by Marc Rosenberg
Business ethics apply to customers as well as to vendors. Here’s a look on the other side of the fence.
by Bill Brandon
Success in business is the result of paying attention to and understanding the emotional and personal dimensions of our workplaces. This goes doubly for consulting, whether as an internal agent of change or an external advisor. Peter Block shows you how to get there.
by Mary Arnold
All projects have constraints, and it is important that the project team and the client are on the same page about which one is most important. It can be painful to discover, too late, that the client’s expectations were different from the team’s. This week’s column offers a simple process that will protect you from that pain.
by Elizabeth St. Germain
What really matters in e-Learning is the final product. Are your products music to the learners’ ears? Or are they just a lot of noise? Do they deliver what they promised? Here are some key tips to make your e-Learning sing!
by Bill Brandon
In organizations that use more than one authoring tool, managing review of e-Learning projects can be a real challenge. Here is a just-released Web-based tool that supports collaborative review of courses authored in Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, and ProForm.
by Jeff Batt
Collaborative authoring features in Rapid Intake Unison make it possible for several developers to work on a course at the same time. These features include automatic saving of changes, a version history that supports rolling back to earlier versions, the ability to lock changes, and developer chat. Tips about these and more are in this article!
by Ellen Behrens
When you begin putting together a curriculum, do you get a question back for every question you ask, rather than the recommendations and suggestions you hope to hear? Do you have trouble getting people to listen to your proposals — the very people you are trying to help? Developing a true strategy that offers value may solve these and many other problems. Here’s how to create one.
by Anne Derryberry
Collaboration is hot, and e-Learning developers can always use help. Here are three new online tools and services that you may find fit your needs (and your budget): Google Wave, Freebase, and Amazon Mechanical Turk. They are well worth checking out!
by Megan Bell, Larissa Biggers
Some e-Learning projects are more challenging than others. This article traces such a project. The target audience was nursing instructors in higher education. Production involved making HD video in a hospital. The authors cover the project from inception to delivery, including content development, production processes, and lessons learned. If you want to make educational video, read this article!
by Bill Brandon
Google Wave has generated much discussion among educators and trainers in the last five months, as the potential of this communication platform has begun to be known. Learn what the status of Wave is, where its current strengths and weaknesses are, and how it may be useful in the design, development, delivery, and management of e-Learning.

