White Label Social Networking Solutions, Part II It covers downloadable and custom social networking solutions. For do-it-yourself, hosted solutions, please see our previous chart and our post "9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network" . Show All | Hide All Affinity Circles AlstraSoft Awareness Blogtronix BoonEx A Comparison Chart by TechCrunch The information in the chart below was compiled from information provided directly from companies in early August 2007.

Let's begin! MOODLE IS NOT... A total online campus management solution for your University. If you are planning to use Moodle as a total online learning solution covering everything from online course registration, semester results generation, intelligent class scheduling, to alumni management, you are going struggle no matter how many Moodle plug-ins you discover and use. Finally, ZaidLearn's filtered down learning tools list , might be a good starting No, it is not an Airport! It is more like a space station !

Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. If you want more ideas on the “how,” check out my article Learning Solutions . (Registration Tags: Wikis documentation eLearning Guild Learning Solutions wiki xtranorma This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This overlaps quite a bit with the reasons in my article, but it’s a more fun presentation with Xtranormal .

Tags: Learning Design eLearning Design Instructional Design Learning Learning Solution We discovered ‘The Ten Commandments of eLearning” as elucidated by Cath Ellis and Clive Shepherd . We’ve decided to follow in the same vein and list our commandments. First off, we thought ten is too many to remember, so we cut it down to five.

Posts on eLearning Solutions: What is Rapid eLearning? Authoring in eLearning 2.0 / Add-ins & Mash-ups Shift in eLearning Solutions from Pure Courseware towards Reference Hybrids Direction of eLearning Solutions - Emergence or Big System Future Platforms for eLearning Solutions View of eLearning Development Software - Ease vs. Power Point Solutions vs. Suites and Composition in eLearning Solutions Rapid eLearning Tools Virtual Classroom Instruction - Resources Software Simulation eLearning (w/ links to Tool

I've been browsing the recent publication from the eLearning Guild - a compilation of the best articles from the Learning Solutions e-magazine from the past five years (Pfeiffer, 2008). There's no theme here - other than e-learning of course - so you jump from The XML e-Learning Revolution to High Attrition Rates in e-Learning: Challenges, Predictors and Solutions . Obviously I was pleased to see an article of mine in there on the ways that blended learning can be designed to bridge the gap from formal to informal learning, but you can only spend so much time reading your own stuff before others start to worry. So, I dipped into all 22 articles.

Client Demand : The provider’s clients have started demanding eLearning solutions (and training providers want to retain them) . Tags: Training Companies Training Outsourcing Upside Learning corporate training eLearning eLearning solution Earlier this month I blogged about why Training companies are adopting eLearning . There are reasons other than their clients demanding it.

Our previous Captivate version, Captivate 3, has trumped the latest versions from our competition to win Software & Information Industry Association's 24th Annual CODiE Award for Best Corporate Learning Solution 2009 . "Now in its 24th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries," noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. "In quot;In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to

The question I get the most these days is, "Brent, what's the next big thing you see out there in eLearning". The simple answer is, "not much". But that doesn't mean there isn't exciting innovation happening. The big innovation over the last year has not been a new technologie or app, but the convergence of some, or many existing technologies.

Notice how a lot of the solutions he suggests not to build falls into the category of marginally better. But the point is to make sure you are not a "me too" solution. What's going to make a new learning solution interesting? Addresses Real Pain Point Tell me the pain that customers are feeling that will make them pay for your solution – or adopt your free solution. It's surprising how many times I run into new products where For the past 15 years, I've spent a lot of time working on start-ups both inside and outside the world of eLearning.