We’re Yammin – Supporting Learning with Social Networking
On 22nd May I delivered a webinar to The Learning and Performance Institute. The subject is how Yammer supports learning at work. Continue reading
MiTapes – Create Mix Tapes on your iPhone
MiTapes is a music player app for iPhone/iPod Touch that allows you to create mixtapes, just as you did on cassette tapes back in the old days. Learn how to use the app in my short video tutorial. Continue reading
Using a Webcam in Virtual Training
“The feedback from the delegates was overwhelmingly positive. Seeing me made them feel as if I was there in the room with them which made it easier for them to listen to me and understand what I was saying”. Continue reading
How to View Outlook Files on a Mac
In the corporate world, the most popular email/calendar/contacts system is Exchange Server. Every user has a Mailbox which is stored on the server. The Mailbox stores the user’s email, calendar and contacts and each Mailbox has a maximum size which is set by the Server Administrators. Users access their Mailbox … Continue reading
Excellence in Customer Service
Today I received an award for outstanding customer service Continue reading
Spotify – 5 Strikes and You’re Out
Last week, on my drive home, I fell in love with Emeli Sandé. Well OK not with Emeli herself, but her song called Clown. On Sunday night I fired up Spotify (I have the free version) and found the song which I set to play on repeat. After 5 plays … Continue reading
5 Ways to Access Access on a Mac
Up until recently, there was no way to open a Microsoft Access database directly on a Mac. However, there are, at the time of writing, five apps, all available from the Mac App Store, which allow you to open and view data in Access database tables Continue reading
Creating a Loan Calculator in Excel
Not only is my loan calculator a useful application, but from a training point of view it demonstrates a number of useful formulas. Continue reading
Sparklines in Excel 2010
A sparkline is a small chart that is stored in a single cell. It provides a visual representation of data. Continue reading
Sorting IP Addresses in Excel
A question came up on my Twitter feed this week – how to sort a list of IP Addresses in Excel. On the face of it, this should be simple Continue reading