Monday, April 20, 2009

The Library of Kenya

I'm pretty psyched about the launch of the Library of Kenya. This is the brainchild of Ledama Olekina, a very busy guy. Besides running Maasai Education Discovery which has been bringing education to the rural communities in Kenya, running food drives and leading the charge to build Kenya's first national library system, he's running for president of Kenya.

With the help of the guys at OSSLabs, we setup a Koha library system and will iteratively customize it to support the needs of the Kenyan people. Exciting!

Revenue Cycle University

I've been extremely busy lately, Logical Steps has been rolling out Revenue Cycle University with "go live" dates this summer. This is part of Logical Steps' latest joint venture with the amazing folks at Zimmerman. In this venture, In this venture, we've rolled out 20+ courses to a major health system in New York and are in the process of rolling out 10 new courses to 6 clients. Each course must be customized for the client, for a total of 60 courses, not to mention demo courses!

As part of this initiative, we're also building a super cool learning system. I dare not say elearning system because that term has lost its meaning to me with all of the varieties, standards and actual ways that people learn online. That said, our system is leveraging the best from our work with new media platform R&D including social media, animations, closed-loop feedback, healthcare specific asset libraries and many more exciting features.

Considering that we have teams in US, Singapore and India working on this, we're managing 3 different holiday schedules. Each course has dozens of tasks and combined with the system development tasks, our current project plan has almost 1800 tasks. Whew!