Wow, I think this is the first serious mobile study that has mentioned Push Mobile Media. Now that is very cool!.

The research firm is Ambient Insight ( Link to their study below)

Click to access AmbientInsight_2008-2013_US_MobileLearning_Forecast_ExecutiveOverview.pdf

Found on Google.

“This has been an amazing day for our team to see how many people are interested in the use of mobile training and use or urgent mobile media delivering rich mobile content!”, stated George Churchwell CEO of Tech2000 Inc.

Mobile Learning at CiscoLive!

Version 1.1.2 is now live at LearnCast. The LearnCast mobile application is found on the Apple iPhone store. Just search for “Learncast”. We are busy building our first content listings primarily from our content partners who understand the power of mobile content and mobile distribution.

Learncast is currently deployed within school systems and have been recieving student and teacher feedback regarding our tools, content distribution, mobiQuiz, mobiExam, security, mobiShout ( Social feedback) and many other invaluable offerings from our customers.

Next version – is going to get very exciting.

StudentDNA® will come to life in 2010 stay tuned to this exciting area of students who are using every delivery platform to learn from , even mobile.

We received the approval from Apple that LearnCast application is about to go live in 24 hours. This is great news for all of us who have worked long, long hours, late nights to bring LearnCast to market.

Now any one can publish mobile content to mobile devices in “60 seconds flat” – well almost !!!

Congratulations to the staff – the great designers and engineers who made this come to life. I’m really excited to see how the world embraces LearnCast – to visit LearnCast

Go to http://www.LearnCast.com – simply Fantastic!

The iPhone Mobile Learning App from LearnCast

LearnCast ® is “Powered by Push”.  This exciting new service is setting the bar in the K-12, university and professional mobile learning market. With rapid desktop development tools and support for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile devices and Androids, learning anywhere is now optimized.

LearnCast is a “hybrid” mobile technology of web services, mobile apps and content delivery on all devices and wireless carriers in the market. Create dynamic content, polls, quizzes and tests with an exceptional focus on usability of educational content for both contributors and students.

This mobile education publishing platform relies on push notifications as a service, which has proven to be a superior method that incorporates email and SMS with rich mobile multimedia (RMM) payloads.

LearnCast will soon be offering the best content from various educational publishing companies and expert authors.

Please visit www.LearnCast.com for the latest news and updates.

Wayne Newton was sharing the stage with Push Mobile Media

CTIA Las Vegas played host to 40,000 attendees, making it by far the largest mobile show in the US. CTIA has both a hardware and software focus, as well as industry outreach. It’s amazing to see the growth of the industry and the interest regarding our solutions. Push Mobile Media did very well at this conference.

Our marketing offering: ” Build an App in 60 Seconds , Flat” was the show stopper. We were positioned on the red carpet along the main aisle and our exposure to thousands of  people passing by was fantastic. We had a wide range of industry, education and international company representatives showing great interest. We were fortunate to have had these new potential partners who believe in our model and our vision, and have them share their ideas with us on how to be the best brand and product we can be.

With many initiatives completing in April within our labs, such as the LearnCast Desktop tools for educators and the mobile app delivery – we will have the first educational “app hybrid”  tool that delivers  “Open Mobile Education”. Our teaching partners, authors and market makers are sure to be impressed!

We are making great strides, daily. It’s really about pulling others in, sharing ideas and making our vision together. Thanks to Jon, Heather, Dave J, Sean, Phil, Megan, Pat, Michael Kroth and all of you  who were involved during this time crunch with me!!!

To view his podcast –

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Re-Building your Virtual Team

How can you re-build a virtual (i.e. geographically dispersed) team that has had some negative interactions within the group? If you had a single in-person team meeting, how would you go about rebuilding trust and a sense of camaraderie within the group? Or can it be done?

• Dr. Mike Kroth – Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho in Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership, and author or co-author of three books including Transforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, and Passion in the Workplace and The Manager as Motivator

http://blog.thomasbcox.com/

ADDITIONALLY !! – This video clip below was found on Tom on Leadership. This is a funny and true the basis of building the “team of followers”

No doubt we are on the right track and have the partners and customers to move briskly in to the educational mainstream. Having the publishing system that handles all mobile devices, enables intuitive design of courses and quizzes, includes real time tracking  and can be bolted into any LMS? This is a full-on learning solution, ready for prime time.

Contact us to discuss how your school can and should expand education beyond the classroom. Rest assured, your students will think it’s pretty cool.

David Clemons

The “perfect storm” is described as having all the  possible scenarios aligned to produce a powerful magnificent storm.  If the IDC forecast is correct in that 75% of the current workforce will be considered a mobile workforce by 2011, is there a perfect storm brewing?

A simplified definition of a mobile worker is a person who is enabled to perform work functions outside of the corporate campus using technology to connect, communicate and be productive.

Global training managers have to be thinking about the “best practices” and guidelines to lead, communicate and to train their mobile workers.

As a coach and training  go-to person in a busy mobile publishing enterprise, I have gained some important insights into how to train my mobile workforce.

I have been traveling and speaking about mobile platforms, mobile publishing, content networks, mobile polling, educational courses and just about anything you can imagine regarding mobile delivery. (I really love my job!)

Leadership and the management team, if on the same page, create a work environment that is needed by the mobile worker. The remote warriors of yesterday are a bit different than the mobile workers of today. The new mobile workforce population now includes just about every type of sales, support and corporate personality imaginable.

The needs of these people are met through the use of technology on the road, at home and anywhere a connection is available. The role of the manager is to make sure these talented, wonderful human beings who have skills beyond the ROI report, are waiting to be inspired and trained to the mission and purpose of the company.

Training these people ( me, you, them!) needs to flow as if these people (me, you, them!) were sitting next to the manager’s office.

A few jotted notes …

1. Time Zones – Write on your wall map! Get used to making considerations about international and cross country time zones. Go to the dollar store, buy the round clocks and label them with your staff time zones. Or set up your PDA to show them all.

2. Technology – Make sure that if you conduct a meeting, as a presenter using a collaborative tool like GoToMeeting or Cisco Web X, start with a good connection. Be prepared and study “What makes a good web based presentation”? Think of the trainees as a customer.

3. Expectations – Set up the rules and policies of mobile workers. be clear on what you expect of them.

4. Communication – Determine a best practice of real-time-voice -versus email-versus-IM. The remote person ( me, you, them!) need to feel valued, feel important, listened to and that they ( me, you them!) are making important contributions.

5. Be proactive, not just reactive – Be nice and make sure you remember that your team members manage a life balancing act. Make some suggestions to them. Be thoughtful, be direct when needed, but think about their value proposition every time you connect with them.

6. Enable through technology – Fix issues and train by doing.

7. Performance – Mobility means independence, to a point. Performance is based on understanding individual self-managed “true-grit”.  Every manager has to think about each team member’s performance and the  management styles used to keep the mobile worker happy- very happy!

I have too many ideas for this – but I have to run – I’m remote today and meetings are ticking closer. Lets see… I’ll check my connection , organize my documents, write a few questions, check the coffee cup and put a BIG SMILE ON. Face my own storm.