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Do you worry that Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and your email will monopolize your attention? Shel Holtz doesn’t think so.

Chris Ferdinandi helps you figure out why your training program is not working. Chris has advice on how to tweak the training program to get better results.

Here is a conference that gives you an opportunity to meet Learning professionals from all over the world and follow the latest developments and trends in Corporate Learning. And the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation 2008 conference is hosted on the Internet so you save on travel. The schedule is here.

Sarah Milstein co-authored the O’Reilly radar report on Micro-Messaging. This report has been receiving some attention on the internet with organisations looking at implementing Twitter like services for their employees. This video is from a tele-seminar on micro-messaging that Sarah hosted last week.

Clark Quinn on Deeper Instructional Design: Cognitive Science and How People Really Learn.

If you work across multiple computers and travel a lot, Evernote might be a good bookmarking software for you. I have been using it for the last couple of months and I highly recommend it. You can download the Evernote client for free from their web site at www.evernote.com.

Once you have installed it on your computer, you can clip screenshots, webpages and event text from the documents in your computer. 

The clipped content is saved on the Evernote desktop client where you can drop them into folders defined by you.

The Synchronize button on the top will sync your content to your private area on Evernote’s servers. This helps when you are traveling and need access to your notes. Just log on to Evernote’s site and type in your account information.

You will be able to browse through your content via the web.  If you have two computers, install Evernote on both and you will be able to sync information between them.

Evernote also works on iPhone and Windows mobile phones. If you have it installed on your iPhone, you can take pictures, record audio or type in text notes. All these will be synced with your web and the desktop client.

Perhaps, the most interesting feature of the software is image recognition. When you type in some words in the Evernote search bar, it scans through the text inside a photograph to find your words.

A lot of corporate training is about changing attitudes of the trainee. Guy Kawasaki has some thoughts on persuasion and attitude change.

Today we found two interesting posts focused on training. The first is a lead article from a series on building a better training program by Chris Ferdinandi of Manager’s Sandbox. Talking about training evaluation and specifically questions such as "Did you enjoy the training?", Chris says

Does anyone not know that smoking is bad for you? Yet plenty of people continue to do so. You can put them through as many enjoyable and informative trainings as you want, but if they don’t make any changes in their behavior, are those trainings money well spent?

Also check out Five Tips for Training to Transfer to the Workplace by Mary Ellen Gibson.

Harold Jarche has some recommendations for trainers and training departments. Harold urges trainers to looks at connecting and communicating as the keywords that facilitate learning.