{"id":1098,"date":"2007-06-06T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/status-skills-making-instructional-design-cool\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:38","slug":"status-skills-making-instructional-design-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/status-skills-making-instructional-design-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Skills: Making Instructional Design Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a subscriber to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/\">springwise.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendwatching.com\/\">trendwatching.com<\/a> for a couple of years now and have been following the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendwatching.com\/trends\/status-skills.htm\">Status Skills<\/a>&#8221; trend. An update today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/food_beverage\/status_skills_for_cheese_lover\/\">cheese related status skills<\/a> caught this cheesehead&#8217;s eye (once a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?q=Lodi,+WI+53555,+USA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.659924,-89.447937&amp;spn=0.323878,3.010254&amp;t=h&amp;z=9&amp;om=1\">cheesehead, always a cheesehead<\/a>). In a nutshell, providing your clients and customers with &#8220;status skills&#8221; to become experts at using your goods and services helps to fuel our consumer society. The idea is that consumers get a rush out of showing off their skills while you gain an army of loyal consumers who (in turn) breed a &#8220;status&#8221; image for your product. Skill mastery is at the heart of this trend (hence, the instructional design tie-in). Note that benefiting from this trend is not limited to just big companies. Think about the entrepreneurial guides who are popping up in Second Life to help teach newbies the ropes &#8230; or even those who prepare and deliver live interactive webcasts about the <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\/taxonomy\/term\/130\">latest news and resources in the worlds of education and technology<\/a>. Just one more out of millions of examples of how learning and instruction is far from limited to the walls of class or training rooms. <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/status%20skills\" rel=\"tag\">status skills<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learning\" rel=\"tag\">learning<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/trends\" rel=\"tag\">trends<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a subscriber to springwise.com and trendwatching.com for a couple of years now and have been following the &#8220;Status Skills&#8221; trend. An update today about cheese related status skills caught this cheesehead&#8217;s eye (once a cheesehead, always a cheesehead). In a nutshell, providing your clients and customers with &#8220;status skills&#8221; to become experts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}