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What will Instructional Designers be called in the future? In this episode, I revisit a fun question from a recent webinar that got me thinking. Our field has gone by many names over the years, from training specialists and curriculum developers to multimedia designers and learning engineers. These shifts often reflect the trends, tools, and technologies of the time, from Gagné's Nine Events to the rise of LMSs and now AI. So, what's next? While job titles may continue to evolve, our core competencies remain steady. Join me for a lighthearted and slightly speculative look at the future of instructional design job titles. It's Friday, so grab your crystal ball and let's have some fun with this episode!

BONUS EPISODE ! We'd love to meet more of our listeners in person, so here's a list of events over the next few weeks when Dan, Ray, or Dan and Ray are speaking about AI in Education. One of the things that makes the podcast special is the amazing stories we get from our guests, and there's more stories than fit into an episode, and we're always on the lookout for more. So come and say hi at any of these events, and per   haps we can share an untold story, or you can tell us yours! August  19 August - Melbourne - Ray Melbourne EdTech Summit Ray's on the panel discussing "The Transformed Learning Landscape Through AI" at this event for edtech companies and universities 21 August - Sydney - Ray - Free event The Future of Human AI - IATD If you're in Sydney, the Institute of Applied Technology has scheduled the perfect event on Wednesday evening (starting at 6PM). Ray's hosting the free learning session "The Future of Human AI", designed for the thousands of small businesses and employees around Western Sydney who want to make sense of the AI hype and start to understand what everybody else is talking about. If you're a teacher, you'll also walk away with some good ideas of how businesses are using AI to help with your discussion of AI in the classroom   23 August - Sydney - Dan AI in Education Conference | Teaching Tomorrow: Harnessing AI Tools Today Organised by friends of the podcast Matt Esterman and Nick Jackson at WSU's Parramatta campus, it'll be a festival of ideas from a great lineup of teachers. Dan's one of the speakers, and will be wearing his Microsoft badge on the day, talking about all the latest great tech announcements from that world.   September 3 September - Online - Dan - Free event Build a Bot in Copilot Studio Doing his day job, Dan's taking part in this online workshop designed to help Microsoft Copilot users build their own bot. Like Build a Bear workshop, but with less bear and more bot. Open to any Microsoft customers in Australia and New Zealand.   4 September - Christchurch, NZ - Ray NZ Tertiary ICT Conference For New Zealand listeners Ray's heading over the ditch to deliver a keynote called "AI, why?" at the annual conference for digital teams of universities and polytechnics. If you're going to be there, please say Hi!   12-13 September - Adelaide - Ray HE FEST 24 Ray's taking part in the "Marketing, Recruitment, Advancement and AI in Higher Education Conference" in Adelaide. Ray's on a panel discussion "The place of AI in university " with Eddie Major, on applications of AI beyond teaching and learning, and then delivering the closing keynote, grandly titled "The future of HE - The future of higher education in a world where gen AI is ubiquitous"   16-19 September - Online - Dan and Ray - Free event Toddle's AI for AussieEd online event  The toddle team have pulled together 20 speakers from across Australia, who will be talking about assessment, LMSs, chatbots, the AI Framework for schools, leadership and data-driven learning. And tacked on right at the end of the run, at 5:15 on the 19th, we're going to have a crack at a live podcast recording  

Hey, this is Alex,Ok let's start with the big news, holy crap this week was a breakthrough week for speed! We had both Groq explode in popularity, and ByteDance release an updated SDXL model called Lightning, able to generate full blown SDXL 1024 images in 300ms. I've been excited about seeing what real time LLM/Diffusion can bring, and with both of these news release the same week, I just had to go and test them out together: Additionally, we had Google step into a big open weights role, and give us Gemma, 2 open weights models 2B and 7B (which is closer to 9B per Junyang) and it was great to see google committing to releasing at least some models in the open. We also had breaking news, Emad from Stability announced SD3, which looks really great, Google to pay Reddit 200M for AI training on their data & a few more things. TL;DR of all topics covered: * Big CO LLMs + APIs* Groq custom LPU inference does 400T/s Llama/Mistral generation (X, Demo)* Google image generation is in Hot Waters and was reportedly paused (refuses to generate white people)* Gemini 1.5 long context is very impressive to folks (Matt Shumer, Ethan Mollick)* Open Weights LLMs * Google releases GEMMA, open weights 2B and 7B models (Announcement, Models)* Teknium releases Nous Hermes DPO (Announcement, HF)* Vision & Video* YoLo V9 - SOTA real time object detector is out (Announcement, Code)* This weeks Buzz (What I learned in WandB this week)* Went to SF to cohost an event with A16Z, Nous, Mistral (Thread, My Report)* AI Art & Diffusion & 3D* ByteDance presents SDXL-Lightning (Try here, Model)* Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3 (Announcement)* Tools* Replit releases a new experimental Figma plugin for UI → Code (Announcement)* Arc browser adds "AI pinch to understand" summarization (Announcement)Big CO LLMs + APIsGroq's new LPU show extreme performance for LLMs - up to 400T/s (example)* Groq created a novel processing unit known as the Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) which they categorize as a Linear Processor Unit (LPU). Unlike traditional GPUs that are parallel processors with hundreds of cores designed for graphics rendering, LPUs are architected to deliver deterministic performance for AI computations.* Analogy: They know where all the cars are going when everyone wakes up for work (when they compile) and how fast they all drive (compute latency) so they can get rid of traffic lights (routers) and turn lanes (backpressure) by telling everyone when to leave the house.* Why would we need something like this? Some folks are saying that average human reading is only 30T/s, I created an example that uses near instant Groq Mixtral + Lightning SDXL to just create images with Mixtral as my prompt managerOpen Source Weights LLMs Google Gemma - 2B and 7B open weights models (demo)* 4 hours after release, Llama.cpp added support, Ollama and LM Studio added support, Tri dao added Flash attention support* Vocab size is 256K* 8K context window* Tokenizer similar to LLama* Folks are... not that impressed as far as I've seen* Trained on 6 trillion tokens* Google also released Gemma.cpp (local CPU inference) - AnnouncementNous/Teknium re-release Nous Hermes with DPO finetune (Announcement)* DPO RLHF is performing better than previous models* Models are GGUF and can be found here* DPO enables Improvements across the boardThis weeks Buzz (What I learned with WandB this week)* Alex was in SF last week* A16Z + 20 something cohosts including Weights & Biases talked about importance of open source* Huge Shoutout Rajko and Marco from A16Z, and tons of open source folks who joined* Nous, Ollama, LLamaIndex, LMSys folks, Replicate, Perplexity, Mistral, Github, as well as Eric Hartford, Jon Durbin, Haotian Liu, HuggingFace, tons of other great folks from Mozilla, linux foundation and Percy from Together/StanfordAlso had a chance to checkout one of the smol dinners in SF, they go really hard, had a great time showing folks the Vision Pro, chatting about AI, seeing incredible demos and chat about meditation and spirituality all at the same time! AI Art & DiffusionByteDance presents SDXL-Lightning (Try here)* Lightning fast SDXL with 2, 4 or 8 steps* Results much closer to original SDXL than turbo version from a few months agoStability announces Stable Diffusion 3 (waitlist)Uses a Diffusion Transformer architecture (like SORA)Impressive multi subject prompt following: "Prompt: a painting of an astronaut riding a pig wearing a tutu holding a pink umbrella, on the ground next to the pig is a robin bird wearing a top hat, in the corner are the words "stable diffusion"Tools* Replit announces a new Figma design→ code plugin That's it for today, definitely check out the full conversation with Mark Heaps from Groq on the pod, and see you next week!

Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Russell Sweep. Russell is a content development manager for Goodwill Industries International. He oversees a team that works on developing new learning strategies, adopting content, populating LMSs, and more. Russell is new to learning and development as well as management. Eric was recently a guest on Russell's podcast, The L&D Hot Seat.In this episode, you'll hear:Russell's experience transitioning into L&D and why it's been a positive experience for him so far.The two books he recommends and the advice he'd give to someone new to L&D or any other field.What it's like to manage a team when you don't have deep domain expertise and why listening can be a game-changer in a new role.How Russell builds relationships with his team and why listening collaboratively is crucial when leading a team.The importance of connection with your team members and how it can influence communication with them.What Russell would tell a new manager managing a team where they're not an expert in the team's field.Eric's lightning round for Russell.Connect with Russell Sweep:WebsiteLinkedInInstagramGLDC---Learn how to hire the right person for the position the first time! Join my FREE masterclass to learn how.Head over to girardtrainingsolutions.com to get a free copy of my eBook, "Advice for a New Manager."Connect with me on LinkedIn.Please subscribe and comment!

“We have to define what good looks like.”- Joe DunlapDo you have a clear set of competencies in your organization?  Many do. And many have older competency models that may no longer be providing all the benefits they could.  Today's guest shares his experience using a competency model in his manufacturing environment and practical examples of how to build it correctly.My guest is Joe Dunlap. He has spent 20 years in continuous learning and performance improvement and has worked for the US Air Force, Department of Defense, NASA, finance/insurance, technology, healthcare and manufacturing industries addressing performance improvement problems for front-line operators to executive leadership development both nationally and globally.Along the way he has helped implement over a thousand ILTs, eLearning, workshops, video, podcasting, micro learning, storytelling, learning channels, curation, collaboration, LMSs, LXPs, KPI, OKR, Agile, Design Thinking, Lean Startup, and just about everything else in the L&D sphere.  In this episode of Talent Management Truths, you'll discover:

Ever wondered how shift-scheduling software is revolutionizing mission-critical industries? Get ready to explore the intriguing world of SaaS-based solutions with Sterling Wilson, the President and CEO of Shiftboard. Sterling shines a light on how their innovative technology is not just facilitating seamless integration with payroll, HSUH ECM, time clocks, LMSs, and credential storage systems, but also redefining the working experience for hourly-paid employees in subverticals such as refineries, pipelines, petrochemical, power generation and utilities and many more.Shiftboard's cutting-edge features like their advanced rules engine and Candidate Finder are breaking new ground by simplifying the process of finding the right individuals for the right shifts – a game changer in the industry! Sterling uncovers how their software ensures compliance with regulations and covers production needs. As well, he provides valuable insights into their change management efforts, explaining how they assist organizations in rolling out their software to all their workers. Tune in for a deep dive with Sterling Wilson as he details the future of shift scheduling.Listen & Subscribe on your favorite platformApple | Spotify | Google | Amazon

Laura Wilkes (Lucerne, Switzerland) and I discuss the future of online teacher training and how technology can support professional development. We explore the strengths and weaknesses of both online and face-to-face training, touching on the importance of reflective tools, peer feedback, and the use of multimedia in enhancing learning experiences. The conversation also covers micro-credential courses, AI-assisted learning management systems, and the potential pitfalls of the expanding online learning market.Laura Wilkes, TESOL Pop co-founder and passionate online learning advocate, also offers insights on upcoming trends in EdTech. Key quotes“Don't make the mistake of just using online learning as a library.”"One of the great strengths of having online self-paced learning is that you can say, ‘You know what, in the morning I'm gonna study because that's when I learn best.'""AI assisted LMSs or … make it more personalized and tailored. For example, if you scored so much on a quiz and there's certain areas that you could review, the AI will push that to you to say ‘Hey, I know this was an area of difficulty. Why not review this or try this instead?'" Links referenced in the showTESOL Pop PodcastTrinity CertTESOL CourseEffective Professional Development Guidance from EEFBETT Conferences for EdTech --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/traveled/message

Last week I told you about the best way to create an only course...but what's the best way to sell it? I firmly believe tools like Teachable and Kajabi are overpriced. When looking at LMSs, I turn to WordPress. And these days, Sensei is doing the coolest stuff, as it attempts to retake the title of best WordPress LMS. This clip is brought to you by Sensei - Automatic

 Last week I told you about the best way to create an only course...but what's the best way to sell it? I firmly believe tools like Teachable and Kajabi are overpriced. When looking at LMSs, I turn to WordPress. And these days, Sensei is doing the coolest stuff, as it attempts to retake the title of best WordPress LMS.This clip is brought to you by Sensei - Automatic ★ Support this podcast ★

 Last week I told you about the best way to create an only course...but what's the best way to sell it? I firmly believe tools like Teachable and Kajabi are overpriced. When looking at LMSs, I turn to WordPress. And these days, Sensei is doing the coolest stuff, as it attempts to retake the title of best WordPress LMS.This clip is brought to you by Sensei - Automatic Get your FREE copy of my Automations Library ★ Support this podcast ★

Navigating the world of learning technologies can be daunting, to say the least. From tried-and-true learning management systems (LMSs) to virtual and augmented reality solutions, there's no shortage of learning technologies on the market. However, selecting and managing learning technologies remains a challenge for even experienced learning leaders. In this episode of The Business of Learning, we spoke with Kim Davis, CPTM, senior manager of comprehensive and innovative faculty development programs at the American College of Surgeons and an instructor for Training Industry's Managing Remote Learning Certificate course, and Ted Schmitz, LMS program manager at Alight solutions, to learn more on: How to evaluate and select learning technologies strategically. The LMS integration process. How to gain buy-in to purchase a new learning technology.

