The 100-Word Guide: 10 Tips to Improve Your Business Videos
Organizations around the world are adopting video — not just for marketing, but training, communications, support, and more. Just as we all did with email, we all need to brush up on how to best...
View ArticleReflecting on LearnTec 2016
This week I’ve been at the LearnTec 2016 convention in Karlsruhe, Germany, talking about the role video can play in enhancing teaching and learning. This was the 24th annual LearnTec event, and each...
View ArticleEngage: Multi-Cam
Panopto makes it easy for your organization to record, store, share, and search video, no matter what kind of video device you’re using. But what if you want to use more than one video device? Panopto...
View ArticleBest Practices for Holding and Recording Town Hall Meetings
More and more, employees are requesting greater transparency from the companies they work for. A Forbes poll found that 71% of employees felt that managers don’t spend enough time explaining goals and...
View Article14 Ideas for Using Video in Employee Training
Using video as a tool to supplement and scale corporate employee training programs is no longer a new idea. Today video training has the case study endorsement of Fortune 100 blue chips like IBM and...
View ArticleCross-Departmental Training: A Major Advantage, Rarely Taken Advantage Of
Cross-departmental training isn’t a new idea — but that doesn’t mean it’s already part of the training curriculum at most companies. Is your organization missing out? Cross-departmental training...
View ArticleBreaking the Ice: Using Video for Employee Onboarding at Panopto
We all know it’s good to have friends at work. But how important is it? According to a recent Gallup study, employees with strong social connections in the workplace are more productive and more...
View ArticlePowering Microlearning with Video
New numbers from Bersin by Deloitte suggest that just 1% of a typical working week is devoted to training and development activities. For an average week, that works out to just 24 minutes — only a...
View ArticleForget Millennials. Is Your Management Training Ready For Generation X?
It seems as if all the buzz in the talent development community these days is about Millennials — and to be fair, not without some reason. Studies now indicate 2016 will be the year when Millennials...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Questions You Should Ask in Your Video Platform RFP
As video becomes ever more integral to how businesses communicate, how teachers teach, and how we all share ideas and information, many organizations are quickly finding that now is the right time to...
View ArticleWhat Is Social Learning? And Why Is It So Important for Employee Training?
Social learning is quickly becoming an increasingly hot topic for corporate learning & development departments as more businesses look to leverage the knowledge of their subject matter experts...
View ArticleDesigning a Video Onboarding Program That Goes Beyond Day One
Onboarding, it seems, is growing up. It wasn’t so long ago that many organizations treated new employee onboarding almost as an afterthought. “First Days” were often hastily outlined by the hiring...
View ArticleHow – and why – Bangor University uses Panopto
Tell us what you use Panopto for at your institution We’ve been using Panopto at Bangor University for more than five years now. As our use of the system has developed, we’ve found ourselves recording...
View ArticleMaking the Case for Video? 5 Facts Your Company Should Know about Using Video...
You don’t need us to tell you that video is a great tool for training. Using video as a tool to supplement and scale your learning and development programs is no longer a new idea. Today video training...
View ArticleMillennials Are Now The Majority Of The Workforce.What Does That Mean For...
The latest research on the demographic makeup of the modern workplace is out, and with it comes a striking headline. The Millennial generation — which passed the Baby Boomer generation to become the...
View ArticleTips for Creating Employee Onboarding Videos
So you’ve heard video can help your employee onboarding be more engaging and consistent, and you want to try it out. But where do you begin? A sample employee onboarding training video. If you’re...
View ArticleVideo Conferencing vs. Video CMS — What’s The Difference?
Video conferencing, web conferencing, unified communications — what were once distinct toolsets have in the past half-decade seen the lines that separate them blur. Traditionally, “video conferencing”...
View ArticleIt’s time to retire the red pen.
A red pen lives on the desk of almost every educator in every school and university. That same red pen rests near the keyboard of every manager in every workplace. That red pen has one job — to mark...
View ArticleAn Easier Way to Train and Retain New Employees
As an employer, you want to ensure that all of your new hires are set up for success from the moment they walk through the door on their first day. You’re not alone. An increasing number of...
View Article4 Ideas to Help HR Teams “Do More With Less”
In the world of human resources, it sometimes feels like the Great Recession never ended. According to research from the Hackett Group, even with projected revenue growth up 7 percent year over year,...
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