Author Archives: Mike Taylor

Create value for others by curating information with ZEEF

While it has gained a lot of attention in recent years, curation has always been an important part of an effective learning and development practitioners toolkit. If you think about it, aren’t courses just another form of searching, organizing, and sharing information? Good instructional designers, trainers, teachers, facilitators, and public speakers are curators by nature.ContinueContinue reading “Create value for others by curating information with ZEEF”

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Friday Finds | October 27, 2017

Around here the temperatures are dropping, but things are still hot in the world of learning, technology, and social media. In addition to our regularly scheduled articles and insights, there were several great conferences and events this week. So be sure to carve out a few minutes to take a spin through the backchannels. (ThisContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | October 27, 2017”

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Friday Finds | October 20, 2017

Data Viz Project What do you do when you’ve got a big pile of data and need a way to display it? If you didn’t have an immediate response to that question, you’ll be glad to know about the Data Viz Project. The Data Viz project is a collection of over 150 data visualizations toContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | October 20, 2017”

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Friday Finds | October 13, 2017

Want to get these and more right in your inbox? No sweat! Subscribe to my newsletter First Impressions Matter: How Designers Can Support Humans’ Automatic Cognitive Processing This article by Therese Fessenden of the Norman Nielson Group, explores how the first visceral reaction to a site’s design influence how users perceive relevance, credibility, and evenContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | October 13, 2017”

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Find Your Slides & Office Files Faster By Saving a Preview Image

If you are anything like me and have to wade through a lot of PowerPoint or other Office files to find what you’re looking for, being able to see a preview of what is actually in the file can be super helpful. Think art gallery versus card catalog. (If you’re not old enough to knowContinueContinue reading “Find Your Slides & Office Files Faster By Saving a Preview Image”

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Friday Finds | October 6, 2017

Don’t waste time coming here to find everything. Get these and more right in your inbox by subscribing to my newsletter Jane Hart’s 11th Annual Top Learning Tools Jane Hart (@c4lpt) has been polling learning pros about their top learning for 11 years. This week she published this year’s edition and as always, it isContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | October 6, 2017”

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A Look at Over Ten Years of Top Learning Tools

This week Jane Hart (@c4lpt) published the results of this year’s Top Learning tools survey. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely pop over there and take a good look. Alternatively, I’ve included her slide deck for your convenience. I’ve contributed every year since the first one back in 2007. Here is whatContinueContinue reading “A Look at Over Ten Years of Top Learning Tools”

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Friday Finds | September 22, 2017

Enhancing Learning Through Graphics and Emotional Design I’m a big advocate of instructional designers or anyone creating content for learning, understanding the design principles that enable them to create multimedia learning elements that can promote and facilitate learning. Too often, many people tasked with this job are unknowingly creating things that do more harm thanContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | September 22, 2017”

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