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re: CRM, Learning Management System (LMS), or Training Management Software?

Tserin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:25:16 GMT

Well, quite long time after you wrote it Dan, but thank you so much!

I found the place where I have the most important: "understanding" from somebody who feel my pain.

I need all of those things in one place - and I hope your solution will be good enough :)

Lets try..

Cheers

Mike

re: CRM, Learning Management System (LMS), or Training Management Software?

Steve King — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:27:13 GMT

>>Hey, if CRM really brought value to selling, wouldn't the sale team be SCREAMING for more CRM?

Hey.. I think of CRM as an application platform that is ideal for a wide range of marketing, sales and service contexts.. but like any great tool, if its not applied in a focused vertical manner.. then its just a glorified contact management database... put another way.. CRM is only as good as the process and workflow innovations that it supports - Steve

re: CRM, Learning Management System (LMS), or Training Management Software?

mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:31:20 GMT

The only way a sales force will use CRM is if the idiot management who bought it forces and threatens them with termination if they don't use it.

Hey, if CRM really brought value to selling, wouldn't the sale team be SCREAMING for more CRM?

re: CRM, Learning Management System (LMS), or Training Management Software?

Dan — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:04:28 GMT

Thanks, Fred! Glad you liked it.

re: CRM, Learning Management System (LMS), or Training Management Software?

FredGreen — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:33:43 GMT

Nice post. Good job of drawing distinctions and providing explanations of terminology that many people find really confusing.

re: Get Paid for What You Know

Dan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:36:54 GMT

Fantastic comment. I would highly recommend anyone with an interest in how we are educating (or failing) children and who would like to see real change happen to take a few minutes to read through the ANPE site. Stephens blog broadened my horizons on the topic. He doesn't proclaim to have the all the answers and he is very realistic about the amount of time and effort it will take to change an institution that is so entrenchced. But he has bold dream to start over, shake things up, and make education work for our children. With all the cries for change and campaigning for change maybe the time is right for making real change in public education.

re: Get Paid for What You Know

Stephen Dill — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:20:08 GMT

Dan,

Lifelong learning has been a topic near and dear to me for many, many years. I connected it with some disturbing stories my wife would tell me about parenting 'methods' that she saw at the preschool she manages, stories so weird that I realized these otherwise 'educated' people had not thought for a second that they perhaps did not know how to parent. They were totally winging it, to the detriment of their family, their child's preschool, their community, and, eventually, society as a whole. I wondered why it never occurred to college graduates to pick up a few books when their first child was conceived. Long story short, I now think that we need to see public education something that starts at conception and continues until a few days after death (as we all gather round to consider what was learned in that life recently ended). I started www.allnewpubliceducation.com (ANPE) to sponsor dialog on how to achieve that, but realized few were interested in changing the status quo. But just like the US savings rate, isn't it amazing how fast things can change? Trauma has a way of helping people focus on a system that is broken.

I heard a podcast recently where the minister speaking said, "This is not a crisis, it's a catharsis!" Hers were words of hope, words of encouragement, and a call to action. It is in keeping with the new President's request that we all look to see what we can do that I ask you and any reading this to make a few moments to read through the ANPE site and contribute your thoughts. We cannot go back to the old economic model, and we cannot afford our current education model. Nor should we apply any more bandages than necessary to keep it alive until we can transition to a new educational system. A connected world where everyone is a student and everyone is a teacher, leveraging technology and community to raise everyone's awareness, tolerance, knowledge and capabilities. A world where we are compensated by what we know and how willing we are to share it - AND how well we can communicate it.

I look forward to considering your contributions to this challenge.

Stephen Dill