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Secrets of singing revealed by e-book

All football or rugby supporters appear to have strong views on who should ‘manage’ and who should ‘captain’ their team. Evidence, over time, from these sporting worlds suggests that very few ‘great players’ go on to make ‘great managers’. Instead, most of the successful managers weren’t outstanding players. The good player, or performer, needs [...]

By | December 22nd, 2011|Categories: Lifestyle, Sport and Leisure|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Secrets of singing revealed by e-book

All football or rugby supporters appear to have strong views on who should ‘manage’ and who should ‘captain’ their team. Evidence, over time, from these sporting worlds suggests that very few ‘great players’ go on to make ‘great managers’. Instead, most of the successful managers weren’t outstanding players. The good player, or performer, needs [...]

By | December 22nd, 2011|Categories: Lifestyle, Sport and Leisure|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Attack on a glass ceiling wins Brandon Hall Bronze Award

goFLUENT has won a Brandon Hall Bronze Award in the ‘Best Use of Blended Learning’ category. Christophe Ferrandou, CEO of the goFLUENT group believes that prestigious awards like these are rarely given to European training providers - and even more so to those in the field of English language training. Receiving this award [...]

By | December 21st, 2011|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

Big brands buy e-learning

A number of well-known organisations have become customers of Omniplex, the e-learning solutions provider which distributes corporate e-learning products in Europe and the Americas. As part of its portfolio of e-learning solutions, Omniplex distributes products from the Canada-based Blatant Media Corporation - notably the Absorb Learning Management System (LMS) - along with the [...]

By | December 20th, 2011|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

The Omniplex phenomenon

Omniplex, the e-learning solutions provider which distributes corporate e-learning products in Europe and the Americas, has announced growth – in revenue terms - from July 2010 to the end of June 2011 of some 38 per cent compared with the previous year’s turnover. That year’s turnover (in 2009/10) had represented a rise of [...]

There’s always someone worse off than you

The next time you damage your car and are tempted to complain about the cost of its repair, spare a thought for members of a luxury sports car club in Japan.   Sky News reported recently that one of the club’s outings ended in one of the most expensive pile-ups in history. Eight Ferraris, three [...]

By | December 14th, 2011|Categories: Lifestyle, Miscellaneous|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Next generation learning content production and management insights

eXact learning solutions is making available - on request - a recording of its recent webinar, which attracted over 100 attendees/ participants. The 45-minute webinar focused on today’s issues in learning content production and the management lifecycle in large organisations. It also presented successful cases of LCMS implementation in large organisations.   The webinar showcased [...]

LMS gamekeeper turns poacher

News has emerged from the e-learning solutions provider and distributor, Omniplex, that Blatant Media Corporation, whose products Omniplex distributes, has appointed Richard Nantel, the former CEO of Brandon Hall Group, to be its Vice President, Enterprise Learning Solutions. Nantel is now responsible for the growth and development of enterprise client opportunities and strategic partnerships for [...]

Early doors

The once well-known Video Arts – originally a maker of training videos under the direction of ‘greats’ from the entertainment world including Sir Antony Jay and John Cleese and now a supplier of video, e-learning and m-learning courses – has produced an online Advent Calendar.   The Video Arts Advent Calendar (http://www.videoarts.com/2011/adventcalendar/) offers small clips [...]

By | December 1st, 2011|Categories: Business, Learning Technologies|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Suddenly, it’s 1999

It seems that, in the wake of George Osborne’s Autumn Statement on the UK economy, it’s not just our standards of living that are about to take a giant step back to the turn of the century.   The next eLearning Network meeting – scheduled to take place on 9th December – has the title [...]

By | November 30th, 2011|Categories: Learning Technologies|Tags: , |0 Comments