Old Blog Waste Land

I decided to take a look at additional Blogger blogs to get a feel for who are my blogging neighbors. Sooo, I selected "next" numerous times to go on to the blogs that come sequentially after mine. What I found was a no mans land of abandoned blogs. Many hadn't been updated since 2011...what!? Blogs updated this year were few and far between. What's up with that? I am guessing that people jumped on the blogging bandwagon with hopes of perhaps having a post go viral, creating a pop cultural meme, or hopes of earning some bucks by monetizing. However, once they found there was actually some work that went into blogging, they said "au revoir". So to those abandoned blogs I say RIP.

Learning New Suff

I always enjoy attending webinars. Of course, some are better than others. The webinars I tend to enjoy the most are the ones presented by Adobe. I always leave their webinars super excited with a new tool in my ID tool belt that can be applied right away. Case in point, I attended the Meet the eLearning legends; Make your eLearning legendary webinar hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge. To say it was awesome would be an understatement. It gave me insight about tools that I didn't even know existed and now I am like, "How did I not know that!?" One such tool was Adobe Kuler, kuler.adobe.com where you can create custom color pallets for use in projects by using an existing image. The webinar also visually addressed some of the differences in what can be done with Adobe Presenter and what can be done with Adobe Captivate, animations, branching, and the best places for stock photos. As much as I try to explain some of these techniques and information to people, a visual is always helpful. I WILL be sharing the recording of this webinar.