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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

We are beginning to see dominance by a few bigger vendors and if you can't be one of them, then it's tough sledding. The other interesting thing here is that it seems like LMS vendors really are moving away from being LMS vendors.

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

CLO Magazine

Coaching and mentoring programs are proven to increase productivity, morale and leadership. Talent management software vendors can provide some tracking capability, but do not provide in-depth coaching and mentoring program workflows optimized to help guide these programs. But managing these programs can be a challenge.

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LMSs that kick ass: Saba

Janet Clarey

Director, Product Strategy who is responsible for Saba’s Social Media strategy about their product “ Saba Social.&#. Q: What social media tools has Saba incorporated into their LMS? Q: What drove your decision to incorporate social media tools into your LMS? I interviewed Ben Willis, Sr.

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Tony Karrer

Kevin Oakes sounded the bell in Kevin Oakes on the Rise and Fall of the LMS as large LMS vendors began to move towards Talent Management. 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.

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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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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?

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Top 47 Posts and 10 Hot Topics for February

eLearning Learning Posts

Microsoft is gifted with an inability to deliver products for the web (I actually liked Popfly, but it has since been discontinued). LMS = Losing My Smile - aLearning , February 5, 2010 [Association LMS Vendors, Take Note!] I suspect one of the greatest. Worse, I want to hang my head and weep.