Welcome to The Roastery: a place where we load up a topic and roast it! That's right, the usual niceties are put to the side, and we open up some real opinions on everyday education topics. For the first episode, we tackle a tool that Josh and Will use every day: learning management systems. After our roast, we offer up Screencast-o-matic as a tool for educators to consider. Screenshots and clips are tough to make and consolidated but Screencast-o-matic will get the job done. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here. For all of our episodes and resources for each app we discuss, head over to our website at hitechpod.us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hitechpod/message

Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi and welcome to the Sales Enablement PRO Podcast, I am Shawnna Sumaoang. Sales enablement is a constantly evolving space and we’re here to help professionals stay up to date on the latest trends and best practices so that they can be more effective in their jobs. Today, I’m excited to have Sharif Wilson from Forter here join us. Sharif, I would love for you to introduce yourself, your role, and your organization to our audience. Sharif Wilson: Hi, how are you doing? It’s really a pleasure to be here with you, Shawnna, and the audience. As you’ve said, my name is Sharif, I currently work at Forter as a global sales enablement manager. Currently, our company works on creating trust within the e-commerce space, working to fight growing complexities and abuse and fraud within the e-commerce space, and creating a more seamless customer journey on the web. That’s currently what I am doing at Forter, helping the go-to-market team strategize and build out ongoing education, keep our reps sharp, and constantly growing the book of business. SS: Well, I’m excited to have you here with us today. On Linkedin, you caught my eye because you had shared a quote that said measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually improvement. In the context of your sales enablement efforts, how does measurement help you optimize your programs? SW: Well, measurement helps you to see what’s working and what’s not working. I think in the sales world there’s a misconception of going strictly off of gut, strictly off of impromptu notions of, “hey, this worked at this company or this worked in this industry”. There may be some credibility to that for sure, but I think if we really want to systematize and create programs that can scale and that can be repeatable, we need to see what the metrics are bearing forth. Until we’re able to measure something, unless we’re able to analyze, there’s no way for us to control, there’s no way for us to credibly say that we’ve improved anything. It was actually a quote that I had read in one of the sales books that I feel like was really great. My manager actually passed it to me when I first started this role, “The Qualified Sales Leader” and that was just so impactful to me. SS: Absolutely, now to double click into this, what are some of the core metrics that you use to measure the success of your enablement efforts? SW: Yes, so it’s a little bit double-fold. At the end of the day, sales is measured by revenue. How much revenue is that team generating? That’s kind of one of the core purposes of that organization within any business is to grow the bottom line. I think from one standpoint, you want to have an eye on how the sales organization is doing in general, how well they’re doing as far as gaining new business opportunities, creating new opportunities, creating new conversations, how long is it taking from initially meeting an opportunity to bringing it within to the business community as a customer. On one end, there’s looking at the revenue, and then on the other side, you want to see what the adoption is like to your actual training internally. There are a ton of different LMS tools, learning management systems, that teams can use. Also, looking at how the programs you’re actually creating, how are the people within your organization adopting them? Are they doing them at all? You want to see how people are adopting your programs. If there is a correlation between when you rolled out these programs with the bottom line, sometimes sales directors or VPs, people in the field will bring up things in real-time and you’ll have the opportunity to create programs in response to a real-time challenge. Being able to measure if your program has actually had an impact on that specific challenge that was brought up to you is important. SS: You’ve touched on a lot and with so many potential metrics to measure, how would you say sales enablement practitioners should go about really prioritizing and determining which are the right metrics for their business? SW: It’s my opinion that the sales enablement organization is a part of the sales strategy arm within a business. The bottom line is we want to sharpen our reps, we want our reps to be more equipped, and more able to scale time from discovery meetings to close. We want to shorten that gap, we want to increase revenue. I think all the metrics that we’re looking at have to be tied to is this having an impact on the bottom line? Is this having a positive impact on the bottom line? Is more revenue being created? Are more opportunities at the end of the day being created? Are reps shortening their time from discovery calls to signed contracts? That’s the end goal. I think the metrics that we look at have to be tied to that. Different organizations measure metrics based on how different opportunities are progressing. There are multiple stages to awareness and different companies measure that differently. Some have numerical stages, some have alphabetical stages. At the end of the day, it’s the same thing. We’re trying to see how long it’s taking specific opportunities to go from one stage to the next and ultimately hopefully a signed contract. I think that it’s important to make sure that anything that we’re looking at is serving that purpose. I don’t think there’s any metric in the sales enablement field that is, in my opinion, more important than that. We should be positively affecting the bottom line, growing our business, growing logos, causing our reps to be able to shorten the time span on our activities to reach their ultimate goals. SS: Absolutely. Now, with all that said, enablement often has to work rather cross-functionally, especially across the go-to-market teams. Who are some of the core stakeholders that sales enablement should really partner with to define the right metrics for the organization? SW: That’s a good one. I know different organizations are made up a bit differently. At my former company, the sales enablement program rolled up under the education department and now we’re under the sales operations department, so that colors things a little bit differently for us. In my current role where we’re heavy metrics-driven, our main stakeholders are VP of sales ops. I think that’s an important place and I think it’s a proper emphasis, but I think that’s maybe one of the main stakeholders that we want to be looking at, sales ops, the people who are in charge of the forecasting in charge of all of the metrics. How long are our deals hanging around within the pipeline? How are the different reps doing? They’re the ones creating a lot of the dashboards that are visualizing how the sales operation is actually progressing. It’s able to give, in its best state, an accurate depiction of what’s happening in the field and in a very measurable, concrete, and black-and-white way. We’re able to draw nuance from the metrics that they provide. I think sales operations, no matter where the sales enablement department follows, you have to have a close relationship there. There’s got to be a regular cadence. There’s got to be a strong bond there. From there, I think sales leaders and frontline managers, these are great people to be in contact with because you never want to be in a position where you’re just creating programs in a bubble. You want it to be something that’s actually practical and tangible for the frontline managers, for the sales leaders, the VPs, the directors. It has to be something that is relevant to them and something that they feel like addresses their needs. Within any organization, there’s politics, there is a vine for attention as far as what’s the most important thing to focus on and though everybody wants the business to be successful, everyone has an opinion on exactly what to focus on to get to that end. Sales enablement managers have to be quite diplomatic, they have to know how to get buy-in from multiple different people. You want to have a good relationship with sales leaders as well. I’m talking about frontline managers, directors, VPs who are looking at their regions from different vantage points. I think also potentially product marketing. Product marketing are typically the people who are creating the language and the collateral that the sellers are bringing to market. It’s really important that they are able to have the feedback and an understanding of what’s actually happening in the field as well. I think sales enablement plays an important role as far as doubly on both sides, translating what’s important and how to solve the different issues that are coming up and create that bridge within the organization. SS: Absolutely. Now, I think a lot of the times when we really start to talk about key metrics, there’s definitely a difference between how those are leveraged. How do you go about using the data that you’re able to gather to really develop and hone in on insights around what’s working and what’s not? Then to take and tailor that conversation back to the stakeholders that we just chatted about, how do you elevate those insights to really communicate enablement impact back to those key leaders? SW: Yes, so I think it’s really great to start with understanding where your particular business is. Every sales organization is in a different place. There are some things that they’re extremely excited about and there are some things that there’s room for improvement. Whether that is shortening sales cycles, whether that’s trying to break into this particular vertical where there’s probably a lot of opportunity, whether it’s prospecting. There are all different types of things that sales leaders and sales operations will identify as being room for improvement. I think that’s where you want to start. You want to leverage the success that you are having with things that you are doing well and then use that to be able to discern how to crack the code of what you’re trying to deal with. If you’re an organization and you’re trying to get into a different vertical, you want to see how you fared with that so far. Let’s say you’re trying to get into the manufacturing vertical, you feel like there’s a lot of opportunity there, you feel like there are a lot of customers there. Senior leadership has identified this as a vertical that they want to break into within the new year. More than likely, we’ve had reps try to break into those in general. We want to see what data we have already on that. Who have we already attempted to talk to? How far in those conversations did we get? Where did things break down in that conversation? Have we even been that successful with getting meetings in the first place? I think trying to discern from that also doing some market research, that’s where the product marketing team is really helpful as well. A lot of times they’ll do market research and they’ll be able to help us with cultivating successful tactics to break into those markets. We will want to use that information to discern exactly how we can break into those areas of the business. If we’re not even able to get a meeting we look into Salesforce or some type of CRM, and we’re seeing that 80% of these businesses that we’ve attempted to get in contact with, like manufacturing, don’t even progress past stage one or, we’re not even able to get a meeting. Well, that means we probably have to work on building curriculum and collateral around something that’s more catered to that industry, where they feel like they can even have a conversation with us, where they feel like we’re even relevant enough to have a conversation with, getting a better understanding of the buyer personas. That’s a hypothesis, we spend some time looking at that, we work with the product marketing team too to build some tactics, some sequences, maybe some marketing events to break into these markets and we trial it and then we see how successful it is. We build out programs. First, the enablement team wants to see if the reps are taking advantage of the training that we’ve created based on the research we’ve done and teaming up with the different product marketing teams and then we test that. We see, #1, are the reps taking advantage of the training? Then #2, is it being successful? Are we seeing a difference from let’s say, quarter one and quarter two? Quarter one was how things were operating before in quarter two. Are we able to get more meetings? Are we generating more opportunities? Are we getting further along? Is it not doing anything? I want to go all the way back to my initial thesis: the bottom line of sales, in general, is to grow, the bottom line, is to generate revenue. Different businesses are at different places. Some are early-stage startups, some are real established organizations and they have different goals, but I think sales enablement is always trying to align itself with the growing of the bottom line but also trying to be where the business is trying to seek new opportunities to do that. We take our cues from the ops team and also stakeholders, the leadership, the CEOs, the CMOs, as far as where they see the company going. Then we try to dig into the metrics, teaming up with a product marketing team, teaming up with the sales operations team to hypothesize and try to build out curriculums and trainings and live sessions to equip sellers to be able to achieve these goals that have been set forth for us. SS: That’s fantastic. Sharif, one of the things that I like to do as a closing question to a lot of these podcasts is really take a look forward. I know obviously, none of us have a crystal ball into the future, but I know that you’ve shared some content around the future of artificial intelligence and as enablement continues to evolve, how do you envision AI playing a role in tracking metrics and really optimizing enablement impact? SW: That’s a pretty loaded question. AI is pretty much already heavily integrated into a lot of the businesses we see every day. I mean Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Amazon, all of these companies that we use daily are already leveraging AI to curate a lot of the things that we see on the internet. It’s funny, nobody’s internet is the same. On my and your computer right now we can search the exact same term and the exact same subject, but our Google search will show up differently based on our user profiles, our identities based on what we’ve looked up and how we behaved on the internet. I find this extremely fascinating. I think there are a lot of different ways it can be applied. I think AI could potentially generate curriculums for individual sellers. I think a big challenge that a lot of enablement people run into is trying to create that one-size-fits-all curriculum for everybody. Everyone learns differently. Some people like videos, some people like to read, some people just like to watch other people do things. Some people want a mixture of it all. There are so many different learning styles, so the challenge is always how to strike that balance, where AI potentially could have a software that assesses different people’s activities, some of their different selling activities, their learning styles, and potentially create for them, automated in the same way a lot of these platforms I mentioned before. We can have tools that curate curriculums based on maybe a learning assessment. You take like learning assessment, Myers Briggs and all these different types of things, and build you a bespoke curriculum that kind of helps you specifically get ramped up. That’s potentially something that could be created. I’ve seen LMSs and content systems starting to leverage AI. Let’s say you have a curriculum where you’re trying to teach your team about a new product that you’re about to roll out. Maybe you’ve got a bunch of information from product marketing, you’ve got a bunch of information from your UX designers and your software engineers, but it’s your job to create it into something digestible for the sales team. I forget the name of the LMS, but what it enables you to do is upload a bunch of information. It didn’t matter if it was videos, random notes, or audio. Essentially what it was able to do was create a beautiful curriculum out of that information, like generate a narrative out of it. I found that to be quite fascinating. I have it written down somewhere, but that’s the type of stuff that we’ll probably be seeing more and more within the enablement world, which can actually probably free up enablement professionals to be a lot more forward-thinking and strategic if they’re able to have more leeway with tools that can take up some of the harder things to think through a lot of the times when it comes to pragmatically rolling something out. SS: Absolutely. I love the potential though that it is there with technologies, so it’s an exciting future to look forward to. Sharif, thank you so much for your time today. SW: Thank you. SS: To our audience, thanks for listening. For more insights, tips, and expertise from sales enablement leaders visit salesenablement.pro. If there’s something you’d like to share, or a topic you’d like to learn more about, please let us know we’d love to hear from you.

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Nyree Clark joins the show to share a set of observable practices that we could see a culturally responsive practitioner using in their classroom. Also, Jake talks about LMSs and shares how to use pivot tables in Google Sheets to select the highest test score for each student Find the show notes online at jakemiller.net/eduducttape-episode-69 Soapbox Moment: THROWBACK - “What I learned from a beard and glasses” Original episode: eduducttape.libsyn.com/amy-roediger-edpuzzle-the-answer-pad-peardeck-nearpod-classkick-google-drawings-quizlet-diagrams Today's Guest: Nyree Clark - Nyree is an EdTech Curriculum Program Specialist for the Colton Joint Unified School District. She is a founding co-member of #EquityInActionCA and was appointed to the Instructional Coaches Advisory Board for Future Ready Schools Organization. She is very passionate about amplifying the voices of the unheard through culturally responsive teaching pedagogy. Contact Info: Twitter: @MsNyreeClark Instagram: nyree_edu Website: nyreeclark.com 2 Truths & 1 Lie Educational Duct Tape Question: “​​What are some observable practices I would see a culturally responsive practitioner do in their classroom?” Culturally Responsive definition - “Act of bringing all of the child and even teacher into the classroom to make connections to content and amplify the learning.” Ready for Rigor Framework - AWARENESS, LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS, PROCESSING, COMMUNITY drive.google.com/file/d/1_H6Zz8XWZGa1UT6a3v8qFUSP1qnUib7r/view?usp=sharing Awareness - Teach reflection and learn about their own cultural lens Here's where I got the spreadsheet calendar template. I've modified it to create my own version - if you want it, email or DM me! - spreadsheetclass.com/google-sheets-calendar-templates Original Prompts of Depth & Complexity - drive.google.com/file/d/1ufasxYprTn54J4WsTBLaF5WO2tJLVNUG/view?usp=sharing New Prompts of Depth & Complexity Descriptions - drive.google.com/file/d/11M2kNC-cE24ivHAC8e2OHSNeQTXiR0sB/view?usp=sharing Content Imperatives - drive.google.com/file/d/1BrQ-ge-banQaIPgH_DEegvsUYJDkIltf/view?usp=sharing Depth & Complexity Picture Icons - drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwAtq_mwHqoRTFdweVhSZjIyT3c?resourcekey=0-5ygWQ6_bz_8dLRpHhRZoeQ&usp=sharing Equity In Action CA Website - sites.google.com/view/equity-action-research/home Equitarium Events sites.google.com/view/equity-action-research/hosted-events Celebration of the Adjacent Possible Bryon Carpenter tweet/video - twitter.com/BryonCar/status/1461709369293225987 Corey Mathias tweet - twitter.com/EdTechAntics/status/1461733249147817986 Audio Endorsements for Jake's Book: Submit your book endorsement on Flipgrid or Speakpipe! FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape Ways to Support the Show or Connect with Jake & other Duct Tapers! Apple Podcast Reviews FlipGrid.com/EduDuctTape Speakpipe.com/EduDuctTape #EduDuctTape on social media Telling your friends & colleagues The Duct Tapers Facebook Group - facebook.com/groups/ducttapers Stickers! Want to pass some out?  Want some for yourself? JakeMiller.net/SendMeStickers The JakeMillerTech Newsletter – Sign up! jakemiller.net/newsletter Grab a signed copy of Educational Duct Tape: An EdTech Integration Mindset - jakemiller.net/signedbook

