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Why do councils still use Internet Explorer 6?

by Learning Pool on February 8, 2010

Welcome to the Learning Pool Blog - feel free to subscribe for free updates by RSS or email. Thanks for visiting.Many of you will be familiar with the debate raging on the web right now about how rubbish Internet Explorer is. Just in case, here’s a summary of the argument:
It ignores internet standards so when companies [...]

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The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) is, in partnership with its national stakeholders, updating the existing training strategy for local (parish and town) councils and wants your views!
The survey forms a pivotal element of the National Training Strategy (NTS) review, and was kicked off in December.  It is open to anyone, especially those people and organisations with an interest, commitment [...]

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Ghosts of Christmas Past

by Learning Pool on January 13, 2010

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.
Isn’t it nice to meet up with your family during the festive break, share stories and talk about traditions, some of which you inherit and some that you create for yourselves as your life moves on?
After Christmas dinner in our house this year we were talking and I began to [...]

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Top 5 killer networking questions

by Learning Pool on January 11, 2010

With the 2010 conference season just around the corner and job stability uncertain for some now could be a great time for brushing up your networking skills.
If you’re the shy and retiring type like some of the team at Learning Pool (ahem) take a look at these top five killer networking questions below and then [...]

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Dave Briggs’ Twitter Guide for Government goes global

by Learning Pool on January 6, 2010

With interest in Dave Briggs‘ free Twitter: A Quick Start Guide for Those In and Around Government reaching all four corners of the world, we thought we’d ask those who downloaded it what they thought.
Freshness, quality and layout of the content of the Twitter Guide were all big hits with the downloaders. So much so, that over 90% would recommend [...]

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Mary’s Top 10 Learning Pool Achievements of 2009

by Learning Pool on January 4, 2010

Reflecting on the busy year that’s been 2009, these are the top 10 things that have given me most professional pleasure this year:
1. The Club
Welcoming 50 more public sector organisations to the growing Learning Pool ‘club’ including our first Scottish authority, our first Northern Irish authority, our first charitable organisation and 5 more housing associations.
2. [...]

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Learning Pool DLEs give better Managed Learning reports

by Learning Pool on December 16, 2009

We’ve built a brand new reporting engine for all Learning Pool DLEs so we can now give you more flexible, rich, reports on all aspects of your DLE.
What’s new with your DLE management information?
•  Reporting dashboard giving a high level snapshot of activity
•  A range of course and DLE usage trend reports
•  Improved data mining [...]

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