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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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Product Review: Mzinga OmniSocial

eLearning 24-7

The apps, too many to list here but a small sampling: Blogs, wikis and discussions. Software simulation tool (Firefly) and Mzinga Publisher are extra, i.e. there is an additional cost – it is not automatically included in the OmniSocial product. You can do this either through ILinc directly or through Mzinga. No problem.

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LMS and Social Learning

Tony Karrer

As a follow on to the discussion of social learning and formal learning in Long Live … great post by BJ Schone - Have LMSs Jumped The Shark? Mzinga seems to have jumped out early with a strong social platform that also has an LMS capability. They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable.

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Related Terms

Tony Karrer

I can also do a query (which is not available through the interface) to see what terms are related to what's being discussed right now. Mzinga is shown related to Personal Learning , Social Software , Learning 2.0 , Storyboards , PLEs , CollectiveX , Firefly , Tomoye , KnowledgePlanet , Element K , Awareness Networks.

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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

I've not seen a lot about Mzinga in the eLearning world, but it represents something pretty interesting. 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 wonder if mzinga does?

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Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

Mzinga is clearly targeted at the learning space, being integrated with an LMS. Vignette’s story about building on their core content management system supporting knowledge management makes sense from the point of view of mining value out of the discussions. I’m still wrestling with this.

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Formal learning & social networking

Clark Quinn

tools (their environment in particular had blogs, feeds, wikis, discussion boards, portals, and profiles), and to talk about some case studies of successes. Discussion boards are a great way to support extending conceptualizations. After hearing Mark Oehlert and Brent Schlenker do such a great job on eLearning 2.0 Your thoughts?