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When Ray Tomlinson , a young computer engineer, sent the first email in 1971, he could only have guessed how it would impact the way we communicate in both our business and personal lives. Now an essential tool for approximately one billion mobile workers across the globe, email continues to dominate the way in which we communicate. Four decades since the first message – believed to be “ QWERTYUIOP &# – email seems to be going strong. MORE >>

Perhaps I should soften that to the “business software marketplace,” since many of the innovators involved have opted for a consumer-style model of adoption. Instead of marketing to corporate IT staff, these new products are being marketed like Twitter or Foursquare. One member of a small company’s marketing team decides to manage a project using Yammer or Podio, and she immediately invites four other team members to get involved. MORE >>

KM World 2014 will be held in Washington DC at the Grand Hyatt from November 4 to 7. I used go regularly and highly recommend it to anyone interested in helping workforces perform at their maximum levels. On Thursday, November 6 the session, KM Enterprise Adoption: How to Make It Stick! The sessions is described as follows: Many companies are quick to adopt a KM transformation program but few have managed to make them stick. MORE >>

Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. But I also think that there’s a lot more help now around how to make effective use of Twitter as a learning tool. I thought it would be worthwhile to pull together these resources. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs MORE >>