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Wednesday, Nov 2, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT

Can a small or medium sized business really produce a high quality course with just an online tool? The answer is yes!  Join us as we discuss a real life case study on how an Industry expert took his Beer (yes beer) certification course online, all by his lonesome.

A 45 minute online discussion between eLearning industry professionals with no sales agenda.

Missed our Social Learning webcast this week?

No problem - you can view the recorded version on demand here.

Want to hear how an industry expert took his Beer (yes beer) certification course online, all by his lonesome?

Join our next webcast  ”Cheers To Rapid Development!“ on Wed Nov 02nd at 12PM EST.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT

Social Learning, fiction, fad or fact?
Why all the hype?
Where does it fit and can you measure it?

Learn what other organizations are doing and how social learning can affect your role.

A 45 minute online discussion between eLearning industry professionals with no sales agenda

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Love learning about eLearning?

Join our next webcast  ”Social Learning“ on Wed Oct 19th at 12PM EST.

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eLearning:
Too expensive to create!
Too time consuming to build!
Too time consuming and too expensive to maintain!

Sound familiar?

Join us for a 45 minute live panel discussion with real life examples of solutions to these dilemmas.

For example, consider these statements: “There is beauty in constraints”, “Sometimes you need to think INSIDE the box”

No sales pitch, just a down to earth debate.

By Rick Beaudry, CEO, MindMuze

With a keen focus on fueling new growth opportunities associated with the economic recovery, SMBs are making significant investments in training their customers and their employees.  For the SMB, it is critical that the education solutions are tailored to their budget and resource challenges.

SMB’s typically look for an edge.  Flexibility and innovation drive their growth.   SMB leaders see the potential for learning management software to be applied not only to meet traditional new-hire regulations but to address the customer education problem as well.   In fact, the inclusion of an innovative education platform for their products and services drives a competitive advantage, not only among other SMB’s, but over their larger enterprise competitors.  

According to Forrester Research, 40% of SMBs are either planning to implement learning management software in a year or indicate an interest in doing so.  The research also indicates that collaboration and content management lead their investments.  Also, 44% of SMBs will expand or initially invest in collaboration software this year, and 40% will do so in content management software, continuing the trend from last year.

We are seeing tremendous growth in the adoption of innovative education solutions by SMBs throughout the world.   They can now harness the power of SAAS (Software as a Service) and on-demand global labour in order to offer education to their employees and customers that is equal to that of their large enterprise brethren.    

People, process and technology are all essential in the delivery of small and medium-size businesses.  They are now investing in their own learning assets as never before. Now, armed with products and services that will enable them to compete with larger enterprise, SMBs are able to extend valuable education to their employees, and to their customers.

The lines separating large enterprises from small and mid-sized businesses are becoming blurred.  A new generation of tech-savvy business owners are making SMBs look a lot more like their larger enterprise counterparts - on a smaller scale, of course.

MindMuze Innovations - Learning Solutions For Small and Mid-Sized Businesses.

MindMuze has packaged learning management and elearning development into a cost effective, easily maintainable solution set that includes “renting” learning management services at a fraction of the cost of implementing an LMS to manage the delivery of elearning assets and learning tracking.    In addition, MindMuze has combined the power of SHIFT (www.shiftelearning.com), an award-winning collaborative elearning authoring tool, with instant access to a global pool of elearning project resources to ensure the rapid, cost effective development of elearning assets for the SMB - 100% custom learning portals for your employees and customers, along with 100% custom interactive online learning modules.

MindMuze partners with the small, or often non-existent, internal HR training department to offer solutions typically only available to larger enterprise customers.  

Contact us at info@mindmuze.com to find out how small and mid-sized businesses are utilizing the people, process and the technology to make delivering innovative eLearning solutions to your customers and your employees a cost-effective reality.

Shift took top honours at DemoFest in the Onboarding / Employee Orientation category. Rick Beaudry, CEO of Mindmuze, demonstrated the winning technology again during the “DemoFest Highlights Webinar”

See Shift and the rest of the DemoFest 2010 Winners in The DemoFest Highlights recorded webinar below.

DemoFest Highlights Webinar from The eLearning Guild on Vimeo.

Nov 29, 2010, Toronto: SH!FT, a rapid eLearning authoring tool, won top award at DemoFest in the Onboarding / Employee Orientation category. Rick Beaudry, CEO of Mindmuze and Randolf Kissling, CEO of Aura Interactiva, demonstrated the winning technology to conference attendees during the two hour event.

SH!FT’s entry in the OnBoarding / Employee Orientation category was entitled Green Your Office, a web-based guide narrated by celebrated environmentalist Dr. Suzuki. The fully interactive eLearning module helps organizations see the benefits of going green at work and learn how to influence behaviour within the organization.

Rick Beaudry, co-presenter said “It was exciting to demonstrate how environmental content was transformed into a highly engaging and entertaining learning module. Attendees walked away with a clear understanding of how fast, flexible and powerful the SH!FT authoring tool is.”

