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Sales eLearning – 21 Great Resources

Tony Karrer

I was asked about approaches for eLearning for Sales People. I’ve had quite a bit of experience with this and actually one of my very first projects was creating a pretty incredible eLearning solutions for Lexus sales people. What’s an instructional designer doing attending sales training? By Shelley A. As oddly as it may sound.I

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Bloomfire Secures $10 Million in Series A Funding

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Bloomfire addresses old-school productivity problems with a new-school approach, using social software to create and share valuable information within an enterprise. Chris Pacitti, from one of the two investing companies, Austin Ventures had this to say.

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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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Want People to Learn? Get Them to Collaborate

Mindflash

collaboration, by definition, implies a technology solution, However, there are many ways in which learning professionals can increase collaboration in organizations, from implementing enterprise social software or things as simple as wheeling a white board into the break room. Enterprise 2.0 So, although the term enterprise 2.0

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Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger

Tony Karrer

He also pointed me to a Gartner quote: Enterprise social software will be the biggest new workplace technology success story of this decade. This certainly helps us understand why you might want to have someone like KP's sales and marketing to help you sell community software into the enterprise.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Front-running companies are installing social networks such as Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, SharePoint, Ideo and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days. and learning networks.

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EdCast the Twitter of Education Raises 16 Million in Latest Funding Round

Training Industry

“We learn more when we learn together,” according to the “Harvard Business Journal,” and social media has likely increased our need for social interaction. Social media enables users to observe and learn from each other, which psychologists such as Lev Vygotsky and Albert Bandura believed was crucial for effective learning.