“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt As we continue our slog through winter here in the Northern Hemisphere, my family took advantage of a snow day to get a nice day out on the ski slopes. Wherever you are I hope you’ll find something you can take advantage of in the thingsContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | February 9, 2018”
Author Archives: Mike Taylor
How to Fill a Horizontal Slide With a Vertical Image
While working on a workshop deck recently, I came to this slide. This isn’t bad — I’ve definitely seen MUCH worse. I wanted to give it a more powerful visual impact and didn’t have time to launch a quest for a new ‘perfect’ image. I like this image…it just doesn’t fill the slide. So whatContinueContinue reading “How to Fill a Horizontal Slide With a Vertical Image”
Friday Finds | February 2, 2018
“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.” – Claudius Loads of learning opportunities in this week’s roundup. From learning xAPI to peeking in on some top conference backchannels there is something here for everyone. Hope you can glean some value from wherever you are in the world reading this. Cheers!ContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | February 2, 2018”
A Better Way to Curate Training Videos With Vimsy
Curating a collection of videos for learning purposes is part of many L&D professionals toolkit. While video platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia can be a rich source of valuable content, you don’t have many good options for organizing them, virtually no control over access (unless they’re yours) and no way to know who isContinueContinue reading “A Better Way to Curate Training Videos With Vimsy”
Friday Finds | January 26, 2018
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl This week I had a nice adventure out to San Jose (via Ft Lauderdale and Austin due to weather) for the ATD TechKnowledge Conference. It is always great to see old faces and make new friends….and getting back home to the comfortContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | January 26, 2018”
The Sanity Saving PowerPoint Secret You Should Know!
Around here, it is pretty common to have a lot of cooks in our slide deck kitchen. In most places, it is a rare deck that results from a totally solo effort. Even if you only share slides occasionally, you can still benefit from a little time and sanity-saving knowledge. At a minimum, most peopleContinueContinue reading “The Sanity Saving PowerPoint Secret You Should Know!”
Friday Finds | January 19, 2018
Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance. -Nathan Rutstein I’m excited to be in San Jose next week for ATD’s TechKnowledge Conference. Spend face-to-face time with super smart, like-minded people is always ultra energizing for me. Plus, I always come away with new thoughts and ideas to try out back home. Will you be inContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | January 19, 2018”
Tech Tuesday: Working in PowerPoint’s Full Screen
I’ve written about my tip of the week microlearning adventure before and it had quite a good run. Ultimately situations and priorities conspired to end it after over 400 consecutive weeks. (You can see most of them here.) Every tip in that collection is aimed to help show people how to work smarter instead ofContinueContinue reading “Tech Tuesday: Working in PowerPoint’s Full Screen”
Friday Finds | January 12, 2018
So much great stuff this week, it was hard to keep this short. If 2018 continues at this pace it is going to be an amazing year. I think one of the most amazing of all things is the opportunity to meet awesome people like you in person. Fortunately, I’ll be at the ATD TechKnowledgeContinueContinue reading “Friday Finds | January 12, 2018”
Learning Conferences Calendar
After a long quest for a site that consolidates L&D-related events in a searchable, easy-to-use place I’ve given up and decided to create one myself. There are a lot of great events in our space but to find them you’ve gotta check a zillion different places. In addition to the events themselves, I also wantedContinueContinue reading “Learning Conferences Calendar”
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