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How to Stay on Top of Training Demand? Know the Alternatives

Mindflash

We learn a little and dismiss it or jump on the bandwagon, but do we really know what they are and how they can help? Collaboration : Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware, workgroup support systems or simply group support systems) is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

Focusing on job roles, teams, collaboration sounds like a heavy, groupware type approach that is going to take too much work and be too inflexible if you ever get it done. The value of del.icio.us / Yahoo MyWeb is that it first helps the individual and by helping the individual it helps the collective.

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The key to understanding what’s going on

Jay Cross

If you wake up in the middle of the night thinking that your company code and employee number aren’t helping you, it’s because they weren’t supposed to. “Contrast that with the groupware approach to things where people are placed into groups defined organizationally or functionally.&#. Jon Warshawsky.

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It’s a matter of culture

The Learning Circuits

Training helped, but it remained blissfully ignorant of the cultural reality around it. They could have encouraged rather than neglected the potential of the expensive and hard to deploy groupware (Lotus Notes) they began investing in during the 90s.

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