Corporate Learning Forum is HERE!

Corporate Learning Forum (a new information resource that I wrote about in my 6/4/06 post) was successfully launched this week. It is a brand new training industry Q&A forum for anyone who has questions for - and can provide answers to - our industry peers. There is no limit to the range or amount of questions and answers that the forum will generate. This new knowledge platform has already taken off quickly with several hundred members and continues to grow each day! Members include chief learning officers, training directors and managers, instructional designers and technologists, trainers, professors, and instructors - anyone responsible for designing, developing, managing, and providing training and instruction. (Click here to see a frequently updated list of companies represented by the new members.)

As the Corporate Learning Forum website describes, it is “A worldwide knowledge exchange for corporate training, organizational development and institutional learning professionals…Corporate Learning Forum is a repository for members to post questions about today's most challenging issues affecting the training industry.”

I haven’t seen anything else like this in our industry and wanted to pass around the great news myself! And it is already working. Terrific questions are posted, resulting in detailed and helpful answers! (I have provided a few myself!) In an industry where products and systems change daily, it is difficult to "keep up" with what's happening and what is available and worthwhile to us. Everywhere we turn, we see new e-learning authoring tools, new LMS and LCMS tools, corporate mergers and buy-outs, emerging training resources, you name it. Corporate Learning Forum is where you can now go to get answers - quickly and directly.

There is much excitement already being generated around this information sharing resource. Click here for a .PDF copy of the official News Release for further information. And share the great news with your friends and colleagues!