My iPad arrived on Thursday afternoon (I bought the 64GB WiFi model). On Friday night I found a dead pixel so Saturday was spent at The Apple Store in Manchester, sorting out a new one. Sunday and Monday (a Bank Holiday in the UK) were spent setting it up and “playing” so today it got [...]
Do you deliver presentations, demos or training courses via Webex? The team I work for offers a global training service and consequently I use Webex as a delivery mechanism on a regular basis.
Up until about 5 years ago, I’d never used Microsoft Netmeeting, at least not in anger. I knew it was there, built right into Windows, but had never had a need to use it. Then I took a job at huge multinational company where I discovered Netmeeting was used extensively.
Following a legal agreement between Microsoft and The European Competition Commission, from March 1st 2010, Windows users across Europe are able to install the web browser of their choice, rather than having Internet Explorer as a default.
Last month I wrote a blog post about course interruptions. Yesterday it happened again. Only this time it was far worse. I had 15 delegates on my online session. For the first 10 minutes everything was fine and then suddenly..BOOM! It sounded like one of the attendees was attending the session from a kids party.
Do you stand and deliver? Or do you prefer to sit? I’m talking about how you deliver a presentation or training course. If I’m doing a 1:1 coaching session, I’ll usually sit, either at the trainer’s desk at the front of the training room, or next to the delegate. If I’m coaching at the delegate’s [...]
Yesterday at work somebody sent an email to the Help Desk (or to give them their proper name, the IT Service Desk) asking for some help building a macro in Word. The email was forwarded on to our team as, in addition to training, we develop custom solutions (actually that’s my area of expertise so [...]
Whether it’s a fire alarm, a bomb alert or someone threatening to jump off a cliff next to the training room, over the years I’ve experienced many interruptions to my courses. But last week was something different…
I woke up last Tuesday morning to find my car, my driveway and surrounding roads covered in 4 inches of snow so I made the decision to work from home.
A couple of weeks ago I was online with some fellow Mac 20 Questions Round Table contributors and we were posting pictures of our workplaces and discussing our equipment (ooh err). This morning I took my camera in to work and set out my desk ready for the working day.