Kapp Notes

JANUARY 26, 2009

According to Virtual Worlds Management, a leading virtual worlds trade media company, over $594 million was invested in 63 virtual worlds related companies in 2008. But, to mis-quote Mark Twain, The rumors of their death have been greatly exaggerated. So, let's not set a time and date for the Virtual World Funeral just yet.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

According to the analyst firm Gartner, “By the end of 2011, 80 percent of active Internet users (and Fortune 500 enterprises) will have a “second life”, but not necessarily in Second Life.” The use of virtual worlds as learning platforms is hitting the “traditional” business press.

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Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 15, 2011

For those of you who do not know, the Gartner Hype Cycle is a graphical depiction of technology on a curve showing where technology is in terms of maturity. At this point, I don’t agree with Gartner on Virtual Worlds, from what I have seen, they are clearly starting up the hype cycle area of Plateau of Productivity.

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Learning Visions

AUGUST 13, 2007

3) And then this morning, I was pointed to this one by my CTO: Gartner: five reasons why business should avoid Second Life by John Pospisil. Apparently, Gartner has issued a warning about Second Life, citing these five main reasons: 1. The comments are insightful as well, including some more on the issues of gender in SL.

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Epilogue Systems

AUGUST 12, 2020

From 2008-2018, Oracle UPK was the market leading Electronic Performance Support solution, which is now referred to as a “ Digital Adoption Solution “ following Gartner’s re-categorization in 2019.

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Epilogue Systems

AUGUST 12, 2020

From 2008-2018, Oracle UPK was the market leading Electronic Performance Support solution, which is now referred to as a “ Digital Adoption Solution “ following Gartner’s re-categorization in 2019.

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TechSmith Camtasia

JANUARY 8, 2019

This Google Ngram Viewer graph shows the change in popularity of the terms ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ from 1908 to 2008. Virginia Satir’s change management model and the well-known Gartner Group hype cycle show us that change comes with reconciliation. The ‘how’ of innovation. So how does innovation catch on?

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Big Dog, Little Dog

JULY 29, 2006

According to Gartner, enterprise e-learning suites and management systems software new license revenue will grow at a 15.6 According to IDC, the e-learning market is estimated to touch $28 billion by 2008. E-learning critical to companies - Business Standard. per cent compound annual growth rate from 2004 through 2009. Abracadabra!

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 5, 2008

the last for today.and short » March 05, 2008 Big Basket of Stuff #2.in Tetris Effect ) Special Reports 10 Emerging Technologies 2008 (Technology Review): includes Offline Web applications , Connectomics , and reality mining. Meister: "According to a Gartner forecast, 50 percent of U.S.

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eLearning Learning Posts

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Thanks to a train journey to and from London yesterday, I’ve finally followed this up by reading Gladwell’s Outliers (Allen Lane, 2008). Facebook, in contrast, is starting to redefine the web (looking more and more like AOL’s attempt in the 80’s to create their own web…have a look at Facebook could eat the web ).

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