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I concluded that it will take too long to teach 700+ LMS vendors the new anti-acronym trick and the easiest path would be to create a living, one-sentence, non-techie dictionary of LMS acronyms for learning systems buyers.

Brightwave, with its innovative xAPI driven tessello learning system, focuses on managing the real-life balance of learning by doing (experiential), learning from others (social) and formal learning (old school).

By collecting skill endorsements and recommendations from your network and posting content, comments, presentations, awards, articles, certifications and other relevant data, you create a historical profile of credibility that other users recognize and value – and more so every day with a growing base of more than 610 million LinkedIn users in more than 200 countries.

Many sales reps and solution architects take the demo step lightly because they have done the same presentation so many times that they think they have seen it all and know it all; as a result, they prep too little, make a vanilla impact with the customer and get lost in the herd of possible LMS solutions.

This type of approach is consistent throughout the product and provides a lot of flexibility because you can approach an administrative problem from many angles to get, set and report on training the way you need it.

Those learning and development organizations that did try to launch the social LMS components found quickly that making social learning successful is much more difficult than buying it and turning it on.

GyrusAim is a global, enterprise-strength, administratively-focused LMS with core strengths of in-depth instructor led classroom (live or virtual) management, certification, role configuration and reporting.

If you can’t define and predictively measure how the purchase of an LMS is going to help your organization make or save money – way more money than the cost of the LMS – you aren't ready to buy a system.

Too often, software companies overpromise and underdeliver - and it shows up in the onboarding process. Here are 6 customer onboarding mistakes successful software companies avoid.

Like most LMSs born in the last 3 years, the TalentLMS is fully mobile responsive so that any type of user can access it from smartphones, tablets and laptops without plugins or downloads and without any panning, scrolling or zooming.

A responsive LMS “senses” the user device and automatically optimizes the text, graphics and menus to display perfectly without zooming, scrolling or downloads.

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The only way to gain and keep mindshare among your channel reps is to provide them the knowledge, support and motivation to sell your products and services easier than competitive offerings.

As you pursue each new program, you can predict and then demonstrate actual improvements in customer experience, loyalty, revenues and/or profitability. 

They all have experienced professional services groups to help transition vendors off their current solution, migrate the historical data and content, configure the new system, train the administrators, build content and provide ongoing support.

If you're spending time regularly deactivating users so you don’t have to pay incremental license fees, you are definitely paying too much for your learning platform.

LMS vendors were never threatened by Skillsoft’s Skillport LMS but now with the SumTotal LMS, it’s a different story.

Cloud LMSs are the most exciting group in the LMS industry because they are newer; this group is not as technically and functionally advanced as standalone LMSs and HR/talent suite LMSs, however, they have their foot on the accelerator and are making progress at a faster clip than the rest of the industry.

They are experts at endless and varying topics and their job is to teach it, but they don’t teach employees though – just everyone else including external sales and distribution channels, customers, members, dealers, agents and the public at large.

nternational Parking Institute utilizes Docebo to train, certify, measure and report on learning for parking professionals from member organizations in every industry globally.