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Content Management. Relying on traditional processes and “rapid” authoring tools is no longer an efficient or effective way to manage large volumes of content. We look forward to helping you unlock the power of your content to position your organization for success over the long term! MORE
Does your organization struggle with content management? At Xyleme, we specialize in partnering with our customers to solve the complex content problems other solutions don’t have the depth or breadth to tackle. If your content management challenges feel overwhelming, we can help. MORE
The term “reuse” gets thrown around a lot in regard to content management and maintenance, particularly when dealing with content at scale. But did you know that most content authoring and management tools that tout reuse are essentially just copying and pasting? MORE
Creating online learning content can be either very involved and complex, or simple. Online Learning Learning Experience Platform LXP Content ProductionIt all depends on the needs of your employees and the resources and tools your company has access to. MORE
Sadly much of it has been turned into one big content farm. The internet still holds so much potential to helps us understand and improve ourselves and the world around us. It doesn't need to be this way. It is not too late. Each of us can ask our selves every time we share, like, or write something: Will this post trigger people to think more deeply about its topic? Have I written it in a way that is more likely to open up debate than close it down? MORE
Regardless of the type of content being created, the debate over the benefits of centralization versus decentralization is a pervasive one. Decentralized Content Management: Pros, Cons & Getting the Best of Both Worlds. Decentralized Content Management appeared first on Xyleme MORE
The biggest change in my understanding of design after joining Capital One, by far, is how I understand the importance and nature of content strategy in my design work. I honestly can’t understand how I’ve gone as long as I have without really digging into content strategy; it just seems so obvious now. First, I defined each chunk of content that we needed. Small section of content architecture document describing intentions of content sections. MORE
Alex Hodgson of ReadCube is leading a panel called “Accessing Content: New Thinking and New Business Models or Accessing Research Literature” at the Shaking It Up conference. You import your pdfs, read them with their enhanced reader, and can annotate them and discover new content. “What does content want to be?” JSTOR has 150M content accesses per year, 9,000 institutions, 2,000 archival journals, 27,000 books. MORE
Download the free eBook by Brandon Hall Group and Xyleme, “Content Personalization at Scale: Why Content Strategy and Technology are Critical to Success.” The post Free eBook by Brandon Hall Group & Xyleme: Content Personalization at Scale appeared first on Xyleme MORE
So, I’d roughly (and generously) estimate that the ratio is around 80:20 for content: practice. So, two questions: do we just need more practice, or do we also have too much content. Yes, designing practice is harder than just delivering content, but it’s not that much harder to develop more than just to develop some. However, I’ll argue we’re also delivering too much content. And then let the practice drive them to the content. MORE
A Component Content Management System (CCMS) is transformational for organizations with large-scale content creation and maintenance needs. Balancing Content Needs with Creative Constraints. The solution, of course, is to create large volumes of content. MORE
I read, again and again, about the importance of ‘content’ in learning. Just what do mean by ‘content’? For one, I get concerned that talking about content foregrounds ‘information’ And that’s a problem. Objectives should be ‘able to use to ’ Talking about content, as I’ve talked about before , leads us down a slippery slope to curriculum being defined as content. MORE
Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. What should be the elements of content are an introduction to the learning experience, a presentation of the concept(s), examples that illustrate applying the concept to contexts, and a closing of the experience. MORE
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Utilities Provider Streamlines Content Management to Improve Efficiency, Accuracy & Consistency appeared first on Xyleme | Content Management Solutions. Resources draft MORE
On LinkedIn, a colleague asked “ Why do people think that integrating content in the flow of work equals learning in the flow of work ?” There are lots of reasons that we might want content in the workflow to help us succeed, but it may have nothing to do with learning. MORE
We’ve heard about learning engineering and while the focus is on experience design, the pragmatics include designing content to create the context, resources, and motivation for the activity. And it’s time we step beyond just hardwiring this content together, and start treating it as professionals. You can customize the content you’re searching for with filters. The content reacts to the device you’re on and displays appropriately. MORE
Content creation, a subset of sensemaking, is difficult. According to a 2019 survey of 213 North American workers conducted by Degreed , most sharing of information is in responding to other content found in the flow of work or learning. A lot of user-generated content is sharing content that has been created by others. As a blogger for over 15 years I know how much effort it takes to create content. It takes time and effort. MORE
That is, to separate content from description. The point is to separate content from description. That’s what’s led me to be keen on content systems. The notion of pulling up content by description instead of hardwiring together content into an experience is the dream. . MORE
