Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 6, 2007

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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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

is about informal learning, but the organization was moving to using social networking tools to scaffold their move from face-to-face to more online learning. So I was asked to talk about social networking and formal learning. I started from the informal picture, however, both to introduce the 2.0 Much of elearning 2.0

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Nancy was opining about her work with small teams, and I was asking about the larger picture. My ongoing question has been about transitioning from wrapping social networking around formal learning to being members of communities of practice.

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Tony Karrer

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Instead, I now need to get smart on things like community, networks, personal knowledge management and other such topics. Still working on this, but my belief is that the picture is not going to be a simple, clear answer. However, there's Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger announcement around Mzinga.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 31, 2010

they see their picture too – it looks exactly like the Linkedin groups. Social news or network aggregators. Mzinga’s OmniSocial product sort of fits the build, but it lacks some components, to what I see as a true system, specifically 100% standalone, since it can also be integrated into a LMS or used in their own LMS.

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