What's New at Workshops by Thiagi

February 2, 2000: Added a new contest, What Does TEAM Stand For?.; Added two new icebreaker games, Little-Known Facts I & II; Added a Checklist for evaluating training games; Further updated the Table of Contents Index, Department Index, Detailed Games Index, and Brief Games Index in the TGL Companion.
January 23, 2000: Added our latest email game, Collaborative Crossword Creation (CCC).; Updated the Table of Contents Index, Department Index, Detailed Games Index, and Brief Games Index in the TGL Companion.
January 10, 2000: Uploaded the final round of the ONLINE MISSION e-mail game.; Added information on our latest book, Interactive Strategies for Improving Performance: 10 Powerful Tools
December 31, 1999: Added a new interactive crossword puzzle about customer relations.; Updated our Links page and added a link to LearnScope.; (If I finish my chores and you finish thine, then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699.)
December 15, 1999: Added more details and still more details about the upcoming Spring 2000 workshop.
December 14, 1999: Added a new interactive crossword puzzle about the worldwide web.
December 10, 1999: Uploaded the latest round of the ONLINE MISSION e-mail game.; Added an invitation for the next round of ONLINE MISSION on a new page. You can now win a $50 prize!
December 7, 1999: Added information about a new public workshop in Spring 2000 at Ivy Lodge.
December 6, 1999: Added an interactive crossword puzzle on creativity. We hope to add more interactive crosswords in the future.
December 2-3, 1999: Raja returned in triumph and added the much-clamored-for search engine. (It's FreeFind, which has some nifty features; sorry about the banner ads :-/.; Uploaded the latest round of the ONLINE MISSION e-mail game and the current ONLINE MISSION Hall of Fame.; Cleaned up a few pages (e.g., eliminated the Recent Highlights as redundant; all recent stuff is now on the What's New page).
November 24-27, 1999: While Raja is away on his Thanksgiving trip with Julie, Thiagi single-handedly updated the ONLINE MISSION e-mail games results for the first round and the Hall of Fame. He also updated many of the calendar items. But he still hasn't figured out how to link pages to this update list.
November 18, 1999: Updated the Detailed Games Index and Brief Games Index in the TGL Companion.; Updated the Calendar.; Made some cosmetic changes to our home page and moved some information to the new Welcome page.
November 8, 1999: Updated the Table of Contents Index and Department Index in the TGL Companion.
November 1, 1999: Created Thiagi's latest round-up of 40 interactive experiential training strategies.
October 31, 1999: Happy Halloween, everyone!
October 29, 1999: Created a new look for the home page, splitting off our current features and table of contents. Added a new page, Help Us.
October 26, 1999: Oops! Eight tips arrived late (even though they were sent before the deadline). Updated the List of Tips and Hall of Fame to incorporate these tips for Phase Two of the 101 Tips for Consultants game
October 25, 1999: Updated the Player Instructions, List of Tips and Hall of Fame for Phase Two of the 101 Tips for Consultants game
October 21, 1999: Updated the Player Instructions, List of Tips and Hall of Fame for the last round of the 101 Tips for Consultants game
October 18, 1999: Updated the Player Instructions, List of Tips and Hall of Fame for the next round of the 101 Tips for Consultants game
October 14, 1999: Updated the Player Instructions, List of Tips and Hall of Fame for the ongoing 101 Tips for Consultants game
October 11, 1999: Started a new game, 101 Tips for Consultants, and created the corresponding initial List of Tips and (initially empty) Hall of Fame
October 1, 1999: Created 101 Tips: How To Conduct This E-Mail Game page, and the nine (!) accompanying template pages.; Updated the COACHING 101 page with final results, and updated the Hall of Fame with the latest (possibly final) high scores for the COACHING 101 game.
September 27, 1999: Updated the COACHING 101 page with new instructions for the second phase, added 31 new tips to the Tips page, and updated the Hall of Fame with the latest high scores for the COACHING 101 game.
September 23, 1999: Updated the COACHING 101 page with the deadline for round 2, added 66 new tips to the Tips page, and created the Hall of Fame for the COACHING 101 game.
