I talk a fair amount about creating and marketing digital products here on Hedgehog & Fox. I don’t do this purely from a theoretical or consultative perspective: digital products in the form of research reports are actually an important part of my own business over at Tagoras. So, I am happy to announce the publication […]
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LMS Selection Resource
My sense from numerous conversations at conferences like the recent ASAE e-learning conference is that the process of identifying and selecting a learning management system (LMS) remains shrouded in mystery for potential licensees. Tony Karrer has been addressing LMS selection on his blog for some time and recently capped off a number of postings that […]
I’M IN UR LMS
I came across this funny and instructive little Flash movie on Cathy Moore’s Making change: Ideas for lively elearning blog this morning (a great site for anyone even remotely interested in online learning to visit) and once again could not resist a Friday posting. For Mac users, it’s worth noting that this was created using […]
A Modest Proposal: Kill the RFP, Part II
In this posting I continue the musings on the efficacy of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) that I began in “A Modest Proposal: Kill the RFP, Part I” I rarely see an RFP in which an organization has truly, in a disciplined, measurable fashion, mapped objectives for an online learning technology initiative back to overall strategic […]
A Modest Proposal: Kill the RFP, Part I
[Note: This is a two part series. I wrote it back when I was a learning technology vendor on the receiving end of many RFPs. I am no longer a vendor, and only in very rare instances will I agree to respond to RFPs.] I’ve recently been reading Exceptional Selling: How the Best Connect and […]