Category Archives: PowerPoint

Better Slides For People In A Hurry

By far, he most common misstep I see with presentations and elearning is putting too much text on the slides. As you may have heard me say before, visual slides are better than slides overloaded with text. Too much text requires your audience to do a lot of mental processing as they constantly switch backContinue reading “Better Slides For People In A Hurry”

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How to Link Images for Super Fast Content Updates

Simple Solution for AutoUpdating Office Content Sometimes a solution for a problem is hiding right under your nose. For example, I recently started working on an enterprise software roll-out and one of the challenges we’ll face is building content before the system is completed. The software vendor has provided a lot of documentation and otherContinue reading “How to Link Images for Super Fast Content Updates”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | March 1, 2019

The design process is weird and complicated because people are weird and complicated. —Mark Boulton It looks like March is coming in like a lion here in our neighborhood with a little snow today and the temperature heading well below zero this weekend. Here are a collection of the best things from learning, design, andContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | March 1, 2019”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | February 15, 2019

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –Continue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | February 15, 2019”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | February 1, 2019

“When I’m reading, I’m looking for something to steal. Readers ask me all the time the traditional question ‘Where do you get your ideas from?” I reply: ‘We are all having ideas all the time. But I’m on the lookout for them. You’re not.’”  —Philip Pullman It has been a webinar kind of week for me.Continue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | February 1, 2019”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 25, 2019

“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.” — Jim Rohn Many of us in the Learning & Development world are challenged by small or non-existing budgets. Fortunately, there are a ton of great resources and tools availableContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 25, 2019”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 11, 2019

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” —Kurt Vonnegut (Via Harold Jarche) Our nice run of relative warmth and sunshine has given way to a more normal winter scene of cold and snow. That hasn’t stopped the flow of great stuffContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 11, 2019”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | December 7, 2018

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ― Frank Zappa We’re entering the time of year when many of us take a pause to reflect on the past year. Today I’m grateful for all the cool projects I’ve worked on this year, amazing people I’ve met at conferences and other events, and allContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | December 7, 2018”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | November 30, 2018

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting. – Dale Dauten In case you missed it NASA landed a probe on Mars this past Monday completing a mind-boggling 301 million mile trip. Man, I *LOVE* science! HereContinue reading “Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | November 30, 2018”

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