LMS CommunitySpace Your independent Learning Management System User Community

Learning Solutions in an All-Communicating Mobile World

Paul Landers, Ericsson: 10:30 am

Actively involved in learning services, now how does that get impacted by the proliferation of mobile devices?

all about us

Ericsson - communications is a basic human need. Some handset business (Sony/Ericsson - E owns 51% of Sony/Ericsson), mainly network business. Business units: Handsets, Networks, Mulitmedia, Global Services

Mobile communications today: 3 billion mobile subscriptions, 1 billion handsets sold per year, 1 billion Internet users, 280 million broadband connections
2007: $13.5 billion on digital music, send 1.9 billion video messages, receive 2.6 billion on-demand videos.

8:30 am - Don Fowler

Don talks about talent management as an investment in employees. This conference represents an investment in doing what's needed to maintain knowledge and skills as the world and workforce changes. Talks about future talent challenges due to demographic changes. "SumTotal will be by your side" in this change. Handheld training. Online simulations. Investing in technology for talent management add-ons. 'Expand reach in your organization'...

Committed to 'best of breed' strategy. Not abandoning learning for talent managment. Not abandoning perpetual licenses.

8:42 am - Bill Perry

I've added a new SumTotal Systems news feed, in addition to the feed from ToolBook.org, namely the Yahoo! Financial news feed. While over there checking a few stock prices (including SUMT), I noticed they have RSS feeds by ticker, and I picked up their feed for SUMT. It appears to have more than what comes over from ToolBook.org, but whether we need both or not may take some time to decide.

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Joe Kyle
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The new 4.7.0 version of Drupal was released yesterday. From reports, the new version has improved performance, and a number of new structures/features that are fairly desireable. I will be working on testing and eventually a site upgrade as time permits.

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Joe Kyle
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I have added a preliminary profile page that allows you to share information about your current LMS platform, operating environment and any additional information about your organization. Take a look at 'my account' and select 'edit', then look across the tabs and click on 'My LMS System Platform'.

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Joe Kyle
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As you probably know if you are reading this, I put out the public announcement for this new LMS CommunitySpace site today just short of 2 PM or so CDT. About two hours later, there are a fair number of member sign ups already, and several folks have gone out of their way to comment positively on the site so far.

Thanks to all for the encouragement!

There's much work yet to be done. I'd like to get more help files up, and more instructions added to the various content creation page headers, to make it less confusing for members to add their own content here. That's a goal for next week, I think.

Ok, I've got the linkage from docent_users to the local forum area working for incoming messages. I think we will keep it one-way for the moment.

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Joe Kyle
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The start for the core taxonomy of the site is now online, along with the basic Forum sections. This will evolve as the needs of the community change.

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Joe Kyle
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