How far along is your business with really utilizing social networking and social learning tools? Do you feel like the only one trying to show the value it can bring to your organization? Here is some information that may help you show everyone, once and for all, why you need at act fast and get ahead of the competition. This January 2012 article from Debra Donston-Miller posted at The Brainyard cites that while organizations may be skittish about security and productivity, social media’s benefits are hard to discount. Her mantra – Be social–or be left behind. Translation. MORE >>

We work with several tools here at ICS to develop custom eLearning content for our clientele. The Articulate suite (i.e. Articulate Studio) is certainly one of the tools in our box which we use for the less-complex Level 1 and 2 lessons. For such projects, a common request is to modify the default player ‘skin’ to meet navigation and branding requirements…and we thought we’d share some of those processes. The below suggestions assume some familiarity working with Articulate Presenter. One quick and easy way to customize a lesson is through the Table of Contents, or left-side slide navigation. MORE >>

When developing your eLearning courses if you want to be awesome, then have a consistent look and feel between all slides in your presentation. When you develop some slides using Flash templates and others within PowerPoint, often times you may find that they don’t match or look like they belong together. This tutorial demonstrates a simple technique that could help you. eLearning eLearning Tips Featured Graphic Design Tips Powerpoint Tips MORE >>

If you’re not plugged in and running fast at work, you’re falling behind. Continuous improvement. Business people face more and more novel situations every day. You have to be learning continuously to deal with the onslaught of unfamiliar, complex problems. There’s no longer time to learn things in advance; you have to learn what you need in real time. Leaving work to go learn something is not an option. This is a game changer. Learning and work are fusing into a single process. Increasingly, learning is the work and the work is learning. What it takes. Facebook-itus. water. MORE >>

The Nuremberg Funnel , according to Wikipedia, is a humorous expression for a kind of teaching and learning. It implies knowledge simply flowing effortlessly into your brain as you encounter it–or else a teacher cramming stuff in the mind of a dullard. The term dates to at least 15th-century Germany, and I suspect the notion of funneling or otherwise stuffing knowledge into someone is a few months older than that.). The Nurnberg Funnel is humorous as well, in a slightly drier way. John M. The goal was to find out what interested but untrained users actually did with these materials. MORE >>