Helfrich who tweets as @studentlifeguru for this interesting article about Sun Microsystems, (a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle) who teamed up with vendor Enspire Learning to develop two online video games as part of its new hire integration process. Image from Rise of the Shadows As the article, 6 Outrageous Hiring Practices states: “Rise of the Shadow Specters” and “Dawn of the Shadow Specters” serve as a fun way to learn about the company structure and history, as opposed to a traditional on-boarding program. Thanks to Scott M. Sol City is in danger. MORE >>

At the learning Solutions conference in Orlando I got in touch with LINGOs. It’s a consortium of 57 international humanitarian relief, development, conservation and health organizations and it offers support to those organizations for e-Learning. They have a community, offer free use of e-Learning tools and have a library of hundreds free e-learning courses. Since three years LINGOs and the ELearning Guild organize the ‘ Global give back competition ‘ where e-Learning companies create courses (for free) and make them available to the ngo’s. MORE >>

I have updated my list of Indian learning professionals on Twitter. have included company Twitter accounts in the list. Feel free to leave a comment to suggest more professionals and companies who should be on the list. Passionate abt adult learning, bringing fun and learning into training n designing content which are impactful. geetabose - Geeta Bose Run Kern Communications -a learning solutions & usability consulting company gJaideep - Gerald Jaideep Innovation Initiator or Hunter/Gatherer for FireStarters harmalbhu - Harini Instructional designer. MORE >>

Last Tuesday I delivered a workshop in Sao Paulo on informal learning to clients of fast-moving Brasilian learning company Affero. I’ll let the graphic recorders tell the story. Just Jay MORE >>

I've got a file in my email from Indian e-learning companies who have contacted me because I am an important decision maker at Work-Learning Research, Inc. must have gotten emails from over 50 Indian e-Learning companies. It says that Indian companies are afraid they will remain the low-cost provider and they will fail to innovate. Well, I wonder if this is true in the learning-and-performance field. My efforts over the years to get consulting or workshop business with Indian e-learning companies has been fruitless. Many U.S. SMILE. MORE >>