It’s that time of year to vote for the best-in-class learning management systems (LMS). We are asking for your vote. In its 7th year, the Best of Elearning! Awards are the exclusive reader’s choice awards program for e-learning products and services. No short lists of products. All, 100% of the nominations, are reader nominated and selected. Readers and users of e-learning solutions nominate and vote for solutions across 26 different categories. TOPYX social LMS has been honored with Best of Elearning! awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011.  Help TOPYX be recognized again in 2012! Please cast your vote at: http://www.b2bmediaco.com/fileadmin/php/ballot.php The most relevant categories where we would appreciate your vote are: 1.Best Learning Management System (SaaS, Cloud-based, or open-source only) 16. Best Social Learning … Continue Reading »

The infographic above and the article below are from our friends at onlinecolleges.net.  As always, if you are interested in meteoric growth in social learning, you may want to review our social learning management system (LMS) TOPYX to see how you can start using the latest tools to increase collaboration and help you reach your learning management goals. We hope you enjoy the infographic and these tips and resources to get more out of LinkedIn: Tips Whether you’re a LinkedIn newbie or just need to become more effective on the site, these tips offer great ideas for LinkedIn networking as a new grad. Use it: Too often, students and recent grads shy away from LinkedIn, preferring to use Facebook or Twitter … Continue Reading »

Student engagement and how to make your social media “learning” environment secure in academia We are often asked what benefits social media “learning” brings to an academic environment?  Where are the boundaries between learning and distraction?  If students are using social media to post photos and chat with friends, is this really learning or just another social distraction from academic studies? Many Professors might be sceptical about ‘encouraging’  their students to further engage in social media, seeing it as purely a distraction from their studies. Social media in its traditional sense might be just that ‘social’: it allows people to connect and chat together.  As seen in How the Social Network is Enriching the College Experience infographic below, there is a … Continue Reading »

It sounds like an oxymoron a “lost smartphone” how can that happen?  But wait until you read the statistics supplied by our friends at Background Check (http://www.backgroundcheck.org).  Each day $7 million worth of phones are lost around the globe and two-thirds of those are lost between 9PM and 2AM, hmmm!! Read on and shake your head and if you are one of those who have lost your phone the rest of us really do feel your pain.  We have all become so dependent on technology; it is so very helpful (most of it) for our everyday lives. We have become a society with access to an incomprehensible amount a data right at our figure tips, as long as we keep or hands … Continue Reading »

Social media has made me better at my job. Through networks I’ve built online, I’ve developed new relationships, learned new skills and built a group of people who are always available to provide feedback and resources. With a global economy and tough competition in every sector, corporations struggle to do more with less – and social networks are an opportunity to unlock learning at an infinite scale. When I work with businesses to assist them in developing learning and development programs, I am shocked to discover how many organizations are stuck in an old-fashioned mindset. They’re focused not on building networks to share information but instead are concerned about losing productivity and controlling the message when employees communicate with each … Continue Reading »

We are frequently hearing in the news about public sector jobs being cut and budgets being slashed. Managers are being forced to look at ways in which they can adhere to these budget cuts.  Instead of looking at cutting jobs and losing vital skills within your organization, surely there can be other ways to meet budgets. Not only do people suffer from job cuts, but also the economy suffers because of the effect on higher unemployment.  Everyone knows this so why are we still being bombarded with news about job cuts in large corporations and public sector? Here is a checklist to make sure you are cutting waste, not jobs. 1.       How many of your staff travel in person to meetings? 2.       Of these … Continue Reading »

Did you know email was first introduced at MIT in 1965? Most of us don’t even think of email as “special” anymore; as a matter of fact most us use even faster ways to communicate with each through our business day or our personal lives. Social Times and our friends at Constant Contact put together this interesting infographic about email marketing: A few surprising statistics about email marketing today: 83% of people check email first on a business day 72% check 6 or more times per day 88% of people surveyed check their email via a mobile device So is email marketing still relevant?  Just because you check your email numerous times a day are you looking at “marketing” or deleting … Continue Reading »