Solutions Consultant, Mike Buoy , and Jennifer Rogers , Head of Learning at Anglo American, discussed how learning leaders need to rethink how to create, manage, and deliver content to meet the needs of the modern workforce. Learning organizations must find ways for their content to serve not only in courses, but the entire learning ecosystem. The post How to Create a Content Strategy that Resonates with the Modern Learner appeared first on Xyleme. In this webinar, Xyleme Sr. MORE
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems. When most people hear the phrase “Learning Content Management System,” they usually think “Oh, an LMS.” ” Even a Google search for Learning Content Management System returns ads for Learning Management Systems, and articles that claim to rank the top LCMS’s, but really only include Learning Management Systems. What is a Learning Content Management System? MORE
Mobile learning, also called M-learning or mLearning, is any type of content that is developed or consumed on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and including anything from podcasts to full eLearning courses. Future-Proofing Your Content for Mobile. MORE
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Allina Health: Cutting Content Development Time by 66% with an Agile Reuse & Personalization Strategy appeared first on Xyleme | Content Management Solutions. MORE
User-generated content (UGC) is trending in eLearning because of the value it can add to an employees’ LMS training experiences. LMS eLearning LMS Content Production MORE
For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. Once gone, we lose all connection and control of our content – and this has some obvious drawbacks: Content is replicated to each LMS. There is no way to monetize the content. MORE
I continue to have a problem with the term content as a component of what our field does. What we do is create content. Even in F2F training, we have content and structure around actions we ask our learners to take. At the end of the day, much of what we’re working on is content that is communicated or triggered by learner actions. I believe we need to focus on the activity , not on the content. MORE
What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG,) or “rapid” tools, apply styles that are hard-coded into the content, which means that the writing and designing are coupled together. Let’s be honest — so-called “rapid” authoring tools aren’t really rapid at all. MORE
As I’m fresh off my first neighbourhood block party in the Kitsilano hamlet that makes up part of Vancouver’s West Side, I got to thinking about content, curating and libraries. In a world where the pure volume of digital content swells with each passing day, we mustn’t cave into a digital only existence. But, it is often satisfied by those within my strong and weak tie network (and to a slightly lesser degree via search) that are curating the learning content in the first place. MORE
When personalizing and localizing content at scale, a single document can multiply exponentially. Xyleme’s content management solutions alleviate the resulting maintenance burden, making it easy for organizations to personalize, reuse and maintain even the most complex content libraries. MORE
What is Content Personalization, anyway? When serving large volumes of content to multiple diverse audiences at scale, effective personalization is almost impossible – let alone sustainable – without the right strategy and tools in place. Overcoming 3 Main Challenges to Personalization. MORE
Every organization runs into content management challenges when they reach a certain size. Content Backlogs & Bottlenecks. L ots of content managers and teams struggle to keep organization-wide information in sync. The content’s all out there, but it isn’t searchable. MORE
At DevLearn next week, I’ll be talking about content systems in session 109. The point is that instead of monolithic content, we want to start getting more granular for more flexible delivery. And while there I’ll be talking about some of the options on how, here I want to make the case about why, in a simplified way. As an experiment (gotta keep pushing the envelope in a myriad of ways), I’ve created a video, and I want to see if I can embed it. Fingers crossed. MORE
Journalism is in a world of hurt because it has been marginalized by a new business model that requires maximizing “content” instead. Here’s one way to tell the difference between journalism and content: Journalism has ethics. Content has volume. Content is supported by adtech. Better to “generate content” than to do the best journalism we can, the proposition goes. But the current system of ad-supported web content isn’t working for readers and viewers. MORE
Technology & Content Strategy Go Hand-in-Hand. We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Content Rules , the well-known leader in content strategy. She believes content should be easy to read, cost-effective to create and translate, and efficient to manage. “We MORE
A number of years ago, I said that the problem for publishers was not going from text to content (as the saying goes), but from content to experience. And is this content aligned to that skill? For instance, if the content is a bunch of knowledge that somehow you’re to magically put in someone’s head, such as product information or arbitrary rules, you’re far better off putting that information in the world than trying to put it in the head. MORE
I’ve been on the content rant before , talking about the need to structure content into models , and the benefits of tagging. You have to understand that folks who do content as if their business depended on it, e.g. web marketers, have a level of sophistication that elearning (and all elearning: performance support, social, etc) would do well to adopt. One of the people I follow is Scott Abel, the Content Wrangler. MORE
In a conversation last week (ok, an engagement), the topic of content systems came up. For one, separate content from how it’s delivered. And, pull content together by rules, not hardwired. This is in opposition to the notion of pre-packaged content. MORE
