Posts by Ed Stengel

eLearning, Social Media, and User Int...

May 29, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
eLearning, Social Media, and User Interface Combine to Make Powerful Personal Learning Portals
Content is king, right?  Well then the new queen in eLearning is social media.  When was the last time we thought about how the new generation wants to learn?  Beyond content, beyond access, beyond look and feel, but “delivery and learner extensions”.   eLearning is on the cusp of a new horizon, (in its own infancy, and growing fa [...]
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Advanced Captivate 4 Training is now ...

May 29, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Advanced Captivate 4 Training is now available July and August 2009
Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials picks up where the Intro to Captivate 4 course leaves off. You will quickly learn Captivate’s higher-end functionality while improving your production skills via project templates, design templates, advanced actions and scripts. You will learn to collaborate with team members via Captivates’ [...]
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Crawling out of April and running int...

May 4, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Crawling out of April and running into May…
So let’s see…. ecomonic crisis, automaker bankrupt, housing market slumps, interest rates drop, stocks fall and rise – again,  global warming, swine flu….  IF I close my eyes just for a moment, I would swear it was 1980 not 2009 (I guess I am telling my age with that comment)  The only difference is in 1980 we had the [...]
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Sometimes we need to take a step back...

April 8, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Sometimes we need to take a step back….
Its funny how extreme circumstances produce extreme behavior.  The economy seems to be crushing the business we used to take for granted.  I look at things a little differently.  My business is booming.  What business you ask?  – eLearning. Fundementally, my business is something all businesses should be looking to in this economy for c [...]
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Brookwood and ASPE Join Forces

March 31, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Brookwood and ASPE Join Forces
 Brookwood will be offering a selection of ASPE courses at our Lower Gwynedd facility including SharePoint, Agile Project Management, Business Analyst Bootcamp, Scrum and more! ASPE’s core mission is the development of hands-on, real-world courses designed to fill pressing skills gaps to make employees more effective and empowering comp [...]
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Transforming the way we learn, commun...

March 30, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Transforming the way we learn, communicate, think, and do business
It’s Monday and I’m glad to be at work…Why?  This weekend was one of great interest… I found my children’s websites, very interesting, checked their grades online, even more interesting, but this is the wrong blog for that topic, I spoke with my nephew via IM with a web cam, and figured out how to fix my generator via a trai [...]
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eLearning Trade Show – Orlando ...

March 24, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
eLearning Trade Show – Orlando Wrap Up
Well, I am just settling in from a tour of Orlando and the eLearning Guild Trade Show….   Most noticable difference this year?  No “tire kickers”  In other words, people attended for a reason this year.  I found that the traffic at the show was more about quality and less about quantity.  Great show this year.  Of my finding [...]
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Adobe Case Study

March 24, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Adobe Case Study
Adobe just published a case study on their internal usage of Connect Pro.  The numbers are impressive when Connect Pro is being used at its full potential. Saved nearly $10 million in travel expenses over a two-year period Reached 116,000 customers and prospects, efficiently fueling the sales pipeline Handled 80% of IT service desk calls wit [...]
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Adobe Captivate 4 makes 508 Accessibi...

March 19, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
Adobe Captivate 4 makes 508 Accessibility training compliance simple!
The newest release of Adobe Captivate (CP), version 4, has greatly simplified the task of adding and editing closed captioning for the hearing impaired. For training developers under strict deadlines this upgrade is a gift from above. CP4 eliminates the need to cut & paste each and every line of text into the closed captioning dialogue bo [...]
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What are you organization’s 200...

March 6, 2009 Written by Ed Stengel
What are you organization’s 2009 training initiatives?
Well, here we are… it’s Friday… could be any Friday, but this one is the first Friday of the 3rd month of the year.  How far along are you with planning, budgeting, and developing your organization’s eLearning program?  Most organizations use the wait and see factor on training because of cost, travel, lodging,  and ma [...]
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