How to Use a Learning Management System to Support Your Workplace Culture
Nilofer Merchant wrote a blog post for Harvard Business Review last year titled “Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time.” It contains a fantastic definition of organizational culture that I would have...
View ArticleWelcome to the New Absorb LMS Customers We Can’t Name (and Those Below That...
As is typical, a number of our new clients have asked that we not announce them publicly on this Blog and on our Web site’s client list. These customers include: Departments in large organizations that...
View ArticleVIDEO: Overview of the New Mobile Learning-Friendly Absorb LMS Shopping Cart
We’ve just this month launched the new HTML 5 version of Absorb LMS, code named `Ninja.’ You can now use Absorb LMS to support all learning initiatives including mobile learning implementations where...
View ArticleHow Mobile Devices are Influencing User Interface Design
“Dear Doctor, I’m concerned about Stanley. He has developed an unusual growth between his left thumb and index finger. The growth is the size of an average hardcover book, yet thinner. One side is...
View ArticleIntroducing the Absorb LMS YouTube Channel: No Funny Cat Videos but Pretty...
We launched our official Absorb LMS YouTube channel this week. So far, it contains about a dozen short videos. We’ll be adding more regularly. Help us get more views than PSY’s Gangnam Style by...
View ArticleAbsorb LMS: Zero to Mobile Learning in as Little as Four Weeks
Year after year after year, organizations report that they are in the `planning phase’ of providing mobile learning to their workforce. Spinning wheels without getting anywhere in a persistent planning...
View ArticleFebruary 20: Absorb LMS Tips and Tricks
REMINDER: Join Absorb LMS team members for a fast-paced presentation of their favorite Absorb LMS tips and tricks. Whether you’re an Absorb LMS customer, use a different learning management system, or...
View ArticleVideo: Increase Learner Engagement with the Absorb LMS Mercury Module
We’ve just published a new video to our Absorb LMS YouTube channel that provides an overview of the new `Mercury‘ module. The Mercury module is a special add-on to Absorb LMS that contains features...
View ArticleKey Differentiators of Absorb LMS and blatant^
No one really knows how many learning management systems currently exist. Some research firms and analysts place the number as high as 500 and includes commercial systems, open source applications, and...
View ArticleBlatant^ Named a 2013 Bersin & Associates WhatWorks® Award Winner for...
CALGARY, ALBERTA– (Mar 28th, 2013) – Bersin by Deloitte, a leading provider of research-based membership programs in human resources (HR), talent and learning, have announced that Blatant Media...
View ArticleMore than 100 Blatant^ Clients Now Using Mobile eLearning Version of Absorb LMS
January 15, 2013 was a big day at blatant^. That was the date that our first customer, a major global manufacturer and retailer, went live with the new HTML-5, iPad- and iPhone-friendly version of...
View ArticleThe Most Important Learning Management System Features to Support...
In many organizations, workplace learning consists of getting people into a room to listen to an instructor. If the workforce is distributed, the room used may be virtual instead of physical, and the...
View ArticleTurbo Charge Scheduled Events in Your Learning Management System by Using Tags
Instructor-led sessions, either in physical or virtual classrooms, play a big part of many organizations’ learning strategies. To support such initiatives, the best learning management systems (LMS)...
View ArticleTry This `Winning Strategy’ to Increase Learner Engagement
There are two ways to get a young child to school on time in the morning: Method 1: Every minute or so, repeat the words `HURRY UP!’ at increasing levels of volume. After about ten minutes, and upon...
View ArticleAbsorb LMS Selected as “Top 20 Learning Portal Company” for 2013
Blatant Media, creators of the Absorb LMS (Learning Management System), has been selected as a “2013 Top 20 Learning Portal Company” by TrainingIndustry.com for the fourth year in row. Blatant Media is...
View ArticleHow Branding Your Learning Management System Can Influence Culture (and...
The best companies I’ve worked with have had great workplace cultures. Management in these companies understand that happy team members are more productive and less likely to jump ship the next time...
View ArticleThe One Simple Tool You Can Use to Help Select the Right Learning Management...
Dear readers, you’ve in the past endured me ranting about the horribly-designed Requests for Proposals (RFP) that regularly cross my desk and the desks of my Blatant^ colleagues. (See my previous...
View ArticleThe Powerful Amazon Feature You Should be Adopting in Your Learning...
It seems like just yesterday that business analysts were wondering whether this newfangled e-commerce fad would catch on. Would anxiety over credit card theft deter customers from trusting on-line...
View ArticleWebinar Recording: Absorb LMS Tips and Tricks
Thanks to everyone who attended our May 20th Webinar, Absorb LMS Tips and Tricks. We covered the following in this short, 30-minute session: Using Mercury Module Billboards for branding How Smart...
View ArticleJuly 9th Webinar Recording: Absorb LMS Tips and Tricks
Thanks to everyone who attended our July 9th Webinar, Absorb LMS Tips and Tricks. We covered the following in this short, 30-minute session: Creating Online Courses by Embedding Great Free Stuff...
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