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Learndot Officially Opens To The Public To Let Any Business Build Its Own Corporate University In The Cloud | TechCrunch

Learndot Officially Opens To The Public To Let Any Business Build Its Own Corporate University In The Cloud | TechCrunch | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

... In other words, Learndot is building a training and certification platform for businesses that enables anyone within an organization to build courses, certify customers, educate partners and get employees up to speed, from the cloud. Learndot launched its new platform in beta in November, and were quickly overwhelmed by the response, receiving hundreds of trial requests within the first few months.

 

The startup wasn’t ready for the response, Learndot founder Paul Roland Lambert tells us, and they had to turn people away, as it initially took the startup nearly a week to set up a single trial manually. Now, with customers like Get Satisfaction, Clio and Zirtual on board, Learndot is officially coming out of restricted beta and opening its platform to the public....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

This intriguing social media service can be scaled from small to large organizations aimed at learning, training and sharing.

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Schools struggle to put social media in business curriculum | CBC News

Schools struggle to put social media in business curriculum | CBC News | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Marketing experts and professors believe universities aren't working fast enough to include social media in their business curriculum.

 

Using Facebook and Twitter is one thing but being an expert in it is another, said one University of Windsor marketing professor.

 

'By the time you get a curriculum up, it's already passé.'— Vincent Georgie, marketing professor

 

Vincent Georgie said businesses are hungry for social media marketing graduates. However, schools are struggling to work it into their curriculum.

"It's definitely being worked in, it's just not being worked in fast enough," he said. "By and large, it's something that changes quickly. By the time you get a curriculum up, it's already passé."...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

it's not just business that's struggling to stay current with social media...

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