Build instructional design into an easy to use phone and tablet-native tool and you can hand content creation over the experts on the shop floor. That's the philosophy driving manual.to, a remarkably flexible innovation from Jorim Rademaker of Belgium. Check it out!

Chatbots are cute, but what have they got to do with training? A lot, when you think carefully and have flexible authoring tools at your disposal. Conor Kostick works for one provider with the memorable name, Snatchbot. Join me as we explore the possibilities for improving our instructional designs using this still evolving technology.

This month The ID Fanatic Podcast welcomes Ryan Laverty, founder of Arist, to explain how to do eLearning in parts of the world where reliable wifi is but a fantasy.

How do you design instruction to change a person's habits? We take a deep dive with Cape Town's Mike Cheney into the strategy behind Coachbit, an app that gives kids daily tasks to build up their time management and study skills--a tall order if there ever was one!

The ID Fanatic Podcast, Season 2 has launched! This season is called Pushing the Needle into the 21st Century, and focuses on innovators in the ID world using AI and other modern tools to improve learner results. This first episode talks with Palm Beach resident Domenic Caloia about his innovation, Learner Intelligence (see learnerintelligence.org). I hope you'll join us!

Dr. Nanette Miner, author of The Accidental Trainer and CEO of her own leadership training firm, The Training Doctor, comes clean about motorcycles, disc jockeying and having an affair (not hers!).

The ID Fanatic Podcast talks with Dr. Alaina Szlachta about healthy relationships, the three modes that make for meaningful training and her upcoming trip to India.

East London former firefighter trainer and children's entertainer, now daily blogger and women's rights activist Andrew Jacobs talks with us about sharing your podium, making a difference and communing with bumblebees.