It’s critical that modern organizations prioritize their content development, management, delivery, and analysis processes if they want to stay ahead of emerging trends and be prepared to capitalize on new opportunities. MORE
The classic approach to enterprise content management was to provide a central place to edit and publish content. But in a world filled with hundreds of digital channels, and dozens of types of devices, the traditional content management platform has become a spoke on a hub. MORE
Put simply, a content strategy is a business plan for your content. Do I Really Need a Content Strategy? How to Implement a Content Strategy . When implementing a content strategy at scale, technology becomes a critical driver of success. Got Content Problems? MORE
But have you ever considered applying these tried-and-true measures to your proprietary content? Recycling has become a common practice in our everyday lives, yet when we think about content development, we rarely think about reuse. Leverage Existing Content. “I MORE
A content problem — specifically, a content explosion problem. Writing and delivering content that can scale effectively is a tall order, and the more audiences an organization serves, the more complicated it becomes. What do many major organizations have in common? MORE
Managing content at the component level (as opposed to the document level) makes content smarter and more powerful by?reducing The post Webinar: Driving Content Management ROI Across the Extended Enterprise appeared first on Xyleme | Content Management Solutions. MORE
February 25, 2021 | 1:00 pm EST. Managing content at the component level (as opposed to the document level) makes content smarter and more powerful by?reducing Learn more about how Xyleme CCMS support the extended enterprise and helps organizations drive content management ROI. . MORE
I wrote up my visit to the Intelligent Content conference for eLearnMag , but one topic I didn’t raise was an unanswered question I raised during the conference: should the ‘smarts’ be in the content or the system? Making content smart would require a bunch of additional elements to the content. Having well-defined content and letting the system use contextual information to choose the content is the typical system used in the industry. MORE
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DECEMBER 29, 2020
That is, to separate content from description. The point is to separate content from description. That’s what’s led me to be keen on content systems. The notion of pulling up content by description instead of hardwiring together content into an experience is the dream. .
Xyleme
APRIL 20, 2021
But have you ever considered applying these tried-and-true measures to your proprietary content? Recycling has become a common practice in our everyday lives, yet when we think about content development, we rarely think about reuse. Leverage Existing Content. “I
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Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 17, 2019
In a conversation last week (ok, an engagement), the topic of content systems came up. For one, separate content from how it’s delivered. And, pull content together by rules, not hardwired. This is in opposition to the notion of pre-packaged content.
Xyleme
MAY 17, 2021
Every organization runs into content management challenges when they reach a certain size. Content Backlogs & Bottlenecks. L ots of content managers and teams struggle to keep organization-wide information in sync. The content’s all out there, but it isn’t searchable.
Xyleme
APRIL 21, 2021
A Component Content Management System (CCMS) is transformational for organizations with large-scale content creation and maintenance needs. Balancing Content Needs with Creative Constraints. The solution, of course, is to create large volumes of content.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Mobile learning, also called M-learning or mLearning, is any type of content that is developed or consumed on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and including anything from podcasts to full eLearning courses. Future-Proofing Your Content for Mobile.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Put simply, a content strategy is a business plan for your content. Do I Really Need a Content Strategy? How to Implement a Content Strategy . When implementing a content strategy at scale, technology becomes a critical driver of success. Got Content Problems?
Xyleme
MAY 18, 2020
Regardless of the type of content being created, the debate over the benefits of centralization versus decentralization is a pervasive one. Decentralized Content Management: Pros, Cons & Getting the Best of Both Worlds. Decentralized Content Management appeared first on Xyleme
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
On LinkedIn, a colleague asked “ Why do people think that integrating content in the flow of work equals learning in the flow of work ?” There are lots of reasons that we might want content in the workflow to help us succeed, but it may have nothing to do with learning.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
A content problem — specifically, a content explosion problem. Writing and delivering content that can scale effectively is a tall order, and the more audiences an organization serves, the more complicated it becomes. What do many major organizations have in common?
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 11, 2015
We’ve heard about learning engineering and while the focus is on experience design, the pragmatics include designing content to create the context, resources, and motivation for the activity. And it’s time we step beyond just hardwiring this content together, and start treating it as professionals. You can customize the content you’re searching for with filters. The content reacts to the device you’re on and displays appropriately.
