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30 years of personal computing

Clive on Learning

Seattle Computer Products sells its operating system to Microsoft for $100,000K. 1985: Microsoft releases Word 2.0. Microsoft ship Windows 1.0. Microsoft announces Windows 2.0. 1995: IBM buys Lotus. 1996: MSN converts to the internet and gives away Internet Explorer. 43 million internet users.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

You can find free content all over the internet and you can purchase 3rd party content from a content provider. The best Microsoft Office courses that looked like the product, with a show me, tell me, let me do it approach – came right from Element K. When it comes to content, as a consumer you have a few options. Bring a floppy.

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Is Attention Important in Learning?

The Learning Circuits

Chris Caposella a VP in the Microsoft Information Worker Business Unit says that "People are ultra connected. Now they are starting to realize, 'Wow, I want to actually stop getting interrupted.'" Even airlines are starting to offer broadband Internet access. And you know what?

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0 eLearning Trends Enterprise 2.0

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LMS Administrator Hiring – What you need to know to find the right 1

eLearning 24-7

Able to access the internet via whatever browser you use internally and/or they use. Basically do they know how to access the internet, move around and visit sites? Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Do they know what the address bar in a browser is and where to find it?

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Both sides now

Jay Cross

And not surprisingly, vendors are encouraging the trend–Microsoft and IBM have added wikis and blogging capabilities to enterprise apps including SharePoint and Lotus Quickr, while Google and upstarts like Socialtext, PBwiki, and Jive Software are luring corporate users with freebie accounts and dead-simple deployment.

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Working Smarter eFieldbook $12

Jay Cross

If an organization is committed to Microsoft Sharepoint, IBM Lotus, Salesforce, SAP, or another proprietary solution for in-house communication and project management, the workscape designer tweaks that platform for optimal learning rather than trying to replace it. Unfettered access to the resources of the internet.