With the steady shift towards more PowerPoint-centric courseware, clients have found many benefits in using PowerPoint presentations as the primary resource for both students and instructors. Katie O’Zey puts together some great tips on how to create a killer Student Workbook a la PowerPoint that focuses on how to get the same educational benefits out of half the documentation.

A special Thanksgiving blog post on being thankful for the soon to be released Mobile Clients for Lync.

For those of you worried about how to get your turkey cooked to perfection, we found some great instructions here.

Having a good grasp on the concept of control is actually a balancing act between controlling what you can and letting go of what you can’t. Control the design, but also listen to what people tell you. And control the execution, because sloppy execution hampers deployment. Microsoft and Apple have continued to innovate in their own unique ways, and millions of people have reaped the benefits of their products. With the release of Windows Phone 7 just over a year ago, Microsoft revealed a truly innovative user interface.

Wadeware volunteers turn out for Day of Caring in King County to battle invasive species plants in Carillon Park in Kirkland. The team cleared 4,200 sq. feet in the park as part a massive effort across the county involving 11,000 volunteers.

We had an interesting situation the other day during a deployment of Microsoft Lync Server 2010. The customer wanted Lync for internal use only, because the organization wants to use it mainly for conferencing. So, for this reason there was no plan to deploy a Microsoft Lync Edge server. We still wanted to make Lync [...]

On September 16, Wadeware is taking part in the United Way Day of Caring, the biggest single day of volunteering in the state of Washington. Wadeware will partner with EarthCorps and Green Kirkland to remove Himalayan Blackberries from the Carillon Woods Park.

In a perfect world, an instructional designer (ID) is given content to work with and develop. But sometimes (or all too often) the content is not available because either the subject matter expert (SME) has been too busy to locate it, or the content is simply not available because the product is still in development. Resolving this involves research, interviewing the lead SME, locating product information, and finding other SMEs on other projects who can help you.

This post provides a bit of history about hypertext and discusses different options for displaying hyperlinks. It also seeks input from readers about whether full URLs (hyperlinks) are useful and their preferences for how URLs display.

Just to let you all know, we have finished updating the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Ignite content to RTM. We have handed the updated virtual machines and updated labs to Microsoft and it should be available soon. It still has to go through their channels, but keep an eye out for it.