Waiting for the Results

I’m still anxiously awaiting the results from my pilot launch of the LMS. I set my SME’s and a few others loose on it last Friday and surprisingly have not heard much back yet. During the meeting where I gave them all the information and tasks list for the pilot there was a great amount […]

LMS Pilot Launch is Official

Well it took forever to get my LMS launched and the pilot finally happened last Friday. Once I had an actual launch date I was completely consumed trying to get the system ready to show my pilot team. I’ll add this tip to my list of things of things to think about when implementing an […]

Take a Test, Any Test…and PASS

Ready for tonight’s rant….. (Are you sure? This is a good one…you’ll laugh at my woes.) I’m madly going through the LMS getting it ready for the pilot. Fixing and adding everything I can think of to launch the pilot tomorrow at 2:oo pm. One of the tasks I had was to create a sample […]

LMS Pilot is Launching Friday

All I can say right now is I’m losing my mind. See previous post. Details to follow regarding this adventure very soon……

Laughing at my own memory lost – Use it or Lose it

Once a month I run two 3 hour computer sessions. They cover the general office productivity software you would expect. Each month I have a good little chuckle at the staff that are taking the course for the second and sometimes third time. They keep taking it, not because the course isn’t well received, but […]

LMS has brought new stress; therefore new toys

(A few general ramblings below.) My LMS is hopefully piloting on Tuesday of next week. I’ve got a couple of things I want tweaked before I send it out, but am getting very hopeful. Not to mention I can feel the fire of many dragons just at the nape of my neck to get it […]

Too Busy To Keep In Touch

I haven’t posted much lately because I’ve been swamped with so many tasks at my office. The entire department seems very overwhelmed lately. For those curious, I am madly working away at my pilot launch. I’m convinced that it will be a go for next Monday. Whether it is at 100% ready to go or […]

A New Blog is Born

I’ve mentioned before that I presented at the eLearning Guild’s 2009 Annual Gathering on how to create and start your own blog. Well I’m happy to announce that since that presentation I have been notified of a great new blog that has (so to speak) just “hit the stands”. Please feel free to take a […]

Earth Hour 2009 Before and After Pictures

The National Geographic News website has some great pictures of city scapes before and after (or during) Earth Hour. I’m happy to see the Toronto skyline is captured in the pictures. Photograph by Dick Hemingway via WWF-Canada, retrieved from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/earth-hour-before-after/photo4.html, 04/01/09

My Slideshare Presentations Hit 10,000 Views (April fools on me)

(UPDATED: 04/01/09 11:40am… to good to be true…..http://blog.slideshare.net/2009/04/01/happy-april-fools-day/) I was pleasantly surprised today to get an email from Slideshare notifying me that one of my presentations has had a dramatic increase in views in the last 24 hours. So I went to look and wow, I’ve had just over 10,000 views of each of the […]