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Kineo to Exhibit E-learning and Totara successes at ASTD ICE in Orlando May 23-25, 2011

Kineo will be exhibiting at the upcoming ASTD ICE conference in Orlando. Held each spring, ASTD is the premier event for workplace learning and development professionals and will be attended by 8,000 professionals from more than 70 countries.

2011-04-20
EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND, April 20, 2011 (Press-News.org) These professionals manage all aspects of learning in their organizations. Kineo will be represented by UK Director Stephen Walsh, US CEO, Steve Lowenthal, VP of Learning Design Cammy Bean and Director of Moodle and Totara Solutions Jonathan Newman.

Kineo's team will be sharing best practices in eLearning featuring case studies from ARAMARK and Paul Mitchell and demoing Totara, the custom distribution of the open source LMS Moodle that Kineo's developed with partners Catalyst and Flexible Learning (now Kineo Pacific).

Kineo CEO, Steve Lowenthal, commented:
The opportunity to get first-hand input from a large cross section of industries and individuals is truly unique and invaluable. We're really excited to share the enhancements we've implemented with Moodle to meet the needs of large corporations while still delivering all the benefits of open source.

Stop by booth 608 for one of the following sessions:
Monday (May 23)
9:30 - 10:15 AM Blended Learning: Rolling out competency-based interviewing at ARAMARK.
10:15 - 11:00 AM Enterprise LMS: Managing Enterprise Learning with Totara, Kineo's Open Source distribution of Moodle.
11:00 - 11:45 AM Sales Channel Effectivenesss : Leveraging eLearning and Moodle to educate Paul Mitchell's sales channel on Color Products.

Tuesday (May 24)
11:15 - 12:00 AM Blended Learning: Rolling out competency-based interviewing at ARAMARK.
12:00 - 12:45 AM Enterprise LMS: Managing Enterprise Learning with Totara, Kineo's Open Source distribution of Moodle.
12:45 - 1:30 AM Sales Channel Effectiveness: Leveraging eLearning and Moodle to educate Paul Mitchell's sales channel on Color Products.

Want to arrange a session to have a personal demonstration and discussion of your needs? Let's fix a time. Email info@kineo.com to set up a session at ASTD (or any other time).


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[Press-News.org] Kineo to Exhibit E-learning and Totara successes at ASTD ICE in Orlando May 23-25, 2011
Kineo will be exhibiting at the upcoming ASTD ICE conference in Orlando. Held each spring, ASTD is the premier event for workplace learning and development professionals and will be attended by 8,000 professionals from more than 70 countries.