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2021
News Coverage
June 14: (Training Magazine) Digital Learning Tools to Prepare for the Post-Pandemic Hiring Surge
May 7: (HR.com) Women Leaders in Learning: Pulling Through Crisis With an Inclusive Approach and Aim for Higher Standards
January 22: (Training Magazine) Learning From 2020 and Preparing for the Future: The Importance of Digital Learning Tools
January 21: (Brandon Hall Group) Inkling Certified as Smartchoice® Preferred Provider by Brandon Hall Group
January 12: (Forbes) 15 HR-Recommended Strategies For Achieving True Diversity And Inclusion
January 8: (Training Magazine) 2021 HR and Training Predictions
Press Releases
September 1: Inkling Illuminate 2021 to Showcase Strategies for Modern Digital Learning, Content Creation and Personalization
June 9: Inkling Webinar Explores How CHRISTUS Health Transformed Learning Across its Hospital System
February 25: Inkling Survey Reveals Only 28% of Companies Have the Right Learning and Development Tools to Address Employee Needs
2020
News Coverage
September 4: (Forbes) 16 Ways Employers Can Create An Effective Virtual Onboarding Experience
July 30: (Forbes) A Force For Change: How The Pandemic Is Creating Necessary Reforms To Learning Environments
June 10: (Training Magazine) Should Training Initiatives Continue During the Pandemic? Absolutely!
May 27: (Forbes) 16 Tips For Leaders Managing Their First Remote Team
April 21: (Forbes) A Missing Link In Corporate Learning: Focus On Capabilities To Support Dynamic Business Environments
April 10: (Training Industry) 5 Tips for Effectively Managing and Engaging a Remote Workforce During a Crisis
March 25: (Forbes) The Future Of Learning: Top Five Trends For 2020
March 23: (HR Technologist) Social Distancing Vs. Productivity: Finding the Balance
March 9: (KMWorld) KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2020
Press Releases
2019
News Coverage
October 11: (PTLW) PLTW Receives Inspire Award from Inkling for Innovation in Learning
October 8: (Training Industry) Tapping a New Breed of Modern Learning Platform to Drive Operational Agility and Business Results
September 10: (Josh Bersin) Learning In The Flow Of Work: Now Available For HR
April 26: (Aragon Research) Inkling Gains Momentum as Demand for Interactive Content Grows
April 15: (HR Executive) Capitalizing on the Benefits of Mobile-based Learning
April 3: (HR Technologist) Buying into Mobile: Why It's the Right Tool to Optimize the Learner Experience
April 1: (Brandon Hall) HCMx Radio 113: Enterprise Learning Enablement
February 11: (Franchising USA) Survey highlighting how businesses are using mobile to better train and onboard frontline employees
January 14: (Retail Customer Experience) Restaurateurs ditching paper manuals for digital training tools
Press Releases
2018
News Coverage
November 25: (Training Mag) Is “Google it" the future of learning?
November 14: (Total Retail) Your Frontline: The Key to Winning the Bricks vs. Clicks Battle
September 15: (Retail Focus) Training & Communication in Today’s Retail Workplace
September 13: (Fast Casual) When hiring: Don't forget grandma and grandpa
August 10: (Modern Restaurant Management) The State of the Restaurant Industry (Infographic)
August 2: (Fast Casual) 3 Ways to Keep your LTO From Falling Flat
July 24: (Modern Restaurant Management) The LTO Phenomenon is not a Limited Time Opportunity
July 17: (The Digital Enterprise) Interview with Matt MacInnis, Co-founder and CEO at Inkling
July 2: (QSR) Are Your LTOs Instagram Worthy?
