Using Technology to Collect Data

ASTD Staff

On Wednesday, January 27, President Obama gave his State of the Union Address. Upon completion, the pollsters and pundants were in usual form. If you happened to watch the post-address discussion on CNN, you probably saw John King provide the latest Twitter results. Tha... More »

Learning Executives’ Confidence Stabilizes in 4th Quarter of 2009

ASTD Staff

Learning executives continue to be optimistic about the outlook and expectations for the learning function according to the latest measurement by the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). The Learning Executive Confidence Index (LXCI) for the fourth qu... More »

9 Positive Customer Service Actions

ASTD Staff

ASTD author Maxine Kamin, director of professional development at Childnet and founder and president of TOUCH Consulting, shares with us some valuable customer service tips: "If you're in a service field, did you ever ponder, 'What was I thinking when I took this job?' ... More »

New Book Release: 10 Steps to Successful Customer Service

ASTD Staff

Providing great customer service is critical for the success of any business. So why do some companies think that "customer service" = pushing buttons and listening to recorded messages? Those companies need to get a copy of the latest book from ASTD Press: 10 Steps to ... More »

Nine steps for choosing technology for social networking

ASTD Staff

So I am working on editing Darin Hartley's forthcoming book 10 Steps to Social Networking for Business, and I feel like I could use a break so I thought I would write a little about his book. It has a lot of good information for getting into social networking as a busin... More »