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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. We are beginning to see dominance by a few bigger vendors and if you can't be one of them, then it's tough sledding.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

You appreciate that social business — connecting everyone in the organization in networks — makes sense. You’ve also sensed a groundswell in the learning and development community favoring social, self-directed pull learning.

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Tony Karrer

Strategy (15) PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning (15) Corporate Social Bookmarking Tools (14) Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis (13) Test SCORM Courses with an LMS (13) 90-9-1 Rule aka 1% Rule in Collaborative Environments (13) Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results (13) Instruction eLearning 2.0

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

You appreciate that social business — connecting everyone in the organization in networks makes sense. You’ve also sensed a groundswell in the learning and development community favoring social, self-directed, “pull” learning. I know it’s a sales gimmick and they don’t think we can do it.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

A: Ben Willis- Saba has had social & collaborative capabilities in our product suite for a very long while (since 2004 and the 3.x Saba Social is a productivity tool designed to engage employees & customers, build connected corporate communities and accelerate high-quality knowledge exchange. x generation of the suite).

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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. Communities, blogs, and wikis are just the start.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

This includes the static elearning course as well as any ongoing conversations in networked communities. Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning « Connectivism , February 11, 2010 Connectivism networked and social learning « Utah State OpenCourseWare, lowriders, and system design Future of learning: LMS or SNS?