152 - Technology People Graphical?; Technology Company Seeks International Negotiation Skills Course

1. Technology People Graphical? I wrote an article in the launch edition of
a new careers site, Planet IT, focusing on the challenge of adding graphical
skills to technical staff's skill sets. The site is free. Check it out and
let me know what you think of the challenge of adding graphics to the IT
skills set. Go to: http://www.PlanetIT.com/docs/PIT19991201S0035

2. e-Learning Briefing to Include Implementation Planning Advice: At our
upcoming e-learning Briefing (Seattle, Jan 10 and 11th), we will provide a
summary of advice from Training Managers currently implementing on-line and
e-learning projects. We have been collecting a series of case studies on
effective and failed implementation learnings. After the briefing, we will
publish a snapshot here on TRENDS. There are only a few dozen seats left in
the briefing. Go to http://www.masie.com for info and on-line
registration.

Here are 2 requests from TechLearn Readers for Help and Resources:

3. Technology Company Seeks International Negotiation Skills Course: A
major technology company is seeking help in finding negotiation skills
courses with an international orientation: Here is their request:

"We are looking for a Negotiating course for our Sales Group for the
Caribbean & Latin American Region. The course needs to be culturally
diverse for this market, as opposed to a domestically focused. As you know,
negotiating styles vary from country to country within the region as well
outside, for example negotiating between a Brazilian and a Spaniard can be
very difficult if one does not understand what each expects during the
negotiating process, etc"

Please send any suggestions or replies to int1@masie.com and we will forward
to the reader and also post a summary on a future TRENDS.

4. UNICEF Asks About International Portals: Ivette Martinez-Rivera, from
UNICEF, asks TechLearn readers for help on finding learning portals with an
international and non-profit slant. Here is her request:

"We are an international organization and are considering subscribing to a
learning portal. We would like to roll this request by TechLearn readers to
find out if there are there sites that might have courses -- management--
that are more international and non-profit orientation in scope?"

Please respond to int2@masie.com and we will pass these along to UNICEF and
post a summary on a future TRENDS.

5. Learning Quotations Needed: Earn a Cool Calendar: We are about to
publish a Learning and Technology Calendar with 365 great learning quotes.
If you have a favorite quote just send it to quotes@masie.com and if we use
it we will send you a free copy of the calendar. If 2 people submit the
same quote, the first one received gets the calendar. Please include the
author and/or book it comes from. Send it to quotes@masie.com

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