No - this headline does not refer to The Learning Awards, a glittering evening held to honour the great and good of the learning world which was held at the Dorchester Hotel in London last night. A study from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business has revealed that we are more addicted to [...]
North America’s premier mobile learning conference and expo - mLearnCon 2012 – is due to be held in San Jose, California, from 19th to 21st June this year. The event focuses on the management, design, delivery, and practical use of mobile technologies for learning in corporate, government, military, academic, and other settings. And already – [...]
Among the various journalist requests for information and quotes which I receive on a regular basis has come one from Adam Bannister, who wanted a short quote to go with a BusinessesForSale.com survey of retail buyers. He wanted a response to the following statement and question: ‘Our survey revealed that one in four people considering [...]
Yehuda Baruch, a professor at Rouen Business School in France, says that addiction to work (workaholism) could benefit individuals, business and society. In a recent academic paper he likens work addiction to a chocolate addiction and concludes that it can increase self-esteem and strengthen social interactions. In the article, published in Career Development International, [...]
Apparently, PR professionals make excellent CEOs. Rosanna M. Fiske, the chair and CEO of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) has leaped into a debate about whether being a PRO is a one-dimensional position that limits what one may be capable of doing in the business world. In a recent article, Ms Fiske commented: [...]
Results assessment specialist Ceres Management – which aims to enable clients to use the evidence of business results to make sound decisions about ongoing investments in people development - has launched a new approach to evaluation that: defines what business success looks like; aligns evaluation goals with business needs; focuses evaluation around clear [...]
The dawn of a New Year means that, once again, here – based on nothing more than experience and prejudice – are the lists of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector, in the World, Europe and the UK. And – increasing each year since these lists’ inception in 2010 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
