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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 spoke with Dave via email about what Mzinga is doing with social media. Q: What social media tools is Mzinga incorporating into their LMS?

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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

I've not seen a lot about Mzinga in the eLearning world, but it represents something pretty interesting. Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. I wonder if mzinga does?

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Hot List

Tony Karrer

This is going to take some work to get it right, but we believe it will help to highlight various hot list content. Together these social signals indicate that the content is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest). Thus it belongs in both a best of list and a hot list. The posts come from the primary sources for this group.

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Interesting Information via eLearning Learning

Tony Karrer

relates closely to the concepts Learning 2.0 , eLearning Tools , Corporate eLearning , Personal Learning , and Enterprise 2.0 ; the Tools Odeo , CollectiveX , Bea Pages , Apache Roller , and Dogear ; and the Companies NexLearn , Awareness Networks , Element K , and Mzinga. As an example, I can see that eLearning 2.0

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New Authoring tool rankings #11 to #20

eLearning 24-7

18 Mzinga Publisher - Holy macaroni! (No No reason, I just love saying that) Mzinga shows up with a true social learning authoring tool. Need online help? Easy to use interface and supports SCORM and AICC. #18 A few vendors say “social learning” but it is often far from it. Not with Publisher. Did I say monster?

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Formal learning & social networking

Clark Quinn

I led to the point that the informal participation has big upside potential, but you can’t spring it on them when they move beyond novice stage, and that wrapping it around the formal learning is a vehicle to help them become comfortable with the tools. I started from the informal picture, however, both to introduce the 2.0

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Tony Karrer

Corollary - I (we) would like to get help to organize / moderate this. I likely can create very interesting conversations and can help advertise these. Can someone help with logistics? Mzinga is going a different direction focusing on collaboration and social media capabilities. The overhead of pulling it together?