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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

Someone came up with the idea of an LCMS (RIP) Community of Practice (yuck, first it went the way of the dodo bird, then has made a comeback – just like the dodo bird – which is being re-created genetically). Instead, it was someone from Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is software for building websites.

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Merger mania in and around eLearning

The Learning Circuits

All of this comes of the heels of SkillSoft releasing SkillSoft Dialogue , their version of a virtual classroom and NETg buying KnowledgeNet last year for their virtual classroom technology/LMS resulting in their Knowledge Now suite. Or as BusinessWeek recently put it - The Power of Us.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

They all offered great products. Remember Digital Think, SmartForce, Pensare, NETg, KnowledgeNet, UNext, Docent, One Touch, Centra, InterWise, and their brethren? Workers must learn all the time to remain productive and relevant. Apply the 80/20 rule to critical functions and seed communities of practice around them.