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 13, 2011
As I’m fresh off my first neighbourhood block party in the Kitsilano hamlet that makes up part of Vancouver’s West Side, I got to thinking about content, curating and libraries. In a world where the pure volume of digital content swells with each passing day, we mustn’t cave into a digital only existence. But, it is often satisfied by those within my strong and weak tie network (and to a slightly lesser degree via search) that are curating the learning content in the first place.
Xyleme
APRIL 26, 2021
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Xyleme
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
February 25, 2021 | 1:00 pm EST. Managing content at the component level (as opposed to the document level) makes content smarter and more powerful by?reducing Learn more about how Xyleme CCMS support the extended enterprise and helps organizations drive content management ROI. .
Xyleme
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Technology & Content Strategy Go Hand-in-Hand. We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Content Rules , the well-known leader in content strategy. She believes content should be easy to read, cost-effective to create and translate, and efficient to manage. “We
Xyleme
JUNE 8, 2020
Content Management. Relying on traditional processes and “rapid” authoring tools is no longer an efficient or effective way to manage large volumes of content. We look forward to helping you unlock the power of your content to position your organization for success over the long term!
Xyleme
JANUARY 20, 2021
Does your organization struggle with content management? At Xyleme, we specialize in partnering with our customers to solve the complex content problems other solutions don’t have the depth or breadth to tackle. If your content management challenges feel overwhelming, we can help.
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Managing content at the component level (as opposed to the document level) makes content smarter and more powerful by?reducing The post Webinar: Driving Content Management ROI Across the Extended Enterprise appeared first on Xyleme | Content Management Solutions.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 16, 2019
Content creation, a subset of sensemaking, is difficult. According to a 2019 survey of 213 North American workers conducted by Degreed , most sharing of information is in responding to other content found in the flow of work or learning. A lot of user-generated content is sharing content that has been created by others. As a blogger for over 15 years I know how much effort it takes to create content. It takes time and effort.
Xyleme
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
When personalizing and localizing content at scale, a single document can multiply exponentially. Xyleme’s content management solutions alleviate the resulting maintenance burden, making it easy for organizations to personalize, reuse and maintain even the most complex content libraries.
Xyleme
AUGUST 13, 2020
The term “reuse” gets thrown around a lot in regard to content management and maintenance, particularly when dealing with content at scale. But did you know that most content authoring and management tools that tout reuse are essentially just copying and pasting?
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 15, 2014
I’ve been on the content rant before , talking about the need to structure content into models , and the benefits of tagging. You have to understand that folks who do content as if their business depended on it, e.g. web marketers, have a level of sophistication that elearning (and all elearning: performance support, social, etc) would do well to adopt. One of the people I follow is Scott Abel, the Content Wrangler.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 9, 2015
So, I’d roughly (and generously) estimate that the ratio is around 80:20 for content: practice. So, two questions: do we just need more practice, or do we also have too much content. Yes, designing practice is harder than just delivering content, but it’s not that much harder to develop more than just to develop some. However, I’ll argue we’re also delivering too much content. And then let the practice drive them to the content.
Doc Searls
JANUARY 26, 2017
Journalism is in a world of hurt because it has been marginalized by a new business model that requires maximizing “content” instead. Here’s one way to tell the difference between journalism and content: Journalism has ethics. Content has volume. Content is supported by adtech. Better to “generate content” than to do the best journalism we can, the proposition goes. But the current system of ad-supported web content isn’t working for readers and viewers.
Xyleme
JULY 5, 2012
For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. Once gone, we lose all connection and control of our content – and this has some obvious drawbacks: Content is replicated to each LMS. There is no way to monetize the content.
Euen Semple
JANUARY 10, 2018
Sadly much of it has been turned into one big content farm. The internet still holds so much potential to helps us understand and improve ourselves and the world around us. It doesn't need to be this way. It is not too late. Each of us can ask our selves every time we share, like, or write something: Will this post trigger people to think more deeply about its topic? Have I written it in a way that is more likely to open up debate than close it down?
Xyleme
APRIL 8, 2021
This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Allina Health: Cutting Content Development Time by 66% with an Agile Reuse & Personalization Strategy appeared first on Xyleme | Content Management Solutions.
