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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happy Friday! I’m heading home from DevLearn this morning and as always it was energizing to spend time in-person with my tribe of fellow learning pros. If you’re curious about any of the workshops or sessions I did you can get all the relevant info here.
Thanks for reading!
What I’m Listening to: Vance Joy is another artist that my daughter turned me on to and it is just the right music for traveling home today.
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Last week’s most clicked item:
Why Does a Design Look Good?
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3 ‘Knowns’ in Learning Science—and How to Apply Them in Practice
As learning professionals our job is to improve learning outcomes. And the starting point for that is looking at what we already know from the science of learning.
15 Behavior Change Strategies
This big infographic can help you evaluate and build digital product features, copy and incentive schemes to help your audience achieve their goals and drive business growth with a holistic framework.
15 Best Resources for Presentation Designers
Alicia Monique Thornber has shared her best 15 resources for creating presentations and this is a pretty good list. Most of these resources can also be used for elearning and other design projects as well.
6 Ways You’re Thinking Wrong—and What You Can Do About Them
Thinking problems happen because we are wired in very particular ways. Fortunately, there are actionable strategies you can adopt to change your thinking and help your team work better.
Meet the Lazy ̶M̶a̶r̶k̶e̶t̶e̶r̶’̶s̶ L&D Pro’s Best Friend: Email Autoresponders
An autoresponder is just a sequence of email marketing messages that gets sent to subscribers in the order and frequency that you decide.
- Why We Love to Hate Comic Sans and the Return of Fonts with Personality on the Wireframe podcast
. - The Science of Happiness with Lori Santos on The Psychology Podcast
. - How to Increase Accessibility of Online Workshops? with Marie Dubost on the workshops.work podcast
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- Scormify lets you easily convert your content into SCORM-compliant eLearning courses for any LMS
. - Clay is a personal CRM that helps you deepen your relationships across everyone you know
. - Create professional, customizable personas in minutes with Hubspot’s free persona generator
. - Promote courses and workshops better with interactive mini-courses
. - Convertio is a life-saver when you need to convert file formats. I use this ALL the time.
- New Zealand ATD Conference March 15-16, 2023
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