We moved about a year ago... basically across the street from where our old office was located. Our new space is beautiful, and ever-so-slowly over the past year we have added some personal touches (and inside jokes) to the space as we continue to turn this…
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[caption id="attachment_2087" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] We tried to come up with a funny caption for this photo. The winner was ‘Area Dad Worries About Grocery Bill.’[/caption] A big part of my role as Office Manager is to make sure that Rustici Software employees are happy and…
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We originally introduced the world to SCORM Cloud in 2009. If you count it’s predecessor, TestTrack, it dates back even earlier. Since then, the website has remained largely untouched. We figured it was way overdue for a change. On March 24th, 2017, we rolled out an…
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This week LTG (our parent company) announced the formal acceptance of their bid to acquire NetDimensions. Depending on who you are and what you know, this may or may not seem like a big deal, or even a potential threat. I wanted to quickly, publicly,…
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Today we’re excited to announce support for a new specification in SCORM Cloud- cmi5, which is something that doesn’t happen all that often in its history. Along with making cmi5 support readily available in SCORM Cloud, we’ve also added support for cmi5 to some of…
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About a year ago today, Learning Technologies Group purchased Rustici Software outright, and invested in the simultaneously spun off Watershed. I can happily say a year later that I’m actually glad we sold the company. It’s true, if we were selling today, based on the…
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We kicked off a new event here last week that we're calling Family Meal. Around here, we place a premium on intentional time together. We feel it’s important and it matters. In an effort to mix things up and continue to evolve culturally as a…
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The parallels between television and elearning are abundant. I mean, who doesn’t love sitting down on a Friday night to watch the best elearning they couldn’t get to all week? Really, though, there are plenty of legitimate parallels, and one of the things I like…
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Back in January, Mike and I sold Rustici Software to a British company called LTG. One thing I “learned” in that process is that recurring revenue is very valuable to a company (or its owners). As a business, we sell several products on term licenses,…
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I can’t think of a single LMS that handles language support elegantly. Yes, many of them have a setting whereby a person who speaks another language can reconfigure the interface to reflect their preferred language. But very few LMSs allow a learner to switch the…
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We see two distinct ways to innovate learning standards. One is to push the community forward by developing and evangelizing emerging standards. We do this all the time. The other is to create and deploy new approaches around existing standards. Our SCORM Engine powers content…
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Welcome to week one of the post-acquisition Rustici Software world. I just thought I’d take a moment here to discuss one of the reasons we agreed to sell Rustici Software to LTG, because it’s not all about the money. Mike and I were seeking investment…
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