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TOP 10 TOOLS 2009
Kate McNabb
Based in Cirencester as
the Marketing Manager for
e2train who are a leading provider of
learning and performance technology. Whilst not
responsible for delivering learning myself it’s
a key part of my role to keep up to date with
the latest developments in the industry and keep
my ear to the ground with what’s going on within
L&D. With an active research and development
function at e2train who are creating learning
solutions, it’s great to be able to provide
feedback and see firsthand what goes into making
these solutions a reality. Kate's Twitter id:
@katemcnabb23
Kate's Top 10 Tools as at 21
October 20
- iGoogle – So
useful as an aggregator, allows me to scan the latest news and
information and cherry pick what I read and what I don’t.
- Twitter – Can’t
imagine being without Twitter now, both as a networking tool and
an aggregator of resources and information. As well as keeping
up to date with existing contacts, and developing new ones, I
daily discover new nuggets of interesting information and debate
that I might otherwise have missed. It’s also amazing the
response you can get when you ask questions – anything from
directions to input on podcasting software – the Twitter
audience is knowledgeable and proactive which is invaluable. My
Twitter ID is @katemcnabb23.
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Kallidus Learning Management System – e2train’s LMS where I
access my learning plan, launch my e-learning and carry out my
annual performance review. It’s the cornerstone of everything I
do and in the new version I now have access to my informal
learning tools like Twitter and Linked In which means less
browsing around between windows and applications and having
everything in one central place.
- Blackberry – Makes otherwise ‘dead’ time such as
travelling or waiting for appointments useful and informative
with apps for Twitter and access to the internet.
- WebEx – Working in a
team that’s often on the move and out and about, being able to
access a central point to meet online and share and create
documents at any point during a normal working day is a must and
something I really couldn’t do without.
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Sharepoint
– Is how we host our
internal intranet and does exactly what it says on the tin in
terms of being able to access resources at the point of need and
share documents easily.
- MSN - Great
for asking and answering quick questions without having to open
up big discussions or waste time with small talk!
- Email bulletins – The bulletins I subscribe to such
as those from TrainingZone are perfect for me. The information
arrives and I can read it in my own time and it takes minimal
effort to open them, scan them and take in what I am interested
in and feel is relevant.
- Pen and paper – Still the only way to create a ‘to
do’ list as far as I’m concerned and for some reason I absorb
and learn much more information during training and at
conferences and seminars if I take notes as I listen.
- Captivate –
great for capturing and demo-ing software processes. And as a
not particularly technical person, it’s also really intuitive to
use.
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