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Video: https://octo.github.com/speakerseries/swyx Blog Post: https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/dx-blog/technical-community-builder-is-the-hottest-new-job-in-tech Slide dec: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WGCfellGTboDwtM_D9uMwsHtD0qCFeBv6AYNUSxlDLg/edit?usp=sharing My talk at Heroku's conference where I met Idan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_w1YWCHXFg Timestamps 00:01:17 Intro presentation on Why Dev Community 00:16:15 Discussion between Idan, Brian, and Swyx Transcriptswyx: [00:00:00] Hey everyone! On weekends, we do long form audio from one of my conversations with people. [00:00:06] And a few months ago, I published an article on why technical community building is the hardest new job in tech. And it got a lot of traction. In fact, some of the other weekend drops on this podcast are related to that. Podcasts, but I was invited by the GitHub office of the CTO to talk about it. [00:00:25] These are two people that I knew from prior engagements before. Idan Gazit. I actually  met at the Heroku conference. When I spoke aboutNetlify CLI and Netlify Dev. And then Brian Douglas, BDougie , it was the dev advocate at Netlify before any of us were dev because another fi. So he kind of pioneered and originated the role, which I stepped into. [00:00:46] And both of them are just very well. The tunes to dev community. So I thought we had a really good conversation. About it. So the first part of this talk basically is me presenting a few slides on the, my thoughts on dev community. And then it was just a freeform discussion between. Myself and these two experts at GitHub. so enjoy [00:01:17] Idan Gazit: [00:01:17] Hello, welcome to the Octo speaker series. My name is Eden and I'm with Gibbs office of the CTO. We look at the future of development, developer experiences and try to figure out how to make development faster, safer, easier, more accessible to more people and more situations. All I find jazz today we're trying something a little different.[00:01:43] Our guest is GitHub Star, Shawn Wang, better known by his internet handles Swyx and we'll also be joined by Brian Douglas, AKA B Douggie, who is a developer advocate and educator, and my colleague here at get hub. So, excited for that. I first met Swyx at a conference in the before times before the Corona, almost two years ago when he was giving a talk about state machines for building CLIs.[00:02:07]I knew of him in the context of his famous learning in public essay. And the talk that he gave was a fantastic demonstration of that diving into an area where he had relatively little expertise and making sense of that territory and jumping back out to explain it to the rest of us after his talk, he can.[00:02:28] To me that he he's actually a refugee from programming, Excel for finance. And I think coming out of that background, Swyx excels at finding that place of empathy for developers in the middle of the unglamorous, the hard parts of development the parts that we don't like to show off to one another, because they don't make us look smart.[00:02:49] They don't make us look, look cool. His work normalizes, the feeling of I'm stupid right now, which is very much a part of every developer journey and with which I identify very, very much. I think that's what makes his thoughts on community building so relatable and so topical developer facing businesses have to find a way to channel empathy into action.[00:03:13] And Swyx is figuring that out in all of its messiness in public for us to see and learn from. And in fact the reason I reached out to invite them onto the show is this recent post that he wrote called technical community builders. And looking critically at, at how that's different from the way Deborah has done today.[00:03:30]And I think this is a very interesting take on the future of, of, of this business function for developer facing businesses.  Okay. So before I bring him on I'll remind everybody that we have a code of conduct it's really important to me that chat is a place where everyone feels welcome. So, please make sure to make that possible.[00:03:47] And without further ado I would like to welcome Swyx and be Douggie. Hello. [00:03:52]swyx: [00:03:52] Hey, Hey, Hey  [00:03:54] Idan Gazit: [00:03:54] Swyx, you're, you're out in Singapore and it's like the middle of your night. Thank you so much for coming in and joining us for, for, for this talk. [00:04:02] swyx: [00:04:02] Oh, it's my pleasure. Yeah, I mean, I work specific hours specific time anyway, so, this is I guess the start of my day. [00:04:10] Idan Gazit: [00:04:10] Okay, well, good morning to you then.[00:04:12]Doug, [00:04:14] Brian Douglas: [00:04:14] I'm doing perfectly fine enjoying my normal time of the day, [00:04:19] Idan Gazit: [00:04:19] the north, the morning. That includes the day star. Fantastic. Swyx you said that you wanted to give a little bit of a, an upfront a mini talk about this before we dive into this discussion. Why don't I bring you on.[00:04:35] There we go. Okay. So like enlighten us. [00:04:39] swyx: [00:04:39] I can't, I can't actually see the screen cause I just have my slides full screen. So just pause me if there's anything I just wanted to, I guess, set some context for people who may not have read the post. You know, I think you and I, and, and Douggie, like we, we've all talked about community for a bit, so we may have more context than others.[00:04:58] And so I just wanted to, you know, whip up a few slides just to set some context and then we can actually talk because I'm very inspired by what GitHub does. And I'm definitely learning a lot from what you know, you guys do for, for community. Okay. So why invest in developer community a little bit?[00:05:16] I feel like this is a bit obvious, but, but the reason I write, like I would normally never write something like this because it just seems obvious. But the reason I write about it is I do a lot of conversations with startups and Sometimes for investing sometimes just to give dev REL advice sometimes, you know, marketing or whatever other network I can offer to startups.[00:05:38] I, I often do that. But in, in the past week or so, like at least when I wrote that book blog posts in one week, I had three conversations that all ended in can you help us find somebody to build developer community? And I was like, okay, this is, this is not just like one-off thing. This is a trend.[00:05:53] A lot of startup founders are feeling and there's no one really dedicated to it. There, there are people of course, but it's not like a, an industry trend yet. So I decided to write a blog post about that. And that's, that's why, I guess we're here today to talk about going on. Wait, wait, communities becoming more of a thing.[00:06:12] Always has been a thing, but it's becoming more of a thing and maybe professionalizing as well. So a bit of context about me, I think you done already introduced me quite a bit. I did change careers at age 30 but I definitely owe a lot of my career change and learning to code. To community, right?[00:06:27] I joined the free code camp community, the coding blocks slack group and podcasts was also a very big part of companionship through the journey of learning to code, which is a very rough one even for me. And and then of course I also did a bootcamp, which is a paid community, but one that's very, very focused on getting you hired.[00:06:46]And that got me into two Sigma Netlify AWS and I work at Tim portal. I think what I'm better known for maybe in the community space is, is my volunteer work in this reacts subreddit where I helped to grow the subreddit from 40,000 developers to over 220,000 before I stepped down I stepped down to basically, cause I started moving my interests to another front end framework spelt and I started that from zero to now it's like eight, eight to 9,000 feet.[00:07:12]And I also run a paid community for learning in public. So, I wrote a book, people like the book, and then we chat about career related stuff in, in our discord and then also go community. So that's my community credentials, I guess I should preface that. I guess I'm also, I had to put this here because a get hub at GitHub universe did this really cool Octo cat thing here.[00:07:33] So I just redid my profile as a GitHub look at which is really fun. And I did, I am pretty honored to be invited as a GitHub star which I think is a way that get hub recognizes community members as well, which we can also talk about, like, how do you recognize and promoted? You know, I, I guess your, your, your super fans and, and what does that really do for you?[00:07:54]Okay. So, I'll just, I'll just re blast through a few points and then we can, we can set it up for wherever you guys want to talk about. So to me, I think the, the main articulation that I want to have is like community is increasingly the moat of a lot of developer companies. So developers have always self-organized communities like IRC and BB SS.[00:08:12]But now companies, entire companies have communities where that's the entire mode like get hub is essentially get a plus a social network. And it's really like anyone can offer get, you know, but it, it, it's it's a V it's very hard proposition to replace a social network. And, and you find that the same for stack overflow.[00:08:29] There's a question and answer site. Anyone can build that, but you can not build the community. And same for hacker news. So it seems like very. You know, very key modes. And you would think that a lot more companies should be focused on that. But it doesn't seem so at least in, in terms of hiring, when you look at job titles and stuff like that they're more focused on the content creation and marketing, not so much community.[00:08:50]And I think that's changing right now and that's why I write about it. So that's the real question, like whose job is it anyway? There are community managers but typically we, we had one in LFI. They're typically focused on giving the forums and social media, like maybe making inoffensive posts or whatever.[00:09:08]They can do it. They're capable of a lot more. These, these are just stereotypical tasks that are assigned to community managers and then developer advocates have a bit of community as well. They do a lot of content and outreach to other communities. So it's not so much forming your own community rather than.[00:09:23] Let's how do we reach out and present and be a part and meet developers where they are rather than draw people to us, which there is a lot of as well. But the, they maybe don't have as much of a focus on sticking around and making interrelationships customer success is support documentation, solutions, engineering, all these are, you know, community of people who pay you and marketing, mailing lists, webinars, conferences.[00:09:45] These are all, you know, isolated communities of people who don't yet pay you, but could pay you. And then I think there's also, you know, apart from function functional split, there's also or chart split. And I do find that a lot of people who are directly responsible for community are at the lower rungs of the, of the org chart rather than at the, at the upper rung.[00:10:04] So it's pretty weird that it's just splintered all over the place. It's not really organized. I don't know. Doesn't seem like a organizational priority in a lot of the. Companies that I've seen. So the, the, the main realization for me is that community is basically part of the product. And in fact, in a lot of companies, it is the main part of the products, but it's, under-resourced compared to the products or engineering.[00:10:25]And I think something that is key is like, maybe we should not call it just community management, even though that's a default title. So I offered a few suggestions, like community developer or community tumbler. Tumbler is a word from I guess the circus. I took it from an Alex Holman post blog posts, but essentially a tumbler is someone who gets conversations going in and then pieces out.[00:10:47]So a lot of the times community manager does a lot of the heavy lifting. But you need to, in order for functional community to form into something that has many to many interactions, instead of one too many you, you need to get, so you need to have someone to create events where people feel safe and, and and inspired and motivated to, to share and to help each other out.[00:11:09]My preferred term right now is technical community builder because it's very similar to technical product manager, which is an actual job title at Microsoft and Amazon and a bunch of other places. And it has an emphasis on technical and the, and there's a question of like, must they be technical?[00:11:24] Of course not, of course you can have very, very good community builders and community managers who are not technical at all. But I think people who are technical have this extra dimension, which they can really empathize with developers on and connect people, solve their, solve their problems right away.[00:11:40] Basically just, you know, be one of, one of them. Like when you, when you talk to someone who fundamentally empathizes with your problems as a developer, you share more and you, you have deeper discussions. And then the other question is why must the title be different? I posit that it's very similar to, to the once in a lifetime upgrade in status impacts authority and career prospects for ops professional.[00:12:02] When the dev ops and got started, like dev ops used to not be a thing. Now it's a very highly in demand thing. And that's because it was a rebrand of existing skills that were, that, that were around, but, you know, repackage with, with new technology and a new focus in in a lot of organizations that the, that they realize that they need to invest in it.[00:12:22]So I think a similar movement needs to happen and you, you can't really rebrand something by calling it the same exact name. So th so that's why, that's why there's an opportunity to rebrand this discipline here. Okay. I'm very influenced by this model from comScore, which is essentially the opposite of what I showed you earlier, where community used to be at the fringe.[00:12:42]And you used to have all these other, other things in control of community and here, and, and the community led model kind of inverts that where community is at the core of everything. And from your insights from community and building relationships you, you spin out marketing, you spin out products, you spin on sales and so on and so forth.[00:12:59]And I think it's very interesting migration from periphery to core which. Been told actually is the same thing. That's happening to data science, data science, at least in, in the, in the companies that I've worked with used to be a fringe thing where like it's a bunch of geeks, you know, messing around with their with the analytics to like now it actually is part of the reporting process that generates a lot of product and sales and marketing insights.[00:13:25]And I think, I think community can, can do that with humans and not, not less, less less data, but you can, you can have a lot of data with, with it as well. So the question is why invest in it? And really, I think my, my fundamental assumption is that traditional marketing and support isn't cutting it.[00:13:38]This is the traditional idea of a marketing and sales funnel. You have awareness, evaluation, and conversion, and we as developer relations people definitely biased towards awareness for better or worse. But I think it, it is only one part of the picture and it's very transactional, right. It, you start at the top.[00:13:53]And then you, you, you come out at the bottom as a, as a salesperson and then, and then you're, they're done with you. I wash my hands off you and I, and you're handed off to someone else. The, the problems here are a few, few fold, right? Like marketing, especially in development. Marketing has extremely long cycles.[00:14:08]In traditional digital marketing, you need to touch you know, th th the traditional advice is that someone needs to hear about you six to seven times before they even check you out. For me. I know a lot of technologies. I ignore them for a year just to see if they stick around. And if they're still relevant after your, then I check them out.[00:14:24] So try to do marketing attribution. Impossible. So, very, very difficult. And, and not within any con China performance evaluation timeframe. And then also what happens after I convert, right. What happens after I come out the funnel? Do I feel supported there? Do I, do I grow and succeed and all that?[00:14:39]So the solution is to change from mostly transactional finite games to relationship-based infinite games. And this is the bigger picture that I see there's marketing and sales going on here. But then you, it exists within a broader scope of community that kind of catches all the other stuff that isn't really handled by marketing and sales.[00:14:55]We actually has loaded up the orbit model, which we can, we I'm sure we're going to talk about, so instead of the funnel, which is a very linear approach the orbit model, like kind of is isn't or. So characterize as the people around your company, as a people orbiting your company and they may be in wider orbits, or they may be in closer Orbitz.[00:15:14] Sometimes they may drop out. Sometimes they may come back in. It's a very infinite relationship model, the way they just constantly orbiting. And you're just trying to draw them closer with more and more gravity towards your, your software or your community. The reason I think it's important for startups in particular is that it's a very big part of crossing the chasm because there's a small set of people who actually picked technologies based on pure technical merit.[00:15:38] And there's a large set of people who pick technologies partially on merit partially because there's a strong ecosystem. And there's a very, very big steep gap in between that. And people who can help companies cross this gap can deliver a lot of value for, for the companies involved. And, and that's a, that's a really core insight, I think.[00:15:57] Okay. There's even more reasons. In my blog post, I don't have time to go into all of these, but we can talk about them in a discussion. I don't want this to be a lecture and I will refer and I have the last part on why now. And I'll send people to the blog post if they want to see it, but that's my short little primer for my thoughts on community.[00:16:15]Idan Gazit: [00:16:15] Fantastic. That was a solid, that was a solid introduction. One thing that really strikes me about what you're calling out here is that I can't, I can't highlight another area where there's a business motion. That's so central to success, which is which is so undefined. Like you think about most, most functions in a business like marketing or engineering or product.[00:16:40] And if I took, you know, 10 random people and asked them, you know, what does this job entail? What does success. Look like, and how does it contribute to the success of the overall business? And I'll get 10 answers that are more or less the same. And here, I think what's, what's special and maybe is in a, in a difficult sense is that I don't think that if I asked 10 people, like, you know, what's the purpose of this business function?[00:17:05] What does success look like? What does the job entail? What level of talent do we need to hire in order to accomplish this? Well, even, you know, things as boring as, like you say, sort of like, you know, where on the totem pole, like, you know, who, who does, who's responsible for this and who do they report to that level of, of definition?[00:17:25] I don't think I'm going to get 10 answers that are mostly the same. I think I'm going to get 10 wildly different answers that that don't resemble one another[00:17:33]Brian Douglas: [00:17:33] If I can add to as well. This is something that's come up really recently for me. Cause I, I shipped a YouTube video yesterday focused on like what the future of dev role looks like. So think about community and how that sort of changed even in us being over remote. There's no real like structure.[00:17:48] I think the everything, everybody can do something to move the needle, but I think the folks who are doing really good jobs is when you look at that, that model of the orbit, the folks as you bring more and more people closer to the nucleus they stick around longer. And I think one thing that Swyx and I had in common is that, well, a couple of things, we had a comment, like I was part of that react sub subreddit as well.[00:18:07]We also spent time at Netlify. So like I've saw a lot of the same stuff that Swyx us all and what I agree with everything that he said too as well. And the things that I think I saw successful at notifies that we had a committee. Folks who are just really excited about the product. And we found ways to bring them closer to the inner circle, to the point where there are Netlify employees, who now, who, who came from that community.[00:18:27] So when you think of like recruiting or not just actually using the product, but if you're looking for your next advocate, it should come from the community that's already existed. [00:18:35]swyx: [00:18:35] Yeah. I, one of the points that I made was that if hiring is your biggest problem just like 99% of other startups or companies in general, it doesn't have to be startups.[00:18:46]Then building a strong community helps you source very, a much higher quality of employee than you know, just picking any random developer off the street. [00:18:53] Idan Gazit: [00:18:54] I mean, yeah, like there's, there's in the post, you actually highlight that there's this sort of litany of, of of benefits. And I don't remember all of them off the top of my head, but I remember as I was reading through the post.[00:19:06]Excuse me. I thought that there was a lot more there than I expected, you know, like I expected going into it. It's just like, well, what benefits am I going to, I see from, from doing this well, well, you know, I'll do a better job at outreach. I'll do a better job at uptake of my product. But you know, I hadn't thought of the hiring angle, even though that's, you know, it's playing right there in front of us.[00:19:26] You know, if you build a strong community, you have a very like high quality pool in which to fish for, for, for, for standout employees. That it's a source of, of not exactly free marketing, but you know, it's like you have a chance of growing a class of evangelists, people that are going to go out and spread the word about, about what, whatever it is that you're doing.[00:19:46]I've even [00:19:47] swyx: [00:19:47] sorry. I've even gone one step further. So I took the hiring thing to the extreme. So, the, they started that I work at right now, it's in portal. We actually started listing jobs for our customers so that we can help them hire based on at least through us. So, so like, okay, if you don't work for us, but can just come work at one of the, one of the company, one of the customer companies.[00:20:07]And it's just like, like we win if they win, you know what I mean? And, and it's, you can just take this to an extreme level where you just start becoming a de facto recruiting agent. Really good. But I do, I do that, like, you know, if you do a really good job community, actually your the person's membership in the, in your community actually outlives there.[00:20:24]Present employer. And that that's a really strong community. That's like, okay. I'm, I'm I'm first and foremost, a member of your developer community. Then secondarily, I just happened to be at this company right now. But you know, I do, I do have my primary network within, within your community.[00:20:38] That's a really strong one. [00:20:40]Brian Douglas: [00:20:40] And I guess, can I add actually get some clarification too, from you Swyx when you talk about these terms like dev ops, who like everybody knows what dev ops is now, it wasn't an unknown thing, you know, 10 plus years ago. But when you build a community, like what are some sort of like ways you can avoid those pitfalls?[00:20:56] Because I know every time I go to an event and I join a random slack channel for just that event, like I leave that slack channel as soon as it's done. So like, I'm curious what your, your, your thoughts are. As far as building community from scratch. [00:21:11] swyx: [00:21:11] Oh, wait, are you saying that this is a problem with DevOps?[00:21:14] Or are you just so [00:21:15] sorry? [00:21:15] Brian Douglas: [00:21:15] I use dev ops because dev ops is a very clear term. There's already established community, but if I started B Douggie conference and wanted to everybody joined the movement, like it's going to be a challenge because it's going to be me and maybe a couple of people in chat. So like, how do I make sure that this is not another community that's become stagnant or stale?[00:21:34] Like I want to create the next devil. [00:21:36] swyx: [00:21:36] I gotcha. I gotcha. Yeah. I think so you and I, of course were very informed by our Netlify experience for anyone who doesn't know  actually started the whole debt roll practice at Netlify. And I basically, you know, was one fourth of his job after he left. Anyway and something that nullify did, which was brilliant was that they didn't create the Netlify movement.[00:21:57] They didn't create the Netlify conference. They created the JAMstack movement and the jazz that conference. And, and, and I really. I like this idea that you build something that's bigger than yourself. Like you build a movement that other people can evolve get involved with and see themselves in to the point where they start competing with you and you have to be okay.[00:22:15]If you're, so mission-driven that you're okay. Losing because someone did your job better than you. Then you, then you've really found something that's worth building a community around because otherwise it's just, you're building a cult, I guess, where it's centered around you. And, and so I, I really like that.[00:22:32] For example, I'll give you a concrete example, which is at, I think our second JAMstack conference Netlify we invited people from Microsoft competitor in, in some ways who did not use Netlify at all, did not pitch another fight at all. But just presented their ideas on JAMstack and we invited them as a speaker.[00:22:49]Yeah. Ha. Yeah. I mean, I, I, and I think that we should have more you know, competitive competitor companies also visited the conference as well. I think we should have more of that. I think it shows a fundamental level of security that you're like, okay, I'm not threatened by you. Or like, I care about this enough that you know, this is big enough that multiple players can win in this space.[00:23:11] That's a real community where, whereas you know, a lot of other times you're just running it to as a feeder service into, into, into your marketing funnel. [00:23:22] Brian Douglas: [00:23:22] Yeah. I like the, the thought about building a community that's bigger than yourself. And I think like speaking from good hubs perspective, cause I was a time user recently employed at GitHub in the last three years.[00:23:32] Not really that recent, but it startup worlds. That's, that's kinda, that's like forever ago. But what I'm getting at is like the whole get collaboration, open source protocol. I, I liked that GitHub didn't try to strangle it and try to own it completely. There were other competitors are doing a great job and having collaboration tools around, get up, get, just get in general.[00:23:53]And that sort of funnel of new users, community conferences, slack rooms, discords it's been helpful for me in doing my job because there's already established community that I can just go in and not try to take leadership on, but more of like, Hey, I want to learn from you as well. [00:24:10] swyx: [00:24:10] Yeah, totally, totally.[00:24:11] I do think that at some level there's, there's a transition from like, okay, this is bigger than yourself, but then at some point you're, you're big enough that you are a community on your own. And I think, you know, once you're past like 50 million developers, you can have your own community. That's totally fine.[00:24:27]Same thing for like Salesforce at Dreamforce and AWS and reinvents. Like we all have, you know, huge companies have their own conferences and this totally fine, but I think when you're getting things off the ground, that's a totally different story.[00:24:38] Idan Gazit: [00:24:38] I think, I think you, you, you touched on something interesting there about picking, you know, it's always, it's always hard to stay away from like blatant advertising when it comes to like developers, like, you know, who do I work for? What is it that they make? That's obviously going to be a central part of the discussion if, you know, I'm representing, you know, company X or Y but you highlighted that, you know, for Netlify the story was not it was not Netlify, it was JAMstack forget hub it wasn't look at GitHub and, and and our specific web app, but the the collaborative nature of open source, specifically powered by decentralized version control.[00:25:18]And like, you know, the get is important. The polar requests are important. The rest of the stuff that get it brings is important, but it's not that's not the thing that's going to emotionally resonate with with people on its own. Not unless you have such a, you know, so much of a better product that it's like, oh my God, people are wowed by just the existence of this thing.[00:25:38]Which is great. If you can pull that off, like more power to you, you know? I think you, you touched on this sort of linear path. Okay. Like you have a story, you tell it and you think about this, this path that, that you want to take people, a journaling journey that you want to take people along that starts in marketing territory and ends in sales territory.[00:25:57] Hope. And then by contrast, you know, coming back to that. To the orbit model. One of the sort of assertions you made there is that your remodel is not, it's not strictly linear, that it has these other dimensions. It has this love dimension, basically like a measure of, of activity and reach as a, as a, as a measure of influence.[00:26:14] But when I still look at this at this model, it's still talking about these sort of concentric rings of, you know, you start at the very outer, most orbit, you know, as just an observer and accessibly, you move, move your way into the middle. That's still seems like a relatively, you know, linear journey to me.[00:26:30]I think it's curious, I, you know, that they, that they put advocates at as the closest, the inner most ring versus contributors. Because when I think about like, where, where do I spend the maximum amount of energy? It's in contributing, it's not an obvious, it's really easy for me to advocate.[00:26:48] I can advocate. React until the cows come home. And you know, all I got to do is write like nice things about react, but contributing to react like an effortful activity. So, I'm curious, you know, about that journey, like, what do you think, is it, is it really about getting people to contribution is contribution just a, like a left turn on this.[00:27:09] Does this make sense to you? I don't know. I'm curious what you think.[00:27:11] swyx: [00:27:12] I, I feel like they've probably written this up. So I'm actually looking up the, the, the writer right now, cause this is probably a better question for Patrick Woods who came over this model. But I, I agree if you want in principle, at least in an open source context that people who number of people who contribute are far less than the number of you who advocate for the thing.[00:27:29] And maybe that, that should be the inner circle. I would say that it's less linear because the whole point is that you can jump in and out of different orbits depending on your life situation or just whatever projects you're working on. That's totally fine. And it's not considered a failure. Yeah, I don't know if that.