September 20, 1999: Fixed dates and announced the COACHING 101 E-Mail game.
September 17, 1999: Added three pages for the COACHING 101 E-Mail game.
September 13, 1999: Webmaster Raja participated in the countdown to the Moon being blasted out of Earth orbit at Breakaway.
September 2, 1999: Added a set of sheets for TD Cards to the TGL Companion section.
August 31, 1999: Updated the Board Games product page to mention the added card games (and the new prices for the add-on kits).
August 30, 1999: Added How To Persuade People that Training Games Produce Effective Learning to the Tips for Facilitators section.
August 25, 1999: Added a new Free E-Mail Games section to our web site.; Updated the Hoberman Sphere article with a direct link to Hoberman Sphere info from The Discian Group.; Added still more items to our Calendar.
August 24, 1999: Added Ask Open Questions to the Tips for Facilitators section.; Added DOUBLE BRAINSTORMING to the Free Games section.; Added many, many items to our Calendar.
August 9, 1999: Added follow-up details to the United Airlines workshop.
August 2, 1999: Added more details about the upcoming public workshop in November.
August 1, 1999: Updated the Table of Contents Index and Department Index in the TGL Companion.
July 15, 1999: Uploaded Facilitator Instructions for the E-Mail-Based DEPOLARIZER Game to the articles section.
July 11, 1999: Added information about the forthcoming public workshop in November.
July 8, 1999: Added Create Your Own Crossword Puzzle to our TGL Companion section.
July 7, 1999: Linked the Puzzles page in our Freebies and Goodies section to the cryptograms in our TGL Companion section.
June 30, 1999: Updated the TGL Name Index.
June 29, 1999: Added the set of More Scrambled Sentences to the TGL Companion, along with their associated hints. We will not post the solutions until later; the reason is given in the fifth puzzle.; Updated the Table of Contents, Detailed Game, and Brief Game Indexes in the TGL Companion.
June 11, 1999: Updated the TGL Table of Contents Index, the TGL Department Index, and the the Detailed Game Index for TGL.; Made sure that Contact Us is in the proper place. ;-)
June 2, 1999: Added a new tip for facilitators, Silence Buster, and a new game, Chat Room.
May 27, 1999: Added 41(!) More Links to our Links page.; Tested many of the links by hand, and removed two as being rotted.
May 26, 1999: Added 15(!) More Links to our Links page.; Added a new page with Contact information.
May 19, 1999: Updated the Table of Contents Index for TGL. We will update the other indexes soon!
May 18, 1999: Made many additions to the Calendar.
April 5, 1999: Uploaded handouts from Thiagi's 1999 ISPI Master Series presentation, A Global Nomad's Guide to One-World Thinking to the Articles and Handouts section.
April 1, 1999: Added a new workshop on performance needs analysis.
March 30, 1999: Updated Calendar to include several new dates.; Updated TGL Table of Contents Index.; Added Free Software page in the Freebies and Goodies section.
March 16, 1999: Added details about the AHA, HPT 101, and Seven Smarts board games.; (Happy birthday, Raja ;-)
March 15, 1999: We have just finished a complete makeover of our web site. It should now be easier to move around, and faster, too! This should enable us to better reach our goals. Please let us know how you like our new look, and what things we can improve.; Additionally, every page should now be valid HTML 4 (Strict DTD) with CSS.; (For those who are interested in technical stuff: I created an XML DTD for a new document type, THIAGI-PAGE, and used IBM's freeware XML parser [written in Java and available on www.alphaworks.ibm.com] to build a Java program that converts from TPML ["Thiagi Page Markup Language"] to HTML 4 Strict. I also wrote a crude [non-XML-parsing] TPML editor using Delphi 4. Odds are good that I won't use HTML editors in the future for this site.)
March 14, 1999: Added several more entries to our links page.
January 18, 1999: Added information about our new public workshop at Ivy Lodge.
December 14, 1998: Updated Calendar to include appearances at ISPI, ASTD, and IAL conferences.
