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The Best Interactive Techniques that Make eLearning Stick

June 11, 2013

All the education experts I’ve spoken to universally agree that interactivity is key to successful eLearning. But interactivity is such a broad term. So many things can be construed as “interactive,” yet each method has a different degree of effectiveness. At the ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 conference in San Jose, I asked attendees, “What kind of [...]

How to Extend the Life of Really Popular Content

June 5, 2013

Creating content takes a ton of work and effort. Wouldn’t it be great if you could extend the life of your content? How can you stretch it out so that one effort can be multiple units of content rather than just a single unit of content? This was exactly the discussion I had with Josh [...]

Inject Some Zappos-Like Fun into Your Corporate Videos

May 31, 2013

Zappos has an extremely strong company culture. Much of that culture is expressed by the employees to the outside world through a series of very funny and silly videos. Those videos help reinforce the company’s overall brand and its employment brand. Since Zappos has such a strong brand, customers are eager to see what’s happening [...]

Strategies for Managing Employee Communications in a Social World

May 29, 2013

Microsoft’s goal for employee communications is to instill a combination of company pride, confidence, and advocacy, said John Cirone, Director of Employee Communications at Microsoft in his presentation “Strategies for Managing Employee Communications in a Social World” at Ragan’s 6th Annual Social Media for PR and Corporate Communications Conference at the Walt Disney World Resort. [...]

With Video, Employees in Remote Locations Get More Face Time with Executives

May 23, 2013

“Employees are your ambassadors. They’re the ones interacting with your customers. You have to get those customer insights quicker up to leadership and make strategic decisions. The whole cycle of aligning your business objectives to your customers’ wants and needs – that cycle is increasing. So what we’re seeing is we can use video as [...]