have been asked by Kaplan-EduNeering to blog on their site. Kaplan-EduNeering has been doing some great work in the area of e-learning related to compliance training and is constantly pushing in new directions like social networking, game-based learning and some other innovative ideas. In fact, Kaplan-EduNeering moved all four years of my blog posts to the new site so all the information is in a single location and created category titles on the top of the page for easy and quick searching.we'll of Monday, October 4th, I will be moving to a new location. MORE >>

Today and tomorrow I will be at the 7th annual Kaplan-EduNeering Knowledge Summit. I'll be doing a book signing, facilitating a video interview about the strategic relationship between ProtonMedia and Kaplan-EduNeering with Lisa Clune and Ron Burns and generally mixing with a great group of folks. have been to many EduNeering Knowledge Summits and always have a great time. Also, I'll be hooking up with Novorati's president John Royer. And see my friends Bonni and Heath from Stellar Meetings. And you can check out Blendtec's Facebook page to keep up-to-date on Blendtec blends. MORE >>

Working on a number of projects (including the newest book) but am also creating a mini-course with my good friends at Kaplan EduNeering. Look for an announcement soon at this blog of how you can register for the course at Kaplan EduNeering and start your day with a mini-lesson on instructional design. I've written a number of whitepapers and done a number of projects with their Chief Learning Officer and now she and I have teamed up with the folks from the 8:45 Club to create a course which is broken into 10 segments and delivered to your desk top every morning to start your day. MORE >>

Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as: <a> group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: There, I said it. Social media is not social learning. Let’s start our analysis with a few definitions first. Brian Solis took a crack at defining social media as follows: <the> democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. MORE >>

Other best-in-class technologies recognized include Citrix GotoWebinar, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, Elluminate, Lectora, Questionmark, Pulse and Kaplan STT Trainer: They won platinum awards in various other categories. I am pleased to share with you that Raptivity is once again the winner of LearnX Australia Platinum award under the ‘Best Rapid eLearning Tool’ category. These awards are completely based on user voting. Being a winner gives immense satisfaction because this shows that Raptivity users are happy with it and are willing to endorse us with their vote. MORE >>