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Fingertip Knowledge

Saratoga Springs, July 2006 - Elliott Masie, CEO of the MASIE Center's Learning Consortium and the host and producer of Learning 2006 sees the need for a different approach to information retrieval. In an exclusive essay for CHECKpoint eLearning, Masie writes about "Fingertip Knowledge". » MORE

Optimized Software and Content

Calgary, July 2006 - SMART Technologies Inc. has launched the SMART Software Accreditation Program, aiming to identify and assess content and software based on its level of compatibility with and customization for SMART Board interactive whiteboards and SMART's family of products. Accreditation will enable customers to purchase software and content from third-party developers with confidence. » MORE

No More Overhead Projectors?

London, July 2006 - Providing all of the key functionality needed in a busy training center from a single instructor's console, all in an intuitive and logical manner, the new product "NetSupport Inform" lines up to replace the need for overhead projectors, whiteboards and other presentation tools. » MORE

Erste Bank Group Authorises IMC AG

Saarbrücken, July 2006 - Through the August 2006 launch of IMC's learning management system CLIX®, Slovenska sporitelna (SLSP), Erste Bank Group-˜s Slovakian subsidiary, kicked off a pilot project aimed at the introduction of elearning. Alongside cutting the heavy traveling costs which current training practices involve, this elearning project evaluates the application for a group-wide roll-out at Erste Bank. When concluded, this project will enable SLSP to provide a central learning platform for all companies across the Erste Bank group. » MORE

Protection for eLearning

Ayr (UK), July 2006 - ELearning is as exposed to piracy issues as any other digital content sector. Scotland-based LockLizard Limited has developed a Digital Rights Management (DRM) enforcement product specifically focused on protecting an eLearning company's revenue streams. » MORE

A Need in a Global eLearning World

Dublin, June 2006 - (by Kirsten Seegmüller) Transware has been localizing elearning software for ten years now. Today its founder, Kieran McBrien, has to deal with smaller markets and projects, yet he faces an increasing need for content transfer. McBrien does not consider translators as competitors; rather he sees them as part of the process because localization has to take cultures, laws, political correctness, and other important aspects of a target group into account. » MORE

Microsoft Germany and IMC cooperate

Munich / Saarbrücken, June 2006 - Microsoft Deutschland GmbH (Germany) and IMC AG, provider of Learning Management solutions, are working hand in hand towards integration of IMC AG's CLIX Learning Management System (LMS) into Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server. » MORE

MobileMonday Global Peer Awards

Sestri Levante, June 2006 - Giunti Labs' mobile learning solution eXact Mobile received the Silver Prize at the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards in Helsinki. The event, sponsored by Nokia and Nexit Ventures, showcased world's best B2B Mobile Solutions. A fifteen-country jury selected the winners from 21 finalists. » MORE

Overcoming Language Barriers

London / Brisbane, June 2006 - Reuters PLC has renewed its contract and signed a multiyear agreement with the GlobalEnglish Corporation. Reuters has maintained major offices in India and East Asia for over a century but has recently initiated expansions in Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, and other locations. For this reason, the company has increased its investment in training employees in its official language, English. » MORE

Becoming Increasingly Mainstream

Mike GottaMidvale/Utah, June 2006 - (by Birgit Gamböck) Social software will play an important role in more and more bottom-up structured and team-oriented enterprises because it offers opportunities to take advantage of informal interaction across groups and to make it purposeful, thereby supporting the performance, growth, and innovation goals of most enterprises. This is the conclusion of the report "Trends in Social Software" conducted by the Burton Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in network and applications infrastructure technologies. CHECKpoint eLearning spoke with analyst Mike Gotta about the benefits, the market trends, and the first integration approaches of IBM and Microsoft. » MORE