[00:27:47] Brian Douglas: [00:27:47] Yeah, I do have some thoughts cause I know Patrick and I know Josh pretty well and I have been able to rub shoulders with them so that the founders of the corporate model or the orbit company as well. And I talked to Patrick on his podcast, which is called developer love and episode one, you can hear way more detailed what I go into and right now but the one thing that I had to figure out when I joined GitHub as a developer advocate and at the time we had advocates, but no one actually had the title at the time at GitHub.[00:28:12] So I was even the reigns to do developer relations at, get up, figure out what that meant. And at that time I had to figure out also what that meant, but also give a talk at developer dev role con cause we had a speaking slot and I call myself the Beyonce of get hub. And I do that tongue in cheek and I joke around about that, but I do that because like, I don't play.[00:28:33] I don't play Beyonce music all day, every day. Like I don't, you know, I don't know how to play the backing tracks on base or anything like that. So I'm not really contributing in that sense, but I will tell you about Beyonce and tell you her story. And I think it's the same thing with open source. Like I made a contribution to no JS back in November, it was a really painful process.[00:28:50] I learned a ton and my contribution to the no JS was that I read blog posts. I did a contribution on their repo, but the difference is when I get on stage and I show you how to write a script in node and I go around and I share, I'm like, well, I noticed still great despite dyno or Dino and all these sorts of Russ compiler times, like I'm still advocating for no JS.[00:29:12] And I think. If you can bring more people to the sort of inner circle. I think that's, that's always going to be super helpful. And if you have people who are going to be the mouthpiece, I guess what I'm getting at is my job at GitHub is not to be the number one developer advocate in the world. My job is to build more developer advocates.[00:29:30] So if you can advocate, get, get help on behalf of get hub and I don't have to be involved, then that's an entire automation automated process. Now you can argue contributions that can automate that and just grow and sustain the project. But there are a lot of GitHub projects or sorry, open-source projects have lots of contributions that you've never heard of.[00:29:48]So like until someone tells me that exists or I see it on the trending tab it's going to be a hard a hard thing to focus on to try to get more contributors when no one's actually knows about this project. [00:29:57]Idan Gazit: [00:29:57] Right. There's there's definitely, I mean, that's definitely like a, like a hurdle to be crossed in terms of just like, you know, where do I even hear about this?[00:30:05] I mean, obviously there's, there's, you can think of that as a, I'm sure. Not coming from a marketing background, you know, I'm sure there's entire textbooks about the phase of like, you know, how do I get people to even know that I exist before I like, you know, how do I wedge the door open long enough for me to attempt to get across?[00:30:23] Like, and here's why you should care about me. There's a whole phase of, of, of just spreading the word. [00:30:30] swyx: [00:30:30] That's why, that's why I think, you know, we I do, I do think that we do need technical community builders, whatever the, you know, whatever we call this thing. They, they, they probably need to be technical because they need to have that technical leadership of like, I authentically went through the same journey that I'm telling you that I'm hoping that you also go through with me on this.[00:30:48]And, and this is something that non-technical community managers cannot do. So it's like a. Thing where you have to hire someone on who has a software engineering background or is it, you know, pay them like a developer, but then put them on non-technical things, which is communities less Senegal.[00:31:09] Brian Douglas: [00:31:09] Right. You know, I don't know. It's a weird job. It's just this thing, authenticity to it too as well. Like I would not have know how to be a developer advocate if I wasn't a developer first. So like, I always put myself in the mindset of like, if I had to use this thing and it takes me 12 minutes to get it set up, like, I'm probably never going to use it again.[00:31:24] So like, how can I advocate on the behalf of this product to make this better? And how could I bring that information back to whoever makes decisions at this project company maintain her level or whatnot. And it's just like, I, I just still think it's one step more than just contributing, keeping the lights on.[00:31:41]It's more of like, Hey, I want to also bring that feedback. How can I improve this? And I think. The, the roles inside the community. I think technical community manager, it's a great world because it actually touches all those different pillars. And specifically in the  model, I know we're focused on that, but like being able to turn it on, turn it off and also know how to listen as well.[00:32:03]Are very valuable like attributes that I would love to have on my team. I get hub for sure. And we do have those by the way. I just want to set the record, [00:32:13]Idan Gazit: [00:32:13] Just to be, just to be upfront and clear. So, I think, I think we're all dancing around a little bit, the, the, the bigger question of what are the qualities like, what are, what does success look like for this role?[00:32:25] How does it, how has it changed? Like, you know, if we, if we called the role previously developer relations, and now we're calling it this subtly. Name around technical community building and sort of the, the, the stewardship and the shepherding of, of a community. What what's success, how is success different in, in this sort of like a slightly different like mental model and, and what's different in the day to day?[00:32:50] Like, you know, if, if previously, you know, previously I was doing Debra and that meant I was doing X, Y, and Z with my days in order to succeed at my job and contribute to the success of the business. What does that look like in this sort of new, mental framing of community building, as opposed to simply developer relations?[00:33:11] swyx: [00:33:11] Yeah. So I can give a crack at it and then I'm sure Doug has, has other thoughts. You know, at Amazon, I can tell you directly the, the, the KPIs that we were reporting and, or. To the outside world. That's, that's the only thing that they expect out of us, which is number of views on the content that we produce.[00:33:28] Right. Very depersonalized. You're just a number to me. Did I get a thousand? Did I get 10,000? Did I get a hundred thousand? I did a better job if it was a bigger number. Great. But there's no relationship there. There's no measurement of quality, like was, was that they just glance at the title.[00:33:43] Where did they actually read the whole thing and try out the demo? There, there are different weights for different you know, actions that people can take. And we do try, they check that, but it's all a joke. Like it's not okay. Everyone knows that it's a joke. You know, it's a proxy to what we really want, which is people trying you out and seeing if they like you and you know, short of standing over their shoulders, you can't really get that.[00:34:06] I'm so sorry. What I, what I do, what I do like is that orbit is trying to innovate on that by measuring you know, what they call love, which is just the intensity of activity which is the same thing, but tracks on a per person basis. And, and, and suggest in, and that opens up the possibility of like, having more of like a CRM model, which is very much the sales idea of like, you know, have, have an idea of that, the customer journey from beginning to end and suggests or automate engagements as they, as they come along on the journey.[00:34:36]Which, which is less, it's just, it's just a lot less transactional, like at, even at Netlify. Like I was, when, when you get to the point of like attaching UTM tags to your posts, to see the, the response of of, of your campaigns that's just, you're just marketing. You're not there role. I mean, and so, so, so I definitely care a lot more about the relationship aspect and how much you can, you can cultivate just by understanding the customer journey rather than treating them as a sort of faceless numbers [00:35:04]Brian Douglas: [00:35:04] to add to that too, as well.[00:35:06] Like I am all, I'm definitely against trying to look at views and how many people are in the stream right now. Cause I think that's you you've lost it at that point. But I think what success looks. Is the names that I see in the chat right now. I see a lot of familiar names. So how many of those familiar names do I see next time?[00:35:21]Because as those were my, I didn't even know this term tumblers that you mentioned in your slides. Cause I've seen this around, but I didn't know what that was. The party corgi chat has tumblers and I didn't know what tumblers were today. But I guess I have an anecdote too, as well from net network.[00:35:33]Netlify when I was doing, and we, we were bottom growing and we have this opportunity to speak or speak and also attend and have a boot that react rally. And it would have been super easy to say, Hey, can you fill out this form? And we'll send you, we'll get your email. And then you have a chance to win, you know, this thing at Netlify.[00:35:52]And instead my approach at that conference, which was like one of the first conferences I ever had, any sort of marketing, advertising, whatever my approach. Come to the booth. We had an Nintendo switch on the, on the booth table, and then we had a bunch of stickers. And the thing was if you switched to Netlify, which is like, it was a pine, really.[00:36:10]And then we'll give you a chance to win the switch. And the step was, all you had to do is scan a QR code and then click the deploy to Netlify button. And it was on that, that website or, sorry, it was a get hub repo. You put click the deploy Netlify button, and then inside the site you deployed from Netlify.[00:36:24] After 15 to 30 seconds, it took happened to be a gap suicide. So we were at on-brand for the conference. Then you read the website you just deployed and the instruction says, click this button to tweet. And if you tweet that would actually put you in a hashtag and I had a node server that would then pick a random person.[00:36:38] So we did this for three days. We gave away the switch by the second day, cause we'd had enough people. I think the conference was like 600, 700 and we had about 320. People who participated. And then after the first day we knew we engaged the community because the next day two or three people came and said, Hey I clicked the button and then I saw what you deployed.[00:36:55] And it was a Gatsby site. And at the time Gatsby wasn't even 1.0, so like nobody would use Gatsby at that time. And they're like, yeah, I switched my entire blog to Gatsby. And it's hosted on Netlify. So then we know, Hey, this person is actually super engaged. This is, this is my next advocate. Like, I'm going to, whatever you need, I'll give you a sweater or a t-shirt eat.[00:37:12] If you don't win the switch, like I will engage you and give you everything. You need to continue down this path. And that was the focus. And like for marketing, it looked great. But we didn't have the sort of traditional fill out this web form. It was this click, this button used a product if you don't want it, or if you want to delete the repo by all means, get hub out at the time, get hub had all hit all your information.[00:37:33] Like we weren't even collecting your information. So like the goal was just really. Taking it for a test drive. And then if it works out for you we have this forum, we have this community, we have get up issues like this jump in where you, where [00:37:46] swyx: [00:37:46] you fit in. Yeah. And then we also, I think potential enterprise team customers.[00:37:52] This was after Brian left, but you know, w w we also had like a separate process for potential customers to highlight to the sales team where we actually scanned their badges and took down info and basically fed indirectly to their CRM or whatever. And that was pretty good because w we were able to capture a lot of really useful detail that gave our salespeople are really good [00:38:10] Brian Douglas: [00:38:10] headstart.[00:38:11] Yeah. And you just don't know who you're, who you're chatting with too as well. Cause that, that story. About being at react rally. One of the people who walked up and said, Hey, this is actually pretty cool. That person was maxed away, Burr and max Storybird. A lot of, a lot of people know him. He used to actually work at, get hub for a time.[00:38:25] He built a whole product, got acquired by GitHub, and now he's at Gatsby as well. Coincidentally. But I never met max. I just knew who he was. I knew of his story. And then we connected and like, he didn't like, he wasn't like the number one Netlify fan boy, I don't, I'm pretty sure he didn't walk away shipping everything to Netlify, but we made that connection.[00:38:42] So every time I had a conversation with max or he remembered me, that was like a nice serendipitous moment of like, oh yeah, we met at that one time that when I did that thing and like, you just can't put a metric to that of like, what big names do you know that like, at the time max was like, he wasn't even a big name, but like you just, yeah, you just can't quantify that you can't put a number to that.[00:39:02] Just have to go. [00:39:04] swyx: [00:39:04] I mean, it probably contributed to the reacts to be on Netlify as well. Yeah, it's, it's, it's a domino effect and there's a sort of like a density effect, like one person using it. All right. Cool. Two people. All right, cool. But then like three prominent people then it's starts to become a thing, you know?[00:39:19]So I like that concentration of like, presence which, which also points of it being more of a community. Right. So, yeah. I don't think, I don't think we gave you that like a lot of like numbers, we're just like, we just talked about people, which is very natural thing. [00:39:34] Brian Douglas: [00:39:34] Yeah. And the one thing that I did want to add to real quick is that the one thing, when I joined GitHub, my biggest goal was I spent four years in San Francisco and I only needed like a handful of get up.[00:39:43] Employees never went to, to get hub office. And my goal is to get up employee today. And a developer advocate is I want to put, be a face to a company that has an Okta cat for a face. Like I want you to know who to reach out. And if it's me, or if it's not me, like, I'll give you the right person. And that's like one of my goals that get hub to do, to be an advocate for getting you in the right router.[00:40:02]Idan Gazit: [00:40:02] That's, that's interesting. I mean, like, you know, there's a part of my brain in the back and it's like, you know, like the true wind was the friends we made along the way. Exactly. It turns out that It's interesting though, because this role that you, you just described, this thing exists, it's called an ombudsman. And if you're familiar with this, I think it comes out of the military. Like, you know, this is like the person that the families at home are in touch with in order to like, you know, reach their, their loved ones that are deployed wherever and have any concerns or whatever.[00:40:31] And so the there's a, there there's a sort of like, a name for, for, for this role of like, you know, liaison into the company and actual human that can, you know, step in and maybe not help you solve your problem directly, but at least point you in the right direction, like, you know, attach you to the person that can actually help you move forward.[00:40:51]But you're, you're right in saying that there's like, you know, these aren't, you haven't really given me like hard metrics. Like, you know, if I'm now going to pitch to a company like, Hey, here's what I'm going to do for you. They're going to be like, okay, like, What are, what are the, what are the OKR is what are the KPIs?[00:41:09] What, what, what is the thing that you're going to be measured on? How do we know if what we're doing is succeeding. [00:41:16] swyx: [00:41:16] There is a company that actually does that, which is Weaver that AI, they call it community qualified leads, and it takes a very salesy model to, to this direct attribution towards sales and marketing and all that.[00:41:27]And so, yeah, I mean, once you have the tracking system in place, you can Def you can absolutely do that. And if you need to quantify in that way then absolutely. Yeah, you know, I, I, I don't necessarily feel that strongly because it tends to be. Then become a fight for whoever is the last touch who gets the most attribution which makes it a very political thing.[00:41:49] Idan Gazit: [00:41:49] Sometimes between departments in some senses, that sounds like it's going to set up all the wrong incentives inside. You know, it's like when you're like, you know, at a store and you get mob by like, you know, it was like, no, I'm the one who like, you know, did anybody help you today? Well, [00:41:59] swyx: [00:41:59] yeah, it's like, so for me, I don't know if you guys have played Kerbal space program.[00:42:04] No, [00:42:05] Idan Gazit: [00:42:05] only her only her. [00:42:08] swyx: [00:42:08] Okay, I'll just give you like the rough intuition. When you, when you start off trying to get the rocket from off the ground, into, into orbit you're very concerned with all the tiny little mechanics of like what degree tilt you're doing, what what your yall is and pitch and whatever and your, your velocity and your weight and, and the stages that you do.[00:42:24]But once you're basically at velocity and in space you then only care about your like DV. I forgot what the, the, the, the calculus is, but like, you only care about your high level metrics and you don't actually care about the low level stuff, because you're, you're, you're beyond that.[00:42:41] You're, you're cruising at a speed where you, you should just move the big controls that actually matter, and then leave the lethal minor attribution's to, to like random noise or like, it's going to bubble up if it actually becomes. And I, I think that that's how large and our community should be managed.[00:42:57] Like, as long as, as long as your efforts are growing at a, at a decent rate, you can trust that it probably will trickle down to whatever and you don't really have to be too precise about how exactly you attribute it. That's at least my intuition. It's going to be, it's going to bother me now that I don't remember what the it's like DVD or something like that for your, your, your Delta Delta V or yeah.[00:43:18] Anyway, I'm sure someone in chat is yelling at me. I have a question for you guys if, if, if you want to enter entertain this. So there's a, there's a problem in my mind, which I haven't resolved, which is this idea of a super user. So at Netlify Netlify we call them the other friends at get hub.[00:43:32] You call them, get up stars. Stripe has drug community experts. These are an AWS as, as community builders. These are basically unpaid super users, which you give some kind. Yeah, but you know, perks but they're your external third party advocates. What do you think about them? How do you, how do you make them effective?[00:43:49]And, and basically everyone is new to this game. Like GitHub stars program is like a few months old. Right. Or maybe a year old. Yeah. Since September. What's your, what's your, what's your take on these kinds of programs? Like what, what is, what are what's their role compared to you guys? [00:44:06] Brian Douglas: [00:44:06] Yeah. I, I could speak on partially behalf of get hub and something that I've always also put a lot of thought into before I got, I could have, because I was trying to it's ironic because I was trying to help build what is now the net difference.[00:44:18]And but I, I just didn't have time before I left to, to actually see that. What it is today. But I had that same thought of like, what is the reason I gave that talk on being the Beyonce of GitHub is because Beyonce has a super fan group. And they're called the beehive intents of if you go after Beyonce, that beehive will show up.[00:44:37] And and it's not as that intense, but it's like when people came after her, after she had the baby, like [00:44:42] swyx: [00:44:42] people will know. SNL had a really great skit where there was like someone who had admitted that they didn't, they didn't like a Beyonce song. And then they just, the beehive showed up. Yeah. And it's [00:44:52] Brian Douglas: [00:44:52] the same that we saw with the the K-pop stands like BTS that's a little, like more extreme, but like there is a group that will go to bat for you.[00:45:01] And like, my job is to really go to bat for the hive. So to answer your question, like success looks like these are the folks that are creating the courses, writing the books, they're there on the forefronts of creating the YouTube videos. When the thing is announced, like it's the opportunity to give them as much information as they want.[00:45:20] So if they want to monetize it, they can, if they want to grow a community around it, they can. But it's simply like they're doing a good job. And we want to make sure that we're catering to them because. If, if someone's already doing like my job for me, like I'm all for, Hey, let's, let's have a coffee.[00:45:35] Let's let's learn. What are your blockers? How can I unblock you in the future? Or are there any features you're looking to like to ship? Like, let me introduce you to the PM and let me let the PM get your feedback directly. So like you just take the company directly to the source of the growth and that's, that's what I see it as.[00:45:52] And I've seen very, I've had similar talks to other leaders of these sort of groups. And that's usually what their goal is, is like this help empower folks through the people who are empowering the,[00:46:02]swyx: [00:46:02] yeah. Yeah. I like that. [00:46:05] Idan Gazit: [00:46:05] I, I I'm like strongly reminded of there's a post from way back in the dinosaur ages. About success being a function of, of being able to grow a thousand fast. And that if you can find a way to, to reach that sort of threshold and it's thrown out there, I think in the same census at our member who coined the, like, you know, mastery comes at 10,000 hours or something like that is like a order of magnitude.[00:46:28] Like when you reach this this, this tipping point, and that's, that's a signal that like, you know, what you're doing is working and maybe, maybe this is the kind of metric that that we're looking at. It's not views, it's not posts. It's like, you know, how many, how many engaged, super fans are? Are we creating?[00:46:44] How many people do we have that love the thing that we're doing so much, that they're going out of their way. To spread that to more people and looking at that as the like you say about the Kerbal space program, sort of like, you know, the gross leavers of, of success, not the little like fine tuning adjustment dials, but like, you know, the big steering wheel that indicates that like we're doing the right thing.[00:47:05]I don't know. I mean, the, this, this question of like, you know, what has been the impact of, of GitHub stars? This has only existed, I guess now since Doug, you said since September, September. Yeah. So this is like a hot minute old or maybe it's like a thousand years old. It's unclear. [00:47:19] Brian Douglas: [00:47:19] Yeah.[00:47:20] And actually, I, I think the official launch was September. We actually started formatting this form I guess making the formation of the stars around may, June. And I get to have like a very clear impact that we, I saw from my end which we, we watched this feature called to get hub profile, read me it's a feature everybody has access to, but at the time we had the sort of under wraps in like a super alpha we do for all features that get hub.[00:47:42] We have the staff ship that we call it. Alpha alpha or whatever comes before alpha, but that's what we, we have, we test our feature. So get up, employees all leverage it. And it sort of like came out of nowhere as far as this feature goes and what I have access to it. We are able to get this in front of stars pretty early on to the point where we actually had to get up star who created some content on how to build your, your profile.[00:48:04] Remi was like pretty cool, like within a week of launch. And that basically is the de facto tutorial on how to create a profile. Read me because it was so early, it just came out and this individual Monica, which I guess I can, I can name them as well. They are now like, they're, they're SEO wise, like that's the post, like it's not the docs.github.com and like that's success to me.[00:48:26] That's like seeing someone win in the, in the source in the sense of content and engagement of the community. And now as the point person, when it comes to that. [00:48:36] Idan Gazit: [00:48:36] That's that's actually a, really a really great it's like, you know, I know that I've succeeded at this job when, when other people's like, you know, results, outrank mine on, on on Google then success.[00:48:46]That's fantastic. We actually have a question, meaning a question here from Jeremy feel what's the feedback for, for a feedback loop for these super users? Like, I, there's a follow on question. There is, should the company be monitoring the output to manage their message? I'd argued that, you know, you can't manage other people's message otherwise you have to pay them a salary.[00:49:07]But but there is, there is a question if this is, if this is part of what you're trying to do as a community builders to build up this frontline, like top tier. Set of, of super fans. How do you help them succeed at that? Like what ammunition are you giving them? And how can you influence, I guess sort of like what the Diane's like, I launch a new feature.[00:49:29] What I really want is for my super fans to go out there and create content that shows off like, you know, what this new feature can do. Maybe use it in ways that I didn't even think of show how it fits into like a million different workflows. And each of those super fans, also, they have another foot into whatever communities they came from.[00:49:47] So, you know, you say like reacts Velt view, whatever, all these front end frameworks I'm going to have super fans from all of these different sort of walks of life. And each one of them is going to take the new thing that I did and show like, this is how it matters to the view community. This is how it matters to the whatever community and that's I think a very different thing.[00:50:07] So what do, what do you both think about that?[00:50:09]swyx: [00:50:09] I like it. [00:50:13] Brian Douglas: [00:50:13] Yeah. I don't know if you, if you had connections to the AWS community builders when you're AWS. [00:50:17] swyx: [00:50:17] Swyx yeah, yeah. We I know, made it something. Yeah. [00:50:22] Brian Douglas: [00:50:22] Awesome. Yeah. So I get we mentioned the get up stars but we have other groups as well. Like we have some members of our support team that also have a support community give him very likely a 56 million developers worldwide, which is, it sounds like a flex.[00:50:35] It is, but it means that we just have multiple groups. So another group that you might not know we have is we have a group of open-source maintainers that we talk to on a regular basis. And it's, it's actually a structured conversation and a group, and we get feedback from some of the largest open source projects that you've heard of.[00:50:51]And it's, it's very important for us to actually treat them. With this well not treat them. I was going to say treat them with respect, but it really is respecting their time providing, getting their feedback directly to the source of the people who can actually impact that feedback into our, our platform.[00:51:06]But as far as structure goes, the structure, it looks like we have a monthly meeting with all the stars. Everybody's invited and we call these the stars inside calls and like the PMs will show up and talk about some really early ideas of features and they get to see the feature develop over the course of time until it's ready for beta.[00:51:23] And at that point it starts with like, oh, I knew this was coming out. I'll use this, I'll incorporate this in my team at work, or I'll write some content, whatever you want to do with that. You just have some interactions. And that's what we did the stars conference which is, again, it wasn't a huge public events.[00:51:38] It was more just for the stars. So it's the point where I think I've even used Swyx you mentioned like, oh, I didn't know. This was a thing and never heard of this before. And it was like, because yeah, we just did it. It's only for the stars is not meant to promote GitHub in any way. It's just to give you access to all the information [00:51:54] swyx: [00:51:54] we even had an astronaut and swing by [00:51:57] Brian Douglas: [00:51:57] did have an astronaut from NASA.[00:51:59]But in addition to that, like we did have, we do give you the opportunity to have some unfiltered conversations too, as well. So one of the requirements for stars is to sign an NDA and it's just so we can have some really freeform conversation about GitHub, the platform, but also complaints wins everything across the board.[00:52:17] Idan Gazit: [00:52:17] Yeah. [00:52:18] swyx: [00:52:18] Candor. Yeah. I mean, I, I like it. I, I, it's a, it's hard to organize. I think it's a full-time job, actually, if you do it, if you, if you want to do a good job of it, you know, and again, points to this thing becoming, because it it's probably is not, I mean, I don't know who handles it, but it's probably not developer relations handling it.[00:52:35]It's. It's just like, it is yeah. I think, I think this is a growing field where we're all defining what different categories of activities we can invest in. This is one of them. Another trend I see a lot is as people building universities like, Apollo building Odyssey Netlify building gems like explorers.[00:52:53]I forget who [00:52:54] Brian Douglas: [00:52:54] the nation academy from Angie, [00:52:56] swyx: [00:52:56] Angie, you know, while she has she's the orgy. And then you know, GitHub has had labs or I forget what, what you guys call it. We did [00:53:02] Brian Douglas: [00:53:02] that the iLab. [00:53:04] swyx: [00:53:04] Yeah. Yeah. I tried to go through it for actions, but I didn't really get very far to be honest. But I think, I think, you know, like people are building like LMSs, their custom custom LMS is for their learning.[00:53:16] And I think that's another investment in community anyway. Sorry, I don't mean to ramble. I just like, these are all really cool trends where I think you know, it's part of the whole future of develop thesis. Yeah, [00:53:27] Idan Gazit: [00:53:27] fantastic. We are at time even a little bit over time. So, I think we could probably keep jamming on this for awhile, I'm going to throw up a banner on screen.[00:53:39] There's an, a thread in Okta discussions where if people have questions or maybe, Swyx, if you can drop some interesting resources in that thread. So, folks who are maybe coming out this later from the YouTube recording or who didn't get a chance to ask the question, you know, think about it later when they're like, oh, falling asleep.[00:53:57] Oh, wow. I should have asked this it can drop in and ask those questions and, and, and get some followup engagement. Thanks so much for joining us. Swyx. Especially because it's like, I don't it's tomorrow in the middle of the night in Singapore. It's unclear to me what time it is. Thank you so much for joining us and thank you so much.[00:54:13] Be Douggie  for joining me here on the Octo speaker series. This has been a blast and have a lovely day, [00:54:20] swyx: [00:54:20] right?

