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Corporate eLearning
Maslow's hierarchy of needs; porn, and poker
London (UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Speaking at a conference for members of Frost & Sullivan's Global community of Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL), held at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in north London in May, Andrew Lamb, a Director of Appropedia (a wiki which focuses on sustainability issues), argued that 'web 2.0' has encouraged new forms of social interaction and collaboration. He added that firms have learned to exploit social media by using fun or viral notions to take advantage of people's innate desire to gather and interact with each other and pass along interesting bits of information. » MORE
Applying New Technology in Art Work Preservation
New York, NY (USA), June 2011 - IBM and The Metropolitan Museum of Art have announced the successful installation of a new wireless environmental sensor network at the Museum called Low-Power Mote. The system will help preserve the works of art in its world-renowned, encyclopedic collection. » MORE
goFLUENT Offers New Resources and Receives Praise
Geneva (CH), June 2011 - goFLUENT, a provider of distance Business English training, now offers New York Times News Syndicate (NYTNS) videos and Harvard Business Review articles as resources on its eLearning platform. The firm was named as one of the top online providers of English language- learning materials by the French website "Pour Se Former". » MORE
Edvantage Client Wins Prestigious Award
Oslo (NO), June 2011 - Edvantage group, a provider of cloud-based learning and performance solutions, has announced that their client, Hydro Aluminium Høyanger Verk, has won HR Norway's Competence Development Award 2011 (Kompetanseprisen) for competence-development programmes. » MORE
To Tweet or Not to Tweet? That is the Question …
London (UK), June 2011 - In the latest Charity Learning Consortium blog, Lawrence Clarke examines some possible reasons behind a lack of enthusiasm towards social media and explains why understanding your organisation's values, and aligning social media policy in regard to them, is so critical. » MORE
LMMatters Welcomes New Managing Director
London (UK), June 2011 - LMMatters has appointed James Reed as its new Managing Director. Reed brings a wealth of knowledge and experience of online leadership and management development with him, having most recently been Chief Operating Officer of 50 Lessons. » MORE
Stifling learning technologies with vested interests
London (UK), June 2011 - (by Bob Little) Opinion is growing around the world that the US, Canada and UK dominated "old school elite" of learning technologists now need to recognise learning technologies' appeal and relevance to the whole world - and so allow their colleagues from the rest of the world to play an equal part in helping to shape the future of this worldwide industry. » MORE
New OLAT 7.2.0 Public Release Now Available
Zurich (CH), June 2011 - OLAT 7.2.0 has been released! First planned as a maintenance release (7.1.1), now all changes (HG-related refactoring and Maven) have been released together with the 7.1 fixes as 7.2 public. That means that 7.1 was skipped, and 7.2 is being pushed as the next release. » MORE
goFLUENT Helps Improve Employees' English Skills
Endicott, NY (USA), June 2011 - The global glassmaking giant O-I has been working with goFLUENT, a provider of distance English training, to improve the English communication skills of its worldwide workforce with a unique blended-learning approach. » MORE
CERTPOINT VLS 7.1 Ready for Release
Roslyn, NY (USA), June 2011 - In advance of the July CERTPOINT VLS™ 7.1 release, CERTPOINT Systems offers free implementations to applicants who sign an agreement with CERTPOINT before 30 June 2011. » MORE
