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Why Slack Might Become the #1 Tool for Learning

eLearning Architect

The key driver for this was to replace tools such as Yammer, Skype and Jive (which haven't seen much engagement) and to consolidate these platforms into one tool. But for us to get there, we need to see the LMS vendors step up their games to provide a similar feature set to Slack within the LMS.

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Top Learning Trends for 2017 (according to the experts)

Axonify

These may be the trends of the coming year because forward-thinking organizations and vendors want to satisfy the needs of a busy and rapidly changing workplace. Most LMSs have not evolved much since their inception of tracking completions for compliance. One key attribute this application provides is a highly usable interface.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Front-running companies are installing social networks such as Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, SharePoint, Ideo and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days.

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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

Talent management software vendors can provide some tracking capability, but do not provide in-depth coaching and mentoring program workflows optimized to help guide these programs. Manual management using spreadsheets is not effective or scalable.

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Snake Oil 2.0: Lipstick on a pig

Jay Cross

One says “All documents accessed can be tracked as informal learning events.&# (Documents are events?) Dan Pontefract, over at TELUS , puts it succinctly: This is why we need to federate the LMS into the ‘collaboration’ platform, be it Jive, SharePoint, Connections, Confluence, whatever. It’s a joke.).

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Top Learning Trends for 2017 (according to the experts)

Axonify

These may be the trends of the coming year because forward-thinking organizations and vendors want to satisfy the needs of a busy and rapidly changing workplace. Most LMSs have not evolved much since their inception of tracking completions for compliance. One key attribute this application provides is a highly usable interface.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Front-running companies are installing social networks like Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, Ideo, and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. Several vendors of social network suites have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. speed up access to knowledge.