Connie Malamed has categorized 35+ qualities of the ideal instructional designer based on responses from readers to a list of 10 ideal qualities she post several months ago. Here’s the original 10, put in a word cloud.
And here’s one based on reader comments. 
This isn’t so much an exercise in defining the qualities of instructional designers as the power of collaboration and one answer to the question “how can I use a blog for learning?” Oh, and that people’s jobs really can be put on a list. (JC)
35 More Qualities Of The Ideal Instructional Designer | The eLearning Coach | Connie Malamed | 13 December 2009
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Thanks for the Word Clouds, Janet. Cool idea! There are academic lists of instructional design proficiencies and real-world opinions from the trenches of required competencies. One of these days I’d like to compare the two lists and see how well they correspond. I’ve certainly learned a lot from this conversation, which took place on The eLearning Coach as well as through a LinkedIn group. The conversation also validated a lot of my thoughts about the diverse skills needed for this field, since no one but us has any idea what we do =)
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