Xyleme
JUNE 14, 2018
Solutions Consultant, Mike Buoy , and Jennifer Rogers , Head of Learning at Anglo American, discussed how learning leaders need to rethink how to create, manage, and deliver content to meet the needs of the modern workforce. Learning organizations must find ways for their content to serve not only in courses, but the entire learning ecosystem. The post How to Create a Content Strategy that Resonates with the Modern Learner appeared first on Xyleme. In this webinar, Xyleme Sr.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
At DevLearn next week, I’ll be talking about content systems in session 109. The point is that instead of monolithic content, we want to start getting more granular for more flexible delivery. And while there I’ll be talking about some of the options on how, here I want to make the case about why, in a simplified way. As an experiment (gotta keep pushing the envelope in a myriad of ways), I’ve created a video, and I want to see if I can embed it. Fingers crossed.
Xyleme
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Download the free eBook by Brandon Hall Group and Xyleme, “Content Personalization at Scale: Why Content Strategy and Technology are Critical to Success.” The post Free eBook by Brandon Hall Group & Xyleme: Content Personalization at Scale appeared first on Xyleme
Xyleme
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
It’s critical that modern organizations prioritize their content development, management, delivery, and analysis processes if they want to stay ahead of emerging trends and be prepared to capitalize on new opportunities.
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. What should be the elements of content are an introduction to the learning experience, a presentation of the concept(s), examples that illustrate applying the concept to contexts, and a closing of the experience.
TOPYX LMS
MARCH 5, 2021
User-generated content (UGC) is trending in eLearning because of the value it can add to an employees’ LMS training experiences. LMS eLearning LMS Content Production
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
MARCH 10, 2021
The classic approach to enterprise content management was to provide a central place to edit and publish content. But in a world filled with hundreds of digital channels, and dozens of types of devices, the traditional content management platform has become a spoke on a hub.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 3, 2014
A number of years ago, I said that the problem for publishers was not going from text to content (as the saying goes), but from content to experience. And is this content aligned to that skill? For instance, if the content is a bunch of knowledge that somehow you’re to magically put in someone’s head, such as product information or arbitrary rules, you’re far better off putting that information in the world than trying to put it in the head.
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
I continue to have a problem with the term content as a component of what our field does. What we do is create content. Even in F2F training, we have content and structure around actions we ask our learners to take. At the end of the day, much of what we’re working on is content that is communicated or triggered by learner actions. I believe we need to focus on the activity , not on the content.
Xyleme
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
What is Content Personalization, anyway? When serving large volumes of content to multiple diverse audiences at scale, effective personalization is almost impossible – let alone sustainable – without the right strategy and tools in place. Overcoming 3 Main Challenges to Personalization.
TOPYX LMS
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Creating online learning content can be either very involved and complex, or simple. Online Learning Learning Experience Platform LXP Content ProductionIt all depends on the needs of your employees and the resources and tools your company has access to.
Adaptive Path
FEBRUARY 25, 2016
The biggest change in my understanding of design after joining Capital One, by far, is how I understand the importance and nature of content strategy in my design work. I honestly can’t understand how I’ve gone as long as I have without really digging into content strategy; it just seems so obvious now. First, I defined each chunk of content that we needed. Small section of content architecture document describing intentions of content sections.
Xyleme
AUGUST 16, 2017
There’s a lot of confusion surrounding Learning Content Management Systems. When most people hear the phrase “Learning Content Management System,” they usually think “Oh, an LMS.” ” Even a Google search for Learning Content Management System returns ads for Learning Management Systems, and articles that claim to rank the top LCMS’s, but really only include Learning Management Systems. What is a Learning Content Management System?
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
Alex Hodgson of ReadCube is leading a panel called “Accessing Content: New Thinking and New Business Models or Accessing Research Literature” at the Shaking It Up conference. You import your pdfs, read them with their enhanced reader, and can annotate them and discover new content. “What does content want to be?” JSTOR has 150M content accesses per year, 9,000 institutions, 2,000 archival journals, 27,000 books.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 13, 2014
I wrote up my visit to the Intelligent Content conference for eLearnMag , but one topic I didn’t raise was an unanswered question I raised during the conference: should the ‘smarts’ be in the content or the system? Making content smart would require a bunch of additional elements to the content. Having well-defined content and letting the system use contextual information to choose the content is the typical system used in the industry.
Xyleme
JULY 1, 2020
What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG,) or “rapid” tools, apply styles that are hard-coded into the content, which means that the writing and designing are coupled together. Let’s be honest — so-called “rapid” authoring tools aren’t really rapid at all.
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