Community and social media

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Blogs Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Creativity & innovation Delivering learning & training Economics and finance For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For senior L&D Marketing Reflective practice Sales & customer service

Behind the scenes of planning a new learning event: The emotional rollercoaster is real

Kirsty Lewis 12 March 2025

Kirsty Lewis has a meltdown about the numbers for her facilitation festival, despite amazing plans Well we have made it to March 1st and that date is exactly 100 days […]...

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Blogs Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Creativity & innovation Delivering learning & training Economics and finance For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For senior L&D Marketing Reflective practice Sales & customer service

Behind the scenes of planning a new learning event: Exploring ticket sales tactics

Kirsty Lewis 21 February 2025

Kirsty Lewis on the ups, downs and wild ideas behind getting people to SOFest 2025 How are you? If you are new to this blog it is all about my […]...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Business and industry Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Data Digital literacy & digital poverty Engagement Features For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For people managers For senior L&D Reflective practice Technology

The thousand post sprint – one person’s extreme challenge to test the power of connections on social media

Faris Aranki 27 January 2025

Engage more on LinkedIn, get more views – Faris Aranki really took that advice to heart and shares his epic adventure I recently undertook a gargantuan social media challenge; partly […]...

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Blogs Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Creativity & innovation Delivering learning & training Economics and finance For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For senior L&D Marketing Reflective practice

Behind the scenes of planning a new learning event: Show me the money

Kirsty Lewis 16 January 2025

How much does a new learning summit cost? Kirsty Lewis shares an eye watering amount This month I want to share the emotional rollercoaster that is creating a festival from […]...

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Blogs Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Creativity & innovation Delivering learning & training Economics and finance For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For senior L&D Marketing Reflective practice

Behind the scenes of planning a new learning event: The workshops

Kirsty Lewis 15 January 2025

Kirsty Lewis focuses her new festival planning on the different themes and workshops we need For those of you who missed the previous blog, let me catch you up: Imagine […]...

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Blogs Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Creativity & innovation Delivering learning & training Economics and finance For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For senior L&D Marketing Reflective practice

Behind the scenes of planning a new learning event: The journey begins

Kirsty Lewis 14 January 2025

An honest account of the roller coaster of creating a newconference, with Kirsty Lewis About five years ago I came up with an idea of an event whereby 100 facilitators, […]...

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Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Creativity & innovation Delivering learning & training For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For L&D managers For new to L&D Opinion Technology

From BBC News to events: Mastering professional video with just an iPhone

Kevin Davids 6 November 2024

Convenience meets quality with fast, discreet, powerful video on smartphones for your next learning intervention – Kevin Davids shares his approach and why he filmed World of Learning 2024 with […]...

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Assessment Collaboration Communication Community and social media Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Engagement Features For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For new to L&D

A week in the life of: A Learning Community Manager

Sheridan Webb 31 October 2024

Being a Community Manager is a full-time role, with technical and topic talent needed – as Sheridan Webb explains Learning socially, as part of a community is not only an […]...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Business and industry Community and social media Features For experienced L&D professionals For freelancers, consultants & small businesses For HR For L&D managers For new to L&D For people managers For senior L&D Technology

A week in the life of: The Editor of Training Journal

Jo Cook 28 October 2024

What does being the Editor of a learning content websiteinvolve? Jo Cook enlightens us I developed a desire to write when I was 12 years old and was always drawn […]...