December 2, 1998: Added information on two new board games.; Added the rest of the indexes to the TGL Companion, and the set of More Cryptograms (which work best with CSS).
December 1, 1998: Added the TGL Companion section and the Encryption Engine (which requires Java)
November 10, 1998: Added several pages to follow up on Thiagi's Placeware Seminar
October 2, 1998: Added a ZINGO 2 Updates page where registered users of ZINGO 2 can download the latest version.
September 1, 1998: Thiagi learned how to do general pruning and cleaned up some stuff.; Added a New Products page.
August 31, 1998: Updated the calendar (finally!).; Removed some obsolete items from the home page.
April 21, 1998: Updated the calendar.; Removed outdated information about Vancouver workshop.
March 5, 1998: Replaced the Packaged Games page with the new Board Games by Thiagi page.; Added details about the GROWING A TEAM board game; Added or redid many details pages. You can now get details on all 19 of our Framegame, More Framegames: Interactive Learning Designs, and Simulation Game booklets.
March 4, 1998: Added or redid several Details pages.
March 3, 1998: Updated our Calendar.
February 26, 1998: Added Details about Diversity Simulation Games, Cash Games, More Cash Games, Instructional Puzzles, More Instructional Puzzles, Learning Teams, Lecture Games
February 25, 1998: Added Details about SH!, Teamwork Games, and Triangles.
February 23, 1998: Removed help requests from home page.; Added Solutions to the Puzzles from our Training '98 Session; Added Details about Classify
February 4, 1998: Added HELP! request for CGS and Board Game users to home page.; Added information about the discounted Facilitation Skills Workshop.
January 21, 1998: Renamed the Handouts section to the Articles and Handouts section.; Added The Secrets of Successful Facilitators to Articles and Handouts section.
November 28, 1997: Updated calendar to include IAL sessions.
October 21, 1997: Removed references to our latest contest.
September 29, 1997: Added Use Templates To Speed Up Your ID, More On Templates, and Create Your Own Templates to the Tips for Rapid Instructional Design page.
September 3, 1997: Added the new Contests page.
August 15, 1997: Added the Winners of our CONJUGATING ADJECTIVES contest.
July 3, 1997: Added our Conjugating Adjectives Contest.
July 2, 1997: Added Trust Department, Politically-Correct Confusion, Beyond Simulation - Into Dissimulation, and It Takes Two to the newly-renamed Tips for Facilitators page.; Added EASY MONEY, THE OTHER SIDE, TIME VALUE, TIME WASTERS, and TIME SAVERS to the Games page.; After some struggling, killed a bug (actually, an unfortunate interaction) between my Perl footer-maker and PageMill 2.0. I like PageMill, but ....Whew again!
June 10, 1997: Added When Your Simulation Game Bombs, Debrief Yourself, Any Questions?, and Does Not Talk? to the Tips page.; Added SECRET COACHES, I'M A ...., TRIADS, FORBIDDEN WORDS, and GLOSSARY to the Games page. Whew!
May 30, 1997: Added Talks Too Much? to the Tips page.; Added Crosswords At The Expo to the Games page.
May 27, 1997: Added How Do You Feel? to the Tips page.; Added Zoom to the Games page.
May 13, 1997: Added Artful Instruction to the Tips page.; Added the Goal of Our Web Site page.
May 7, 1997: Added information about our two public workshops for 1997
April 22, 1997: Added Handouts page
April 21, 1997: Updated our Links page
February 21, 1997: Added Secret Messages and Third Degree to the Games page
February 19, 1997: Added Whistle While You Work and Instant Game Cards to the Tips page, and added Que Cards to the Games page.
February 18, 1997: Reorganized our collections page to reflect the new organization of our collections. (The games are the same, but we split Framegames into two collections.)
January 27, 1997: Had our web host add a counter to the home page.
January 22, 1997: Uploaded a description of our Pragmatic Creativity workshop. Whew! the workshops page is filling up fast!
January 21, 1997: Uploaded descriptions of our Team Building and Rapid Instructional Design workshops.