Entering the Mobile Zone

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Doug Stone

This is the story of one global Fortune 500 company that bravely went where few have gone before: the mobile zone. To date, MetaMedia Training International has supplied one major hotel chain with more than 900 handheld Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) devices to deliver... More »

Give Learning a Listen: Audio Podcasting and Learning

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Jonathan Halls

Your boss wants you to develop a learning solution to help supervisors deal with workplace conflict. But there's very little budget, and supervisors are based all around the world. The cost of flying them all in to your corporate headquarters for workshops is prohibitiv... More »

To Be Continued: Using Social Media for Training Conversations

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Daniel Bixby

Let's be honest. The days of giving a sheepish grin when someone asks if you're "on Facebook" are long gone. This is a new era, and social media is the new telephone. Like it or not, welcome to the age of cyber communities. Welcome, not merely to lounges or coffee shops... More »

The Rise of Social Media

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Laleh Patel

It is virtually impossible to ignore the potential of social media for any business operation. The main reason for the excitement is the fact that social media is engulfing the population at phenomenal rates. While it took radio and television 38 years and 13 years, res... More »

Disappearing Act: The Vanishing Corporate Classroom

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Pat Galagan

For most of the seven years that ASTD has been collecting data on the state of the training industry, the use of classrooms for delivery of training has been dropping steadily. Displacing brick and mortar classrooms are myriad web- and computer-based delivery vehicles, ... More »