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    Not-So-Anonymous Four

    Monday, August 17th, 2009

    So, I had this on my to-do list: Ask some registrants for the ASTD-Cascadia 2009 Regional Conference in Salem, Oregon, September 23-24 (pre-conference workshop, Sept. 22) why they’re coming. Other tasks intervened before I could pop the question and there wasn’t time for everyone to respond. Suddenly I was on deadline with no males in [...]

    Crafting Professional Competencies

    Monday, July 27th, 2009

    How do people with specialized skills learn them - and eventually pass them along?
    Back in the days of European craft guilds, the information was highly proprietary - and rarely if ever were women welcome to apply. For a weaver, a goldsmith or a carpenter, apprenticeship would start in boyhood with humble tasks and immersion learning, [...]