It's shaping up to be a busy fall for the dominKnow team, including several road trips for us in addition to development work on the dominKnow Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and our services team's custom courseware work.

Two events we're looking forward to in September are the Oil Sands Trade Show and Conference in Edmonton, Alberta on Sept. 19-20 and the Innovations in Learning Conference in Santa Clara, California on Sept. 24-27.

The Oil Sands Trade Show and Conference will give us a chance to once again meet with folks in the oil and gas industry in Alberta.

This industry is struggling with many growth pains, including a shortage of trained and qualified workers, and we feel that e-learning is a very powerful tool to help address many aspects of this issue. We'll be at booth 573 at the Northlands AgriCom.

The Innovations in Learning Conference, set for the following week, is an event that has the instructional designers among us quite excited. We're attending as part of a contingent of Canadian e-learning companies under the auspices of the Canadian eLearning Enterprise Alliance (CeLEA). We'll be providing a short presentation on the dominKnow LCMS during the Canadian E-Learning Showcase scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 25.

We're looking forward to the "non-trade show" approach of the event's Conference Café, and, we must admit, there is also some interest in the wine-tasting on the Santa Cruz Pier.

Look us up if you're planning on attending the conference or even just the wine tasting!

The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) annual conference and trade show kicks off on Sunday, Nov. 5 in Toronto.

CSTD has been gathering some great momentum over the past few years, and really has consolidated its role in the training community in Canada.

Last year's CSTD conference was one of the best such events I've been to in the past five years.

I was only able to attend for one day, but all three conference sessions I attended were well-done.

I came away with new knowledge and insight (something that doesn't always happen at conferences!) and I found the whole experience to be very energizing - I talked the ear off one of my colleagues for several hours afterwards.

That experience convinced us that dominKnow Learning Systems needed to be a bigger part of this year's show, to help build on the CSTD energy.

We will be at Booth 603 on the show floor, and we're looking forward to greeting many new faces and re-greeting old friends.

If you are attending the show, feel free to drop by our booth - we'd love to meet you in person.

We'll see you there!