Episode Overview On the 17th episode of EdUp EdTech, I was humbled by the conversation I had with Cem Erdem, President, and CEO of Augusoft Inc. In this episode, you will hear about Cem's entrepreneurial journey that took him from Turkey to the USA to pursue the American Dream. Cem talks about the importance of Continuing Education and Workforce Development courses for learners and how Augusoft Inc (Lumens) is helping streamline processes such as enrollment and provide significant data to organizations that inform decision-making. Cem is also a passionate entrepreneur who believes "entrepreneurs learn as much from their failures as from their successes, and do their best work when they share their ideas with coaches and mentors". The Augusoft Lumens software integrates with all major LMSs to sync classes, instructors, student registrations, void transactions, and cancellations. For a demo of Lumens please go to - https://www.augusoft.net/request-a-lumens-demo/. More About Cem Erdem & Augusoft Cem Erdem (pronounced Gem) is the founder, President, and CEO of Augusoft, Inc., the first software company to establish a cloud-based (web-hosted) enrollment and class management software specifically designed for educational institutions. Augusoft today celebrates over twenty years of innovation under his leadership. Augusoft's flagship product Lumens® is used by hundreds of schools across the United States and Canada. Founded in 1994, Augusoft, Inc. is a privately held company that provides cloud-based SaaS enrollment management solutions for continuing and corporate education programs throughout the U.S. and Canada. Augusoft is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN. Today, Augusoft serves hundreds of schools throughout the U.S. and Canada. Over 7.8 million students have registered for continuing education classes and over $2.9 billion in transactions have been processed using Augusoft Lumens. How to Connect Connect with Cem on LinkedIn & Follow Augusoft on Social Media Facebook | LinkedIn |Twitter | Instagram Connect with the host: Holly Owens Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! Follow us the EdUp Experience Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube We Make Education Your Business! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In December 2020, I was invited to host three live Learning podcasts at last year’s HR Innovation and Tech Fest (#HRTechFest), a week-long event hosted in Sydney, Australia by Hannover Fairs; I’d previously attended as an in-person delegate, and loved the energy and vibrancy of the Antipodean L&D community I interacted with, so I was more than happy to help out when asked (and can’t wait for it to go back to being real-world again later this year!). My first live podcast was with this week’s LITNW guest Dr. Sydney, GM Learning/CLO at Air New Zealand and a former chief of education strategy at Dell-EMC and Learning leader at Booz Allen Hamilton. Sydney is definitely a prime candidate for us to profile her as one of our Learning Leaders, where we meet new and seasoned leaders from industry, academia, and technology who have made significant contributions to workplace learning, edtech, and talent leadership disciplines. After all, she does truly believe that “creating a true learning culture starts at the top with embracing the power of democratized learning to reshape mindsets, human capabilities, and organizational culture.” Hear hear! So in our conversation look to hear more about her personal journey, which includes being crowned CLO magazine’s Chief Learning Officer of the Year 2020 (Better Work Media Group), as well as: what it’s like when 60% of your company’s income goes away overnighther belief in personal purpose and providence; working life in a nearly COVID-free New Zealand; the importance of her 20 years in the US Air Force on everything she does; how you crunch 7 LMSs down into one (cloud) one; how she got to her mantra of ‘survive, revive and thrive’ and what it really means; and much more.

