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LMSs that kick ass: Mzinga

Janet Clarey

This is the seventh featured system in my Friday series highlighting LMSs that are doing innovative, kick-ass things with social media. Mzinga is the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights at the end of 2007. My more recent contact at Mzinga is Dave Wilkins. Kudos Jen (if you’re out there).

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Conflicting personas: social media as an ‘AND’ role (initially titled ‘AND’ job which is entirely inappropriate, even for this blog)

Janet Clarey

“The belief that “social media&# only feeds our national self-obsession and that the often-used phrase “online community&# is, in fact, an oxymoron.&# ( from here ). During all this #whackamole business, I had brief exchange on Twitter with @susank about monitoring social media activity for your company.

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Top 10 posts for the year

Janet Clarey

Learning Management Systems that kick ass: Mzinga – An interview with Dave Wilkins about what Mzinga is doing with social media. Share and Enjoy: Tags: Brandon Hall list. part of the series on learning management systems). – A mild rant about rapid e-learning tools and roles.

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LMSs that kick ass: ElementK’s KnowledgeHub

Janet Clarey

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? Q: What drove your decision to incorporate social media tools into your LMS? They announced this in October, 2008.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

Director, Product Strategy who is responsible for Saba’s Social Media strategy about their product “ Saba Social.&#. Q: What social media tools has Saba incorporated into their LMS? Q: What drove your decision to incorporate social media tools into your LMS? Next week: Mzinga.

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LMSs that kick ass - OutStart

Janet Clarey

By way of background, Jeff told me that OutStart has two flavors: Participate, their general social software solution and TrainingEdge.com, their SaaS solution which includes LMS, collaborative authoring, and social media specifically configured to support learning. Each has very different objectives.

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Learning Management Systems that kick ass: Generation21

Janet Clarey

I spoke with John Stearns from Gen21 about the social media tools and technologies his organization is incorporating into their LMS. What social media tools are you guys incorporating into your LMS? Imaginative use of these functions achieves a reasonable level of "social" interaction. Q: Hi John.

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