May 11 NewsletterKINEO NEWSLETTER Contents this month: 1. Kineo Free Guide: Making great brand-led e-learning
May’s flying away -- it’s nearly summer. Time to relax. By relax, we mean of course…
Let’s hope we can fit in the relaxation techniques class. Next year, promise. Hope to see you out on the road or in a virtual session very soon… Stephen
** DATES for your diary** ASTD 2011: May 23-25th, Orlando, FL. See us at booth 608. Conference on ICT for development, education and training: May 25th-27th, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. See us at stand C9. Learning and Skills Group Webinar with the Co-operative group: May 26th 230pm-330pm Take control of your email - Webinar with Kineo and Emailogic: May 26th [1000am-1130am] Totara Webinar: 31st May, 2pm UK, 2pm NZ, 3pm CST
Join the discussion and start your own: Elearning Professional Group on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=3724233 --------------------------------------------------- 1. Kineo Free Guide: Making great brand-led e-learning We work with advertising agencies. They talk about the brand experience. It made us ask – how branded is e-learning? Beyond a logo, does it convey a brand experience? Great e-learning is more than instructional design – it’s brand-driven. Find out how you can learn from the Ad men (sometimes Mad Men) to give your e-learning a personality that learners will want to have a relationship with (in a good, uncreepy way, of course). Get our free Kineo guide to Brand-led learning
We’re packing our bags and getting ready to hit Orlando, Florida next week for the ASTD International Conference & Expo. It’s going to be a great show, and we’re looking forward to seeing many of you there. We’ll be presenting some of our latest work, and showcasing mobile learning and Totara innovations. Here’s a full rundown of what to expect Want to catch up at the show? Let’s fix a time. Email us at info@kineo.com 3. Market insights: six learning trends for summer One of the things we love doing at shows like ASTD is catching up with people on new trends. A few months ago we asked people in our global LinkedIn e-learning professionals group what trends they were seeing in the e-learning market. Ask a big question, get a big answer…
4. Case study in action: join a free webinar with the Co-operative Last month we shared our experiences with The Co-operative in partnering to create a Moodle based online portal as a focus for leadership development. Many of you wanted to find out more. No problem. We’ve arranged webinar in collaboration with our friends at the Learning and Skills Group to walk through the case study in more detail - and we’re delighted to announce that Vincent O’Donovan, Head of Group Training and Development at The Co-operative will join the session to share his experiences as the client.The webinar is on May 26th at 2.30 UK time. Email info@kineo.com to join up. It’s free to join, but places are limited.
If you’ve ever worked on an e-learning project and felt you were doing four different things at once, there’s a reason. It’s because you are. It’s the e-learning pie. Confused? Grab a fork and bite down on Cammy Bean’s latest top tip… 6. Mobile e-learning for managers: free to download now Astute readers will have noticed mentions of mobile learning, and managers in previous items. Now it’s time for the obvious link up…Kineo in partnership with Good Practice are launching their new mobile e-learning service for managers in the US at ASTD 2011. We know managers are at the heart of every high performing operation – and among its busiest. Giving managers access to great learning and support on demand is vital. That’s what our new free mobile learning service aims to do. It’s available now in all popular formats, including an iPhone app. Find out more and get a link to the free app from iTunes. 7. Totara LMS: Come and see it, partners welcome… We’ve been thrilled with the response to Totara so far, with more and more companies turning to Totara, and more partners coming on board. Coming new to the party? Totara is a new kind of LMS for business. It’s built in collaboration between Kineo, Catalyst and Flexible Learning (now Kineo Pacific). It’s a custom distribution of Moodle, the world’s leading open source LMS, so you know it’s built on a great foundation. With enterprise features including individual development plans, competencies, team management, classroom management and dashboard reporting, Totara is designed specifically to meet the needs of corporates. Totara is fully open source and available on an annual subscription basis for support, updates and patches. Find out more about Totara Join the LMS revolution by taking the next step with Totara:
8. Kineo news: Out and about in May/June
We love to get out and meet you. But even by our standards this is a record: we’re speaking at events on three continents next week. If you’re in Antarctica, maybe we can catch you next month.
ASTD 2011 May 23-25th Orlando - see you there Staying with the US, we’re really looking forward to the ASTD International Conference and Exhibition from May 23-25th in Orlando, Florida. It looks to be a great show, and we’re running some sessions on e-learning and Totara case studies on Booth 608. Find out more about our plans and let’s make a date. Email info@kineo.com to catch up. Conference on ICT for development, education and training: May 25-27th, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania We’ll be exhibiting at the 6th International Conference on ICT for development, education and training at the Mlimani City Conference Centre in Dar es Salaam. Elearning Africa is the largest gathering of eLearning and ICT supported education and training professionals in Africa and we’re delighted to be part of this event. Come and see us Come visit Kineo at stand C9 or email us at info@kineo.com to arrange a time to meet. To find out more about the conference go to http://www.elearning-africa.com/ LSG Webinar May 26th with The Co-operative group: May 26th, 230pm-330pm Emailogic Webinar: May 26th, 10am-1130am Come along to our free joint webinar, where we’ll showcase the e-learning and give you some tips to show your email who’s boss: http://www.emailogic.com/kineo.asp BILD conference: June 9th, at the Open University, Milton Keynes
We’re continuing to grow our team in the UK and the US and some positions in New Zealand. We’re looking for passionate, creative, enthusiastic people to join us as:
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