This will help you stay ahead of the competition and better keep up with customer demand. However, by partnering with the right training company, you’ll cut your development time way down and have the resources on hand to create top-notch training material that truly delivers for your employees. Continu’s Learning Tracks is how administrators create courses, facilitate onboarding flows, quizzes, and more. Noted customers. Noted customers. Noted customers. MORE

Microsoft Office jumped right on the bandwagon and created Office 365, which includes a top-of-the-line set of productivity tools that help you create, edit, and share from your PC/Mac, iPad, tablet, or phone in real-time. Features such as multiparty HD video, content sharing, and shared calendars also help keep you in sync with your team. Similar to Skype, Lync’s features include video messaging, IMing, and audio calling. MORE

Podcasting – creating your own – 57.1%. Ability to use Skype – 48.5%. Salesforce.com or customer mgt system integration – 17.1%. Skype – 20%. I blame this totally on the industry as a whole – who focused too much on the same features as everyone else – forgetting the over 25 different types of social media available, or even creating a mashup of social types. MORE

DVD to video conversion for creating courses. Integration with Skype – finally! Integrate with web based e-mail calendars – Gmail and Hotmail. Custom domains (big increase in last few months). LMS vendors are continuing to add some very unique features in an effort to set themselves apart from the competition. These expand past the standard feature sets, which I call 90/10. MORE

Our “hybrid” hosting environment blends Rackspace with Amazon’s S3 for long term storage of customer files. G Suite – Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar. We are not yet fully committed on Slack, but seems like a nice alternative to Skype’s informational chaos. Skype & Skype Manager – VOIP. We are heavy users of Skype for informal, day-to-day communication. Balsamiq is a joy to use for creating low fidelity prototypes. MORE

Groups could be closed (customize group settings) and they can be used for courses and projects. On a class group page you can add links, videos, discussion threads, photos, create events and send group messages. Facebook was not created to be used as a learning environment and for sure I wanted more learning features! 1) Interactions between Learner and Content SlideShare You can create and share presentation on Facebook. MORE

The customized use of pictures, graphics, videos and HTML files of an LMS contribute to making the training as appealing as possible, thus setting the stage for an engaged audience. Online training courses for employees can cover all aspects of formal education, from structured lessons, assignments and calendars to grading and certification. Just think how many times have you used Skype to chat with a coworker in the same room. MORE

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, online encyclopedias and group discussion boards are just some of the more popular social media applications being employed today. They enable employers, employees, business partners, and even customers to participate in conversations either through status updates, commenting, or simply following up on communication streams. MORE

But, as knowledge workers, we now have email, Slack, Dropbox or Google Drive, and Skype that have collapsed virtual separation. For example, an HR professional in the California bay area office might consult with a customer-facing manager in New Jersey. Often their lack of skill creates a stumbling block to efficiency, quality, and innovation. While the labor hours for tasks may not drop much, calendar time for projects shrinks when working with contractors. MORE

Learning Tracks is how administrators create courses, facilitate onboarding flows, quizzes , and more. Continu is also an authoring tool which means companies can create training materials directly onto this platform without the aid of third parties and it can be easily synced using several integrations. Plus, Slack can be customized by project and interface. As far as features, team members can be assigned tasks, groups created and comments attached to each project. MORE

The year kicked off with lots of potential, lots of excitement in the air and lots of customers gearing up to purchase new systems, despite global economic woes. Create your own news board, beyond just some RSS feeds? Favorites included: Skype. Google Calendar. Built in SEO (search engine optimization), e-mail marketing, marketing tools, CRMs (customer relationship mgt – used for sales). auto show up in their preferred e-mail calendar. MORE

Esther Kiss: If you have a niche offer, for example you teach people on… And with your situation, Chris, for example, you teach people on how to create a course, and how to put it online, that’s not something that will be interesting to someone watching break-fast television. So we counted back the clock of accommodating for the lead time, a while we will take to reach out to podcasts or get that interview recorded, make sure that everybody’s calendar is saying that. MORE

It integrates with Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Despite the fact that it is one of the oldest webinar platforms around, it comes with a pack of useful features that are suitable for every business including custom-made landing pages, email notifications, and reporting capabilities. li> It comes with custom landing page forms to encourage people to sign to your webinar. Enterprise : there is a custom price for this plan. Image Source: Skype. MORE

Last night (December 10), and I may have been wearing my Santa costume during the conversation, I mentioned to a friend that I’ve studied the concept of time and tell myself I should be free of the tyranny of the agrarian calendar that is the metronome for many of our lives. I began reviewing last year by going over my Google calendar. Customer spring (vacation). Create Learning Lisbon 171. Jay on Skype to Paris 85. Delighting Customers, John 8. MORE