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If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a hundred times. During times of recession, achieving and/or maintaining a competitive edge is essential. An economic downturn signals a cut-throat job […]

One challenge of using Twitter is acquiring “followers” who add you to read your tweets. Within a classroom or school that uses an LMS, or a company training program or […]

Twitter may turn out to be somewhat limited in what it has to offer company and classroom learning systems. At its best it still feels a highly-caffeinated, jumbled version of […]

By selling the sponsorship of an “ExecTweets” site to Microsoft on Monday, Twitter announced its entry to corporate marketing and learning systems.  ExecTweets is a page that compiles tweets posted […]

As Twitter celebrates its three-year anniversary, its new deals with giant companies like Salesforce and BusinessWeek seem to hint at a sparkling future. And thanks to a new sponsorship agreement […]

The incorporation of Twitter into corporate learning systems hasn’t happened exclusively in media companies like BusinessWeek. Salesforce has recently constructed a CRM application for Twitter. The purpose of the Twitter-response […]

Even with its recent “facelift,” Facebook will need to keep a watchful eye on microblogging sites like Twitter in the race for attention in the business world, and inclusion in […]

But Socialtext Signals isn’t alone in its Twitter-like functionality for company learning systems, geographically dispersed teamwork, and marketing purposes. “There’s a lot of standalone Twitter clones out there,” says Ross […]

There are a number of microblog vendors who have tried to bring the Twitter-like experience into company learning systems. The public affairs firm Davies uses Enterprise 2.0 vendor Socialtext, a […]

  More and more companies use Twitter–the short messaging service that allows real-time discussions–for  marketing and customer service purposes. But examples of bringing microblogging technology into organization learning systems and […]

The National Center for Health Statistics reports that the prevalence of obesity in adult Americans is 32.2%, while the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry reports between 16-33% of […]

What kinds of tasks can an LMS student or office worker perform while walking on a treadmill desk? Students can read and complete assignments, access their online courseware or LMS, […]

Since Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic came up with the idea of a “treadmill desk,” there are now several types on the market. The goal is to integrate […]

A simple way to encourage exercise in your organization’s learning system or training program is to use energizers to get participants going. These may include breaks, question and answer sessions, […]

“Life is movement,” Aristotle said. Like Dr. John J. Ratey’s book which explores the connection between exercise and the brain, in John Medida’s book Brain Rules, he asserts that exercise […]

Getting the heart pumping isn’t only important for the age bracket of school learning systems. Aerobic exercise–which should involve sweat and a nicely accelerated heartbeat–causes a rush of the neurotransmitter […]

Medical College of Georgia (MCG) researchers say that less than an hour of daily exercise reduces depressive symptoms and improves self-esteem in overweight children. The study included 207 overweight, typically […]

Dr. John J. Ratey will be in Richmond, Virginia this month to talk about his book, “Spark–The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain,” and the link it makes […]

Plato said it well: “The body is the source of all energy and initiative.” In our LMS and classroom learning systems, how can we justify a strong emphasis on active, healthy […]

TeacherTube also features fun activities such as classroom makeover contests. While browsing TeacherTube in September 2007, first-grade teacher Richard Colosi read about such a contest celebrating the use of technology […]