Donna Ayer

Social collaboration adds a critical component to leadership programs for quick, engaging, and effective learning

NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SkillSoft today announced the availability of the inGenius® social learning platform on SkillSoft Leadership Advantage (SLA), the company's targeted leadership development solution. SkillSoft, a leading SaaS provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small-to-medium-sized businesses, added inGenius social collaboration capabilities to its SLA solution to support ongoing informal learning, knowledge sharing and transfer, and the development of in-house subject matter experts. Collaboration is a key component of best-of-breed leadership development programs and the addition of inGenius to SkillSoft Leadership Advantage means that leaders within an organization can now collaborate on their development and corporate goals.

SkillSoft's inGenius social learning platform extends the value of trusted, expert information by providing opportunities for employees to contribute their knowledge and expertise in ways that build upon a company's learning culture, strengthen ties and forge collaborative relationships among groups and individuals that might not otherwise interact.

"Social learning is now a core element and an invaluable part of today's learning programs, and with the addition of inGenius, SLA users can now easily connect with colleagues that share their same interests or with those who offer areas of expertise they need to build upon," said John Ambrose, senior vice president of Strategy, Corporate Development & Emerging Business for SkillSoft. "Learning becomes more collaborative, resulting in better trained employees and stronger working relationships."

With the addition of inGenius, several new features have been added to the SLA learning platform, including:

* MyProfile – Create and manage user profiles and identify areas of user interest and expertise.
* Recent Activity Dashboard – Follow the recent activity news feed to stay apprised of community activities happening on the inGenius platform.
* Commenting – Users can make comments and share knowledge assets and expertise with their colleagues leveraging the extensive and trusted SkillSoft library of on-demand learning assets
* Recommending – Make recommendations on learning assets to others and see what assets others find valuable.
* Searching for Co-content / People / Profiles – Find company experts via a search and browse capability that identifies colleagues with similar and related interests.
* Notifications – Notifies users within the inGenius community of activities with particular relevance to their interests or learning programs.
* Scoring - Accumulate points through activities performed– updating profile, making recommendations, making comments, and other members rating comments as helpful all contribute to an inGenius score that reflects a users community status.

With SkillSoft Leadership Advantage, leaders can take advantage of inherent, practical training to build a greater understanding of key competencies that are aligned with organizational goals and needed to better lead and develop employees. Building on the strengths of other award-winning SkillSoft products, SLA provides busy executives with resources that target essential leadership and management skills. The many topics covered include: leading change, strategic agility, business execution and business acumen.

For more information on inGenius on SLA, please visit: http://www.skillsoft.com/elqNow/elqRedir.htm?ref=http://www.skillsoft.com/infocenter/brochures/documents/LeadershipAdvantage_Data.pdf

About SkillSoft

SkillSoft is a leading SaaS provider of on-demand e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses. SkillSoft enables business organizations to maximize business performance through a combination of comprehensive e- learning content, online information resources, and flexible learning technologies and support services. SkillSoft is on the web at http://www.skillsoft.com.

Content offerings include business, IT, desktop, compliance and consumer/SMB courseware collections, as well as complementary content assets such as Leadership Development Channel video products, KnowledgeCenter(TM) portals, virtual instructor-led training services and online mentoring services. SkillSoft's Books24x7(R) product offering includes access to more than 29,000 digitized IT and business books, as well as book summaries and executive reports. Technology offerings include the SkillPort(R) learning management system, Search-and-Learn(R), SkillSoft(R) Dialogue(TM), inGenius(R) and virtual classroom.

SkillSoft content described herein is for information purposes only and is subject to change without notice. SkillSoft has no obligation or commitment to develop or deliver any future release, upgrade, feature, enhancement or function described in this press release except as specifically set forth in a written agreement.

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Donna Ayer, 603-821-3211
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