All the services that Learning Pool provides these days are online. We do this because it is the obvious thing to. Plus, it means that our customers don’t have to worry about buying and maintaining server hardware, be concerned about security issues or handle complicated issues about data storage. We’re lucky that we have such a great ...

In Part One of this blog, we featured how best to plan your migration to Google Mail. Here, in Part Two, you can find out what issues we encountered during the move and helpful tips on how to overcome these problems. Once you have switched all Outlook accounts to use the Outlook connector for Google, ...

Just after the Christmas 09 break, Paul approached me with the idea of migrating our email service to Google Apps before the end of the financial year. Initially I was a little dubious about the move for two reasons. One, the last quarter of the financial year at Learning Pool is normally pretty hectic and ...

My role at Learning Pool is a hard one to define exactly. A couple of weeks ago, we had a big company meeting where everyone got together to discuss the last year’s efforts, and what we want to achieve in 10/11. At one point Paul asked everyone in the room to raise their hands if ...

Just before Christmas I wrote to our steering group to ask them about what was going on in their Learning Pool related world. My request was 3 fold: what had they achieved in 2009, what was in the pipeline for 2010 and what had gone spectacularly wrong during 2009 that they had learned from....

On Monday 25th January, Paul McElvaney, Director of Learning Pool and Alison Stott, Project Manager at Essex Strategic HR will be hosting an online hotseat on the commissioning of Open, Distance and E-learning. This will be taking place in the Leadership Development Community of Practice, using the IDeA’s CoP platform. You need to register with the platform and join the community before you can get involved.

Learning Pool today announced that it has been named as a Rising Star in the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.  The Rising Star award recognises young companies with the fastest growth in turnover over the past three years.

He's blond, 5'10" tall and hails from the Welsh town of Aberdare. But there's more to Learning Pool's brand new DLE Product Manager, Ben Jones, than just rugged good looks. Ben has recently been appointed to a brand new role within Learning Pool, DLE Product Manager. Paul McElvaney says "This is a new role at Learning Pool and is an indication of the growth of interest in and usage of the product and, of course, our ambitious plans for the future.