Valve Software’s Success Linked Strongly to Hiring Practices

Valve Software is one of the videogaming industry’s most prominent and successful companies.  It is responsible for some of videogaming’s most prominent games and game platforms, including Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counterstrike, Half-Life 2, Portal,...

SIOP 2012: Day 3 Live-Blog

The third day had a good amount of coverage on technology-driven assessment.  Our social media symposium was in the middle of the day, so there’s a little gap there.  Wrap-up incoming soon! time status...

SIOP 2012: Day 2 Live-Blog

Today was busy, with our learner control symposium taking up most of the afternoon (hard to tweet while talking!). time status 5:36 AM At 5AM, it’s much harder to see why registering for the...

SIOP 2012: Day 1 Live-Blog

Day 1 was busy, but still got some tweets out. I’ve noticed that every year, I randomly run into people. Which is great, but it takes so much time from presentations!  Archive of my...

SIOP 2012: Scheduling Planning

As in 2010 and 2011, I’ll be live-blogging the SIOP conference, which begins Thursday, April 26 and runs through Saturday, April 28.  This post contains a list of all the sessions that I am...

Online Incivility by Supervisors May Lead People to Quit

A recent study by Giumetti et al ((Giumetti, G., McKibben, E., Hatfield, A., Schroeder, A., & Kowalski, R. (2012). Cyber Incivility @ Work: The New Age of Interpersonal Deviance Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking,...