In this episode, we talk to Lee Berkman about how Cloudshare integrates with LMSs like Learndot to spin up virtual environments automatically as part of hands on customer training offerings.Learn more about CloudshareConnect with Lee on LinkedinMel on LinkedinBill on LinkedinContact us at Learndot.com

The decision to switch LMSs has already taken place. It is now a matter of executing the decision. In this episode, I am going to focus on the migration plan. When building your migration plan, you need to gather information about all the steps that you will need to take. You need a place to build out this project plan. This week, I will be talking about my process to develop a migration plan, the tools I am using, and key elements that I will be including in my plan. Come learn more. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InTheClassroomPodcast/  Other podcast episodes: https://tubarksblog.com/intheclassroom  Show notes: https://tubarksblog.com/itc98  Music credit: https://www.purple-planet.com/  Sponsor: https://tubarksblog.com/textexpander  Sponsor: https://tubarksblog.com/read-to-succeed/ 

In this fourth episode of The LMS "Real Talk" Playlist, we had guests Christiana Houck and Mike Peacock from Aristocrat.com talk about the LMSs they use, Axonify and Oracle Taleo Learn. Christiana was really generous about sharing her screen on this one, so if you're researching LMSs or wanting to see an example of a leading edge LMS like Axonify, check out the episode on YouTube or Crowdcast to catch the visuals. They'll be linked below. There's no affiliate or sponsorship relationship here, so the discussion is completely independent of that influence. It was also nice to get the perspective of two employees that work in the system, how their roles differ, how they support the other's workflow, and the differences between two LMSs active at one organization. Check it out, it was a great addition to this LMS Real Talk series. Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lms-playlist/4 Youtube: https://youtu.be/ACf5lnSEDIs

Recently in our Slack group at tldchat.us, Rubina Halwani suggested bringing on some guests willing to talk about the LMSs they use or support, and what their experiences are like. Excellent idea! So in this episode, we talk with Quetzalcoatl Cortes about his experience as an LMS Admin. Quetzal is an instructional designer with a penchant for being resourceful --- pretty an ideal combination for being an LMS Admin. And in this talk, I learned much more than I expected about the role of an LMS Admin, and how truly challenging the job can be. In fact, the conversation was so rich in ideas and concepts, I've decided it's going to be the first part of a new TLDC playlist specifically about LMSs. Give it a listen and you'll see why. And stay tuned for more episodes about how community members work with their LMS. It's an overlooked topic about a tool that is mission critical to the L&D function; this series is sure to be interesting and worth learning from.

If your company (or even country) is under a travel ban due to an epidemic like the coronavirus outbreak—or perhaps because of budget restrictions—and you have to cancel your road shows to train and enable your partners, don’t despair. There are multiple ways to enable your partners remotely without meeting face-to-face by leveraging partner relationship management (PRM) software. In this article, I will explore how you can deploy a set of pragmatic PRM channel automation tools to enable your partners in a few easy step. There are essentially two types of enablement involving collaboration with channel partners using PRM software: tactical and strategic. Let’s briefly address both. Tactical enablement: Tactical enablement includes activities like pushing a promotion through the channel, rolling out sales incentives for partner sales reps to sign up for and execute on, or creating programs to train partners on new product launches. Within 4–6 weeks you can easily deploy a partner relationship management (PRM) platform with built-in tools that allow you to effectively collaborate with your partners remotely on these and other tactical initiatives. We will discuss these tools in a bit more detail later on. Strategic enablement: This is about driving systematic improvements like sales reach and lead generation from greenfield opportunities as well as building technical or solution competencies for certain strategic product or services rollouts. These activities can also be performed using PRM software, but to do so effectively you will need to carefully consider your overall channel programs, policies, promotions and key performance management metrics. An appropriate PRM platform will allow you to set up advanced training by product categories and other criteria, but if you lack an overall integrated strategy, much of this work will turn out to be tactical, rather than strategic, enablement. With this as a framework, it’s time to consider some of the PRM software tools that can be used for both strategic and tactical enablement. These tools can address a broad range of activities related to partner life cycle management, including partner recruitment, partner onboarding, partner enablement, demand generation and partner management. In each of these areas, we can apply  both tactical and strategic approaches by using various PRM tools. Now we’re ready to consider some of the PRM software tools that can help us with each of these activities and allow us to collaborate remotely: Partner recruitment – In this age of digital content and media—especially when partners may be working from home, from the office or another location—they are very likely connected to their mobile and other computing devices. “Marketing to” the partner is a core activity, and PRM modules created specifically for social marketing, email, Google AdWords, microsites, events (online live and on demand) all enable core tactics that can be deployed for both tactical and strategic engagement. Partner onboarding – Onboarding a newly recruited partner with a step-by-step onboarding process is critical, and this is where PRM automation can help a lot. Your PRM software should allow you to quickly set up various partner onboarding programs and establish tracks within those programs to move the partner automatically from one stage to another. Laborious process steps like contract signing, business planning and more can be highly automated. Partner enablement – One of the most common facets of partner enablement is partner training, which, if it cannot be done face-to-face, can easily be carried out using SCORM-compliant learning management systems (LMSs). When you are selecting a PRM tool, make sure the LMS module is SCORM-compliant so you can easily and build effective step-by-step training courses. Demand generation – Partner enablement also includes demand generation, which should include a set of integrated tools and campaign content that partner...

