Back this week from a 6 day cruise to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. What to do on chilly days at sea? Win first prize in the big-brain ( and name-that-tune) contest! The prize? the coveted ship-on-a-stick ! The contest - if you like riddles: What natural...

Some interesting research provided to Microsoft Learning by Intrepid Consulting . Take a look at the slide below on the relationship between proactive and reactive learning, and organizational structure. Here are the definitions of learning approach and...

Thanks to all of the Microsoft bloggers who have added me to their blog-rolls recently. Since this might actually increase the number of readers (sorry Mom) - I have added some info to the About page (What's going on here?) to introduce myself and the...

Here are the results of the Instant Poll from first two weeks of February: Instant Poll question for February: What is the most valuable type of learning component in an online course? Click here to vote.

I knew this was a good idea. Someone , apparently an exploratory learner, discovered a solution to the challenge below that was news to me, and new to Office 2007 (I think). Here is "someone's" solution: Tools => Organize => Using colors...

When I first moved over to this blog site last month, I was surprised at how much site traffic was reported - before I even sent around the URL. I guessed it was being crawled by indexers, but I didn't really understand how or why. Wired mag has an...

I learned today that Eli Manning's real name is Elisha Nelson Manning. I guess that will toughen you up on the ball-field as a kid. Anyway - GO GIANTS! and GO ELISHA!!. Thanks Wikipedia !

A challenge: To better manage the volume of mail in your Outlook 2003 or 2007 inbox – you decide to color-code the text of your email messages. This will let you quickly scan for what's important. Specifically – you want one unique color for...

I was having some trouble getting results out of my instant poll tool when I had it embedded in my left nav bar. I moved it over to a web-page, and it seems to work now. If you have a vote on my post below, please try again. Or, just click here . Every...