I value your comments, suggestions, and questions. I will try to respond as quickly as possible. Since this is a one man operation (plus two dogs), I need your feedback, criticisms, suggestions, and editorial input (spelling, grammar, etc.).
You can reach me at donclark@nwlink.com or text me at
My name is Don (Donald Clark) and I live in Edmonds, Washington. When I'm not working on my web site, I'm hiking, fishing, gardening with my wife Kim, and of course playing with my dogs. I started this site in 1995 as a hobby as I wanted to be a part of the internet, rather than just read it. I started writing about ISD and then leadership. I learned quite a bit about those two topics from my Army career. The rest of the site just sort of grew from there.
I used to work in the Information Services/Inventory Control Department at Starbucks Coffee Company's roasting plant in Kent. Prior to that I was Sergeant First Class (E7) in the U.S. Army and retired after 22 years. The first part of my career was in the heavy equipment field (engineers -- both combat and construction). My last seven years were at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where I worked as an instructor and then a training developer.
For more information, see my resume.
I'm also available on Twitter and Linkedin.
Copyright Information
All material on this site is copyrighted by Donald Clark unless otherwise noted.Any, educational (school, university, college, etc.), or training (business, government, organization, etc.) activity may make copies of any material on this site for instructional use, providing that no profit is made from the material and I am given credit (see "How to Reference this Site" below).
As far as the word profit, I hope that everyone profits from the material. It is OK if you sell your material (such as being a consultant), however, what I do not want is for someone to directly sell my material -- that type of profiteering would be wrong... unless I'm included in the profits of course [smile]. That is, you may include my free material in with the material you are selling, as long as you do not ask for additional monies for my material and you give me some credit, unless of course you make prior arrangements with me.
Basically, I use the Creative Commons' Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic licence.
How to Reference this Site (APA Formating)
Author, A. A. (Date of publication - normally shown on the bottom of my page), Title of document. Retrieved month day, year, from http://nwlink.com/
Example:
Clark, D. R. (2004), Instructional System Design Concept Map. Retrieved September 30, 2007 from http://nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/ahold/isd.html
Created on iMac
Created on an Apple iMac and iBook. My HTML editor is BBEdit 6.5. Photos are edited with Photoshop Elements 2.0. Most of the Diagrams, concept maps were created with OmniGraffle Professional.Accolades
The Training Journal - One of the very few worthwhile sites.TrainingZONE - Jan 4, 2000 - "The Time Capsule page provides a wonderful summary of key ideas, players, concepts, developments and breakthroughs from throughout history in the evolution of training and development approaches. . . My only reservation is that once you start exploring the page, you'll be tempted to stay for hours!"
Performance Improvement Journal "World Wide Web Sites for Instructional Design and Human Performance" (International Society for Performance Improvement - NSPI) January 1999 - "One of the largest sites related to training and development" - Big Dog's HRD Page
ASTD's Surf Site of the Week for May 4, 1998 - Big Dog's HRD Page
The 1997 ASTD Training and Performance Yearbook, page 501. Three stars (their highest rating) - Big Dog's HRD Page
Training Supersite. An A+ training site - Big Dog's HRD Page
Training Magazine, April 1996, 101, Web Surfing. The World Wide Web at its best - Big Dog's HRD Page
Etc.
Visit my etc. page if you would like to know more of my interests.Time to get back to work and fun...
