Narrowing the Distance » Uncategorized http://narrowingthedistance.com Focusing on the transfer of knowledge Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:14:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Training Trends 2010 link http://narrowingthedistance.com/2010/06/25/training-trends-2010-link/ http://narrowingthedistance.com/2010/06/25/training-trends-2010-link/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:34:04 +0000 Jason Carroll http://narrowingthedistance.com/?p=51 Just saw this presentation come up through an RSS feed I subscribe to. It’s from Sharon Boller, who is the president of a company called bottom line Performance. I like it because it encompasses many of the things I’ve been seeing about the future of training recently (shift from face-to-face to online, rapid authoring, informal learning, etc…)
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Link to Video:  Intro to Google Wave

]]> http://narrowingthedistance.com/2010/04/30/google-wave/feed/ 0 New Blog Starts with New Name and Look http://narrowingthedistance.com/2009/05/16/new-blog-starts-with-new-name-and-look/ http://narrowingthedistance.com/2009/05/16/new-blog-starts-with-new-name-and-look/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 19:36:11 +0000 Jason Carroll http://narrowingthedistance.com/?p=31 First off, apologies to anyone who still drops by to see if this blog is still being updated.  Our last post was around 6 months ago, but that’s all about to change.  In fact, Innovative Communications Group has been going through several changes recently.  In addition to expanding our services, we’ve re-designed our website (www.innocommgroup.com) and our blog.  Our new name is Narrowing the Distance, which we believe speaks to what we try to help people do.  This distance may be physical, such as training and support around the globe, or local and apply to effective presentation techniques, learning strategies, resources and more.

Start checking back often or just subscribe to our blog.  Our goal is to role a post out every week with an occasional update in between.

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