I have exciting international news to share—there were 1,200 participants from 20 countries at the ASTD TechKnowledge 2009 Conference & Exposition in January. Twenty different countries were represented! And for those who couldn't get to the conference, ASTD offered a virtual conference. You can learn more about the virtual conference by watching the video on the TK 2009 website: http://tk09.astd.org/virtual.html

The international relations department is preparing information about the ASTD 2009 International Conference & Exposition, and we hope to have it ready for you in the next week or so, to help you with your conference and delegation preparations. In fact, we have filmed our first video clip, which describes this year's General Session speakers. This is the first in a series of short video clips describing different features of the conference, and we are also planning to release a longer promotional video, as we did last year.