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Email personalization: How to do it & examples to learn from Good email personalization is like salt in cooking: when it's missing, everything tastes flat; when it's overdone, it ruins the dish. But just the right amount brings everything to life without calling attention to itself

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⚡ 6 browsers that could change how you work wondertools.substack.com/p/newbrowsers

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7 Neuro-Writing Tips for More Persuasive Content #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Marketing wisdom meets learning expertise. (WARNING: may cause uncontrollable urges to redesign all your courses). amzn.to/4jFXsUi #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Why Reading (Books) Makes Us Better at Speaking As we read, the muscles that generate speech engage. The same phenomenon does not occur when we hear or listen to sentences. In other words, reading is a form of speech practice.

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Adopting a marketing mindset in L&D There is quite a lot L&D teams can learn from marketing. In this podcast episode, Bianca Baumann and Mike Taylor, share how to apply marketing principles to learning design. #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Five Simple Experiments to Get Started with AI (That Will Actually Help You) Not sure how to cut through the noise and start using AI in a useful way? Tom McDowall has got some ideas for you here: buff.ly/FNNtjcB

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Tell me what you want: why every piece of media needs a call to action Without a clear call to action, your content gets lost. A CTA isn’t pushy — it’s a service, guiding your audience to act, think, or feel. No CTA? No impact. #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Cracking the Learning Code: How Personas Transform Training from Good to Great Ever wish your training hit the bull’s-eye every time?Create learner personas! These fictional avatars help you tailor content that sticks—read the full article & learn to #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Tell me what you want: why every piece of media needs a call to action You’re not always selling something — but you’re always asking for attention, trust, or time, so use it wisely. buff.ly/bvZdfmv #TrainLikeAMarketer

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"Once you've started, you're halfway there." - Horace

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AI for Automation or Augmentation of L&D? At a time when more and more AI products promise to deliver analysis, design & development faster and cheaper we must stop and ask: how can we also ensure that we are using AI to make L&D better?

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Instructional Design Isn't Dying -- It's Specialising Recent developments have revealed something important: despite widespread anxiety, the instructional design role isn't dying—it's specialising.

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The willingness to figure things out as you go is often the only difference between those who achieve difficult things and those who never begin.

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An Incomplete List of Vibecoding Tools

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7 features of Tally forms that make traditional forms feel outdated. If you're using Google Forms, you should consider switching!

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Your L&D content deserves better than being ignored. Steal these proven marketing tricks to hook attention, spark emotion & drive action. Start transforming your training today 👇 trainlikeamarketer.com/2025/04/25/7... #TrainLikeAMarketer #CopyWriting

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Writing With AI for Instructional Design AI tools can expedite and improve writing. Connie Malamed shares some of the most helpful strategies she uses for writing with AI for instructional design.

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Take a couple minutes to check out this demo of using AI to create training material by Dave Birss

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Icons in presentations: How to make good choices #PowerPoint

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The Most Useful Thing I’ve Ever Done in L&D? Stop Building Courses First

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Do you do RSS? Here's how to Find an RSS Feed URL for Any Website in Minutes

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If You’re Not Hooking Viewers in 5 Seconds… You’ve Already Lost Them #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Instructional Design Isn't Dying -- It's Specialising The generalist “full stack” instructional designer is slowly but decisively fracturing into specialised roles that reflect both the capabilities of generative AI and the strategic imperatives facing modern organisations. buff.ly/jwB0BJP

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Legibility, Readability, and Comprehension: Making Users Read Your Words Many designers obsess over font choices but forget that clarity & context rule. If users can read your words but don’t understand them, your message misses the mark. Aligning all 3 means is our target!

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The Secret Sauce to Stunning PowerPoint Presentations – Navigating the World of Vector Graphics! This episode is a treasure trove of insights, practical tips, and expert advice on leveraging vector graphics, particularly .SVGs, for great presentation design.

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#LearningScience legends on Working Memory, Cognitive Load Theory and Desirable Difficulties with Alan Baddeley, John Sweller, Elizabeth Bjork, Robert Bjork, John Hattie and Nidhi Sachdeva.

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Are you using all 5 of these Helpful #PowerPoint Features? I'll be you probably aren't!

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Memory isn't replay; it's rewrite. Understanding this changes everything about how we view our experiences and our identity. #Memory #CognitiveScience

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Check out this custom GPT for analyzing solutions to performance gaps based on Mager & Pipes's classic flowchart created by Matthew Furnace.

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In a hurried world with infinite content, it’s worth considering that you’re no longer paid by the word when you write, in fact, you should pay for every extra word you use. Be as brief as is useful.

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How to Repurpose Your Content With AI — Whiteboard Friday

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When an L&D legend like Karl Kapp says your book will "change the way you think about developing instruction forever," it's both humbling and exciting! We couldn't be more grateful for Karl's support & can't wait to share these ideas with you! Pre-order today: amzn.to/4j5F5b6 #TrainLikeAMarketer

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How to Begin Your Journey of Designing for All Learners If you’re feeling overwhelmed about how to practice inclusive design, this podcast with Sarah Mercier gives you practical advice so you can start today.

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🎙️ PODCAST ALERT! Richard Mayer on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, how generative activities boost retention & challenges of discovery-based teaching. buff.ly/3jbEj7z

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Schemas, Chunking and Working Memory Nice blog by Paul Kirschner on how chunking and schemas help us overcome the severe limitations of working memory by organizing information into meaningful, structured units that draw on prior knowledge. buff.ly/22RRCnF

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ChatGPT's Privacy Trap: Default Settings You Can't Ignore ChatGPT's default settings expose your data to training, human review & potential identification. Change these 6 settings now to protect your sensitive information. #PrivacyAlert #ChatGPT #DataProtection buff.ly/FRtD4Ql

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Be one of the first people to get a look at our new book! #TrainLikeAMarketer

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Chart annotation toolkit by @Duarte See expert examples and learn methods for overlaying visual annotations onto a chart.

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Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up Thin fonts often hinder readability and accessibility due to their delicate strokes. Designers are now recognizing this issue and shifting towards more legible typefaces to enhance user experience.

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#PowerPoint Ready Diagrams Diagrammer is a tool that offers over 4,000 free PowerPoint-ready diagrams for your presentations and documents. You can choose from different types of diagrams, such as flow, join, segment, network, and stack, and customize them within your slides.

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How to Present at a Conference… Some good tips from Andrew Watson here.

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There is one straightforward trick to help you remember more. Dr. Ranganath reveals why testing yourself (even when you fail) can supercharge your memory. Why guessing the answer before hearing it makes information stick. The science-backed technique that beats cramming for exams.

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Why The Learning Styles Myth Persists And How It Damages Learning Debunking Education's Most Persistent Myth (Again) New paper explores how a thoroughly discredited theory still shapes teacher expectations and student potential "One of Education's Most Seductive Falsehoods."

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20+ Google Docs shortcuts to help you work faster Keyboard shortcuts you can use to organize your work and save time!

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Standing Out in Your Field: 3 Essential Practices for L&D Professionals 1. Do the reading 2. Share what you learn & work out loud 3. Help others in your field

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