Welcome to Big Dog and Little Dog's Bowl of Biscuits! From spanning the globe for great links to cranking out articles, we are hard at work to bring you the finest information and knowledge on performance, learning, training, and leadership.
My name is Don (Donald Clark) and I live in Edmonds, Washington. When I'm not consulting, designing, or working on my web site, I'm hiking, fishing, gardening with my wife Kim, and of course playing with my dogs Ricardo and Buddy. 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 in which I learned quite a bit about from my Army career. The rest of the site just sort of grew from there.
For about thirteen years I worked 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 military career was in the heavy equipment field (the Engineers & both combat and construction). My last seven years were at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where I worked as an instructor and then an instructional designer.
Presently, I'm consulting on the learning and performance industry, doing train-the-trainer classes, and designing elearning and training processes and platforms. I may be reached at donclark@nwlink.com and at 425.210.7207. I'm also on Twitter and Linkedin.
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 either email me at the link above or leave a comment in any of the posts on my blog.
Copyright Information
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 1) no profit is made from the material 2) I am informed of what material you will use and where it will be used, and 3) I am given credit (see "How to Reference this Site" below).
As far as the word profit, I hope that everyone "profits" (benefits) 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. That is, you may include my 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 the proper credit.
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...