Dear Instructional Designer

Listen in on my conversation with Ido Abramovich, a technical trainer turned training business owner in Israel. Ido gives us insight into his growing training business, where he's made the move from full time employee to entrepreneur with a business partner and employees.

So several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called, Steal this Idea: Push and Pull Systems for Marketing your Training. I really love the idea of of creating push systems as well as pull systems. In this episode, I examine the Highbrow model of subscription courses and how we might appropriate the model for our own uses as IDs.

This episode, I talk with Jed Esposito, an amazing ID I met in an ID social media group. He talks to us about making the transition from public industry to private industry and how to be the kind of ID who is known for getting stuff done.

In this episode, I talk with Jane Bozarth, instructional designer, presenter, and author. She gives us some really great tips on how to get our foot in the door to the presentation game.

Today’s guest is Ashley Chiasson, an incredible instructional designer, author, and presenter. Ashley talks us through yet another option for all you IDs out there: having a full time job, while also having a side business.

As a follow up to our interview with James Finder, I wanted to share some insight about side projects as marketing. If you're thinking that you can't fit blogging into your life but you want to help build up some business for yourself, consider creating some side projects as a way to market yourself.

Today’s interview is with James Finder, an ID I met on the instructional design subreddit. James is our first ID entrepreneur on the show. If you're thinking about starting up a business and striking out on your own, James shares valuable insight for this path.

Today’s interview is with Rachel Barnum, a really awesome instructional designer who I’ve followed on Twitter for some time now. Interested in ID roles that focus on face-to-face workshops? This one's for you!

Following our interview with Mel Milloway, I thought we could spend some time thinking about how to plan and track personal learning work and increase our chances of actually getting stuff done.

In this episode, I interview the fabulous, versatile, and prolific Mel Milloway. Mel talks to us about development work and her methods for practicing and trying new things.

Part 2 of the Interview with Brian Washburn.

In this episode, I interview Brian Washburn, instructional designer extraordinaire on his thoughts on instructional design, relationship building, and SMEs.

In the final episode of launch week, we talk about the gear for getting your portfolio up and online.

In this episode, we tackle one of the biggest portfolio pitfalls: getting stuff done. How can you make time for making?

In this episode, I talk about the tools that can help you make an instructional design portfolio.

In episode 2 of launch week, we discuss some ideas about how you can get over the "What do I make?" hurdle of portfolio creation.

In this episode, we discuss the why you should be creating a portfolio as an instructional designer.

A sneak peek of the new instructional design podcast, Dear Instructional Designer. The topic: Why you need a Portfolio.