The E-Learning Curve Blog Joins the eLearning Learning Community

I’m delighted to announce that the E-Learning Curve Blog has joined the eLearning Learning community. eLearning Learning is

a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning.

In a response to a Learning Circuits Blog Big Question a few months ago, I described myself as a ‘learnivore:’

I continually acquire new knowledge and information through my Web-, book-, podcast-, and presentation reading, blogging (reading and writing), academic study and research, and work-based learning-related tasks. These activities are drivers for the information I try to take on board in my attempts to enhance my skills, abilities, and expertise.

This sounds great in theory, but in practice it means that I must carefully manage my time to ensure that I can stay current with the best that all of the above (especially the e-learning blogging community) have to contribute. For the last 18 months, I have used Google reader, Foxmarks, del.icio.us and Bloglines to manage my RSS feeds and interesting links. All of these utilities are great, but having four tools to aggregate and store content is inefficient, particularly as I don’t just subscribe to e-learning blogs. eLearning Learning enables me to access a range of regularly updated e-learning content with the click of a mouse button.

In my view, eLearning Learning’s value is threefold (see Figure 1):

1. It’s a single location when you can access the cream of e-learning blogs and commentary from a diverse range of contributors
2. Those contributors write some of my favorite blogs including Clive on Learning, eLearning Technology, elearnspace, Informal Learning, Jane Hart - Pick of the Day, Kapp Notes, Lars is Learning and the Rapid eLearning Blog… as well as a bunch of really interesting blogs I’m looking forward to getting to know.
3. It’s an easy-to-use, web-based interface – perfect (and appropriate) to view content from the main page area, by keyword or blog name. Similarly, find content using the search functionality.

The easiest way to discover the site is to simply go there and check it out. In the meantime I’ve created a (very) short demo highlighting some of the features: just click on the image to view the presentation.

Figure 1. eLearning Learning homepage

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Elearning Companies in Ireland: RFI

I use the fantastic StatCounter.com Website and Blog Analytics service to measure my Elearning Curve Blog's metrics; this is not just because they're an Irish company, but also because they provide very comprehensive and granular logs and metrics.

Among other things it enables me to review are such statistics as

• site usage
• page loads
• popularity of site by location (for an English-language site, I've an unusually large group of readers in Brazil, for example: Olá! Como vai?)
• location of subscribers (hello also to my most northerly reader in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada)

...and so forth.

According to my "Most popular keyword" reports, a very common query is "e-learning companies ireland." A recent Silicon Republic report states that there are over sixty such organizations based in Ireland, but from my researches no directory of these companies is available online.

Now, we all know about Skillsoft, WBT Systems, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Electric Paper, Intuition, and so forth, but who else is out there?

I (and seemingly quite a few other people in the blogosphere) would like to know.

So, if you send me your company details via the Comments link at the bottom of this post (name, URL, location, market space etc), I'll put them together in an easily accessible online directory, not for any other reason than nobody seems to have undertaken this activity before - that I'm aware of, anyway.

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