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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

I was asked about approaches for eLearning for Sales People. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with this and actually one of my very first projects was creating a pretty incredible eLearning solutions for Lexus sales people. What’s an instructional designer doing attending sales training? By Shelley A. Illustrate a concept.

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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

However, as the speed of business keeps increasing, learning pros are having to adjust their goals, and the skills they need to fulfill them. Learning departments should reject their secluded offices for desks where the sales, customer service, or operations teams sit. Enterprise 2.0 So, although the term enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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Bloomfire Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

“Bloomfire addresses old-school productivity problems with a new-school approach, using social software to create and share valuable information within an enterprise. It essentially allows you to clone your best sales people, reducing costs, improving productivity and accelerating new business opportunities that drive your bottom line.”

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Imagine a senior executive in your company returns from Thanksgiving weekend having read white papers from IBM that say social business is the next step in the overall evolution of business. Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company already told him brainpower has become the engine of innovation.

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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

Chief Learning Officer magazine recently reported that its Business Intelligence Board (BIB) of learning leaders is more optimistic about the outlook for 2011 than they were in 2010. Get your best sales person to teach a class on how they sell. Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software?

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EdCast the Twitter of Education Raises 16 Million in Latest Funding Round

Training Industry

Since most of your employees are using social networking outside of work, it makes sense to use the same type of interactions and technologies when training them. “We We learn more when we learn together,” according to the “Harvard Business Journal,” and social media has likely increased our need for social interaction.

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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

Mzinga is a merger of KnowledgePlanet (an LMS provider and also the maker of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software company. I've not seen a lot about Mzinga in the eLearning world, but it represents something pretty interesting.