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Bright Corporate Outlook for Employee Development Doesn’t Mean You Need a Bigger Budget

Mindflash

Get your best sales person to teach a class on how they sell. Tap into social software apps. Need informal learning software? There are vendors selling very good software. Rather than spend the money upfront, start off by using using free social software services like Yammer or Social Text or Wikispaces.

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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

For example, a company might use a combination of sponsor and developmental mentoring to support key talent engagement as well as individuals’ personal career development. Identifying these parameters up front will help organizations identify which types of coaching and mentoring programs are best suited for their organizations.

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2008 2009

Tony Karrer

Applications in Learning Learn Trends 2008 Top Posts of 2008 based on delicious Save Count (which I believe is a better indicator of quality): 100 eLearning Articles and White Papers (149) Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 (39) Second Life Learning Videos (38) Personal Learning Tools and Technologies (38) Corporate Policies on Web 2.0 (37)

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

Saba’s most recent social learning announcement is called “Saba Social&# and is a robust enterprise social networking solution that uniquely combines a rich person profile, competency-driven expertise, real-time collaboration, and a comprehensive Web 2.0 A: Ben Willis - For all the recent buzz around Web 2.0

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

However, those vendors who rely solely on this argument are very likely to find themselves quickly marginalized. To stay relevant, George believes training vendors should do two things: Stop talking “learning” and start talking “capacity” and “execution” like the rest of the C-suite.

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

LMS = Losing My Smile - aLearning , February 5, 2010 [Association LMS Vendors, Take Note!] Here’s How to Add Personality to Your E-Learning Courses - Rapid eLearning Blog , February 9, 2010 In a previous post, I shared some free handwritten fonts. Social Learning in the Enterprise - in 4 minutes , February 4, 2010.

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Social Learning Tools Should Not be Separate from Enterprise 2.0

Tony Karrer

My contention (as expressed in LMS and Social Learning ) is that most of the vendors are getting this wrong. Instead of looking at providing tightly coupled Social Learning Tools, they should instead be looking at how their offering can integrate or leverage Enterprise 2.0 Or should they be separated? Adoption - What's the PU?