Twitter for Trainers

Twitter is rapidly gaining a professional following, as it can be used to instantly share information about industry news, trends, and best practices with clients and colleagues. Twitter can also be used by workplace learning professionals in conducting training. This session will show you how to get started with Twitter and immediately begin using it to enhance training sessions, spread brand awareness, and stay on top of trending information. 

Learning Objectives:

•Promote your brand (whether as a professional consultant or as an expert in WLP) 

•Share knowledge with colleagues, clients, and learning participants 

•Improve relationships with colleagues, clients, and learning participants through meaningful communication on Twitter 

•Use Twitter as a research and news gathering tool to stay informed of industry trends. 

By Kella Price 

Dr. Kella B. Price has 13 years of experience in training and development, and talent management functions

Date: August 21, 2012

Time: 2:00 p.m. ET

http://webcasts.astd.org/webinar/463

The Bob Pike Group's 19th Annual Training and Learning Conference

As trainers, we don't follow maps to buried treasure and attaining what we seek is never so easy as finding an X that marks the spot, as Indiana Jones so memorably told his students in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. As a professor, Indy's long lectures were dusty, pedagogical, dry-showstoppers in the most negative sense. Only his rugged good looks kept female students awake.

Yet, the harrowing adventures through history with Indy have us willingly paying millions of dollars to watch him find that hidden treasure.

In the bold spirit of Harrison Ford, our 2012 annual Training and Learning Conference theme is Indiana Bob and the Kingdom of Crystal Clear Training. However, we have more in our educational arsenal than Indy ever had.

Participant-centered training-training where learners are interacting with the material often and not just listening-is one weapon against boredom which opens up a whole new educational adventure for trainer and learner which includes increased material retention and enthusiasm for the material while decreasing stress all around!

Attending this year's conference will reinforce material you may have gleaned in the past from our workshops while providing new information and techniques for creating interactive mlearning, converting classroom material to online formats effectively, integrating audience-response systems into the classroom and more from The Bob Pike Group trainers as well as guest faculty.

If you have never attended a workshop by The Bob Pike Group, come to our conference and experience the adrenaline rush of an amazing alternative to lecture-based training. At this year's conference, we are offering 38 different sessions and four certificate programs in Delivery, Design, Virtual Training and Facilitation. This conference also gives you an intimate opportunity to network with The Bob Pike Group training consultants outside of the classroom, a valuable opportunity no other conference offers.

Join us this fall and hear the Grail knight say, "You have chosen wisely."

http://www.bobpikegroup.com/pages.asp?pageid=35420

VIRTUAL TRAINING: BUILDING A GLOBAL TRAINING STRATEGY

        

Learn how to create customizable virtual learning environments that deliver interactive and engaging learning experiences. Enterprise organizations are expanding to support a global employee base. How can you develop effective learning environments delivered anywhere and anytime? Move training beyond learning management systems to reach learners at their point of need, by using blended methods to increase engagement and retention.

This webinar will also address how to move training beyond learning management systems to reach learners at their point of need, using blended methods that increase engagement and retention.

Learn how to

Enhance and extend your learning management systems.

Increase the reach and effectiveness of your training programs.

Create virtual training centers that best serve the needs of the organization and the learners.

Extend the life of training sessions and content

Speakers: Mark Bornstein and Tom Masotto of ON24

August 14, 2012 at 2 p.m. ET

http://webcasts.astd.org/webinar/449