Holly MacDonald
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Creator of Instructional Products - specializing in building products for customer, member or professional audience. at Spark + Co.
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    Holly MacDonald Hero

    20+ years in the learning biz, independent consultant. I work on projects for employee training and customer training, and often bring a team of experts to the table.
  • British Columbia, Canada
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?
"I'll take my payment in pints! Well done Bruce! But seriously I hope that this thread has shown that: 1. if you ask for help, others will..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/03/12 at 8:52 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?
"Great, just switch your focus from you to your prospective customers and you're there. Who are your prospective customers (who is your p..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/27/12 at 3:25 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?
"Daniel - my background is similar to Bruce's - I managed training departments, so I know the business side and I also speak "conversation..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/27/12 at 9:54 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?
"Kevin - you are too kind my friend Bruce - thanks for TEFCAS, it's new to me... Belen - yes, we are probably exuding self-confidence, but..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/26/12 at 3:19 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?
"Daniel - that's a great add-on (it's almost like we have created our own freelancer SIG organically here!) True, you need to determine wh..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/25/12 at 3:16 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Freelancers -- where do you find most of your work?
"Daniel - I'm coming up on my 5 year anniversary as a freelancer, and all my work comes from referrals - so network, network, network is m..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/18/12 at 9:20 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion What's your favorite question to ask during an SME interview?
"I'd add to the list: "what are the most common mistakes people make?" "what is the impact of those mistakes?" "what do you wish someone h..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/24/12 at 1:58 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Medical procedure in Storyline
"David Anderson said: @Steve - Good point. I also felt "pulled" between captions and steps 3, 4 & 5. My thought was to make the silhou..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/11/12 at 2:15 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Linking scenarios with individual performance using e-learning?
"Barbara I think these types of blended courses give you lots of opportunity to provide rich learning experience and meaningful feedback. ..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/10/12 at 5:23 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Linking scenarios with individual performance using e-learning?
"Hi Barbara - is this intended to be a purely elearning course or a blended solution? "
  • almost 12 years ago05/10/12 at 10:22 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Are you getting the most from your learning?
"John, you could make it like a geocaching kind of scavenger hunt? Perhaps if you told us your industry we could come up with some others. "
  • almost 12 years ago05/10/12 at 10:19 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Showing Effectiveness of Training on Business Performance
"Hi Ramon One approach that I've had success with (although more on building a business case for training prior to development) is to iden..."
  • 12 years ago04/24/12 at 8:57 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion eLearning Training Help
"Marty, I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here's one of the things I did with a team I managed a few years ago. We h..."
  • 12 years ago04/19/12 at 10:21 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Where do you find work?
"Hi Rachel (and others) I saw this article appear in my tweetstream and thought it might be of use to you: http://designm.ag/freelance/sta..."
  • 12 years ago04/17/12 at 5:31 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Cost of developing 1 hour of elearning
"Steve Flowers said: I've referenced Karl Kapp's article on estimation. http://www.astd.org/LC/2009/0809_kapp.htm In my experience "it d..."
  • 12 years ago03/30/12 at 2:56 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Collecting user feedback in pilot
"Thanks Simon - good points - maybe even enough to get past my spreadsheet aversion!"
  • 12 years ago03/28/12 at 3:17 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Help - I'm getting bogged down with the learning design process...
"One that I played around with was podio - which gives you some project management/task management options and allows you to build an "int..."
  • 12 years ago03/27/12 at 2:40 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Embed a Vimeo video
"Jennifer, you can also have multiple videos in a quizmaker slide (as long as you have the video, doesn't work with web objects). I'm sur..."
  • 12 years ago03/26/12 at 11:23 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Collecting user feedback in pilot
"Hi Steve - that is a cool looking widget and if you want a tester for your idea, let me know. I think it's too big for the stage I'm at -..."
  • 12 years ago03/23/12 at 10:04 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Collecting user feedback in pilot
"Thanks Natalia, that's helpful!"
  • 12 years ago03/20/12 at 1:48 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Tip for asset management - screenr included
"So helpful, both the screenr and Tom's point of marginalia. Am feeling like a good digital spring clean is in my future! Thanks for posti..."
  • 12 years ago03/17/12 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Very cool cartoon done in Power Point
"Finally got around to watching. Wish I had a few weeks to just play and experiment! James, where do you find these awesome samples? You s..."
  • 12 years ago03/16/12 at 2:37 pm (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Collecting user feedback in pilot
"I am piloting 2 diff courses and want to collect feedback at a slide level.  I was thinking about a shared evernote notebook, but haven't..."
  • 12 years ago03/16/12 at 11:32 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald replied to the discussion Copy portions of course?
"Thanks Peter, I knew there were easy steps, but hadn't done it before. It was easy peasy, lemon squeezy! Holly"
  • 12 years ago03/16/12 at 7:42 am (UTC)
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Holly MacDonald started a new discussion Copy portions of course?
"Hi there I would like to make my client a "teaser" version of their course to post on their website, and will also do a similar thing for..."
  • 12 years ago03/15/12 at 1:42 pm (UTC)