NotificationThere is a fundamental problem that exists in the typical business workplace today. Chances are that you or someone in your office is already painfully aware of it. We’ve seen an explosion in the number of people whose jobs are directly related to their expertise, and for whom ‘what they know’ has become a kind of ‘insurance’ plan. Have you ever heard a colleague proclaim “If I’m the only one who knows how to do this, ‘they’ can never fire […]
Our community has embraced social media with gusto, and in the last year this has presented some interesting challenges- for one, the number of forums and sites discussing Captivate related threads have multiplied. While this allowed our users to seek answers in the forum they felt most comfortable in, it also meant that you were missing out on some great discussions happening elsewhere. Introducing http://captivate.adobe.com : Over the past few weeks we’ve been doing the groundwork to transition our Captivate […]
Over the past year we’ve been thrilled to present more than 50 eSeminars for thousands of AdobeCaptivate and Adobe eLearning Suite users and now we’re stepping it up another notch. What started as weekly eSeminars every Wednesday has now grown to as many as three sessions a week. Yesterday RJ announced that we’ll be starting weekly open sessions called “Ask the Adobe eLearning Team.” These open format sessions are
In this eSeminar I walk listeners / viewers through an introduction to Billy Simington the mistake machine. By following poor Billy’s misadventures we learn a ton of tips and tricks for beginners about how to use AdobeCaptivate. Included were brief discussions of text, rollover text, transitions, preferences, object styles and working with the timeline. I’m also including here a link to the resource files I used in the demo, as well as of course the link to the eSeminar. Demo […]
We are doing a Captivate/eLearning Roadshow in the week of Oct 25-29 and Nov 1-2, 2010. Locations – US East Coast (NYC, DC, …) and Bay Area (SF, San Jose, …). Do let us know if you are not in these areas, we will try and accommodate a slot to visit you. Our Agenda for the meeting will be: – Take our users through a sneak-peek of what to expect in the future from Captivate and eLearning Suite – Understand your […]
We are doing a Customer Roadshow to meet existing Captivate users over the next 2 weeks. We would like to: Understand our users’ workflows/concerns better and tailor the solutions into our roadmap Deep dive into Captivate 5 and suggest best practices to optimize existing workflows Take our users through a sneak-peek of what to expect in the future from Captivate We are in the Bay Area on May 20,21 and on the East Coast (DC, NYC, …) from May 24-28. […]
File size could be an important consideration in creating eLearning contents especially in cases when it has to be put on websites or blogs. I was going through few discussions on web about file sizes best practices in Adobe Captivate. There are many things which you could do to reduce the file size. Most of them revolves around the quality of the assets inside the courses. The higher the quality – higher the file size. If trying out the best […]
eLearning,Collaboration,blogs,Wikis,Adobe AIR Quoted from https://elearning.adobe.com/elearning_this_week/: The Adobe Captivate Blog: eLearning this week Archives Last week’s post raised the question: Why would the author of a content be willing to share the authorship with someone who has provided a comment or criticism to his content? There are three sets of people whose interests needs to be satisfied. The first is the consumer of the content, second is the author, and the third the collaborator. It would be useful to […]
Captivate,eLearning,Conferences,rapid eLearning,Lectora,Flash Learning Technologies 2009 was held in London, from 28th to 29th of January, 2009. The conference was well attended by around 3000 learning professionals primarily from UK. I was interested to see how the learning and development world was coping with the struggling economic environment and if any trends were emerging in coping with the same. It was heartening to see that the industry was well represented through participation by Adobe, SumTotal, Trivantis, TechSmith, OutStart, NIIT, Tata Interactive, […]
