Leveraging Learning

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Ode to SaaS Training

As the summer sun starts to fade, blogs give way to iambic pentameter, and serious themes bow to whimsy... (With sincere apologies to The Bard.) Shall I compare thee to a new release? Thou art more fickle and more volatile Rough launch doth shake the chances to increase Renewals and subscriptions for a ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 19 Aug 10
   tagged as :Ode, SaaS, SaaS Training

The 4 Cs of Extended Enterprise Learning and Performance

At VMG we spend a lot of time thinking about what drives enterprise learning and performance. Although each of our clients and partners has unique problems to solve, each solution we create contains some mix of the following four elements: ... Read More

~ posted by John Hathaway on 25 May 10
   tagged as :collaboration, content, context, control, extended enterprise, innovation

Cloud/SaaS Knowledge Ecosystem: The Players

I’ve spent the past couple of days with some of the VMG team brainstorming about the opportunities we see in the Cloud/SasS market and how we want to approach them. One of the first things we did was to map out what that ecosystem looks like and how the knowledge ... Read More

~ posted by John Hathaway on 13 May 10
   tagged as :cloud, ecosystem, partnering, SaaS

The Secrets of SaaS Training: Monetization

This is the third entry in a three part series on The Secrets of SaaS Training. The first two parts addressed designing SaaS training, and delivering SaaS training. Monetizing SaaS training Many SaaS companies don’t even think in terms of monetizing customer training. They are product companies that ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 5 May 10
   tagged as :business of learning, cloudsourcing, SaaS, SaaS Training

The Secrets of SaaS Training: Delivery

The other day I wrote about designing SaaS training, and how it differs from traditional models. Today let’s explore best practices for delivering SaaS training. Delivering SaaS Training In most cases, when learning folks talk about training delivery, they speak in terms of modality. That is, is it a live, in-person ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 27 Apr 10
   tagged as :cloudsourcing, delivery, SaaS, SaaS Training

The Secrets of SaaS Training: Design

SaaS applications are different in the way they are purchased, consumed and supported, but at the end of the day, they are just tools people use to get things done. There is nothing fundamentally radical or even new about the purchase, consumption, or support models, but taken together, ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 22 Apr 10
   tagged as :cloudsourcing, design, SaaS, SaaS Training

Seven Tips for Bringing the Rapid Back to Rapid eLearning

My colleague Jon continues to tally up the hits for his tell-it-like-it-is blog post There’s Nothing Rapid About Rapid eLearning. While he does a great job laying out the realities and timelines of “rapid” eLearning development, I thought a follow-up offering some tips and tricks for rediscovering the ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 17 Feb 10
   tagged as :eLearning, eLearning development, Rapid eLearning

Why are Talent, Performance & Learning dominating the cloud??

Kevin Dobbs at Montclair Advisors recently posted some interesting data on how much investment it takes to build a Software-as-a-Service company. http://montclairadvisors.com/blog/2010/01/how-much-investment-does-it-take-to-start-a-saas-co/ While the data is interesting, there was something else here that really caught my attention: 7 of these 15 companies are in Talent Management, Performance Management, Human Capital ... Read More

~ posted by John Hathaway on 31 Jan 10
   

Chatter Will Change the Way We Work & the Way We Train

Just watched the webcast of Benioff’s Dreamforce keynote announcing Chatter, and think it will be a game changer: the barriers to entry for Enterprise 2.0 have just been blown away. What is Chatter Simply put, Chatter is “Facebook” for the enterprise, offering real-time feeds, integration, and collaboration between content, apps, and people. ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 18 Nov 09
   tagged as :#df09, Chatter, Salesforce, social learning, social media

Day 2/Take 2: Key Takeaways from the Rest of Learning 2009 Conference AND More Twitter Newbie Revelations

For me, day 1 of Learning 2009 primarily focused on great ideas, and day 2 focused on great examples of real training solutions. Day 2 kicked off with an inspiring interview with Captain Chelsey B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, he of successfully-made-emergency-landing-on-the-Hudson-river fame;  and moved from there into sessions on ... Read More

~ posted by Beth Chmielowski on 12 Nov 09
   tagged as :#L2009, Learning 2009