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This is a blog that has several entries directly related to managing e-learning projects. There are also external links to additional resources.

Thanks, JP - I've used Articulate's forums for developers to find answers to specific issues, but didn't realize they had extended into this topic - very helpful - I plan to do some digging soon!

PM4NGOs (Project Management for Non-Governmental Organizations) aims to optimize international NGO project investments by enabling project managers to be reflective, professional practitioners who learn, operate and adapt effectively in complex project environments. As a group of international relief, development, and conservation organizations, PM4NGOs works together and collaborates with private sector companies, professional organizations, and universities to achieve this goal.

This site is from the American Management Association and they offer seminars and resources for developing your project management skills.

Join Rick Zanotti and Coline T Son Lee, two well known eLearning and media professionals, as they host top influencers, shakers and movers in the eLearning and Training industry. Topics can range from eLearning, multimedia development, project management and more to social media. These shows are recorded during a LIVE stream on http://www.justin.tv/relatecorp.

This site offers a whole host of tools that are helpful--in addition to other content and guidance. Here is the description from their site: The purpose of the tools and resources feature is to provide assessment instruments and various group process and project management aids that will help Higher Education institutions better manage their most critical technology projects. This Month's Featured Tool Intervention Diagnosis and Planning Tool This management development tool helps the manager discern the type of intervention assistance that is situationally appropriate for their leaders.

In this article, Preetam Kaushik explains what Kaizen is and how it is used in project management. It is an introduction to Kaizen - a philosophy developed by engineers while manufacturing cars at Toyota. It basically involves continuous improvements in all stages of any process with every small improvement making its own contribution to the final process.

Yup - the same people who publish the books in that series provide a free online resource with specific topics (e.g., "developing meaningful project objectives," "performing a cost-benefit analysis," "how to plan project execution"). It's not the PMBOK, but it's an easy to use and easy to digest collection of good information.

This looks like a great resource to learn project management from scratch. Since so many details go into project management, I think this would be the ideal reference for me, since it breaks it down for the novices. Thanks for sharing!

Here is the Excel spreadsheet that goes with the guide. Another great resource tool.

Wow, this is a very detailed project management spreadsheet! This looks like a very good point of reference for further developing a WBS. Thanks for sharing.

Harvard Business "Working Knowledge" archive article that I found very helpful, regarding the need for clarity when starting projects

In the article it mentions the concept of "Work Backwards." In education, when planning, it is called "Backwards Design," beginning your plan at where you want to end up, which is usually the the state standard of learning.

Build the community: I couldn't agree more that the initial relationship building in a project is key component for success later.

Just in case someone has been living under a rock, I'm adding this. I can't tell you how many times people at work email files hundreds of times when we could all just collaborate in Google Docs. We used Google Hangouts to chat in former projects and could actually see when each other was typing something. Love it!

I agree with Jen. While GoogleDocs is a great time saver I wish you could do more with formatting, pasting, etc. The formatting also differs if you download the doc onto a Mac which can be a pain when working with a group. Overall, though I think it is a worthwhile collaborative tool.

Good call. My team spent an entire meeting demonstrating how to use Live Meeting via Outlook, only to later find out that it costs our company each time we initiate a call. I mentioned Hangouts as an alternative, and nobody had any idea what I was talking about, despite the fact that all of my teammates have Gmail. Yikes! Sometimes its scary how much we don't know!

This was a blog post comparing three different PM Software tools. She makes a point of stating that "These are suggestions for businesses or entrepreneurs that are not focused on development work."

Here is a nice article on emotional intelligent. I like the topic very much.

Peggy, this is a great article and definitely something I can use in my workplace. I think acknowledging how teams deal with and use EI is great in helping create strong interpersonal relationships. Thank you for sharing!

I appreciate this too. One of the things I was curious about after our EI discussions was how best to share knowledge of EI, self-awareness and empathetic communication with team members. It seems to me that rather than just using the techniques we have learned ourselves, we should share them with others as well, so that they understand the approach and the improved empathy is able to move both ways. So this is great to have some advice about that specifically.

The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) is a non-profit association for workplace learning and performance professionals. They describe this certification program as "...presents concrete steps to improve your project management skills. Participants will learn to manage the critical project management role helping deliver learning and performance solutions that better support their business goals."

In research and and evaluation these checklists can be incredibly useful. It may be a stretch to apply them to project mgmt for instructional design but there are many links to proposal development that are thought provoking.

Simple and powerful, Agilefant is the most advanced open source web based tool for agile management today, with a rapidly growing user base and a dedicated community behind it. Unlike most tools, Agilefant scales from personal todo-lists to large-scale multi-team development projects and all the way to long-term product and portfolio management needed for true organization-wide agility.

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations. This tool is open source and free to download and install.

This handbook is a product of Caltrans, a department in the California state government. By the title, you can see that this resource is focused on project communication. It provides an easy to follow process and guidance on developing a communication plan. It also includes tips on how to identify stakeholder, gather input and how to communicate with stakeholders.

Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, or web browser. I saw this in a professional development course I was in this summer. I think it could be a useful way to engage people in the process --- especially if you are working virtually and are on a webinar. Results show almost instantly.

That's very cool Jean. Of course, my immediate thought is to use it in the classroom. However, I could see a project manager using Poll Everywhere to poll a team for feedback.