The Learning Dispatch

Kelly Rossi: How Can Project Management Help Control Project Costs?

By Kelly Rossi | April 14, 2015 | | 5

Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here’s Kelly’s view on how project management can help control project costs. This segment is the sixth in an ongoing series of interviews that we are conducting with Microassist employees. Stay tuned for more! Q: How can Project Management help control project costs? Kelly Rossi: Yeah, it does because well A, you have

Kelly Rossi: How Can You Manage Risk Factors Effectively?

By Kelly Rossi | April 7, 2015 | | 3

Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here’s Kelly’s view on effectively managing the risk factors associated with projects. This segment is the fifth in an ongoing series of interviews that we are conducting with Microassist employees. Stay tuned for more! Q: How do you manage project risk factors effectively? Kelly Rossi: I don’t know, I think my thing is defining

Kelly Rossi: How Does Project Management Help Stakeholders?

By Kelly Rossi | March 31, 2015 | | 3

Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here’s Kelly’s view on how project management helps stakeholders. This segment is the fourth in an ongoing series of interviews that we are conducting with Microassist employees. Stay tuned for more! Q: What is a project stakeholder? Kelly Rossi: A stakeholder is, it’s gonna sound like a dumb definition, it’s anyone who holds a stake

Kelly Rossi: What’s the Most Challenging Thing about Being a Project Manager?

By Kelly Rossi | March 24, 2015 | | 3

Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here’s Kelly’s view on the most challenging thing about being an Elearning Project Manager. This segment is the third in an ongoing series of interviews that we are conducting with Microassist employees. Stay tuned for more! Q: What is the most challenging thing about being a project manager? Kelly Rossi: You know, the opposite is helplessness,

Kelly Rossi: What’s the Best Thing about Being a Project Manager?

By Kelly Rossi | March 17, 2015 | | 2

Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here’s Kelly’s view on what the best thing about being a Project Manager is. This segment is the second in an ongoing series of interviews that we are conducting with Microassist employees. Stay tuned for more! Q: What’s the best thing about being a project manager? Kelly Rossi: I think the best thing about being

Learning from Pie

By Kevin Gumienny | March 17, 2015 | | 1

This year’s Pi Day was a special event, as you may have heard. If you write dates as “3.14.15,” you have the first five digits of pi. You can go even further, and have a pi second: 3.14.15 at 9:26:53 (a.m. or p.m.) gives you the first ten digits of pi. I’ve never thought much about memorizing pi. 3.14 was generally enough for my needs, and for anything more complicated,

Kelly Rossi: What Does an Elearning Project Manager Do?

By Kelly Rossi | March 9, 2015 | | 2

Adib Masumian from our elearning group got Kelly Rossi, project manager extraordinaire, to sit down for an interview on her job. Here’s Kelly’s view on what an Elearning Project Manager does. This segment is the first in an ongoing series of interviews that we are conducting with Microassist employees. Stay tuned for more! Q: What does a project a project manager do? Kelly Rossi: A project manager does a lot of things. Like any manager, a

Producing Quality Audio Recordings – Part 2: Tips & Tricks

By Adib Masumian | January 23, 2015 | | 2

Producing Quality Audio Recordings – Part 2: Tips & Tricks In Part 1 of this series, I talked about creating the ideal conditions for producing quality recordings. Now that we’re familiar with recording equipment and environment, we’re ready to talk about pre- and post-production measures—as well as tips to keep in mind when actually recording—that will make narrations smooth and easy to edit. Pre-production It’s essential, perhaps fundamental, to have

Elearning for Outreach Purposes

By Kevin Gumienny | November 3, 2014 | | 1

There’s training that you are required to take and finish—compliance training for ethics, sexual harassment, information security. Safety training. Training that you must complete before you use specialized applications. And then there’s training that you don’t have to take. Training that you need to be persuaded to take. One way to think about this kind of training is as outreach. Many organizations use outreach activities to bring services and information

Producing Quality Audio Recordings – Part 1: The Setup

By Adib Masumian | October 7, 2014 | | 1

David Anderson runs a series of weekly challenges on the Elearning Heroes Articulate community blog. In one of his recent posts, he called on elearning designers to share their tips and tricks for producing quality audio: while recording audio is simple, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to improving audio quality. That means that the most helpful audio tips are the tips that align with a user’s recording needs, experience, and environment.