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Having recently received a price of over $300 to replace a lost car key, and past experience losing cell phones, cameras, other items that fall out of my pockets and cost a bunch to replace, I signed up today for a Lost and Found Label system. Looks like
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I’m waiting for my local power utility (PSE) to start sending the data feed to HOHM so I can track my energy usage in real-time – but Microsoft Hohm gave me plenty of homework to do while I wait. Completing the Home Profile gets you thinking about the
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Get this out of the way – Microsoft funded the study. Still interested in the results? Microsoft's IE8 Catches Most 'Social Malware' - News and Analysis by PC Magazine The malware above is “socially engineered malware”. I just got one this morning
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Faced with having to redevelop some commercial websites to support Firefox, I tripped over a pretty cool Firefox Add-in – IE Tabs. I’m no Firefox expert, so I’m probably late to the dance on this, but in case you’ve been ALT+TABing between browsers when
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Breaking the rules and publishing multiple blog posts today, but erring on the side of timeliness. Woke this morning to find a new daily paper in my driveway – the Seattle Times . After 10 years of getting the PI, both in print and online, the printed
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Use the Community Clips tool from Office Labs to add screen capture functionality to your Office applications. Creates a WMV file with audio and video. http://communityclips.officelabs.com/Default.aspx This should work OK with the LCDS authoring application
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There are at least 3 advantages of classroom training that make it more effective than online learning, IMO: the knowledgeable instructor who responds to my questions in real-time the students sitting around me who also ask questions, getting me to think
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Here are the results of the mini-poll for the last two weeks of February. These results support other focus group research I have done this year: text and graphics, and hands-on activities are the most valuable e-learning features for learners (as opposed
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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.
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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
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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 interesting
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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 !
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Learning what customers think about your web site or online product should be easy, but in big corporations, that's not always the case. Rules around how and when you talk to your customers can get in the way - because we do need to respect both online
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Poking around my blog software site (Community Server ) – I found a linkto Blogmailr in the tools folder. Ithink “poking around” is an example of exploratory learning –and it proves pretty popular for folks learning IW-type skills (more on thatlater).
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Today we learned from our experience deploying Forums with our e-learning courses for Advanced .Net Developers. The following is excerpted from my presentation at the 2008 Learning and Technology Forum on Deploying Web 2.0 Communities to Extend Traditional
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