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LMSs that kick ass: Mzinga

Janet Clarey

Mzinga is the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights at the end of 2007. My more recent contact at Mzinga is Dave Wilkins. I’m a more recent reader of Dave’s blog and occasionally have conversations with him in Twitter. I spoke with Dave via email about what Mzinga is doing with social media.

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

We’ve recently seen LMSs shift to include more functionality, such as wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. If I want a great blogging platform, I’m going to download WordPress (it’s free and has a huge support community). Mzinga seems to have jumped out early with a strong social platform that also has an LMS capability.

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Hot Last Week

Tony Karrer

Report: Community Platforms Market Led by Jive Software and Telligent - ReadWriteWeb Hot Last Week Keywords eLearning Strategy Social Media Work Skills KnowledgeHub ScreenToaster Cooliris Quizmaker OnDemand Meridian Mzinga GeoLearning Saba Notes on the weekly hot last week. The posts come from the primary sources for this group.

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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

Mzinga is clearly targeted at the learning space, being integrated with an LMS. Yet, for a learning group, Mzinga’s integration of formal and informal learning is also plausible. And, of course, there’s now Sharepoint’s integration of social tools around resources. I’m still wrestling with this.

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100 eLearning Articles and White Papers

Tony Karrer

My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. Is the Future of Education (Techlearning blog) 11. Mzinga : White Paper Series : eLearning 2.0 & The Bamboo Project Blog: My Personal Learning Environment An example of a PLE 26. The Ultimate Student Resource List - Lifehack.org 42.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

My blog is really the hub of my thinking and activity, so by going back through posts for the 2008, it gives me a pretty good perspective on what's been happening inside my head during 2008. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008.

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Business of Learning

Tony Karrer

And learning departments need to do more with fewer resources. The writing has been on the wall (or in blogs) for quite a while: Jay Cross and Harold Jarche in The Future of the Training Department The second half of the 20th Century was arguably the Golden Age of Training. Take a look at the Masie – Learning Barometer.