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Join UL in just two days as experts in functional safety Thomas Maier and Kevin Connelly review five new improvements introduced in the second edition of IEC 61508. ♦ Increased focus on traceability ♦ The concepts of elements and compliant items ♦ Redundant channels in a single integrated circuit ♦ Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) ♦ Increased...

Competitive Advantage through On-Premise Rapid Prototyping : You'll hear from Mike Zeigle, Manager of Trek's Prototype Development Group, on how Objet's 3D printer has allowed Trek to produce four times as many prototypes as before, leading to better designs and dramatically reducing their time to market. You'll learn how you can : ♦ Cut prototypin...

I first heard these wise words while working at Samsung in South Korea, and I find myself repeating them quite often these days. It is not only difficult but oftentimes risky to chase two rabbits at the same time. Ok… perhaps I should stop speaking in proverb and let you in on the specifics of what I am referring to. As I work with more and more cl...

  I recently started taking classes in body alignment at a fabulous place called the Restorative Exercise Institute (REI). If you happen to live in or around Ventura, California, you should check it out. If you don't live in the area, the owner, Katy Bowman, also runs a blog called katysays.com . There are literally hours of fascinating readin...

One of the challenges that I've faced in delivering vILT (Virtual Instructor-Led Training) is in combining the live online experience with use of extensive or sophisticated supplemental materials. Some online training tools allow you to upload materials and make them available before, during or after a training in the form of a word document or PDF...

When working with clients, I am often asked questions such as "What makes a great web-event?" or "What are the main differences between presenting live and presenting online?" In response to these questions and a few other related ones, Larry Sleep, President of Lawrence Group and I have co-authored a whitepaper, " Eleven Ways to Maximize Your Next...

As you may know, I presented at the New Learning Technologies 2010 SALT Conference in Orlando this month. The topic was "Navigating the Move to an Online Classroom." I am pleased to announce that it was both well attended and well received.  If you missed the presentation, let me know if the topic is of interest to you and we can consider doin...

I recently visited my 90-year-old grandmother in Florida, and in the course of our conversation I told her that I was going out on my own. Naturally, she asked me what I was "going out on my own" to do. I come from a long line of entrepreneurs, so the idea of owning one's own business is not at all foreign to our clan. However, as I opened my mouth...