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Social & Workplace Learning through the 70:20:10 Lens
The shift in focus to workplace and social learning by HR and Learning professionals over the past few years is an significant one. And it’s not just a passing phase or fad. It is reflecting a fundamental change that is happening all around us – the move from a ‘push’...
Give it to me straight, doc: the 8-step ‘Paramedic’ method for bringing your writing back to life
The 'Paramedic Method' involves bringing writing that lacks vitality back to life. Offers an 8-step process for achieving all this. Richard Lanham, a professor of English at UCLA, invented an easy-to-use method for making your writing clearer and more concise. The...
“Chicago” is 15!
Now featuring coverage of electronic publishing as well as a grammar and usage chapter all its own, the Chicago Manual of Style is in its 15th edition. Buy it. Read it. Mind the gaps. Perhaps most importantly, remember to (as Linda Halvorson, chief editor, puts it)...
Texaco’s John Old in Fast Company
John Old, of Texaco, makes salient—though still fairly broad—statements regarding knowledge management in September's Fast Company. Mostly it's about people. First, to paraphrase a paraphrased paraphrase (from David Snowden): "One, knowledge can only be...
On Rhetoric and Conversation
I read recently about the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy and about other dos and don'ts of debating at Truth Tree, a site offering its share of left-leaning positions in a series of essays,and message boards for each for readers to submit their responses. Not...
Not a band. Not a drug…
Monster.com on the STC: "Professional organizations often help define the professions they serve: Such is the case with the Society for Technical Communication (STC)." Though geared specifically toward jobseekers, the article provides a good overview of what technical...