On November 9th, join us for our guest Elena Galbraith, CPT, and Developing Great Job Aids-Tips and Techniques.

Who's Elena? Elena Galbraith, CPT, works as a performance improvement program manager for Microsoft in the Enterprise Sales Productivity organization.

"One of the most critical design decisions related to developing training is whether to store training information in long-term memory or put it in the performer's hands. The time it takes to develop job aids is three to fives times shorter than developing instruction-to-recall-saving the organization time and money.", says Elena.

Interested in learning more? Then be sure to check out the full details for this event - just click here.

Our call for speakers for our December 7th Cracker Barrel is sill open. The deadline has been extended to 5pm on Monday, November 1st. If you are interested in learning more, click here to go to the October 9th issue of e-Spectrum for details on how to submit a mini-proposal.

Non-members are welcome to submit proposals.

We are very pleased to advise you that our new ISPI Vancouver Membership Database is now live, online and ready for you to access.

You can access the database at any time by clicing on the "Connect" button on the main toolbar at the top of your screen (or just click here). The 'public' view of the database only includes those members who chose to have their listing available to all. The complete database, and the full features, is only available to ISPI Vancouver members.

The techology that makes our online database possible has been generously donated by InSpot Development. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Sebastian Okada, President and Founder of InSpot. Sebastian has generously donated countless hours to getting us up and running. On behalf of the entire ISPI Vancouver membership, thank you Sebastian for your vision, hard work and endless patience!

This project has been spearheaded by Alex Laks, our VP Technology. In addition to Sebastian's efforts, other volunteers on the project include Kirsten Hansen, Margy Hayden, Anne Preston and Roberta Westwood. Thanks also to Don McIntosh, Madeleine Butschler, and Keith Fernandez for their input, plus the InSpot team for their efforts.

Note: If you are a current ISPI Vancouver member, you are in the datbase - as long as you responded to our request to update your listing over the summer/fall (at which time you also received login information). If you want to make changes to your listing, or to make your listing 'public' (available to non-members), just login and make your changes. Any questions about the database should be directed to membership@ispi-van.org.

The International Internet Marketing Association is hosting a session on KM on November 22nd that might interest some of our readers.

The guest speaker is Seth Romanow from HP. For more information on Know Thy Customers: Actionable Insights from Hewlett-Packard's Director of Knowledge Management and Analytics, click here.

The Drive Is On!

The ISPI Membership drive, that is! * Reminder *

Have you renewed yet? October 1 was the target to renew your ISPI Vancouver membership. Click here for the 2004-05 renewal form. Not an ISPI Vancouver member? Click here to learn about becoming a member.