Online Learning

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Responsive design is popular because it works on any device and all platforms, thus eliminating the need to test everything on many devices.

The integrated social learning features are great for extended enterprise audiences like channel partners and association members because many times you do not know who they are and the integrations automate the account creation and login process.

Mindflash targets the many smaller organizations of fifty to a few thousand users that see value in training, invest in training, but have yet to make the leap into eLearning.  

Caspio is a great example of the contrast between learning for customers versus employees. Find out how Caspio won me over with an approach that nearly caused me to purchase this solution.