This post has taken an interesting turn. My original thought was to feature individuals, as well as big brands in this set of examples. That turns out to be an entirely different post, as few big brands have actually “branded” their Twitter backgrounds. Valuable no cost space to show their unique brand, being wasted. Why? Maybe it was over looked as they hashed out their ROI justifications.
What the big brands have missed, the savvy business professionals have not. What do I mean? Take a look at these creative backgrounds, not only shows their brand, but also contains useful information in [...]
December 1st, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Branding, photoshop, Social Media, twitter, twitter background
Posted in Branding, Featured, Social Media, Training & Development, twitter | 15 Comments »
When I first got involved in corporate training in the mid-1980’s, content development was King. Big binders were packed with tons of text on every page (often double-sided!) with very little white space. Such binders were housed what I like to refer to as the “Black Page Principle” because there was so much ink on every page in the training manuals. It seemed like many of these old school instructional designers were getting “paid by the pound” for training materials, not by usable content. These binders were placed on office shelves, where they usually remained unopened.
Through the 1990’s I noticed [...]
August 19th, 2008, Author: karlnewman
Tags: Corporate Training, instructional design, Powerpoint
Posted in Corporate Training, Training & Development | 2 Comments »
This is a very interesting video, “Learning to Change – Changing to Learn”. It was created by Pearson Education, Inc. is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools.
It begins with this statement:
“The US Department of Commerce ranked 55 industry sectors on their level of IT intensiveness. Education ranked number 55, just below coal mining.”
Please watch, consider and let me know your thoughts, in both school & business education changes.
We encourage you to share, any of our posts that you find interesting or useful. Please feel free to repost portions or the entire post, [...]
July 15th, 2008, Author: Tawny Press
Tags: Education, eLearning, Networking
Posted in Education, Technology, Training & Development | No Comments »
