October 2010 Archives

The Lessons and Challenges of Video Hosts

In the early 1990s, advances in computer graphics, video formats, authoring tools, and storage media first allowed video hosts to be incorporated into computer-based training products. Many designers of interactive multimedia training incorporated framed “talking head” narrators into the courseware, and a few ...

I was recently involved in the rollout of Microsoft Office 2007 to users across 44 states in the U.S., four provinces in Canada, and six countries in Europe.  Previously the company used Microsoft Office 2003 and the level of competency varied greatly across the company.  Some employees barely used Office ...

The increasing sophistication of cyber-warfare practitioners around the world has resulted in many governmental agencies placing tight restrictions on what can and cannot be installed on government computers in order to reduce the risk of introducing malicious code.  Unfortunately, those same computers are expected to keep pace with an ever ...