Anyone who has used Adobe Connect to host live meetings on the Internet knows that it is a powerful tool for screen sharing, file sharing, marking up documents, chatting, taking notes, and interacting with audio and video. Adobe is now offering this service for free for up to three participants at a time . The meeting interface is fairly intuitive, but Adobe does provide documentation to help you use and troubleshoot ConnectNow. Adobe is offering a familiar service … for free ! Simply sign up for a free account to get started.

It appears to have decent documentation to help you get started, and you don’t have to know any scripting to create interactive learning content (including quiz questions and drag-and-drop features).  Thanks to Jane Hart , I was introduced to Xerte today.  Xerte is an open source software package for creating interactive eLearning content.

Add web pages, photos, documents, RSS feeds, audio, and “created-on-the-fly” HTML pages (great for customizing the appearance of embedded objects, such as videos and widgets, or for adding instructions). Literally create learning journeys with Flowgram .  It is like a guided tour of the World Wide Web, … and you get to be the tour guide!

Documents, presentations, videos, audio files, web pages … everything launches within Freepath seemlessly.  Edit documents in real-time. I have two objectives for this post. First, I will review Freepath 2.0 Beta , a free presentation tool. 

Our team uses a wiki to document our design and development processes, something I wrote about in a short column for the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions magazine. kept this conversation pretty generic; I think these reasons apply to documentation for any kind of group, not just instructional designers or e-learning developers. Tags: Wikis documentation eLearning Guild Learning Solutions This weekend I was imagining a conversation between two people about the benefits of a wiki. This overlaps quite a bit with the reasons in my article, but it’s a more fun

Documents Focusing on People, Not Documents: Information is not limited to ‘Documents’ but expanded to Discussions Information is ‘pulled out’ of people instead of ‘put in’ to documents. At the same time, documentation increases People vs. Everyone* owns

There are a lot of softwares out there for document sharing. The UI is beautifully done and it gives the user/reader the impression he can almost scroll through the pages of a document. Although Issuu offers some interactivity (sharing, bookmarking, commenting) it is a pity they only accept pdf-documents. Just take a look at the educause But graphically speaking Issuu says it all. For a complete range of formats you need to go to Scribd or ...

It permits up to eight people to work simultaneously on the same document. Among its features are: No account required The only really real-time collaborative editor on the web Edits highlighted in author's color Infinite undo history Syntax highlighting for editing code Every keystroke backed up A chat box All you do is open a document and flick the code to those in your group who will participate collaboratively. Check it out: http://etherpad.com/ ...Tags: The JavaScript, web-based collaborative real-time editor, EtherPad, the latest version, became available to all on 3 February 2009.

The people who staff the organization processes of internal help desk, external help desk (technical support), and inbound and outbounds sales. A call center employees formal learning program should have the following: Learning Goals application of new content Program Goals measurable results (number of calls resolved in first call, etc.) cost reduction (due to high turnover) Desired Results minimize choking under pressure .