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Screaming about Sakai

The morning started out like any other.  David decided to unwrap a package of Orbit gum.  We've been headed down a path toward implementing a bit of BLTI from IMS (Basic Learning Tools Interoperability), and so we have a copy of Dr. Chuck's book on…

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How first and last aren’t that far apart

There is a trophy here at Rustici — the Donnelly Cup. Reserved for the lowest rung on the ping-pong ladder, the Donnelly Cup serves as a reminder to the owner that there is always room for improvement. The Cup changes hands often, and currently resides…

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Why People Pay Us

Before we bought 30 inch monitors for everybody, we used to print out all of the SCORM specs as they came out. The hard copy made them a whole lot easier to digest even though it meant the slaughter of many innocent trees. In unpacking…

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Let your customers know that you’re using the best

You pay for Rustici Software products, and we want to make sure that you’re getting the most out of them. Some of our customers prefer to tuck their use of our products away, and we’re fine with that. But others want to scream from the…

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Balloons and Streamers

If we were a supermarket, we'd have just dropped balloons and streamers on our good friends over at Tandem Learning. But, since we're 798 miles away from them, we just had cake and ice cream at the office instead. Why the hoopla? Well Tandem is…

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Proud To Be Different

Back-to-back. For the third year in a row, the Nashville Business Journal thinks we are one of the best places in town to work. I'm not normally driven by ego, awards or praise, but this is an award I hope to never lose. There aren't…

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Meet the Fab Four

If you read this blog, you probably noticed we’ve been interviewing folks to help us with some of the non-technical aspects of our business. We talked to a lot of really smart people and two weeks ago four of them showed up at the office…

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SCORM Cloud Libraries

We're pretty excited about the potential (and ever growing reality) of the SCORM Cloud. Over the last year or two, besides putting the SCORM Cloud services out there for use, we created tools to plug into it. The biggest of these is the SCORM Cloud…

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So many channels… please don’t miss what you need

There are so many channels now.  Whether we're talking radio, TV, or the web in general, there are so many ways that information is pouring over us. Like many companies, we're doing our best to reach everyone wherever they are... Of late, we've been finding…

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Obama’s award and misplaced vitriol

The US Department of Labor just announced their solicitation for grant applications (SGA) and they called it this: "Employment and Training Administration Notice of Availability of Funds and Solicitation for Grant Applications for Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program".  Whoa. I'm no political…

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SCORM Cloud, and how you’re actually using it

About two weeks ago, we reached out to some SCORM Cloud users, asking them a few questions about how they use SCORM Cloud.  You see, we built SCORM Cloud in such a way that people can really use it how they want to.  The problem,…

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Benefits a la Rustici Software

Have you heard we're hiring?  'Cause we are, and I think you might want to work here. In the process of our interviews and the emails I exchange with people, I've tried to give a short explanation of our benefits, and I've failed every time.…

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