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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

It’s a bad idea before it even goes to market. The wonderful thing about acquisitions is that very few people publicly know who is on the market, who isn’t (but is open for acquisitions), and what the financial status is – unless the company is public, which is an outlier in our space. I chose the groupings route.

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Learning System TrailBlazers – Who’s Next?

eLearning 24-7

I personally think what has hurt them in the greater market is the push by so many vendors (some of which are legit competitors) to refer to them as “traditional”, citing how long they have been around. Learn.com – First a content aggregator, then jumped into the LMS market, acquired by Taleo, who promised to invest heavily.

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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: Bob Mosher

CLO Magazine

Mosher has held numerous senior learning and development positions during his 30 years in the industry, including chief global learning evangelist for Ontuitive, former director of learning strategy and evangelism for Microsoft and executive director for Element K (now Skillsoft). We’re not in the content business.

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NIIT and OpenSesame Announce Content Partnership

OpenSesame

Known worldwide as a leader in learning outsourcing, with a presence in more than 44 countries, NIIT provides relevant training to organizations, brings proven best practices into business processes, and redirects surplus training capital into core business functions. We are thrilled to be partnering with OpenSesame.”

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Collaboration - Knowledge Management - Expert - Hot List

Tony Karrer

- eLearning Technology , June 3, 2009 Should you Care about Google Wave? yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals. yes, they went there - WISE Pedagogy , June 1, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

The best Microsoft Office courses that looked like the product, with a show me, tell me, let me do it approach – came right from Element K. Then – Client contacts their new LMS vendor or current one, says they need courses in Business, Safety, Software. Back in the day, there were some big names out there.

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CLO Symposium

Jay Cross

The buzz on Friday was Skillsoft’s acquisition of Element K. Some of us speculated that perhaps the acquisition came about to shut up Element K, whose attack ads were irritating Skillsoft mightily: At a lunch sponsored by Knowledge Advisors, David Vance gave an overview of Talent Development Reporting Principles.

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