The Woople blog: Archive

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Search Keeps Getting Better!

Now you can use the Woople Search feature to find specific channel episodes and course lessons. Simply enter the name of the content that you are interested in and the results will show all of the channels, channel episodes, courses, and lessons that match. You can then take your pick and start watching right away. Check it out today! Sincerely, The Woople Team

Feb 9th

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Watch on the Go, with Woople Mobile!

Woople users have been looking for more flexibility and mobility in their Woople experience, and now they have it with Woople Mobile! We are excited to announce that users can now access Woople on their iPhone! All you have to do is open Safari, enter in the address of your Woople account, and type in your email and password – that is it! There is nothing to download or install. You can now...

Jan 26th

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The Art Of Building A Business

(photo copyright of Kevin Bate) What started out as indistinct black patches on a neutral ground has, layer by layer, come into focus as the confident, alert face of Nikola Tesla. To his left is a stern Charles Babbage, complete in sepia. These are two of the six founding fathers of technology, the latest mural by Chattanooga artist Kevin Bate. Kevin begins each painting with the darkest areas,...

Jan 26th

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Recession to Progression: How eLearning Helps Us...

Throughout the down economy, much of the discussion has focused on the plight of unemployed and underemployed Americans. It’s hard to find a group that hasn’t been squeezed—young people starting out, older workers delaying retirement, the “sandwich generation” with kids still in the nest and parents whose fixed retirement incomes leave them short. In the past, businesses outsourced crucial...

Jan 19th

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Recession to Progression: How eLearning Helps Us...

Tough economic times have been frustrating for businesses too. They’ve had to lay off experienced, dedicated employees, but haven’t been able to hire the young blood companies rely on for enthusiasm and cutting-edge skills. There’s a huge gap between the positions companies need to hire for and the skills job seekers have to offer. Fortunately, there is a simple solution to help businesses get...

Dec 30th

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Search Is Here!

Have you ever logged into woople knowing exactly what video you want to watch but had a hard time finding it? Maybe you could not quite remember where it was, or whether it was a course or a channel, or the exact name. Our most recent update is designed to make it easier than ever to find your favorite content. We are happy to announce the release of the new woople Search feature to help you get...

Dec 21st

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Recession to Progression: How eLearning Helps Us...

Big corporations, small businesses, and the government are all beginning to see what an opportunity we have to change how Americans approach training, education, and career trajectory. eLearning is exploding at the exact time we are questioning traditional hiring and training practices as well as the role of higher education in career preparation. It’s a perfect match. eLearning offers a low-cost...

Dec 12th

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Come Together: eLearning for All Generations

Part 4: Focus is the Foundation of eLearning for Millennials Constantly connected and adept with the latest gadgets, the Millennial generation views place and time differently than other generations. If you’re a Millennial, chances are the information you seek has always been at your fingertips, and life has been one long eLearning adventure. The advent of eLearning in the workplace seems only...

Oct 18th

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Steve Jobs: Technological Pioneer

Even when the internet was just a series of connected message boards, Steve Jobs knew how closely tied electronics and learning could be. In his own way, he pioneered eLearning. In his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford, Steve Jobs admitted he was a college drop out and described how he came to found Apple. That decision to leave the classroom and learn all he could about computers set him on a...

Oct 6th

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woople Release Notes

Another successful woople release was recently deployed! The new features will make management reports more functional and informative. Here’s what’s new: Certification Ranking For clients who are on certification, each of their organization owners will be able to easily see where each of the different business units they manage rank across the rest of the company. The rank is...

Oct 3rd

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woople and Transparency

Woople is not your typical piece of software. We adapt to changing requirements very quickly to solve problems as they arise. Anyone who has logged in to woople knows that it is constantly changing. As you may have noticed, we like to publish our release notes on our blog to keep everyone who is interested up-to-date on our progress. We are participating in a new trend in building software:...

Sep 30th

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Come Together: eLearning for All Generations

Part 3: Take Back Your Time with eLearning for Gen X If you are a Gen Xer you aren’t afraid to forge a new path. You are the generation who saw the workplace adopt the internet in full force, make flex time and work from home more common, and broke the model of working at one company for decades. You know that life is what you make of it and recognize the importance of being ready to seize...

Sep 15th

Come Together: eLearning for All Generations:

Part 2: eLearning Savvy for Baby Boomers If you are part of the Baby Boom generation, you’ve seen first hand just how rapidly the world is changing. Education and the workplace have seen some of the most drastic changes, thanks to technology allowing us access to information from anywhere in the world, at any time. There’s no denying that this fast paced environment has its perks. With just a few...

Sep 1st

Come Together: eLearning for All Generations

Transforming the way we learn and access information, eLearning has opened the doors of education. No longer is learning confined to the classroom or limited to a certain schedule. eLearning has made it easier than ever to continue education beyond the traditional cap and gown graduation and has made life-long learning a possibility like never before. Almost any topic imaginable can be accessed...

Aug 17th

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5 Reasons To Fall In Love With Customer Complaints

Written by Courtney Cochran As a business owner, salesperson or customer-facing employee, you are in the position to build relationships with the people you come in contact with each day. It may, in fact, be part of what you love about your career. Any relationship needs nurturing and attention. Customer relationships are no exception. Customers with complaints want very specific solutions to...