June 22: (Training Mag) Keep Your Phone Handy: How full employment is shifting management of hourly workforces
June 20: (Fast Casual) Helping couch surfers find your drinks, other add-ons: Delivering on delivery
June 7: (Training Industry) Training Content Management and Measurement: Using Analytics to Determine the Impact of Content
June 6: (Modern Restaurant Management) Restaurant Success Survey and Open Fields to Accelerate Sustainable Sourcing
April 4: (Chief Learning Manager) Yo Quiero Learning! Taco Bell Spices Up Training
February 5: (RIS) Massive Tech Deployment Helps Taco Bell Streamline Training and Operations at 7,000 Stores
January 30: (Employee Cycle) Building Great Company Culture With A Remote Workforce - Podcast Interview
January 17: (RIS) Best of NRF 2018: Top 10 Takeaways
January 4: (Chain Storage) Commentary: Three Tips for Flawless Execution in 2018
Press Releases
2017
News Coverage
December 18: (WWD) Think Tank: How to Ensure Store-Level Execution
December 1: (CIO Bulletin) 50 Best Workplaces To Watch 2017
September 11: (VOX) How I survived and thrived in Apple’s legendary environment of super-secrecy
September 5: (Entrepreneur) This Former Apple Executive Brought His Company Through 2 Tough Pivots and Now Has McDonald’s, Comcast and Whole Foods as Clients
April 7: (Hotel Business) Using Messaging, Task Management Platform to Lead a Workforce
March 20: (Hotel Management) How mobile is empowering employees and creating happier guests
March 17: (Fast Company) Why The Most Effective Managers Don’t (Just) Set Goals
January 18: (PC Mag) How Inkling Turned McDonald’s and Starbucks Into Mobile Workforces
January 16: (Sramana Mitra) Successful Pivot from B-to-C to B-to-B: Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis
2016
News Coverage
December 21: (Fox Business)Business Power Tools: How Inkling's CEO Organizes His Mind
December 14: (Computer World) With a McDonald’s case study in tow, Inkling scoops up cash
December 13: (Silicon Valley Business Journal) SAP-backed VC firm leads $25M funding of Bay Area online document startup
December 13: (Venture Beat) Inkling raises $25 million to make files extinct
December 13: (Inkling) Inkling Raises $25 Million in Funding to Empower the Deskless Worker
December 6: (SHRM) Few HR Tech Platforms Untouched by Mobile Trend
November 28: (Bloomberg) Why Can't We Stop Sexual Harassment at Work?
October 17: (Information Week) McDonald’s Cooks Up Digital Document Infrastructure
September 27: (QSR) McDonald’s New Platform to Affect Over 750,000 Workers
September 27: (QSR) McDonald’s hits upon big dollar-saving solution to desk-less worker dilemma
September 27: (Computer World) Would you like fries with your training manual? Inkling’s aim to reinvent content validated
February 02: (Fortune) How McDonald’s and Medtronic Teach (and Reach) Employees
March 17: (Fast Company) Why The Most Effective Managers Don’t (Just) Set Goals
January 25: (INC) 6 Smart Tools That Will Help You Grow Your Business
January 15: (Chief Learning Officer) The Year of Optimized Knowledge
January 8: (Fast Company) Here’s What Being Too Nice At Work Is Costing Your Company
2015-2010
News Coverage
December 11: (Fast Company) Why Your Company Needs To Have More Emergencies
December 1: (Fast Company) The Hidden Costs Of A Broken Work Culture
October 23: (Biz Journals) Fast 100: Inkling CEO: ‘We want to double our business every year'
September 1: (Inc) Fast 100: Inkling CEO: Inc. 500: What I Learned From Steve Jobs
July 15: (Inc) Inkling CEO: ‘We Had to Make the Decision to Win Big’
May 7: (Publishers Weekly) Inkling CEO: Inkling Adds Deals With Wolters Kluwer, McGraw-Hill
May 6: (Good Reader) Inkling Signs On As McGraw-Hill Education’s Digital Publishing Provider
April 3: (Android Police) Inkling eBook Beta App Brings A Catalog Of Interactive Instructional Literature To Android
March 1: (Fast Company) Building a Better E-Book (Than Amazon and Apple)
February 1: (Fast Company) Most Innovative Companies 2014: #45. Inkling: For Rewriting the Book on E-Books
November 13: (Fast Company) Modernist Cuisine’s First iPad App May Be Better Than The Book
July 1: (Reuters) Inkling scores $16M, partners with Pearson and Elsevier for its digital book platform
February 1: (Bloomberg) Building a Better E-Book (Than Amazon and Apple)
January 1: (New Yorker) The Book of the Future, Sliced and Diced
January 1: (Publishers Weekly) Inkling Turns Web Searches into New Storefront for Digital Books
February 14: (USA Today) Startup Inkling wants to dominate digital publishing
February 14: (Tech Crunch) An Answer To Apple: Inkling Creates First Industrial-Grade Publishing Platform For Interactive eBooks
February 14: (Mashable) Inkling Takes on Apple iBooks With a New Tool for Publishers
December 5: (Macworld)The 27th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards
August 29: (Huff Post) Matt MacInnis And Inkling Are Reinventing Textbooks For Tablets
August 29: (TIME) Can Digital Textbooks Truly Replace the Print Kind?
August 2: (USA Today) Inkling opens textbooks on the iPad
November 10: (Tech Crunch) Inkling Debuts Interactive iPad Textbook Experience with a Photography App
August 23: (Gigaom)Inkling Says the iPad is the Textbook of the Future
August 23: (NY Times) Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad
August 20: (Tech Crunch) Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Scores Sequoia Funding, Publisher Deals
August 19: (WSJ) Textbooks Up Their Game
January 27: (Venture Beat) Inkling lets textbook makers embrace the iPad