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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

The initial person who thought buying SumTotal was a great idea (initially it was) and then dumped it for a fortune to Skillsoft (another great idea), which in turn was someone at Skillsoft thinking this was a great idea, which turned out to be false and was a factor in Skillsoft going into bankruptcy due to the albatross known as SumTotal.

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Chief Learning Officer announces its 2019 Learning In Practice Award winners

CLO Magazine

They do so through a combination of qualities such as leadership, vision, business acumen and strategic alignment. THE BUSINESS IMPACT AWARD. Bronze: Angie Ballinger, Global L&D Manager, College of Business & Commercial Excellence, Cargill. THE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP AWARD. Bronze: Skillsoft and SumTotal Systems.

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Chief Learning Officer announces the 2019 Learning In Practice Award finalists

CLO Magazine

THE BUSINESS IMPACT AWARD. Division 1 (for organizations with more than 10,000 employees): Angie Ballinger, Global L&D Manager, College of Business & Commercial Excellence, Cargill. THE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP AWARD. Jason Moore, Manager, Alternative Learning Technologies and Programs, Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

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BOB MOSHER – CRYSTAL BALLING WITH LEARNNOVATORS

Learnnovators

Before joining APPLY Synergies he was with Microsoft , where he was Director of Learning Strategy and Evangelism, a global business at Microsoft Corporation featuring innovative learning products that help individuals and organizations learn more and go further using Microsoft technologies. What are your thoughts on this?

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Thompson Leaves Learning Market

Tony Karrer

Not only have they just completed the sale of their NETg subsidiary to SkillSoft for $270 million , but they have also announced they are selling Higher Education assets of Thomson Learning to a couple of venture funds for $7.75

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A Moving Landscape

CLO Magazine

Is the more traditional, face-to-face model being threatened by alternate offerings? You look at organizations like Skillsoft, for example, that have a catalog even bigger today but that once upon a time had hundreds of courses that were relatively skills-based, self-paced things. I’ll give you a concrete example.