Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. Mzinga is going a different direction focusing on collaboration and social media capabilities. Mzinga certainly is way better as a product that my dire prediction. MORE

Column on Effectiveness, by Jay Cross. Mzinga’s Dave Wilkins describes several production roles. More Human Than Human. CLO magazine, June 2009. The future is people, not technology. My last column in CLO called for the abolition of corporate training departments. MORE

They understand that the most effective courses (regardless of micro or not) are non-linear (people can jump around). After all, if you want to do an effective gap analysis, is simple really better? Mzinga. I’m a dreamer. MORE

An effective use of a Blog would be having the Product Manager author a series of articles around that new product. Mzinga. Probably just three years ago, if you said Element K I would have immediately thought about off-the-shelf courseware. However, Element K has made substantial, progressive improvements to their LMS, most recently by building custom integrations between Jive Clearspace and KnowledgeHub, Element K’s LMS. They announced this in October, 2008. MORE

By doing this, George argues that vendors (LMS in particular), and the organizations they sell to, will begin to see their product no longer as simply an event-based tool for learning, but rather as a process-based tool for capacity planning and workplace effectiveness. MORE

relates closely to the concepts Learning 2.0 , eLearning Tools , Corporate eLearning , Personal Learning , and Enterprise 2.0 ; the Tools Odeo , CollectiveX , Bea Pages , Apache Roller , and Dogear ; and the Companies NexLearn , Awareness Networks , Element K , and Mzinga. Also interesting topics: Cognitive , Effectiveness , LCMS , Social Network , iPhone , Director. We've implemented a few features in the eLearning Learning Community. MORE

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? A: Dave Wilkins - Mzinga has taken a comprehensive approach to social learning by developing three models throughout various components of our entire Social Learning Suite. MORE

Mzinga : White Paper Series : eLearning 2.0 & The Technology Source Archives - Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses 30. CREST+ Model: Writing Effective Online Discussion Questions 90. My collection of eLearning Articles, White Papers, Blog Posts, etc. just reached 100. Thought I'd share. No particular order to these. Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory 2. MORE

This is not so of a new generation of social networking technology, which is being used to provide software services under trading names such as Ning, CollectiveX, Sossoon, Hiitch, Huddle, Mzinga, British Telecom's Workspace (project management), Clearspace, and even Microsoft's Sharepoint. MORE

Here is the best stuff from last week via eLearning Learning. Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. MORE

The concepts are real and can be applied very effectively in a variety of contexts to engage people (friends, peers, employees, customers, vendors…) and accelerate a process, whether that process be learning, communication, performance, innovation or general social interaction. Next week: Mzinga. The sixth LMS in the LMSs that kick ass Friday series is Saba. MORE