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Product Review: Mzinga OmniSocial

eLearning 24-7

It was a confusing challenge for me, because it offers so much capabilities and strengths, so I define it as a true social learning management system (standalone) that offers extra power for a customer to select specific apps and use them in the customer’s portal or web site or in some fashion with their own learning management system.

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LMSs that kick ass: Mzinga

Janet Clarey

Mzinga is the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights at the end of 2007. My more recent contact at Mzinga is Dave Wilkins. I spoke with Dave via email about what Mzinga is doing with social media. Q: What social media tools is Mzinga incorporating into their LMS?

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Conflicting personas: social media as an ‘AND’ role (initially titled ‘AND’ job which is entirely inappropriate, even for this blog)

Janet Clarey

Susan is Senior PR Manager at Mzinga who communicates with all sorts of people on Twitter. Now monitoring a company on Twitter is real-time customer service to me. These dueling roles have created a persona issue for me. teaching about my “AND&# role. teaching about my “AND&# role.

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Looking Back at 2007

Tony Karrer

I've been doing a lot of work on custom content delivery and even more on the implications of Web 2.0 However, there's Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger announcement around Mzinga. Part of the issue is that if the picture is a loosely coupled collection of tools, then what's the role of a central piece of software?

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LRS Rankings (Learning Record Store)

eLearning 24-7

It is open source first of all, which I surmise plays a role (although it also offers a fee based option too). for my learners, regardless if they are customers, employees or both. . Pricing is on the site, but the top of the line solution is a “Contact us” approach. Hey, thanks for the transparency! It is there.

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Social Learning and LMSs Marketplace

eLearning 24-7

When so many potential customers are seeing the advantages of open source, creating their own learning or VLE portals or seeing the value of various social media types and incorporating them into some type of social learning community, the “do nothing&# spin is well, a time warp into the past.

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Learning Management Systems that kick ass: Generation21

Janet Clarey

The third track is the approach where the LMS trails another app, as in Mzinga. Q: What difficulties are you seeing in the incorporation of social media among your current customers/potential customers? A: John Stearns - We find two principal stumbling blocks with regard to social media. Will they lose productivity?

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