Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How are you capturing this social learning, and more important, how are your customers doing it using your system? Bobby Yazdani: There are multiple abstractions built in to the product. People can organize into groups around initiatives, ideas, products, geographies, business processes, and many other elements. We would allow for these groups to

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I think that is a reasonable point to underscore. Bobby Yazdani: There are a couple of other important points. The sessions, where the content is being delivered, would have to manage the same amount of data from users and learners. Whether you are on a smartphone, on a desktop or in a classroom,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: That is an evolution I would say almost all enterprise software companies have gone through in the last decade. Bobby Yazdani: That is right. But with that evolution came an operational model, retraining our enablement of our own organization to support a very different business model.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 1)

Bobby Yazdani is the chief executive officer of SABA, one of the industry’s leading learning and talent management providers. Bobby holds a BA in applied mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1997 Bobby founded SABA, and he took the company public in 2000. Today the company has revenue of more than $100

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Startup Teaches Kids How To Write, Invites Teachers and Students To Join

Most kids use technology for games and music. What about using technology to learn to write, an essential skill to master early in life? With Cubert’s Cube, entrepreneur Melanie Kusmik is attempting to do just that – teaching kids how to write by harnessing the power of the social web. Years of experience in software

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Gameification: Accelerating Learning with Technology

By Guest Authors Daniel Burrus and John David Mann Anyone who has kids—or who has been around them for any length of time—knows they are attracted to video games like moths to light. You might be tempted to think these young-uns are using their time idly. In reality, they’re pioneering the future of business training

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Examville, New York City

Examville is a global online education platform for user-to-user collaborative learning. The platform provides an open, virtual meeting place to connect teachers with students of any age or nationality while offering access to materials from major educational publishers.

Forbes Column 2010: The Knock-On Effect Of Global English

Already, people in rural India are tutoring U.S. students in math and science. Read more in The Knock-On Effect Of Global English.