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(Rio de Janeiro/Miami – October, 2013 - @izzuiapp) Social learning app developer Izzui announces their first funding round of R$3 million from Confrapar, a Brazil-based growth capital firm. Izzui is a spinoff of leading corporate education solution provider Affero Lab that recently launched an open elearning marketplace app on Facebook for companies and individuals. The funds will be allocated for product development, marketing and strengthening the team.

The latest edition of Jane Hart’s Social Learning Handbook is now available to purchase as a paperback, or to read as a PDF.

The book analyzes the next generation of workplace learning practices in the age of knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Contents: The changing world of work and learning, Social learning in work teams, Online communities in the workplace, Connected learning activities, Becoming a social learner.

The training and learning technology provider Commelius Solutions has created a social learning platform, altoconnect, which will help organisations bring their dispersed learners together and measure the social side of learning.

Speexx is inviting HR and L&D professionals to share their thoughts about the key talent management challenges facing their organisation and how these issues are being addressed.

Speexx is currently running a survey among global HR and L&D managers. This is an annual survey conducted ahead of the Speexx Exchange event. The results are used as the basis for Speexx’s corporate white papers.

Speexx has released the second part of its video guide series to help HR and L&D Managers tackle global workforce issues: ‘Navigating data protection regulations for a global workforce’. This video guide looks at the impact of data protection in workforce development and the challenges faced by HR in managing this complex process. It also offers practical tips for dealing with workforce data and privacy issues.