A preliminary “State of the Industry” report from Training Magazine and Bersin & Associates breaks down some of the expected and unexpected trends of 2008. With a waning economy, cost cutting is occurring within Training and Development throughout all organization types and sizes, including a certain amount of reduction in staff. As expected, need-to-have L&D; [...]
Working the Web 2.0 to Learning 2.0 Angle
As anyone scanning our blog has noticed, there is a bit of a frenzy of Web 2.0 exploration going on at Allen and in the e-learning community at large. I got back last week from Gartner’s “Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2008” and wanted to share some first impressions that don’t really relate to the [...]
Training and eLearning in a Recession
From the start of 2008, the “Big R” has been tossed about liberally by the media. The favorite wording tends to be “Looming Recession.” Are we headed for, or are we in a recession? Depends on which publication and which economists are talking – not to mention which day of the week. In fact, just [...]
Allen Communication Learning Portal Profiled in Brandon Hall Report
SALT LAKE CITY (Jan. 14, 2005) — Allen Communication Learning Services, a nationally recognized custom e-learning development firm, announced today that its learning management portal solution appears in “Low-Cost Learning Management Systems: 17 Products for Limited Budgets” and LMS KnowledgeBase 2005 by brandon-hall.com. With no per-user licensing fees, Allen Communication Learning Portal empowers organizations to [...]
