On a Monday edition, we catch up with Melissa Milloway, Technical Curriculum Developer at Amazon. She talks about her history, how she shares her information to the world, and xAPI.

• Melissa’s history

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Today on TLDChat we welcomed Dan Beckius of AirClass (Lenovo). Dan has 20 years of experience in training and specializes in Virtual Classroom implementation.

Topics discussed:

• Dan’s origin story

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Happy New Year! We start the year off with special guest, Clint Clarkson, the VP, elearning at Xpan Interactive. After a brief history from Clint, we dove into a discussion that spanned from getting certifications all the way to his current position as VP of elearning and everything in between. Be sure to check out Clint’s comic that is related to the L&D field as well for a good laugh!

• Clint’s history in the industry

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Special guest Michelle Fanfarillo joins the video today to talk about leaders and leadership teams with the group. Michelle is part of the PeopleFirm team and brings a great wealth of information on the subject and the Q&A was full of great questions to day.

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Special guest Mike Rustici, CEO and co-founder of Watershed and comes to talk about standards and xAPI with the group. We talked about the collection and usage of data for analytics and how that can apply to the world of L&D, standards in L&D, and general learning experiences.

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Links mentioned in this episode:

https://www.hapyak.com/

http://adlnet.gov/xAPI

https://www.watershedlrs.com/blog/products/xapi-data-privacy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

https://github.com/aa-altieri/alexa-xapi-quiz

Watch the Video Replay:

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/121817?rfsn=530134.af795

Golden Nugget:

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We are joined in the video chat by Ollie Gardener of NoddlePod. She discussed how NoodlePod was a was created as a solution to the poor choice in tools that the learning community had at the time. This lead to a great conversation on community in general and it was then linked back into the L&D field with some key discussions around bots and AI.

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Tuesday brought us the consistently brilliant Brian Fanzo, iSocialFanz. He talked a variety of subjects, mostly focused around his 4 Ts: Trust, Training, Transparency and Technology.

You’ll also find lots of info on livestreaming, blockchain, and technology in this discussion.

Brian was conference favorite at our 2016 Training, Learning, and Development Conference. You can find his keynote HERE.

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Special guest Tom Hickmore, founder of Nice Media, who is well seasoned in the field of video tells us about his transition from art video to the corporate sector and, eventually, the L&D field. He talked about creating a story, video technology, and where video sits in the L&D field.

• Tom’s background

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Special guest Allison Wagda of Versal stops in to talk about collaborative learning in the L&D field. We had an enjoyable conversation with Allison on the difficulties of collaboration as it pertains to creating courses, managing SMEs, and in social media use in the workplace.

• Allison’s background

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