An LMS is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of tutorial courses, training programs, or analyzing and improvement programs. The LMS idea emerged right now from e-Learning. Although the first LMS regarded in the better education sector, the majority of the LMSs today popularity on the organization market. Learning Management Systems make up the most crucial segment of the Learning System market. The first introduction of the LMS was inside the late 1990s. Our crew of innovative developers at Indglobal Makes it brilliant that the clients are met with their demands. The high-quality LMS software development company in Bangalore is the ones that offer a long term and high-quality merchandise to functionality customers. With the great minds, the fashionable era, and strict adherence to pleasant, Indglobal has produced a few top-notch E-Learning software programs because of which it acquired many awards in the Software Development industry. For More: https://www.indglobaldigital.com/software-development/learning-management-system-lms-software-development-company-in-bangalore-india/

An LMS is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of instructional courses, education programs, or studying and improvement programs. The LMS idea emerged immediately from e-Learning. Although the first LMS regarded in the higher training sector, the majority of the LMSs today recognition on the company market. Learning Management Systems make up the most important section of the Learning System market. The first advent of the LMS was within the overdue 1990s. Our crew of innovative developers at Indglobal Makes splendid that the clients are met with their demands. The exceptional LMS software development agency in Bangalore is those that provide a long time and superb merchandise to functionality clients. With the notable minds, the trendy generation and strict adherence to pleasant, Indglobal has produced some top-notch E-Learning software programs due to which it acquired many awards inside the Software Development industry. For More: https://www.indglobaldigital.com/software-development/learning-management-system-lms-software-development-company-in-bangalore-india/

Love them or hate them, group projects are essential to learning. They should not be discarded if you are teaching in an online environment. With the current COID-19 pandemic, who isn’t teaching online. Your LMS has tools that will make it easier to facilitate group projects as well as encourage communication and participation. Use these LMS tools to create your student groups as well as provide students with collaboration tools to help them succeed. Most LMSs provide group tools for file sharing, discussion boards, email, page creation, and virtual meetings. This week we are going to take a look at why you would want to have your students participate in group projects, common tools found in two LMSs, and strategies for successfully implementing the tools. Come learn more. Show notes: https://tubarksblog.com/itc70  Music credit: https://www.purple-planet.com/  Sponsor: https://tubarksblog.com/scrivener  Sponsor: https://tubarksblog.com/read-to-succeed/  

Your browser does not support the audio element. Click the Title to Play or DownloadInterview with Anders Krohn, CEO and Co-founder of Aula Education. Aula brings students, staff, and educators together in a digital environment that encourages interaction and collaboration. Anders Krohn, CEOWe discuss:The meaning of the name "Aula"How Aula got startedSocial and conversational pedagogyIntegrations with the SIS, Google, MicrosoftExperience with traditional LMSsHow faculty respond to AULAHow AULA replaces an LMSInstitutions that dumped their LMSLinksAula EducationPutting $4.2M to work — building ‘digital campuses’Podsafe music selection"Woods of Chaos" by Rob Costlow - New Age PianoDuration: 44:23

Your browser does not support the audio element. Click the Title to Play or DownloadInterview with Dr. Thomas Waite, CEO of K16 Solutions. K16's Scaffold Designer is the industry’s first cloud-hosted, fully-integrated course development tool that automates manual processes and improves efficiency for instructional designers and faculty. Scaffold products are integrated with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, and Sakai. We discuss: Background of Dr. Waite and history of K16 SolutionsScaffold Designer and Scaffold MigrationMigrate or rebuild coursesMigration tool for most LMSsCustomers including K12 and OPMs (Online Program Management Companies)Working in elearning ecosystems as opposed to LMSsAI, machine learning and algorithmsNew Scaffold Faculties, a faculty management systemLinksK16 Solutions Overview VideoScaffold Migration Demo VideoScaffold Product SpecsPodsafe music selectionConcerto No. 2 in G Minor (Summer) from the CD entitled "The Four Seasons by Vivaldi" by the American Baroque Orchestra. Duration: 35:08

In this episode, I am joined by Greg Greenberger, Partner Program Specialist at Signavio. Greg is with me to discuss how to formalize an appropriate budget for your partner strategy, and what KPIs to focus on at each stage of growth. To view documents mentioned, enroll in the course Greg teaches a class in >>> Why should you listen to Greg? Greg is building and managing Signavio’s partner program – creating the incentives and enablement to help scale and ramp-up their team as well as enabling strategic partners. He has done this numerous times over multiple verticals dealing with Global budget allocation for partner programs. Here’s what you will learn about in this episode: Larger impacts on budget like Licenses, MDFs, Certifications, Kick-back, Discounts… Budgeting for software like PRMs, LMSs, Account Mapping … Who’s budget is each requirement going to come from? How KPIs change from months 0-6, during traction and then at scale… As well as setting correct budget and KPI expectations with leadership. This was requested by one of our partner programs course students, so you can find the visuals mentioned in this episode at learn.partnerprograms.io in the course on how to build an agency-focused partner program.

In this episode, Kathryn, Misty, and Nancy talk with Beth Dolliver, one of Region 10's Instructional Designers. Beth shares that "Everyone is temporarily abled," and explains how accessibility is an equity issue. Since our work frequently includes blended learning formats, LMSs, and multi-media presentations, these ideas are especially important for meeting the needs of all learners (and their families!) Start to make your work more accessible: Use contrasting colors in slides, documents, etc. Make certain the font sizes can be increased. Use less text per slide. Check your work using screen readers. Use the style guides (i.e. titles and headers). Check to see if your work is keyboard friendly. Accessibility checklist Additional Resources: Accessibility Laws and Policies NVDA screen reader JAWS screen reader (paid) Color Contrast Checker Microsoft's Accessibility Features Microsoft Accessibility Checker PDF Accessibility Checker Captioning Feature in Google Slides Google's Posts About Accessibility Captioning in YouTube Grackle Chrome Extension to Check Accessibility of G Suite Tools Accessibility Conference Accessibility Webinars: Level Access, Web AIM, W3C Accessibility Conversations and In the News: Curious Minds podcast episode with Kat Holmes, "The Power of Inclusive Design" First-Of-Its-Kind Trial Goes Plaintiff's Way; Winn-Dixie Must Update Website For The Blind Domino’s Pizza was just dealt a Supreme Court blow that could reshape the ADA in the digital era Mattel Introduces a Braille UNO deck Haben Girma, Disability Rights Lawyer, Author, Speaker

Host Kevin Patton presents a remix of classic segments from the TAPP Radio archive, all summarizing "tricks" to increase student retention and promote student success in distance or hybrid courses. 00:00:47 | Introduction to the Special Episode 00:02:59 | Sponsored by HAPS 00:03:26 | 49 Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses 00:26:55 | Sponsored by AAA 00:27:30 | 49 MORE Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses 00:49:45 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program 00:50:48 | EVEN MORE Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses 01:09:20 | Staying Connected If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Questions & Feedback: 1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram!   I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. 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Anatomy & Physiology Society  theAPprofessor.org/haps     3 | 49 Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses 32.5 minutes Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates and high failure rates, compared to traditional face-to-face classes. In this classic segment from Episode 21, Kevin shares a bunch (perhaps not exactly 49) strategies he has found to work in creating and nurturing the kinds of connections that help retain students and support their success in the course. Episode 19: Caring for Students Helps Them Succeed Episode 12: Storytelling is the Heart of A&P     4 | Sponsored by AAA 0.5 minute The searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by The American Association of Anatomists (AAA) at anatomy.org. Searchable transcript Captioned audiogram  NOTE: AAA changed its name from The American Association of Anatomists to The American Association for Anatomy after this podcast was recorded.   5 | 49 MORE Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses 22 minutes Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates and high failure rates, compared to traditional face-to-face classes. Kevin continues to share a bunch (perhaps not exactly 49) strategies he has found to work in creating and nurturing the kinds of connections that help retain students and support their success in the course. This classic segment from Episode 22 focuses on adding faces to an online course (sort of like in a face-to-face course), plus how to use scheduled video, audio, and text announcements to stay connected with students. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." Patton's Law (Gen. George S. Patton) Power of the 'Profile Pic" in Online Learning (blog post) How do I add a profile picture in my user account as a student? (example of instructions you can link to; most LMSs have such a resource you can link to in your syllabuses. Or syllabi.) iSpring for PowerPoint (Kevin's blog post) Photos and Video Helps Connect Students and Teachers in Online Courses (Kevin's blog post) Short Video Walk-Throughs Help Your Students (Kevin's blog post) Camtasia, Snagit, Jing screen capture software (products from TechSmith)     6 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program 1 minute The Master of Science in Human Anatomy & Physiology Instruction—the MS-HAPI—is graduate program for A&P teachers. A combination of science courses (enough to qualify you to teach at the college level) and courses in instructional practice, this program helps you power up  your teaching. Kevin Patton is a faculty member in this program. 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Is it okay to have fun with computers? Joseph Weisbecker, an electrical engineer from the twentieth century, gives an unequivocal yes! During his long career, Weisbecker made it his mission to promote the use of computers for human purposes beyond business and military applications. For him, there was no shame in video games, and he wanted the world to agree. On this episode of Stories from the Stacks, Elizabeth Badger, PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, discusses the early history of video game culture, focusing on the effects of the commodification of games. Badger suggests that gaming culture initially focused on collective effort and community ethos, and that a turning point in the 1980s lead to the re-conception of video games as consumer commodities controlled by corporate interests. Badger situates her project in the context of her own experience with gaming and video game culture, noting the widespread prejudice against video games, and the sexism within gaming culture. Using Hagley Library collections, including the David Sarnoff Research Center records and related materials from the RCA collection, Badger discovered the lengths to which corporations went to turn video games into profitable commodities. Records of suits filed by Atari against rival video game makers provided the smoking gun. The maker of Pong™ patented a basic piece of programming that opened virtually all subsequent video game makers to potential liability. To support her use of Hagley Library collections, Badger received research grants from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society. More information on funding opportunities for research at Hagley can be found at www.hagley.org/research/grants-fellowships. For more Stories from the Stacks, go to www.hagley.org, or subscribe on your favorite podcatcher. Interviews by Benjamin Spohn & Nicole Mahoney. Produced by Gregory Hargreaves. The episode draws on two interviews conducted on separate dates, which have been combined and edited for length and clarity. Image: RCA COSMAC VIP Game Manual, LMSS_246409_873_12, Series B. (Publications, 1955-1981), Subseries B. (Publications includes books, serial periodicals, newsletters, & RCA manuals), Box 873, Folder 12, David Sarnoff Research Center records (Acc. 2464.09), Manuscripts 7 Archives Department, Hagley Museum & Library, Wilmington, DE 19807.

Jon chats to Alan Hiddlestone about LMSs, LXPs and NGLEs. I know - I think we get to the bottom of it though. Find out more about LT here: https://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/

In this episode of “ Ask the Tech Coach (https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/) ,” Jeff welcomes Tech Coaches Susan Vincentz and Claudio Zavala Jr to discuss the role of the Tech Coach at professional development conferences, the creation and impimention of online learning modules, and our favorite Chrome Extensions. In this episode, we discuss: Reflections from Last Week Tech Coach Mastermind Join the Tech Coach Mastermind (http://www.teachercast.net/Mastermind) and learn how to help your school district today!2 Mastermind group meetings each month 1:1 Coachings with Jeff and Nick Lifetime access to our Tech Coach Online Community Free Lesson Plans Free Templates Much Much More Payment Discounts2 Month Promo Code: 50 6 Month Promo Code: 100 12 Month Promo Code: 150 Website www.TeacherCast.net/Mastermind (http://www.teachercast.net/Mastermind) (https://www.teachercast.net/mastermind) Do You Have a Question For Us? www.TeacherCast.net/VoiceMail (http://www.teachercast.net/VoiceMail) Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach (http://twitter.com/askthetechcoach) Email: feedback@teachercast.net (mailto:feedback@teachercast.net) Tech Coaching at a Professional Development Conference What topics do Tech Coaches look for?Claudio – This time around I was looking for AR/VR resources. Looking to delve into creating AR/VR content Claudio – creativity tools Adobe SPARK (https://spark.adobe.com/sp/) Susan – On my recent trip to FETC I focused on ways to curate resources and using visual thinking to encourage student engagement and enhance lesson planning. In recent years I’ve focused a lot on efficient use of GSuite tools and on Personalized Learning. What topics should Tech Coaches be teaching?Top 10 lists vs School Based Examples RFP’s that get you accepted every time and bring in a crowd Claudio – Time off from work – adds value to the district Susan – Efficiency, organization, and productivity. Often teachers get overwhelmed with all the apps available and even just simple clutter in their Google Drive. Showing them efficient and productive ways to handle this is huge. Keeping Professional Development alive in the district as the summer approaches When should you stop providing PD? Claudio – struggle is getting teachers there. No stipend or incentive makes it difficult to get teachers there Claudio – relevant & interactive. Keep teacher engaged. Susan – echo Claudios points. Keeping in alive and engaging. My coworker and I are looking at ways to take our summer PD as well as a lot of our regular PD online via Google Classroom and Canvas modules. How to build effective online professional development? Should we do online learning modules?Claudio – on demand seems to work. I participated in DitchSummit by Matt Miller & feedback I received was they can participate any time, in pajamas Susan – I have had huge success with my own tutorial videos. Yes, teachers can look up a youtube video for a question they might have, but if we as the coach make an engaging video to have on hand they, like students, appreciate our voice and delivery. Best Applications to useClaudio – Google Classroom, Teachable, YouTube, WordPress plugins Susan – Google Classroom, Canvas, Screencastify, YouTube Channel Keeping track of teacher learningClaudio – many online course tools have automatic tracking. Our district uses Eduphoria which is somewhat clunky. Looking at new resources in future. I believe some LMSs have built-in tracking. Susan – We are definitely exploring resources for tracking. The most reliable way that’s worked thus far in a former district I’ve worked is the use of Google form and the add-on Autocrat. (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autocrat/ppgnklghfnlijoafjjkpoakpjjpdkgdj?hl=en-US) How do you know if teachers are...

