I’m Paul Signorelli, a San Francisco-based writer, trainer, and consultant with more than 20 years of experience working with libraries and nonprofit organizations. My associates and I work with these world-changing organizations to creatively build bridges between those groups and others in their communities; the goal is to meet the needs of their staff and their current and prospective customers.
Content on this blog is meant to reflect the work we do: helping to promote first-rate workplace learning and performance—training—efforts while also keeping up with technology trends and the sort of strategic planning issues which keep people at the center of the dizzying array of tools available to all of us. We work to bring those affiliated with and interested in libraries and nonprofit organizations together, and we strive to serve as resources and inspiration to anyone who is trying to make sense of the rapid rate of change which keeps all of us involved in our endeavors as trainer-teacher-learners.
As for my own background: my work with the San Francisco Public Library system included serving as Director, Volunteer Services & Staff Training. My nonprofit experience includes work as assistant to the director of a regional museum (the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art) and a small San Francisco-based theater company. I currently am writing e-learning courses for LE@D; am active as a Board member with the Mt. Diablo Chapter of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and am active in a variety of national ASTD activities as well as with the American Library Association, where I am serving a two-year term on the American Libraries Advisory Committee (July 2009-June 2011); and am also working actively with the American Library Association’s training group (ALA Learning Round Table) and writing for the Learning Round Table blog.
You’ll find more information, including writing samples and training resources, on my website at http://paulsignorelli.com.
I’m looking forward to hearing from you and hope you’ll help make this a great meeting place for all of us involved in workplace learning and performance within libraries, nonprofit organizations, and other educational and cultural groups.