Jun 29th

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Rise and Shine with Morning Meetings

by Meghan O’Dea - copywriter/editor for Woople LLC. and PCWWE Here in Wildwood, we’ve started having a morning meeting for the Production team, so we can start the day on the same page and share what we accomplished the day before. It has been a great way to feel more like a team and start everyday with good communication. When we begin by seeing how our individual projects dovetail...

Jun 22nd

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Becoming a Great Teacher

by Mike Burdette For an organization to grow consistently, the organization must become a learning organization. In order for an organization to become a learning organization, there must be a teacher. Here are ten qualities of a GREAT teacher. Quality 1. A great teacher must have a real desire to teach. I remember, as I’m sure you do, all of the classes that you took where you could tell that...

Jun 15th

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Woople to provide online education for Allstate®

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (June 1, 2011) — Woople, LLC today announced that Allstate Corp. (ALL), is using its woople eLearning platform. The software company and insurer began working together in 2010 when Allstate chose woople as an educational tool for its agency owners and employees. By utilizing woople, Allstate is now able to take advantage of an engaging software platform that brings top-of-the...

Jun 1st

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Woople is back!

Our DNS servers issues were resolved yesterday morning, but now we’ve put in place a strategy to ensure the same outage won’t happen again.Thank you for bearing with us!

Apr 20th

Woople is currently inaccessible.

Our DNS servers are currently experiencing issues, and as a result you might not be able to access your Woople account. Please try back in an hour. Thank you for your patience. Updated on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 10:16 AM EST.

Apr 19th

Introducing the Woople Dashboard

Welcome to the Woople Dashboard One of our biggest areas of opportunity for the woople platform is helping to guide our learners through their library. When you have a learner with access to a thousand videos or more, it can be quite challenging. Enter the Woople dashboard: a place where you can see courses and channels you’ve started but haven’t finished, the most popular courses...

Jan 3rd

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If any of our learners would like to participate in the beta test of our new dashboard, just let me know. We’d love you to participate.

Dec 30th

Hey, I just followed a bunch of our new followers. Thanks so much, please feel free to get in touch.

Dec 30th

Looking at awesomeness.

Dec 2nd

There are 239 Bookmarked videos by 181 individuals in @shoutwoople. Not bad for a feature we released on Friday.

Oct 19th

Designing our first social feature. It’s been a year!

Oct 19th

Watch

This is how we release new features to our customers. The Woople developers releasing Woople Bookmarks to our production environment straight from the UI.

Oct 18th

bookmarks are now live for the @shoutwoople family, video coming soon.

Oct 15th

We’re building a game layer with @iconfactory for @shoutwoople #elearning

Oct 15th

Beta test told us, “the [bookmarks] feature that will take you back to the series is awesome!! better that what I would’ve ask for. :)

Oct 8th

New Feature: Custom Categories for Education...

Our education partners can now assign unique categories to courses and channels for different packages. So, for example, Paul can give a universal category to a course as “motivation” for all of his customers, but he can also categorize the same course as “Workout 1” for specific packages. Whoever is on that package will see the course appear under both categories. Our...

Oct 4th

Pivoting.

Sep 29th

Doing a big migration right now.

Sep 24th

Beta testers are already signing up to play with bookmarks. What a great feeling.

Sep 22nd

New Feature: Introducing Woople Bookmarks

The vast majority of woople learners have access to a very large library of courses and channels. For all of its strengths, this diverse source of information has some disadvantages. Specifically, our customers have told us when they identify an exceptionally valuable video, they struggle retrieving that video at a later date. We know there are many different navigational challenges for us to...

Sep 21st

almost done upgrading to Rails 3, new features in the hopper, feels gooooood.

Sep 15th

Friday August 20th, 2010 Release Notes

A big hello to all of our customers out there. It’s been a long time since our last blog post, but not to worry - we’ve been hard at work building awesome learning tools for you. Here’s what’s new in woople: Bug Fixes: Fixed a bug where you can create two users with the same email address if you duplicated the address with ALL CAPS. Big shout out to Ben for finding this...

Aug 23rd

Analyzing our customer support forum to make quick help lists for our customer care team. Hopefully will improve time to resolution.

Aug 19th

Our developers are on track for quite a week.

Aug 17th

Starting a big release today. We are all going hard until October. (via @camwest)

Aug 13th

RT @PaulDCummings: To all Woople users- focus on your minimum standard of 7 episodes per day- 3 when you arrive 1 before and 1 after lun …

Jul 12th

Our developers have had an awesome week. Can’t wait till our next release.

Jun 18th

We’re doing a deploy which migrates a lot of data. You may notice some slow performance for up to five minutes.

Jun 16th

The migration has been completed and service should be restored to 100% speed. Thanks for your patience.

Jun 16th

We just customized our online help tool. Looks wooply.

Jun 14th

We served 30,986 education videos this week. Feels good to hit the 30k mark.

Jun 11th

There are 17,882 users on woople as of now. #shoutwoople

Jun 11th

Videos are being completed at a rate of one every 30 seconds. Right on woople people. Keep learning!

Jun 9th

Huge thanks to the client and our team for working so hard during this massive rollout. Now the journey really begins.

Jun 3rd

Big June 1 milestone approaching quickly. Let’s go woople warriors!

May 27th