mLearning DevCon, Montclair, NJ, October 5 & 6, 2011. Uncategorized company newsThere are lots of things happening at Artisan E-Learning that we wanted you to know about. Congratulations to Tanya Coomes! We are thrilled (for her) and sad (for us) to announce that our COO, Tanya Coomes, will be taking a job as the Director of Finance for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL. Tanya has been with us for almost three years (longer as a contractor) and has been an invaluable member of the team.  Upcoming Conferences. If you will be there to, be sure to look us up! MORE >>

2011 is 1/12th over and thanks to my exalted status as thought leader (!!) for the BQ, I am compelled to write my predictions for 2011. Plus, while most organizations give their managers company owned smartphones, the HR perspective around policy/fairness makes it more challenging. Others have put together a ton of great predictions already. Such as: Horizons report. Actual thought leaders – elearn magazine’s list. Tony Bates. More Canadian perspectives as described by Brandon Hall. For those of you who are independents, here are my predictions for you (us). MORE >>

With Ben’s expertise in simulations and games, I thought it might be worth mentioning that Military Training Technology (MT2) magazine recently announced its listing of the 2011 Top Simulation & Training Companies. Although companies making the 2011 list come from around the world and have made a significant impact on the military training industry across the spectrum of technologies and services, many produce non-military-based offerings as well. The companies’ products and services enable U.S. MORE >>

It is time once again to ponder the research, extrapolate on recent experience, and attempt to read the tea leaves so we can predict the future of enterprise mobile learning in 2011. If 2010 was the year of the pilot, then 2011 will be the year of the deployment. Sure, companies may still provided workers with an old BlackBerry (on a 2-year contract), but increasingly more people will opt to use their own iPhones/iPads or Android handsets or tablets once their devices can be secured and supported within their organizations. mLearning Engagements Expand. Buyer, beware! MORE >>

I recently had the opportunity to attend and speak at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California along with roughly 8,000 other attendees. In 2011, not only were there more social-based sessions, any non-focused social session seemed to have social being discussed at some point in the chat too. Cutback chatter; with 65,000 companies already on the books for SharePoint installations totalling roughly 125 million end user licenses (holy smokes), there was ‘talk’ about Microsoft deinvesting in SharePoint and the various SharePoint Redmond teams in particular. MORE >>