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Book summary services have been around for a few years now, but we just stumbled across Execubooks through our Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) membership. All CSTD members also receive membership with Execubooks (a savings of about $100 USD per year).

They have quite a selection of books in categories such as biography, career development, economics & politics, global business, human resources, ideas & trends, leadership & strategy, management, personal finance, sales & marketing, and small business. What's of most interest to us is that they make their summaries available in a number of electronic formats - Palm Reader, Microsoft Reader, Acrobat eBook Reader, Acrobat Reader, or Web Browser (which can then be printed). You can also buy individual summaries for $2.99, as opposed to a full year's subscription to their entire collection.

Last year, Dave completed a course on Communities of Practice with Etienne Wenger. He then wrote an article for The Training Report. We are now making that article available as a briefing paper for our Muse readers.

Congratulations to Katherine Graham for winning our Chapters gift certificate for signing the new LearningEdge website guestbook.

HRIA Conference in Calgary

We've updated our conference banners and received an enthusiastic response from participants. Over 40 people attended our presentation, where we used the learning signature to help participants think about how they roll out new learning programs such as leadership, coaching or mentoring. If you look closely at the picture below, you'll also see a Calgary Flames banner in the bottom right corner. For any hockey fans out there ... Go Flames Go!!!!