Monthly Archives: February 2011

5 Ways to Help Trainees Retain Their Learning

The painful truth is that many of us associate online training or e-Learning with some degree of soul-crushing agony. Whether you’ve been the training designer faced with a cascade of e-Learning technical snafus and challenging project stakeholders, or the learner faced with rambling text-filled pages and lame/irrelevant quiz questions, the painful memories of a lousy training experience linger far longer and more intensely than the learning itself! So how can you design training that helps trainees really retain their learning – without all the therapy bills? Read more

Tech Evangelist Robert Scoble Interviews Mindflash CEO Donna Wells

In case you missed it: Video blogger Robert Scoble interviewed  Mindflash CEO Donna Wells recently about her vision for the company, plans for the year, and new features in the pipeline. Check it out! Here’s Scoble’s intro: One of the hotter companies to move to the Valley lately is MindFlash. … Read more

Mindflash Expands Platform For Online Training and Collaboration

New Features Simplify Knowledge Sharing, Employee Learning Palo Alto, Calif., February 23, 2011 – Mindflash.com, a leading cloud platform for online training and collaboration, today unveiled an expansion to its award-winning product offering. New features include the ability to connect to external training materials on the web, and increased services … Read more

Need to Motivate Your Trainees? It’s All About Recognition

Today my coworker Victoria hit a milestone in her caffeine consumption: she reached the Starbucks Gold Card level, signifying her purchase of 30 beverages using her Starbucks card. Then she freaked out. Why? Because she misread the fine print, and thought the program had changed so she wasn’t going to get … Read more

Don’t Want to Be a Training Dinosaur? 3 Ways to Embrace Learning 2.0

The workplace learning space tends to split into two camps. The first camp believes that learning hasn’t changed fundamentally, only the tools and technologies used to enable learning. The second camp believes that learning has completely changed and that we must embrace a new fast-paced, social, mobile, and learning 2.0 … Read more

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