InGenius Is Social Learning (Graphic: Business Wire)

SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading SaaS provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses, today announced the launch of inGenius, a social learning platform layer that enables customers to securely empower their employees to find, create and share knowledge assets and expertise with their colleagues as they leverage the extensive and trusted SkillSoft library of on-demand learning assets. SkillSoft officially unveiled inGenius to the public at Bersin & Associates IMPACT 2010 conference: The Business of Talent®.

“Online social learning has become one of the primary elements of today’s modern corporate training model,” said Josh Bersin, CEO and president, Bersin Associates. “inGenius integrates social learning with structured content in unique and powerful ways, enabling Skillsoft customers to add knowledge sharing, collaboration, bookmarking, and other elements of informal learning right into their existing SkillSoft solutions.”

SkillSoft’s inGenius enables social learning by extending the value of expert information and infusing it with the knowledge and expertise of an organization’s own employees. Unlike many stand-alone social networking applications, which most often lack a particular application focus, inGenius is built on SkillSoft’s trusted Books24x7 On Demand content collections containing more than 25,000 titles -- digital books from leading publishers, analyst research reports, and white papers -- as well as 1,300 videos of leading thought leaders and practitioners.

“A shift is taking place in how people discover, read and share business-critical information and insights. The shift fuses the amplification power of social networks with proven informal learning solutions to change one-to-many monologues into meaningful many-to-many conversations. SkillSoft’s approach recognizes that information workers are not just learners, but also knowledge contributors, and provides organizations with a seamless way to capture and share their tacit wisdom,” said John Ambrose, senior vice president, strategy, corporate development and emerging business, SkillSoft. “Companies are just beginning to grasp the potential of social media through their personal experiences with products like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Wave. But they are searching for solutions that can harness the power of internal online communities to bring tangible value to the organization. With inGenius, learning organizations worldwide can experience for themselves how social learning can foster greater collaboration and results by leveraging SkillSoft’s secure, trusted and proven e-learning software and content.”

The Books24x7 library includes more than 25,000 titles, on-demand resources comprising digitized IT and business books, book summaries and videos on a wide range of relevant information technology, business skills, computer desktop skills and compliance subjects.