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TRAINING TECHNOLOGY
Moodle Goes Corporate
By Sarah Fister Gale
Companies of all sizes have begun to embrace Moodle, an open- source learning management system that can be downloaded free and operates with virtually every other training-related software system on the market.
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EMPLOYEE COLLABORATION
Oracle Hopes for Some Buzz Around Beehive
October 9, 2008 12:45 AM PT
The new software aims to let employees team up through electronic workspaces as well as calendar, instant messaging and e-mail tools. Beehive is part of a broader push by Oracle into the hot area of employee collaboration, also called Enterprise 2.0.
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PREVENTION TRAINING
KPMG: Data Loss Reduced by Training Programs
October 7, 2008 11:00 AM PT
KPMG researched publicly disclosed incidents of data loss and found that educational organizations, governments and health care operations are victims of most of the incidents.
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The online social networking phenomenon has pervaded business. Whether it becomes a mere time-waster or a useful tool for recruitment, employee development and collaboration depends on how employers embrace the technology.
The new technologies are designed to improve computer accessibility for those with age-related disabilities and other physical limitations.
Whose bright idea was it to use Facebook or MySpace to get information about job candidates? Certainly not any employer/defendant who has sat with me at counsel table in a case involving hiring discrimination.
However much employers want to provide access to their technology systems for business convenience or necessity, they also have legitimate interests in preventing their misuse. Employers will also have to do some education with employees about what happens when personal devices are used to access company systems. Employees may mistakenly believe that by using their own devices, they have bought themselves a measure of privacy and are beyond the reach of their employer.
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