Best Practices – IBM and EMC

September 25, 2009 at 11:52 pm · Filed under Best Practices

Recently, we came across an interesting presentation at the American Society of Training and Development’s Annual Conference,  In this presentation were some great examples of what companies like IBM and EMC are doing with innovative social technologies.

 At IBM, they have completely embraced using new social media, with:

• 5,000 podcasts
• 3,400 blogs
• 70,000 people using wikis
• 2,000,000 podcast downloads

They estimate their annual savings to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

To see an example of this blog pages, click here. 

For an example of some of IBM Podcasts, click here.

EMC has adopted podcasting as the way to train their global sales force and customers. At EMC, they produce 5 – 10 new audio / video podcasts every week.  Many are extremely entertaining.  To see more , click here.

 James Hunsiker, Manager of Sales at EMC says ” I’ve never seen the field organization so enthusiastic about learning.”

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Podcast – Training Millenials

September 4, 2009 at 9:41 pm · Filed under Podcasts

Training the Emerging Generation

In this podcast, we welcome Mary Cornetta-Brown, President of Cornetta-Brown Associates. Our topic today will be Mary’s presentation at the ASTD Annual Conference : “Are you Ready to Train the Emerging Generation.” In this interview, Mary will discuss:

•  1.)  The 4 generations of learners in the workplace today
•  2.)  Who are the generation of emerging learners
•  3.)  The Top 5 Training Needs of the Emerging Generation
•  4.)  The Importance of Collaborative Learning in developing this next generation of business leaders.

Mary is President of Cornetta-Brown Associates. She has over 19 years of experience as an organizational development specialist, leadership transition coach and consultant. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies, universities, non-profits and venture capitalists. Prior to her consulting work, Mary was the Vice President of Human Resources at International Data Group, a leading global provider of information services on information technology. Mary holds a degree in psychology from Boston College and received a Certificate in Human Resource Management from Bentley College.

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