The 90 minute course was built in 30 development hours in SH!FT. It is packed with a wealth of content and tools, as well as an avatar of Dr. Suzuki to help users navigate through the program.

“We are very pleased with this recognition by the eLearning Guild members,” said Randolf Kissling, co –presenter at the DemoFest event. “But we’re most pleased of leveraging David Suzuki’s vast knowledge pool through SH!FT to reach thousands of users and really make a positive change.”

About the David Suzuki Foundation
The David Suzuki Foundation works with government, business and individuals to conserve our environment by providing science-based education, advocacy and policy work, and acting as a catalyst for the social change that today’s situation demands. Learn more about them at their website. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/

About SH!FT
SH!FT is an award winning authoring tool that is all about automating repetitive, non-value-adding steps involved in the development of eLearning. SH!FT is a complete eLearning factory in a box. It has the necessary elements to empower an instructional designer to create rich, interactive courses all by himself, with zero technical knowledge. By using SH!FT, the instructional designer has access to all the necessary elements to create an effective and great looking course. Automated smart interface interactions, games, simulations, media recording, scenario builders, everything at the tip of their fingers, all available in one integrated package. At the same time, it’s not unusual to save 50% on development hours and speed to market. Maintenance and update savings are even greater.

SH!FT is also used by large eLearning organizations that need to get more done, faster and more efficiently. SH!FT allows for specialization of labor, collaboration, review, update and content reutilization that will make large eLearning development teams dramatically more effective and more productive.

About DevLearn 2010
DevLearn 2010 Conference & Expo is, by far, North America’s leading e-Learning event. This event caters to seasoned eLearning professionals who are out on the leading edge of the emerging technologies. Attracting between 1,600 and 1,800 participants, it is a highly technical audience of senior managers and practitioners who gather each year to explore the latest and greatest technologies for learning.

Toronto, Canada – November 10, 2010 – Scenario based learning allows educators to engage students in the eLearning environment creating an enriched and ingrained learning experience.

Aura Interactiva and MindMuze announced the release of the Scenario Builder as part of their award-winning SH!FT eLearning authoring technology. Aura Interactiva, based in San Jose, Costa Rica and MindMuze, based in Toronto, Canada have partnered in the distribution of SH!FT in North America.

“We continue to listen to global educators and instructional design professionals, so that we can help deliver unprecedented efficiencies in eLearning authoring. The Scenario Builder is a whole new way of creating eLearning that boosts engagement and retention with animation, image and sound,” said Rick Beaudry, CEO, MindMuze. “Our goal is to provide corporations, governments and schools with the most efficient platform in the building of complex eLearning interactions,” Beaudry added.

Randolf Kissling, CEO, Aura Interactiva, commented, “With the Scenario Builder, trainers and educators with zero graphic design or programming skills can create complex learning scenarios that can be delivered to students in minutes.”

Traditionally, producing eLearning programs has been a time-consuming, expensive task that involves a team of instructional designers, graphic designers and developers. SH!FT has removed the need to be technical and transferred the power of creating rich eLearning content to the educator. Now, anyone is able create the ultimate eLearning environment.

About SH!FT
SH!FT (www.shiftelearning.com) is more than an eLearning authoring tool, it is an eLearning ecosystem. SH!FT allows you to create eLearning courses collaboratively. Browser-based, SH!FT’s development team continues to work toward building optimum efficiency in the design and build of complex eLearning interactions for today’s learner.

In 2009, Aura Interactiva (www.aurainteractiva.com) formed a North American distribution partnership with MindMuze (www.mindmuze.com), one of the most innovative eLearning companies in the world. MindMuze used its own unique training processes to create the best of breed mentoring and training for SH!FT users. Together, Aura Interactiva and MindMuze are continuing to develop and improve SH!FT. Both feel that SH!FT is exactly what the market needs right now, and are thrilled to be a part of it.

CONTACT:
Rick Beaudry, CEO
SH!FT Distibution North America
Rick.beaudry@mindmuze.com
1.416.910.3457

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I recently had the opportunity to attend a mobile learning seminar hosted by CSTD here in Toronto. The key note speaker was Dr. Mohammad Alley from Athabasca University. Dr. Alley is recognized as a world visionary when it comes to Mobile Learning. He talked about what is going on around the world with regards to mobile learning. He did go to great lengths to point out that the US and Canada are very behind the rest of the world when it comes to mLearning. He spent a great deal of time discussing his speaking engagements around the world and what boards he sits on. I was a bit disappointed more time was not spent on the state of the technology and the development tools. Theory is great but at some point the rubber has to hit the road. I am glad to see that our CellCast technology solution is light years ahead of what is being used in the industry both in Canada and around the world. Dr. Alley was not familiar with our solution his grad students from George Brown College were very interested in learning more about real solutions. Dr. Alley did share the following YouTube video showing the potential of mobile technology. This was a speech that was delivered at TED during their annual symposium on the sixth sense. I hope that you will be as excited about this as I am.