Last month I attended the elearning network November event. One of the sessions showed how merrill lynch are delivering e-learning content via a blackberry.

Delivery of content via blackberry has proved to be a great success with an increased adoption rate amongst their trial group. The group also provided some great insights into how the blackberry user wanted to have content delivered.

I’ve been able to view some of the content modules and it was interesting to see how they worked. Designed to be about 15 minutes in duration with no amazing video they are designed for the blackberry user…sat on the train with a few minutes to spare….email, web, phone, messages…and then they can pick up a module that they have downloaded.

The technology that they have used minimises download time and also ensures that your results are stored in case you are offline. Everything connects to the LMS so all the reporting is captured. I’m providing a very simple overview of what was a well thought out project execution!

The method of delivery did generate a great deal of discussion, with the team at ML stressing that this was a specific method of delivery for a specific group of employees. It will be very interesting to see how e-learning will start to be delivered across portable devices such as the blackberry and the Iphone in the future.

…it took a little longer that we expected but we’ve moved. Our new home is blog.realprojects.co.uk. For a while we wanted to have the blog on our own domain name and also with our own theme. We ended up getting really busy with client work so we had to leave some of our own projects to one side.

you might have also noticed that we’ve added some more content to the website. We also have some whitepapers and podcasts which we also want to get uploaded.

On the subject of moving we’ve just celebrated one year in our new offices in Norwich. I can’t really believe that it was one year ago that we moved. As a company and a team we have moved on a great deal which is down to the great team of people that we have working at RP and those who have worked at RP!

We are hoping to have another open day next year so we might see some of you over the coming 12 months. If you want to have a site visit then please give the office a call we’d be only too happy to welcome you along!