article thumbnail

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

CLO Magazine

Mentoring typically falls into two categories: non-directive mentoring, where the mentor acts as a sounding board, catalyst and role model, and sponsor mentoring, where a senior executive will promote, oversee and control a protege’s career. There is no perfect model or one-size-fits-all solution for every organization to adopt.

article thumbnail

Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. It sounds a lot like an LMS with integrated communities.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Stay on Top of Training Demand? Know the Alternatives

Mindflash

implementations generally use a combination of social software and collaborative technologies like blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, social networking and wikis. Social Learning : Social learning is what it sounds like—learning with and from others. Enterprise 2.0 : Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

article thumbnail

CCK08: 69 Learning Adventures in 6 Galaxies

E-Learning Acupuncture

Some have extended the discussion to the concept of understanding and there was a very interesting discussion on how knowledge or learning can take place in a ‘non-human appliance’ – be it social software or a robot! Sounds like a bit of a gimmick title right? Now I’m not much of a philosopher – I’m a scientist.

article thumbnail

2008 2009

Tony Karrer

And while Harbinger has provided some interesting tools that are essentially mash-ups for authoring, not sure I've seen much adoption. Kevin Oakes sounded the bell in Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS as large LMS vendors began to move towards Talent Management. All of this will cause of to continue to ask Do You WANT an LMS?

article thumbnail

Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Augment their systems with components that provide opportunities for people to interact in social systems for informal learning. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.