Weekly Recap: Why the Community’s Better than Chicago-Style Pizza

This guest blog entry was written by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

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What’s the best thing about the Windy City? Usually I’d say Navy Pier, the Cubs, or Chicago-style pizza. But last week, one thing outdid them all: the chance to connect with so many of you at our Screenr On Wheels sessions during the ASTD international conference. (Okay, yeah, the pizza was a close second.)

Don’t fret if you weren’t able to be there – look for a blog post this week covering lots of the tips & tricks we shared at the conference! And if you’re in the Austin, TX area this week, you can also hear David Anderson’s e-learning advice at the E-Learning Council’s symposium or at the Articulate Jam Session he’s hosting.

The cool thing is, while we were sharing how-tos in Chicago, there was all kinds of knowledge-sharing going on right here in the community, too. It just goes to show you that wherever the Articulate Community connects with one another (even without pizza) there are always great ideas being exchanged. Check out some of the stuff community members shared last week:

Notable tutorials:

• Change your player background and slide background to match an Articulate Presenter ’09 color scheme

• A free tool to determine the endpoint of an object’s motion path in PowerPoint

• Build a question in Quizmaker that requires users to categorize the items you give them

• New ideas for web objects: Embed a Vimeo video | Embed a live streaming video from Ustream

• A tool for easily working with layered objects in PowerPoint

Conversations in the Community:

• Manually varying the duration of specific slides in a presentation

• The community helps an e-learning developer brainstorm ideas for scenario-based product training

• Open-source LMS options

New blog posts:

• Answers to Frequently Asked E-Learning Questions

• Here Are Two Opportunities to Learn More About Building E-Learning

Seen on Twitter:

• @rickzanotti shares a good source for free fonts

• @slhice shares the new website she built with Articulate Presenter, Engage, & PowerPoint (click the Demo button for an explanation of how she did it!)

• @gabeanderson shares a link to a free custom Articulate skin

• @LearnNuggets shares his custom Articulate player and how he built it