whether you should even be cranking out those widgets at all. As Dr. How do you find the space needed to do that?
donald kirkpatrick's learning evaluation theory - a training and learning measurement, evaluations and assessments model Donald L Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model - the four levels of learning evaluation also below - HRD performance evaluation guide Donald L Kirkpatrick, Professor Emeritus, University Of Wisconsin (where he achieved his BBA, MBA and PhD), first published his ideas in 1959, in a series of articles in the Journal of American Society of Training Directors. Donald Kirkpatrick was president of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) in 1975. Donald Kirkpatrick's 1994 book Evaluating Training Programs defined his originally published ideas of 1959, thereby further increasing awareness of them, so that his theory has now become arguably the most widely used and popular model for the evaluation of training and learning. More recently Don Kirkpatrick formed his own company, Kirkpatrick Partners, whose website provides information about their services and methods, etc. kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation model kirkpatrick's four levels of training evaluation see also
Talkwheel wants to reinvent the way we communicate online — Online Collaboration We have email, we have message boards, we have IM, but if they aren’t integrated with one another, our collaborative communications often fall short. Andy McLoughlin, cofounder of Huddle, recently discussed the limitations of email as a collaboration tool. Virtual teams are finding email streams hard to track and harder to scale. So where do we go from here? Rethink our collaborative communications I have to be honest; it has taken me a long time to “get” Talkwheel, and even though now I “get it,” it still doesn’t appeal to me. Talkwheel’s premise is that if you install and use the platform with your team, all of the conversations you have — both in real-time and asynchronously — will be captured and organized in a way that lets you visualize them. The wheel is meant to represent a round table, while the people in the group are represented by their icons around the wheel. Harness disparate conversations
3 fascinating (and pretty) portraits of personal life through data — Cloud Computing News Choosing a Screencasting Tool / Software Demo Creation Tool - indoition software user assistance When evaluating tools for screencasting, it’s important to understand that there are two general groups of tools: ▪The group of frame-based tools creates animations based on a few static images (“frames” or “slides”). A new frame or slide is only created when something new actually took place in the software (when a new window has opened, for example). The mouse cursor isn’t visible in the frames. Movements of the mouse and user inputs are simulated separately by the tool. ▪The group of full-motion-based tools records a “genuine” movie. Both groups have specific advantages and disadvantages. The big advantage of frame-based recordings, however, is that significantly fewer individual images are created. The trend goes toward combining the best of the two worlds: In the standard case, the recordings are frame-based, but when there’s a drag & drop action (or upon manual request), a full-motion-based recording begins.
How I Make My Living as an Online Writer (And How You Could Too) (Photo by Antonina, a fantastic London contemporary portrait photographer) The end of this month will mark three years since I left my day job. Since then, I’ve been supporting myself through writing. It’s my dream career – and I love being able to set my own hours, work from home, and have a huge amount of flexibility and freedom. I haven’t written much here on Aliventures about how exactly I actually make money. Maybe you suspect that there’s some amazing secret skill involved, or some sort of dark art. But there really isn’t. And … if you want to … there’s no reason why you can’t do exactly the same as me. In short, I have a bunch of different revenue streams that bring in cash every month. I’ll start with the ones that were easiest to get going with, and work up to the methods that take a bit more time… #1: Paid Writing for Blogs (2008 onwards) This is how I started out, in early 2008. My family and friends find it bizarre that I can get paid to write for blogs. Learn more: Whew!
How to Protect Your Intellectual Property Details Category: Business Security Created on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 09:50 Written by Tim Burton Hits: 434 It is crucial for all businesses to protect their intellectual property. Patents Inventions are crucial to the success of many businesses. If your business is one in which inventions are created on a continuing basis, it is very important that you have a clear understanding about who owns the inventions. Copyrights A copyright provides protection for original works of authorship, fixed in a tangible medium of expression including literary, musical, and dramatic works, as well as photographs, audio and visual recordings, software, and other intellectual works. nt of your copyright. Trademarks A trademark protects the name of your product by preventing other business from selling a product under the same name. Different types of intellectual properties and ways to protect them: inventions, manufacturing process and new and invented technical features of your products. About Author
How to invite others to join a LinkedIn group « Linked4Ministry Blog Are you a member of a LinkedIn group that you would like to invite others to join? You might be able to do it easily if the group manager allows member invitations. Here are the steps: 1. Go into the group you want to invite them to join 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. That doesn’t work if the group manager doesn’t allow members to invite others to join. The third solution (and the easiest for you) is tell them the group name and have them go to your profile, scroll through your groups, and click on the “+ Join” button to request membership. The last choice is to send their email address to the group manager and ask them to invite them. Why invite others to join groups? If you are not in the “Linked4Ministry” LinkedIn group and would like to be, go to and click on the “Join Group” button As always, thank you for reading Linked4Ministry. Blessings, Bill Bender Linked4Ministry & Anothen Life Ministries Like this: Like Loading...
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