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OCTOBER 25, 2012

The year 2012 will likely be remembered as the “ Get Off Your Butt ” year. In recent months, major studies have been published indicating that sitting for extended periods dramatically increases our risk of getting a wide range of diseases and significantly shortens our lives. How dangerous is sitting for long periods? Studies published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that people who sit for the majority of the day are 54 percent more likely t

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

The year 2012 will likely be remembered as the “ Get Off Your Butt ” year. In recent months, major studies have been published indicating that sitting for extended periods dramatically increases our risk of getting a wide range of diseases and significantly shortens our lives. How dangerous is sitting for long periods? Studies published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that people who sit for the majority of the day are 54 percent more likely t

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Join us for a free Webinar: How to Automate the Administration of Learning Within Your Organization. Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT (GMT-7). Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/122110502. What would be your reaction if you were informed that you needed to provide training to 1000 new individuals in the next 30 days?

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MARCH 26, 2012

Join us for a free Webinar: Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MST. Partners, suppliers, contractors, interns, volunteers, association members, customers… How did all these people sneak into our learning initiatives? Clearly, work today is different from back in the days of three-martini lunches in smoky lounges and asking your assistant to “be a sweetheart and fetch me a cup of coffee.”.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The point system is engrained in higher education. A typical undergraduate degree in a university where I reside requires the completion of 120 credits. A university student who completes an individual course usually earns three or four credits. Often, students can be given the opportunity to take on special projects or extracurricular activities to earn extra credits.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

YouTube is by far the world’s most popular video site. YouTube reports that: Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each month. Over 4 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube. YouTube is localized in 43 countries and across 60 languages. In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views or around 140 views for every person on Earth. 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

In most organizations, communicating with large numbers of employees isn’t easy unless you’re part of some privileged inner circle. Your HR and IT departments act as gatekeepers to bulk communication, probably out of fear that you’ll abuse your powers and send hundreds of e-mails announcing that you’re selling your 1980s orange shag carpet ($75) and ceiling disco ball ($50).

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AUGUST 8, 2012

As I’ve mentioned in the past , there’s a large and vocal group of learning pundits who are vehemently anti learning management system (LMS). They view LMS as creating inflexible learning environments where learners are provided with few choices and force fed content created by a training department. In reality, though, it’s possible to create a learning environment using a LMS that provides learners with choices over their learning activities.

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JULY 31, 2012

I have to say, I feel really badly for the organizations that have issued some of the RFPs I’m seeing. They turned to a research firm or various Web sites for a list of learning management system features. They copied most of these features into a RFP and sent it to vendors. Along with proposals, they asked for supporting documentation such as server security specifications, marketing materials, terms of service, etc.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

There’s a winding, two-lane highway in Quebec that has a telephone/electrical pole standing in the middle. This isn’t a joke. I’ve inserted a photo from a reputable news source below to show you that this really exists. How did this happen? Apparently, a road crew was sent to pave the road and they worked around the pole, rather than coordinating with a crew from the electrical company to remove the pole first.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

CALGARY, ALBERTA– (Feb 8, 2012) – Blatant Media Corporation, creator of the award-winning learning management system, Absorb LMS, is happy to launch a new Webinar series titled “Learning Management Pain Clinic.” These monthly online events are designed to help organizations make workplace learning more efficient; from registration of new learners to certification, and beyond.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Reporting is often a headache for learning management system administrators. As soon as admins depart from using their system’s pre-built report templates, they can sometimes find themselves in an alternate universe of SQL queries and database tables. Reporting poses a challenge to LMS vendors as well. In designing their software, they need to find the right balance between ease-of-use and ability to create highly customized reports.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The point system is engrained in higher education. A typical undergraduate degree in a university where I reside requires the completion of 120 credits. A university student who completes an individual course usually earns three or four credits. Often, students can be given the opportunity to take on special projects or extracurricular activities to earn extra credits.

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MAY 1, 2012

We had a great turnout for our April 18 Webinar titled “How to Provide Learning to People Outside Your Organization.” Consequently, we’ll be repeating this event at the end of May. Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT (GMT -7). We’ll cover: The impact of the “extended enterprise” on learning and development.

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JULY 19, 2012

We had a great turnout for our May 30th Webinar titled “How to Provide Learning to People Outside Your Organization.” Consequently, we’ll be repeating this event in August. Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012. Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT (GMT -6). We’ll cover: The impact of the “extended enterprise” on learning and development.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

As a follow up to my post of last December titled “ The Biggest Myths in Learning and Development ,” I asked the following question within various LinkedIn discussion groups: What other learning and development beliefs do we hold to be true but probably aren’t? Here are some of the replies: Universities are embracing e-learning to extend their audiences to people who cannnot afford to attend their institutions. — Jean-Marc R.

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MAY 31, 2012

Our series, “ A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Learning Management System ,” is nearing completion. For those of you who’d prefer to get a condensed overview of the information in a live virtual session, we’ll be presenting a one-hour Webinar on the topic: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up Your Learning Management System.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

I’ll be presenting a Webinar for HR.com on January 10th titled “Strategies to Empower Learners Within a Learning Management System.” This event will cover: How to design curricula that give learners control over which learning events they select. How to use a learning management system as an on-ramp to the Web’s best content. How to allow learners to select their preferred learning modalities, whether self-paced courses, instructor-led events, or other.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

About a dozen years ago, learning and development professionals thought performance support was bigger than Tom Hanks , Meryl Streep , and The Beatles all rolled into one. Conferences about performance support were filled to capacity. Help authoring tools such as Robohelp and Doc-to-Help were selling like hotcakes. Electronic performance support support systems (EPSS) were the rage.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Shortly after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange plummeting, I interviewed a director of learning and development at one of the major semiconductor companies. She mentioned that in 2000, about 95 per cent of the learning and development taking place within the company consisted of traditional instructor-led, classroom-based sessions.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Shortly after the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, sending the tech-heavy NASDAQ stock exchange plummeting, I interviewed a director of learning and development at one of the major semiconductor companies. She mentioned that in 2000, about 95 per cent of the learning and development taking place within the company consisted of traditional instructor-led, classroom-based sessions.

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

About a dozen years ago, learning and development professionals thought performance support was bigger than Tom Hanks , Meryl Streep , and The Beatles all rolled into one. Conferences about performance support were filled to capacity. Help authoring tools such as Robohelp and Doc-to-Help were selling like hotcakes. Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) were the rage.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Nilofer Merchant wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review last year titled “ Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time.” It contains a fantastic definition of organizational culture that I would have printed on a t-shirt if I wore an extra large instead of a size small: “Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Nilofer Merchant wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review last year titled “ Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time.” It contains a fantastic definition of organizational culture that I would have printed on a t-shirt if I wore an extra large instead of a size small: “Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation.

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