Visita https://learninglegendario.com/20 para encontrar las notas completas de este programa.Hoy tengo el placer de poder hablar con Clara Cordero. Clara es diseñadora de experiencias de aprendizaje, formadora de docentes, y gestiona unas cuantas comunidades de aprendizaje. La gamificación, el visual thinking y las herramientas digitales útiles para educación son solo algunas de las muchas cosas que Clara trata en su blog Agorabierta.com Suscríbete al podcast de Learning Legendario en:• Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/es/podcast/learning-legendario-formación-para-formadores-extraordinarios/id1312691115• Ivoox http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-juan-daniel-sobrado-rubio_sq_f1475009_1.html• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXlk1lvkyu9PWA8rcIaTh84qSUVJDE2JH• Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5HJXgIdQF3PKA4BTU42KPL?si=7IAAJ0CmRoKjfu68pNMxLw## Temas tratados en este episodio.• [3:40] Quién es Clara Cordero y qué es lo que hace.• [4:20] Formación presencial o formación online.• [7:40] Hablamos sobre LMSs y Moodle.• [9:10] Gamificación en los LMS.• [11:00] Qué es la gamificación.• [11:40] Cómo introducir la gamificación con Deck Toys.• [14:00] Importancia de las competencias digitales en los alumnos.• [17:00] Diferencias al diseñar un curso y una experiencia de aprendizaje.• [20:40] Qué se puede hacer para hacer una presentación más interactiva.• [25:00] En qué consiste un Escape Room educativo y por qué funciona tan bien.• [30:00] Comunidades de aprendizaje online creadas por Clara en Telegram.• [33:00] Dificultades de los profesores a la hora de aplicar la gamificación como metodología.• [38:00] Son las metodologías activas algo anecdótico o es una tendencia imparable. • [43:11] Cómo podría iniciarse alguien en el mundo de las metodologías activas.• [44:00] Herramientas para curar contenidos.• [46:00] Cómo gestiona Clara las redes sociales. • [49:00] Juegos/libros que le gustan a Clara.## Recursos mencionados.• Sitio web de Clara Cordero Agora Abierta - https://www.agorabierta.com• Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) - https://moodle.org/?lang=es• Herramienta para crear lecciones y contenidos de aprendizaje Deck.Toys - https://deck.toys/• Wix.com herramienta para crear páginas web gratis - https://es.wix.com/• MakePlayingCards.com ,servicio para diseñar e imprimir tus propias cartas a medida - http://makeplayingcards.com/• Juego de mesa Cortex Challenge - https://amzn.to/2LU0Xpx• Padlet, herramienta online para crear tableros colaborativos - https://es.padlet.com/• Grupo de Telegram sobre Escape Room Educativos - https://t.me/EscapeRoomEdu• Grupo de Telegram sobre Espacios Educativos -https://t.me/espacioseducativo• Grupo de Telegram sobre Videojuegos en educación - https://t.me/videojuegoseneducacion• Grupo de Telegram sobre Visual Thinking - https://t.me/visualthinking• Grupo de Telegram de Gamifica Tu Aula - https://t.me/joinchat/B5hkTUCeRZ-TiOtzWrK9Og• Feedly, lector RSS para poder ver todos los blogs en un mismo sitio - https://feedly.com/• Flipboard, lector visual de noticias - https://flipboard.com/• Pinterest, red social con tableros visuales - https://www.pinterest.es/• Calm, aplicación para relajarse y gestionar el estrés - https://www.calm.com/• Videojuego Assassin's Creed - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed• Curso online EduEscapeRoom.com para aprender a crear Escape Rooms educativos - https://eduescaperoom.comPuedes contactar con Clara Cordero en Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgoraAbierta Facebook: https://es-la.facebook.com/AgoraAbierta/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claracordero/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/agorabierta/Me encantará recibir también tus comentarios sobre el podcast. Te agradeceré muchísimo que te suscribas y que dejes una reseña positiva con tus 5 estrellas. Así conseguiremos salvar a la humanidad de las formaciones ineficaces y aburridas.Conecta con Juanda en:• https://learninglegendario.com • En el grupo para formadores de Telegram https://learninglegendario.com/chat• En Linkedin https://es.linkedin.com/in/juansobrado• En Twitter (@juanda_learning) https://twitter.com/juanda_learning• En Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LearningLegendario/• En YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXlk1lvkyu9PWA8rcIaTh84qSUVJDE2JH

Visita https://learninglegendario.com/20 para encontrar las notas completas de este programa.Hoy tengo el placer de poder hablar con Clara Cordero. Clara es diseñadora de experiencias de aprendizaje, formadora de docentes, y gestiona unas cuantas comunidades de aprendizaje. La gamificación, el visual thinking y las herramientas digitales útiles para educación son solo algunas de las muchas cosas que Clara trata en su blog Agorabierta.com Suscríbete al podcast de Learning Legendario en:• Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/es/podcast/learning-legendario-formación-para-formadores-extraordinarios/id1312691115• Ivoox http://www.ivoox.com/podcast-juan-daniel-sobrado-rubio_sq_f1475009_1.html• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXlk1lvkyu9PWA8rcIaTh84qSUVJDE2JH• Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/5HJXgIdQF3PKA4BTU42KPL?si=7IAAJ0CmRoKjfu68pNMxLw## Temas tratados en este episodio.• [3:40] Quién es Clara Cordero y qué es lo que hace.• [4:20] Formación presencial o formación online.• [7:40] Hablamos sobre LMSs y Moodle.• [9:10] Gamificación en los LMS.• [11:00] Qué es la gamificación.• [11:40] Cómo introducir la gamificación con Deck Toys.• [14:00] Importancia de las competencias digitales en los alumnos.• [17:00] Diferencias al diseñar un curso y una experiencia de aprendizaje.• [20:40] Qué se puede hacer para hacer una presentación más interactiva.• [25:00] En qué consiste un Escape Room educativo y por qué funciona tan bien.• [30:00] Comunidades de aprendizaje online creadas por Clara en Telegram.• [33:00] Dificultades de los profesores a la hora de aplicar la gamificación como metodología.• [38:00] Son las metodologías activas algo anecdótico o es una tendencia imparable. • [43:11] Cómo podría iniciarse alguien en el mundo de las metodologías activas.• [44:00] Herramientas para curar contenidos.• [46:00] Cómo gestiona Clara las redes sociales. • [49:00] Juegos/libros que le gustan a Clara.## Recursos mencionados.• Sitio web de Clara Cordero Agora Abierta - https://www.agorabierta.com• Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) - https://moodle.org/?lang=es• Herramienta para crear lecciones y contenidos de aprendizaje Deck.Toys - https://deck.toys/• Wix.com herramienta para crear páginas web gratis - https://es.wix.com/• MakePlayingCards.com ,servicio para diseñar e imprimir tus propias cartas a medida - http://makeplayingcards.com/• Juego de mesa Cortex Challenge - https://amzn.to/2LU0Xpx• Padlet, herramienta online para crear tableros colaborativos - https://es.padlet.com/• Grupo de Telegram sobre Escape Room Educativos - https://t.me/EscapeRoomEdu• Grupo de Telegram sobre Espacios Educativos -https://t.me/espacioseducativo• Grupo de Telegram sobre Videojuegos en educación - https://t.me/videojuegoseneducacion• Grupo de Telegram sobre Visual Thinking - https://t.me/visualthinking• Grupo de Telegram de Gamifica Tu Aula - https://t.me/joinchat/B5hkTUCeRZ-TiOtzWrK9Og• Feedly, lector RSS para poder ver todos los blogs en un mismo sitio - https://feedly.com/• Flipboard, lector visual de noticias - https://flipboard.com/• Pinterest, red social con tableros visuales - https://www.pinterest.es/• Calm, aplicación para relajarse y gestionar el estrés - https://www.calm.com/• Videojuego Assassin's Creed - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed• Curso online EduEscapeRoom.com para aprender a crear Escape Rooms educativos - https://eduescaperoom.comPuedes contactar con Clara Cordero en Twitter: https://twitter.com/AgoraAbierta Facebook: https://es-la.facebook.com/AgoraAbierta/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claracordero/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/agorabierta/Me encantará recibir también tus comentarios sobre el podcast. Te agradeceré muchísimo que te suscribas y que dejes una reseña positiva con tus 5 estrellas. Así conseguiremos salvar a la humanidad de las formaciones ineficaces y aburridas.Conecta con Juanda en:• https://learninglegendario.com • En el grupo para formadores de Telegram https://learninglegendario.com/chat• En Linkedin https://es.linkedin.com/in/juansobrado• En Twitter (@juanda_learning) https://twitter.com/juanda_learning• En Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LearningLegendario/• En YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXlk1lvkyu9PWA8rcIaTh84qSUVJDE2JH

Online courses continue to have a notoriously low retention rate and success rate compared to traditional courses. In this second of three episodes, Kevin continues the conversation with ways to literally make the course more face-to-face, plus using faces, voices, and scheduled announcements to promote connections. Syllabuses? Syllabi? Which is correct? (3 min) Continuing the conversation (1 min) Featured: 49 MORE Tricks for Retention & Success in Online Courses (22 min) Next episode is part 3 of 3 (1 min)   If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here. Questions & Feedback: 1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) Follow The A&P Professor on Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Nuzzel, Tumblr, or Instagram!   (0:44) Which is correct: syllabuses or syllabi? The answer may surprise you! Nevertheless, now's a good time to think about tweaking your course documents for the fall semester. I'll cover that on a future episode, so I need you to send your contributions now! Syllabus at Dictionary.com Quora discussion on syllabus plurals Please share your syllabus ideas, questions, or comments at: 1-833-LION-DEN or 1-833-546-6338 podcast@theAPprofessor.org   (4:02) It's too long for one episode, so Kevin will cover the featured topic in three episodes: 21 (the previous episode), 22 (this episode), and 23 (the next episode). If you're not teaching online now, you will be someday! Most of these tips apply to face-to-face courses, anyway. In  the previous episode, Kevin suggested: It's all about connections. Cultivate a friendly, informal, and supportive "online teaching persona" Express empathy, don't just have empathy. Use customer-service skills when communicating with students Use our own pain points and frustrations to tap into how our students might feel    (8:10) Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates and high failure rates, compared to traditional face-to-face classes. Kevin continues to share a bunch (perhaps not exactly 49) strategies he has found to work in creating and nurturing the kinds of connections that help retain students and support their success in the course. This episode focuses on adding faces to an online course (sort of like in a face-to-face course), plus how to use scheduled video, audio, and text announcements to stay connected with students. "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." Patton's Law (Gen. George S. Patton) Power of the 'Profile Pic" in Online Learning (blog post) How do I add a profile picture in my user account as a student? (example of instructions you can link to; most LMSs have such a resource you can link to in your syllabuses. Or syllabi.) iSpring for PowerPoint (Kevin's blog post) Photos and Video Helps Connect Students and Teachers in Online Courses (Kevin's blog post) Short Video Walk-Throughs Help Your Students (Kevin's blog post) Camtasia, Snagit, Jing screen capture software (products from TechSmith)     (30:23) The next episode continues the conversation about improving engagement in online courses.   If the hyperlinks here are not active, go to TAPPradio.org to find the episode page. More details at the episode page. Transcript available at the script page. Listen to any episode on your Alexa device. Join The A&P Professor social network: Blog Twitter @theAPprofessor Facebook theAPprofessor Instagram theAPprofessor YouTube Amazon referrals help defray podcasting expenses.

Abstract Learning management systems (LMS) such as Blackboard and Canvas provide a foundation for instructors to design online learning experiences. In recent years, the functionality of most LMSs has expanded to offer more flexibility, primarily by allowing external tools to be integrated. Tools such as Twitter, YouTube, and Quizlet have the potential to increase learners’ access to content, foster interaction with others in the community, and assess learning in diverse ways. In this session, we will provide examples of how these tools can support sound pedagogical practices, and encourage attendees to explore integrations in their online courses. Specifically, an instructor shares experiences of utilizing several integration tools within Canvas online courses. Presenters Amanda Groff, Ph.D. Associate Lecturer of Anthropology College of Sciences College of Education and Human Performance University of Central Florida Amanda T. Groff is an Associate Lecturer in the Anthropology Department in the College of Sciences at UCF. Over the years, Dr. Groff has integrated various tools and strategies to engage online learners in her undergraduate archaeology and cultural courses. Dr. Groff was awarded the Chuck. D. Dziuban Excellence in Online Teaching Award (2012), as well as a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award (2014) for her research on the integration of Twitter into online courses. John Raible, M.A. Instructional Designer Center for Distributed Learning University of Central Florida John Raible is an Instructional Designer with the Center for Distributed Learning and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Education and Human Performance. He facilitates faculty with the design, development, and delivery of online and mixed-mode courses. His research interests include integrating emerging technologies into the curriculum, open educational resources, and universal design for learning. Session Recordings and Supporting MaterialsRecording Streamed Podcast SessionPresentation MaterialsPresentation ResourcePowerPoint PresentationCenter for Distributed Learning ResourcesTOPcast Episode 12: The LMS: Past, Present, and Future podcast featuring Kelvin Thompson and Tom Cavanagh discussing “the future of the LMS” with a listing of helpful resources on the topic.Enhancing Your Course on Webcourses@UCF Using Integrations: This webpage provides a list of the integrations most commonly used at UCF.Are you interested in using one of the Webcourses@UCF integrations in your UCF online course? Please fill out our Webcourses@UCF Custom Integrations form to begin a conversation with a Center for Distributed Learning team member.Would you like to request that an application be integrated into Webcourses@UCF Canvas LMS or suggest an integration that could be developed in-house? Please request an integration.Scholarly Articles and ResourcesBrown, M. (2016). 6 implications of the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environments (NGDLE) framework.Brown, M., Dehoney, J., & Millichap, N. (2015). What's next for the LMS?. Educause Review, 50(4), 40-51.Dahlstrom, E., Brooks, D. C., & Bichsel, J. (2014). The current ecosystem of learning management systems in higher education: Student, faculty, and IT perspectives. Educause Center for Analysis and Research.Demski, J. (2012). Rebuilding the LMS for the 21st Century. Campus Technology.Educause Learning Initiative. (2012). 7 things you should know about learning tools interoperability.Educause Learning Initiative. (2015). 7 things you should know about Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE).Canvas GuideHow do I use the Canvas App Center in a course?

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