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Corporate eLearning
Developing Media-Rich Content
London, July 2006 - BT Global Services has selected OutStart to provide the Learning Content Management System (LCMS) to support the Royal Navy's prestigious Type 45 training content development programme. The tailored courses will bring together contributions from Royal Navy subject matter experts as well as information and media- rich content in the form of simulations and emulations - all delivered via the Defence Learning Portal (DLP). » MORE
Books24x7 goes Podcasting
Norwood (US), July 2006 - Valuable insights and practical knowhow from business leaders is provided by Books24x7 in the trendy form of podcasts. The online referenceware specialist has launched a free-of-charge audio series that includes excerpts from Books24x7's ExecBlueprints Referenceware collection. » MORE
Business Networks for Russian SMEs
Stuttgart, July 2006 - The EU-funded project "RUSMECO" supports the development of interpersonal business networks for sharing experiences - so-called "Communities of Practice" (CoPs) in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular can exchange knowledge via a specific web-based platform. » MORE
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
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
Midvale/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
