SMS stands for “Social Media Strategist” and it’s a serious, well-implemented credential for aspiring IT professionals seeking to labor in the general arena of social media. I spent half an hour on the phone this morning with Eric Mills, the founder of the National Institute for Social Media (NISM), the organization behind this credential. You know you’re dealing with a start-up when the founder is the guy who picks up ...

Independent IT training delivery company ExecuTrain announces today the implementation of a new next-generation training program across its 27 global franchisees. In an effort to stay at the forefront of the technology demands that are transforming today’s classroom, ExecuTrain has named Logical Operations as their preferred training curriculum provider worldwide. “Partnering with Logical Operations was a natural fit. As the leader in Instructor-Led Training (ILT) curriculum design, they were able ...

More than ever, businesses are relying on technology to get their work done and customers served. From simple things like having websites and social media accounts, to more advanced uses like crunching big data numbers and securing mobile apps, businesses are looking for a much broader skill set from their employees today. While some employees may be able to get away with only knowing the basics of Microsoft Office, most ...

Logical Operations today announces a new partnership with the National Institute for Social Media (NISM). NISM is the first and only organization to offer industry educational standards for the social media field, to provide an expert-facilitated social media training program geared to help businesses use social media effectively. “As the premier social media certification body and only organization to develop educational standards for social media marketing, the National Institute for ...

For Bill Rosenthal, CEO of Logical Operations, acquiring a New Horizons' franchise in Rochester seemed like the perfect opportunity. Logical Operations has provided instructor-led courseware and services to clients for nearly 30 years, while New Horizons is an independent IT training company with a center in Rochester. "Rather than having a limited internal testing opportunity for our products, we now have real students … that come to our classes at ...

There's no better time than now to start becoming a more effective virtual trainer. And, here are seven New Year's resolutions you can make to help you become one. They'll be particularly useful for trainers whose background has focused on traditional classroom training and are now being asked to lead more learning programs virtually. Keep training sessions short You can't hold the attention of a virtual audience for as long ...

CIOReview has named Logical Operations as one of its “20 Most Promising Education Technology Solution Providers of 2013” based on its dedication to innovation in information technology training. Logical Operations: Delivering Business Training Courses That Transform the Learning Experience Logical Operations has been delivering and developing high-quality professional training solutions for more than 3 decades. Their professional training solutions are adaptable to the way in which today’s technology-savvy students learn. ...

Giving learners the opportunity to access learning via their own mobile devices offers your workforce great flexibility, but opens security and other concerns. Most smart phone users check their phones a whopping 150 times a day, 100 hours of video per minute are uploaded to YouTube, and tablet shipments surpassed desktop PCs and notebooks in fourth quarter 2012, according to The Meeker report, presented at the D11 Conference in May. ...