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How Branding Your Learning Management System Can Influence Culture (and...
The best companies I’ve worked with have had great workplace cultures. Management in these companies understand that happy team members are more productive and less likely to jump ship the next time...
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The One Simple Tool You Can Use to Help Select the Right Learning Management...
Dear readers, you’ve in the past endured me ranting about the horribly-designed Requests for Proposals (RFP) that regularly cross my desk and the desks of my Blatant^ colleagues. (See my previous...
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The Powerful Amazon Feature You Should be Adopting in Your Learning...
It seems like just yesterday that business analysts were wondering whether this newfangled e-commerce fad would catch on. Would anxiety over credit card theft deter customers from trusting on-line...
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Identify Your LMS Requirements Easily Using this Powerful Visualization Tool
I’ve ranted repeatedly (here, here, and here) about the horribly-designed Request for Proposals (RFPs) that cross my desk. Invariably, these so-called learning management system selection tools suffer...
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Research Firm Says “Absorb LMS Among the Top LMS User Interfaces”
HR & LMS technology research company, Software Advice has included Absorb LMS in its list of learning management systems with the best user interfaces. You can read the full article here. According...
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Borrow this University Business Model to Sell Certification Programs
You, dear reader, can obtain an education from the most prestigious universities in the world, all for free. It makes no difference whether you received straight `A’s in high school or whether you...
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LMS for Small Business – 5 Benefits & Considerations
It really wasn’t that long ago that Learning Management Systems (LMS) used to be exclusively utilized by large enterprise organizations with thousands of employees. This is because the cost and...
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Weight Control Strategies for Learning and Development
A friend of mine, an Oxford-educated mathematician, had a smart strategy to succeed in university. When two or more of her professors scheduled exams for the same week, she would immediately ask the...
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The Importance of the Learner Interface
More than just a pretty face… Our company motto is, “Make software that feels right”. A simple and somewhat vague message perhaps, but it has served us well, based on the feedback we consistently get...
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Selecting An Easy To Customize LMS Just Makes Sense
Author: Donna Gernhaelder, Senior Manager, Global Business Development Choosing the right learning management system that will best serve the needs of your organization and users can be a daunting...
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How to Reduce Your Course Development Costs By 90+ Per Cent
Learners today are presented with a wealth of choices and opportunities for learning. They can turn to Blogs, wikis, social networks, video sites, etc. to find learning content. The problem, though, is...
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You CAN always get what you need: Tips for writing a great LMS RFI/RFP
As Mick Jagger famously sang, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need!”. I sometimes wonder if he worked in software sales (okay, not really), but this...
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So, you complete a course and then what happens? Time-based enrollments in...
Dan Medakovic VP Learning Solutions The subject of time-based enrollments has come up in client discussions quite often lately, so I thought I’d write about it here. Here are some examples of what...
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One Reason Why More than 30 Per Cent of Organizations Really Hate Their...
Selecting the right learning management system (LMS) can be a daunting task. There are hundreds of systems available. Making matters worse, you wouldn’t sound like too much of a conspiracy nut to...
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Training in the age of Twitter
Warning: This post may exceed 142 characters. What was I saying? Sorry, I lost focus there for a second. Oh yeah… Here at Blatant Media we know lots about Learning Management Systems and things like...
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Have You Considered Asking Your Learners Whether They Need to Take the Course?
Learning administrators can at times suffer from a certain smugness. Although it’s unlikely that they have met the vast majority of the learners in their learning management system (LMS), these...
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Turn Your LMS into a “Choose Your Own Adventure” Learning Experience
Create Self-Directed Learning Surveys (and more) Using Answer-Based ActionsThe need to keep learners engaged is a struggle we see many LMS administrators come to us with, competing for their audience’s...
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How to Use Test Results to Automatically Enroll Learners into Learning...
Making Sure Your Learners Have The Knowledge They NeedMy last blog post was all touchy feely. We looked at empowering learners by asking them what they’re good or bad at, and to subsequently use these...
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How to Use a Learning Management System for Employee Reviews
Turning Your LMS into a Multi-functional PowerhouseSome friends of mine recently went Like/Share/Thumbs Up-crazy about an item on our Facebook news feeds. All of this excitement was about a Kickstarter...
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Why Integrating Your Learning Management System with Other Applications Makes...
From Groceries to Business Apps, Quality Suffers at One-Stop-ShopsThree years ago, I moved from the suburbs back into the city. I now live in a neighbourhood where I can walk a short distance and...
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