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Trendlines Deals RESEARCH IN MOTION and Chalk Media Corp. announced an arrangement agreement for RIM to acquire Chalk, a publicly-held company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, in an all-cash transaction. Chalk, a member of the BlackBerry ISV Alliance Program, is the developer of Mobile chalkboard, an award-winning application suite that enables the rapid creation and secure, tracked deployment of mediarich “Pushcasts” to BlackBerry smartphones. DYKNOW is partnering with CDW Government, a leading source of IT solutions to educators and governments. Together, DyKnow and CDW-G will provide dynamic teaching and learning solutions for K-12 and higher education institutions. Under the agreement, CDW-G will resell the DyKnow Software Suite, which includes DyKnow Vision interactive education software and DyKnow Monitor classroom management software. OUTSTART LCMS (learning content management system) software is being implemented as part of a global project to help Canada’s Air Force transform its training operations. The project, called AFIILE (Air Force Integrated Information and Learning Environment), is led by prime contractor CAE and enlists OutStart, xwave, and other companies to help Canada’s Air Force build a military training environment that will meet current and future requirements. CITRIX SYSTEMS relies on SumTotal’s learning management platform, TotalLMS, to more effectively share information across the organization, increase employee productivity, and ultimately derive the most value from its talent base. Citrix chose SumTotal TotalLMS for its proven ability to scale for global organizations, language support, easy to navigate UI and administration, and support. SKILLSOFT PLC will market and distribute e-learning courseware authored by Sun Microsystems for Sun’s latest Java and Solaris software solutions. The new agreement expands an existing partnership between the companies and offers SkillSoft clients additional resources for the training, development and certification of their IT organizations. SWEDEN’S MARRATECH AB is recommending that existing customers migrate to Elluminate solutions. Since the acquisition of Marratech’s Web conferencing software by Google in April 2007, Marratech and its European distributor have extensively evaluated alternative collaboration and live e-learning solutions. Marratech ultimately chose to partner with Elluminate based on product excellence, support, training, and virtual learning environment (VLE)/learning management system (LMS) integration capabilities. 16 February/March 2009 Elearning! http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/enews.php http://www.elearning.b2bmediaco.com/enews.php

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Elearning - February/March 2009 Contents Editor’s Note News Social Networking Popular Learning Needs Technology On Competency Management IT Employment Drops Trendlines Deals Learning Roles in Talent Management Informal E-Learning and Web 2.0 Cover Story: Learning Your Way to Profits Collaboration Trends, Strategies 12 Wishes for LMSs, LCMSs Tips: Recession-Proofing Your Job Case Study: Military Training Case Study: City of Arlington, Va. New Products Pop Quiz Last Word

Elearning - February/March 2009

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