10 apps to increase your HR work productivity
Editor’s note: A two-part article including useful tools for working on secure documents whilst outside the firewall.
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Microsoft plays up new Office collaboration tools to boost Windows 8
Editor’s note: Microsoft hopes that collaboration tools built into Office 2013 will give enterprise customers reason to also adopt Windows 8.
Demand Media acquires CreativeBug in e-learning push
Editor’s note: Interesting to see the types of companies moving into the elearning space. Demand Media was built on content marketing, for example.
If engagement is left as a purely HR initiative, it will remain on the sidelines
Editor’s note: A look at who should be responsible for employee engagement in the organisation.
HR Tech Europe: Is HR sitting on a big data gold mine?
Live blog notes from Matthew Hanwell’s presentation to the HR Tech Europe spring conference, London.…
Slidedeck of the week: Cognition, decision, behaviour
This presentation on decision making was delivered by Dr Adrian Banks, a senior lecturer in…
#LSCon – Learning Solutions 2013 Conference backchannel: curated resources
Editor’s note: Missed the Learning Solutions 2013 Conference? Well catch up here courtesy of Dave Kelly’s curated conference resources.
Enterprise Community Management: “joining up” learning and working
Editor’s note: Jane Hart explores how enterprise community management can help bring learning and work together.
Wiley launches digital classroom, video and ebook e-learning site
Editor’s note: The educational and professional publisher is reinventing itself with the launch of DigitalClassroom.com, a new, subscription-based e-learning website.
Supressing the brain’s thought ‘filter’ can allow for more creativity
Editor’s note: Researchers show that inhibiting the prefrontal cortex – the brain’s thought ‘filter’ can lead to more creativity.
Brit training budgets battered
Editor’s note: Survey of 750 L&D professionals shows concern over budgets but pay remains stable.
#PunkHR – it’s about companions not compactions. The uncompany part 1
Editor’s note: Perry Timms on the power of the network and how networks help us find our ‘companions’ versus being ‘forced’ to work with others in the more traditional sense of the workplace.
Mozilla launches Open Badges 1.0, a new standard to recognize and verify online learning and education
Editor’s note: Mozilla launches its Open Badges project to help learners and organisations earn and give badges.
How WordPress thrives with a 100% remote workforce
Editor’s note: learning points from the Wordpress experience of being a 100% distributed workforce.
How emotional connections can trigger creativity and learning
Editor’s note: How connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses impact learning.