11 Meridian Global - Don’t let the web site fool you – because it really needs an overhaul, this is a strong system. I love to travel. I especially love it when I get the opportunity to present all over the world on a variety of e-learning topics. I love meeting new folks who have either been big fans and supporters of e-learning or are totally new to e-learning and seeking out information and knowledge. MORE

Left to right are Bill Perry, Managing Parter of Meridian, Karl Kapp, Susan Smith Nash of the E-Learning Queen blog, and Mark Bower of the Learning Leaders Forum blog and Edge Interactive. Yesterday, had a great panel discussion at the Meridian Learn and Know Conference. MORE

Meridian St, Indianapolis IN46204. I’ve written quite often about our Play to Learn workshop because, quite honestly, it’s an amazing experience. I sat in on the inaugural session (which was sold out) at ASTD ICE last May. MORE

Meridian KSI Knowledge Ce. Meridian KSI 1 1.60 Update, Nov. MORE

Meridian - Another Top 25 LMS vendor. Hi all! I’m reporting live from the greatest city in the world, Los Angeles. I know, I know your jealous. Anyway, as many of you are probably aware the biggest training conference in North America, takes place May 4-7th, albeit most humans start off on May 5th. For the expo, which is the focus on this article, it kicks in gear on May 5th. MORE

Accessplanit, Accord, Administrate, Aduro, aNewsSpring, Biz Library, Blackboard, Blue Volt, Docebo, Edvance 360, eLogic Learning, Emtrain, Ethos CE, ExpertusOne, Growth Engineering, IMC Learning Suite, Inquisiq R3, Instructure, iSpring Online, LearnUpon, Meridian, Panopto, Percolate, ShareKnowledge, WBT Systems – TopClass 9.4, MORE

Today I am appearing on a panel with a couple of blogging pros to talk about learning with New Media at the Meridian Learn and Know Conference. Is Twitter or, even, the iPad a viable learning technology? What's real, what's buzz? Today at the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, Va. MORE

Meridian for example, is a minimum of 2,500 seats. It is just a 1.5 weeks away. That is what you say as you are either forced to go to the mall or forced to eat something that looks like it came from the stone age at your holiday party or forced to listen to someone else tell you what an amazing holiday vacation they are about to have and you won’t. Yessir, it is the holidays. And with any holiday festivities, there are lots of guides. MORE

The fact I read it… Meridian KSI. If the release delivers than Meridian could easily slide back into the good ranking. Welcome, welcome all! To those from HR who are new to this blog, I give a high five. To those who have been constant readers, I give a high five with a low five to boot. And to those who are constant readers from all over the world and training, L&D and other professions, I give two high fives, four low fives and a bucket of joy. Why am I so happy? MORE

At the Meridian Learn and Know user's conference sponsored, of course, by Meridian Knowledge Solutions. Here are some blog postings, presentations and up coming events that I am trying to keep track of so I decided to put them all in one place. Past Recently authored a blog entry at TrainingIndustry.com titled Add Online Simulations to Your Organization’s Instructional Toolkit. I have been blogging over there for a while about technology, check it out. MORE

Meridian St, Indianapolis IN46204. Did you know the best way to design a digital game is to start with a paper prototype? Or that the ADDIE model for designing learning solutions doesn’t work so well with games? You should use an agile approach instead. MORE

This Thursday I am on a great panel doing a webinar for Meridian Knowledge Solutions. I hope you can join me and this exciting panel. The Webinar is called " Future of eLearning Content " and is scheduled for December 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. Short Description If you’re responsible for buying or managing your organization's training content, don’t miss this free, 45-minute online discussion. Register today at: URL HERE. MORE

10 – Meridian - Despite a web site that should be kicked into outer space (hello, update?), Back for another installment of the rankings. Please be aware that the rankings are on-going and as such subject to change month by month. MORE

Meridian. Meridian is coming out with a new version targeted later this year, but I sense it will be around by the end of Q2 2016. It is over. A big expo with several LMS vendors along with a few HR focused vendors who had a “learning component” to their systems. Lots of interesting stuff happening over in the HR space, but this analysis is all about our beloved e-learning and thus wonderful LMS flying machines (anyone see that movie? Anyone?). MORE

Blackboard, eLogic Learning, Biz Library, Docebo, Administrate, Meridian. If you attended last week’s show in Washington D.C., you probably left feeling one of the following. Exhausted, but thrilled at everything you attended/saw. Exhausted and hungry – how can you run out of lunches on day one? Thrilled. Thrilled and angry about lack of free coffee – is it too much to ask for the amount of coin dropped to attend the show? MORE

Meridian Knowledge Solutions is implementing its software-as-a-service LMS and social platform to support Covered California in the education of nearly nine million Californians about the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. MORE

Continuing on with the Friday series that - each week - features an LMS that kicks ass, I’m pleased to feature Meridian KSI. I spoke with Roy Haythorn, Vice President of Operations for Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC. Let’s find out what’s new at Meridian KSI. What is Meridian KSI doing with social media? A: Roy Haythorn - Online communities and blogs are two of the biggest social media tools that Meridian has made a part of its LMS. MORE

9 Meridian Global - Revamped UI, multi-tenant and on/off synch with responsive for their mobile. #8 In an earlier post, I presented the top ten LMSs of 2013-14, but held back on announcing the top 20. Not anymore. Below are my top 20 rankings for 2013-14. Before the Top 20, here are the. Top Three Open Source LMSs of 2013-14. One of these vendors is listed in my top 50. Their name begins with a M and sounds like Noodle. MORE

