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Association LMS Interview – Peach New Media

by Jeff Cobb on January 14, 2010

Johnson-Cook-Peach-COOIn this latest installment of interviews with learning management system (LMS) providers, I speak with Johnson Cook, Chief Operating Officer of Peach New Media, makers of the Freestone platform.

One of the things that sparked my interest in Peach back when I was working on the Association Learning Management Systems report is that the company seemed to be really focused on building out more traditional learning management capabilities around the Webinar and event content approaches that are such a mainstay of association online education. They also emphasize a “community” approach to learning – something we touch on in our conversation.

Aside from community, Johnson also stresses – as have other interviewees – the importance of good planning and marketing to e-learning success and offers a number of case studies and tips that I think listeners will find useful.

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Enjoy, and as always, please let me know if there is anything I could do that might make these interview more useful to you. (And if you want to be sure to know as soon as the next one becomes available, I encourage you to subscribe by RSS or by e-mail.)

Jeff

P.S. – You can easily access all of the interviews at: http://www.tagoras.com/tag/association-lms

Association LMS Interview – Digitec Interactive

by Jeff Cobb on January 6, 2010

Jack-McGrath-DigitecThis is the third in a series of interviews I am conducting with companies that participated in the Tagoras Association Learning Management Systems report. In this one, I speak with Jack McGrath, President of Digitec Interactive, the company behind the KnowledgeDirect LMS.

As I’ve noted before, these interviews are not intended to be sales pitches. I give each guest the opportunity to talk about his company’s value proposition – I think it is useful to hear this “straight from the horses mouth” – but then we move on to topics that should of interest even to listeners who may not be looking for e-learning products and services.

In this case, Jack highlights the importance of understanding business drivers when implementing association e-learning initiatives and stresses the role of valid use cases as opposed to feature laundry lists when selecting technology.  That’s just the tip of the iceberg – there are also good thoughts in here about social media and where e-learning is headed.

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Enjoy the interview and please let me know if there is anything I could do that might make them more useful to you. (And if you want to be sure to know as soon as the next one becomes available, I encourage you to subscribe by RSS or by e-mail.)

Jeff

Association LMS Interview – CourseStage from Web CourseWorks

November 24, 2009

This is the first of a series of interviews I plan to conduct with representatives of companies that participated in the Tagoras Association Learning Management Systems report. The purpose of the series is give associations interested in implementing a LMS the opportunity to familiarize themselves more fully with a variety of possible providers.
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LMS Interest Increases – Comments from WBT Systems

August 19, 2009

I spoke with Brendan Noud from WBT Systems, makers of the TopClass learning management system (LMS) about WBT’s decision to exhibit at the ASAE annual meeting. A key factor was the increased interest in learning management systems that WBT is seeing in the association market.
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LMS-AMS Integration – Comments from LearnSomething

August 17, 2009

As part of my ongoing series of interviews at the ASAE annual conference, I talked with Mark Lambertson of LearnSomething/Isoph about integration between association management systems (AMS) and learning management systems (LMS). The clip is about two and a half minutes long. If you do not see the audio player below, click through to the [...]

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Mobile Learning – Comments from Results Direct

August 17, 2009

In this next installment of brief interviews from the ASAE annual conference, I talk with Russ Magnuson, CEO of Results Direct. Russ’s company provides the technology for the ASAE Annual Meeting hub – a great tool for informal learning at the conference – and is also behind ASAE’s “vignette” e-learning series. In this conversation, which [...]

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Social Learning – Comments from iCohere

August 16, 2009

During my time at the ASAE Annual conference I am catching up with as many people as I can in the world of association e-learning and professional development and capturing a brief sound clip from each. In this one, we hear from iCohere founder Pascal Kaplan, an avid proponent of social learning principles and learning [...]

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