While not every LMS vendor is growing at the same rate, vendors like Taleo, CornerstoneOnDemand, Saba, SumTotal, Meridian, Certpoint, Oracle, and SAP all report growth in their LMS businesses. This week Peoplefluent (a $100M+ talent management software company, built from the combination of Authoria and Peopleclick) announced the acquisition of Strategia, a small but very successful enterprise learning management systems company. Strategia was a Canadian enterprise LMS company with large clients like Bombardier. What this acquisition shows is two trends in the market. MORE >>

This Thursday I am on a great panel doing a webinar for Meridian Knowledge Solutions. hope you can join me and this exciting panel. The Webinar is called " Future of eLearning Content " and is scheduled for December 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. Short Description If you’re responsible for buying or managing your organization's training content, don’t miss this free, 45-minute online discussion. Register today at: URL HERE. Our panel of experts will riff about the ways learning management technology, mobile applications and social media will shape the elearning content you buy. MORE >>

Today I am appearing on a panel with a couple of blogging pros to talk about learning with New Media at the Meridian Learn and Know Conference. Is Twitter or, even, the iPad a viable learning technology? What's real, what's buzz? Today at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Va. will be on a panel of Buzz-Breakers who will give our best insights about what defines learning technology, and what it's really capable of. Who am I on the panel with: Susan Smith Nash blogs for the " E-learning Queen " as well as elearners.com. Her most recent books include "Moodle 1.9 MORE >>

At the Meridian Learn and Know user's conference sponsored, of course, by Meridian Knowledge Solutions. Here are some blog postings, presentations and up coming events that I am trying to keep track of so I decided to put them all in one place. Past Recently authored a blog entry at TrainingIndustry.com titled Add Online Simulations to Your Organization’s Instructional Toolkit. have been blogging over there for a while about technology, check it out. My presentation with Tony O'Driscoll at the Virtual Worlds's Best Practices in Education conference is available on Treet.tv MORE >>

Meridian KSI. Probably just three years ago, if you said Element K I would have immediately thought about off-the-shelf courseware. However, Element K has made substantial, progressive improvements to their LMS, most recently by building custom integrations between Jive Clearspace and KnowledgeHub, Element K’s LMS. They announced this in October, 2008. Via email, I asked Sue Rodeman, VP., Platform Prod Management & Marketing, Element K about their social media capabilities. Here’s what she had to say: Q: What social media tools is Element K incorporating into their LMS? MORE >>