In late February 2012, Becky Pluth did a webinar on how and why to use social media for training. Here's a video visually depicting some of the astonishing facts about the prevalent use of social media based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman with updated numbers from 2011.

If about 10 percent of the male population is color-blind, should that affect how you design your online learning environment? Does the common red-green or less common blue-yellow blindness play a part online also? You bet! How do you accommodate for that?

As one might imagine, The Bob Pike Group always is looking for ways to make training relevant while still maintaining its participant-centered focus. When doing training online, that focus is even more critical as holding the participants' attention is more difficult to do. A few years ago, Becky Pluth came across Raptivity, a software that now has about 250 templates for creating interactive exercises for online training.