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	<title>The Happy Curmudgeon &#187; Mouthing Off</title>
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		<title>Elearning, Distance Education, Not Equivalent to Full Time Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though almost everybody can understand that: a conversation on the phone is not the same as a conversation face to face watching a sport on television is not the same as being there in person watching people have sex &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/mouthing-off/elearning-distance-education-not-equivalent-to-full-time-study/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Viral Promoting Or Confidence Game: BS @ Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My faith in the credibility of almost everything I read on the Internet is at an all time low, and I plan on addressing that in future in various posts. The inaccurate information and huge, fast spread of faulty interpretations &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/viral-promoting-or-confidence-game-bs-social-media/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Networking&#8221; either in person or online, turns me off.</title>
		<link>http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/mouthing-off/why-networking-either-in-person-or-online-turns-me-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone talks about the importance of networking. I get the point. The more people who you know, and who know a little about you, the more likely you will &#8220;make a connection&#8221; that will pay off, whether it be in &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/mouthing-off/why-networking-either-in-person-or-online-turns-me-off/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Informal Learning&#8217;s on first, Whats on second, and I Don&#8217;t Give a Damn is on Third</title>
		<link>http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/informal-learnings-on-first-whats-on-second-and-i-dont-give-a-damn-is-on-third/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, tell me. If I happen to go to the water cooler down the hall, and bump into George, who tells me about the new software I could use, is that informal learning? Sounds like it. We don&#8217;t know what &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/informal-learnings-on-first-whats-on-second-and-i-dont-give-a-damn-is-on-third/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Definitional Problems Damage the E-Learning/Social Learning Field</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are at all involved in the delivery of training via the use of technologies, you have probably seen, heard, or used the terms e-learning or social learning*. They have become common currency in the discussion of training and &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/definitional-problems-damage-the-e-learningsocial-learning-field/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The real enemies of Social Networking And Social Learning Are&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/the-real-enemies-of-social-networking-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the people who oversell the value of social networking and social learning through exaggerations, deliberate or ignorant interpretation of research (which is usually poorly done anyway), and general religious zeal. In short, many of the &#8220;gurus&#8221; in these fields, who &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/the-real-enemies-of-social-networking-are/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>About Motivation &#8211; So many Myths and Mythters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Harris wrote: &#62; Reinhard Sprenger wrote (in _Mythos Motivation_) something to the effect &#62; that &#8220;All motivation (actions designed to get people to do that which they &#62; don&#8217;t want to do) is demotivating (leads towards decreasing their desire &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/mouthing-off/about-motivation-so-many-myths-and-mythters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>On Who Moved My Cheese, and Dumb and Dumber</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief comment on Who Moved My Cheese and the apparent popularity of dumbed down, stupid management books! I haven&#8217;t read it, but just a comment on the genre of short, readable and cute, but sometimes relatively contentless books. I &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/mouthing-off/on-who-moved-my-cheese-and-dumb-and-dumber/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Training?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, a TRDEV-L group member posted an interesting message asking what&#8217;s wrong with training? I sent a reply to him via the list, but thought I&#8217;d share it here as a think piece and stimulus for comment. Why is it &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/whats-wrong-with-training/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Incest, Diversity, and Damage to Social Learning and Learning Profession</title>
		<link>http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/incest-diversity-and-damage-to-social-learning-and-learning-profession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know from psychological research that human beings tend to discount information, data, or viewpoints that conflict with their pre-existing positions on any issue. We all do that to some degree. What is jarring is seeing learning professionals, trainers and &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/incest-diversity-and-damage-to-social-learning-and-learning-profession/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ASTD President Bingham Posts Intellectually Impoverished, Embarrasing Article on Learning Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part I of this series we looked at the first part of Tony Bingham&#8217;s post on &#8220;Learning Socially&#8221; and pointed out that so far in the article, nothing the President of ASTD mentioned is relevant or telling regarding the &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/astd-president-bingham-posts-intellectually-impoverished-embarrasing-article-on-learning-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Elliot Maisie Replies to Bacal&#8217;s Criticism of Social Learning Survey (#astd, #trdev)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Elliot, for commenting and filling in some of the reasoning behind your publishing of the Social Learning Survey results. I decided to respond in a new post, since your reply deserves as much exposure as my original post, &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/elliot-maisie-replies-to-bacals-criticism-of-social-learning-survey-astd-trdev/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Elliot Masie Survey on Social Learning &#8211; You&#8217;re Kidding Us, Aren&#8217;t You?</title>
		<link>http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/uncategorized/elliot-masie-survey-on-social-learning-youre-kidding-us-arent-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no question that there&#8217;s a current &#8220;buzz&#8221; among trainers around the use of technology, and particularly &#8220;social learning&#8221;, to facilitate, and make more efficient, learning in the workplace. Elliot Maisie is considered one of the leading experts on the &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/uncategorized/elliot-masie-survey-on-social-learning-youre-kidding-us-arent-you/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comment on Some ASTD Comments (or, My God, You let these people train others?)#astd #trdev</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that the ASTD Conference concluded last week (American Society For Training and Development). A few people took the time and made the effort to either inform during the conference, or write up their impressions after &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/comment-on-some-astd-comments-or-my-god-you-let-these-people-train-othersastd-trdev/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Response to Twitter Critique re: Relevance to Training #trdev</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 22:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought I would pass this on. It&#8217;s a response to a person who believes twitter has nothing to add to the training and learning field. The thread was started initially when I posted about efforts to create a community of &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/training-technology/response-to-twitter-critique-re-relevance-to-training-trdev/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Attempts to sabotage creating a training/development community of practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>trdev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today I announced the creation of a twitter hashtag, #trdev so people wanting to create a training and development community of practice on twitter could find each other, and interact. We have additional plans to make this work. However &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/training-wisdom-or-training-foolishness/attempts-to-sabotage-creating-a-trainingdevelopment-community-of-practice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time to throw the learner centered sock puppets out of training</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They probably should be running around in tie-dies, man. Probably do the training session and blow a spliff after, brother. But they aren&#8217;t that obvious. I like to refer to them as the hoowah diddy diddy California trainers who survived &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/time-to-throw-the-learner-centered-sock-puppets-out-of-training/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging &#8211; Losing Distinction Between Content and Form</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing a lot of searching on the Internet to provide content for our new TrDev Toolbar (described elsewhere), and so I&#8217;ve been coming across some interesting things. One of the most interesting comments went like this: &#8220;I blogged &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/blogging-losing-distinction-between-content-and-form/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>About Politically Correct Language &#8211; Tyranny or Sensitivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 22:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Bacal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary  wrote: &#62; So I guess the point I&#8217;m trying to make is that often those who are the &#62; most vocal about the &#8220;correct&#8221; way to call someone or some group of &#62; people, etc., that these people are &#8230; <a href="http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/roberts-learning-and-development-editorials/about-politically-correct-language-tyranny-or-sensitivity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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