This will help you stay ahead of the competition and better keep up with customer demand. 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

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. MORE

Podcasting – creating your own – 57.1%. Ability to use Skype – 48.5%. Salesforce.com or customer mgt system integration – 17.1%. Skype – 20%. 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. 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. 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. Flashcards You can create flashcards to help you study on Facebook. 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. MORE

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, online encyclopedias and group discussion boards are just some of the more popular social media applications being employed today. 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

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. MORE