Meridian KSI. This week on the Friday series, LMSs that kick ass , I’ m pleased to feature Learn.com ’s LearnCenter system. By way of background, Learn.com’s primary customer base is corporate universities and their total number of registered ‘learners’ is reported at over 2,000,000 worldwide at several hundred organizations. So, they’re one of the big players among commercial learning management systems. MORE

Join me and Brent Schlenker on Thursday (December 16) for a webinar called “ Breaking Down Social Learning’s Brick Wall. &# The webinar is free and sponsored by Meridian Knowledge Solutions. MORE

Meridian KSI. It’s Friday yay! That means it’s time to feature another LMS that kicks ass! This is the seventh featured system in my Friday series highlighting LMSs that are doing innovative, kick-ass things with social media. Mzinga is the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights at the end of 2007. My first encounter with them was when they were still known as KnowledgePlanet. MORE

Get a jump on the training industry prognosticators and decide for yourself what matters most by registering for Meridian Knowledge Solutions' "Future of eLearning Content" webinar. Here are links to webinars past, present and future.not quite a Christmas Carol but. MORE

Meridian. It’s nearly here. In a little over two months, my 2016 Top 50 LMS Report will be available for purchase. This post isn’t so much a “buy, buy”, rather it is to give insight into the process, considerations, and factors. Not everyone gets in. And yeah there are vendors who will taut that they are in X list or Y rankings and thus should be included. MORE

Checking out and reporting on Meridian Knowledge, Beeline Orchestra, RISC, Learn.com. A new year is upon us and thus it is time to re-visit the LMS market. A lot of changes have already been happening in just a short time frame. Several vendors have left the space, a few have entered. New trends are starting to appear – and in these two cases, they are beneficial to consumers. Vendors are hearing us and are making changes. MORE

Report: Community Platforms Market Led by Jive Software and Telligent - ReadWriteWeb Hot Last Week Keywords eLearning Strategy Social Media Work Skills KnowledgeHub ScreenToaster Cooliris Quizmaker OnDemand Meridian Mzinga GeoLearning Saba Notes on the weekly hot last week. Using the same approach as Hot List , I've compiled. MORE

The techniques are a powerful combination of breath, visualisation, rhythm, and pressure on meridian points, creating an effective mind/body wellness tool. Using gentle but firm pressure to meridian points on the body along with the breathing techniques, you can boost the body’s natural ability to switch off and release physical tension. It’s a new year, a new start…“Yay!” you say. A new YOU! This is your year to look after YOU! MORE

Skip to content Follow: RSS Twitter LearnNuggets Nuggets of Learning Stuff Home About Resources Tags conference , LMS , Meridian Meridian Knowledge Solutions 2010 user’s conference by Kevin on April 23rd, 2010 Just got back from the Meridian Knowledge Solutions annual user’s conference. MORE

Meridian KSI. Another Friday and another LMS that kicks ass! This week’s featured system is OutStart. I interviewed Jeff Whitney, Vice President of Marketing. 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. MORE

Watch Butch on the Golf Channel here: [link] Along with Butch and the "Buzz Breakers," you'll also get: An in-depth, first-look at the latest technology behind Meridian Global LMS. A tour of the latest editions to the Meridian Virtual Library (over 15,000 titles!). MORE

Learn & Know 2009 , Meridian Knowledge Solutions User Conference – November 17-18, 2009, Chantilly, Virginia (sitting on a bloggers panel with Mark Bower and Susan Smith Nash ). I have located the key to the chain that secures me to my desk. I’d love to start making some plans to meet up at (or near) any of these learning-related events. MORE

Meridian KSI. 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. Via email, I asked Sue Rodeman, VP., Platform Prod Management & Marketing, Element K about their social media capabilities. MORE

Take a look at the companies: Saba (28) GeoLearning (17) SumTotal (22) Meridian (9) Cornerstone (19) You notice the counts are out of order (not descending). I've done a few posts in the past that take a look at the topics that are Hot Topics in Training. In each case, these are crude in that they look only at what terms people are using in a given content set. MORE

I also saw John Leh the regional sales manager for Meridian Knowledge Solutions. Arrived back from the ASTD TechKnowledge 2008 conference late the other night (3:00am) but the conference was worth it. I got to see a lot of people and make some really good connections. MORE

Meridian Global. It is that time of the year, okay, not really, but it is time or more specifically near the time for the release of my Top 50 LMS mid-rankings report. The report available for acquisition arrives on June 16th. You will have the option to acquire the report at a pre-sale fee of $499 or wait until it comes out and pay the super duper fee of $599. MORE

I should note that Meridian meets all the B2B criteria and is a top 20 LMS, however they have told me that the prefer a minimum of 2,500 users, which as anyone who knows in the B2B space, you never really know how many you will start or end up with in the course of a year. I admit I love lists. I’m one of those people who sees a book of lists about anything and then I must have it. I must read it. I just like lists. It seems to me that there are others who also love lists. MORE

It has been a busy few weeks and May continues to be busy as I have a couple of presentations with my co-author Tony O'Driscoll coming up. MORE

John Leh, vice president of sales and marketing for Meridian Knowledge Solutions, a human capital management software maker, said 30 percent of the inquiries the company gets for learning management systems are intended to train external audiences. Offering external customers development options is an inexpensive way to boost company loyalty, reduce dependence on help desks and generate revenue. MORE