Vancouver Island/Victoria User Group

Hi Dave, welcome..

And Holly, I would love to see your showcase of 360. I'm in for a get-together in January.  I am happy to host at my workplace, but I fear that View Royal is not the most convenient of locations.

Does anyone else has a space to offer? Or maybe a pub (challenging for a software demo, maybe).

Hello Everyone,

I'd like to echo Terry's enthusiasm to see Holly's Art360 material. It would be great to get together, as Dave and I were just chatting to do the same. I could likely reserve a large boardroom in our building - Eric Martin Pavilion behind Royal Jubilee, but that's a bit out of the way for you, Terry. As we've done in the past, we could meet up around 4:30 or 5:00? Parking is relatively easy, as you can park for up to 2 hours in the Save-on-Foods parking lot at Fort & Foul Bay. Thoughts?

Oh yeah. There's a pub nearby too. Always good for aprés discussions.

If that location works for others, I'm happy to make the long trek.  ;)

Great, Terry! Let's see what kind of response we get from the others. I think mid-January would be ideal.

Don't schedule for Wednesdays, I wouldn't be able to make it. Otherwise, let's see what works and I'll make the trek over on the ferry!

Wednesday is usually not good for me, either, but a combination of meeting place and nearby pub shows that Pat has highly developed networking skills.

Hello Everyone and Happy New Year,

To follow-up on our pre-2018 discussion about getting together... how does January 16th, 4:30 start at the Eric Martin Pavilion, Boardroom 188 (main floor) sound? The only other available date is 6 February.

I doubt I will be able to get any 'guest' online access to the Wi-Fi network, so if you would like to share some projects, tips, etc. you will have to have them stored on your local drive, send them to me ahead of time or put them on a USB drive that I can then download the content.

If this works, we can start working on a proposed agenda.

Let me know your preference for 16th or 6th and anything else you can think of.

P@

Thanks Pat, Jan 16 works for me!  I am still on Storyline 2, so I'd love to see what people are doing with SL 3 or 360.  I'm not convinced I need to switch, but maybe I'm missing something.

Thanks, Terry. I just purchase SL3 b/c client was using it. Seems to perform a bit faster. I really like the "Tables" feature and "Dial". Haven't had much of an opportunity to explore the responsive display features yet. I see the upgrade price is still $699 USD (ouch! It still hurts.)

Hi Pat - I'm not able to make the 16th, but have penciled in Feb 6th.

Feel free to meet on the 16th without me, if that's better for others.

It would be great to catch up!

Holly

16th works for me and for my coworker Tanis. (Feb 6th is okay also, so I'm fine either way.)

If it turns out that Feb 6 is better for more people, I'm also free that day.

Okay, so I've rebooked the conference room for the 6th. That works better for me too. I'll send out more information in the coming weeks, including a tentative agenda. So far I think we can talk about the pros and cons of Art 360 or SL3 vs. SL2.

Looking forward to seeing you all (in about a month).

Cheers,

P@

Terry: we at BC Pensions are also on SL 2.

Same here at Island Health. I'm happy to demo my personal SL3 copy when we meet and perhaps we can compare it to Holly's Art360  (if she can connect)?

(Don't we know how to have fun?!)

Have any of you been to DevLearn or the Learning Solutions conferences?  I'm wondering which is the right conference for me, and if they are worth the time/money.  Or are there any other conferences I should be considering?

Thanks!

Terry: I went to DevLearn in 2015. I was not using Storyline at the time but we were pondering whether to switch, so I took in a number of demos that helped me make the case that the move was a good one for us.

Lots of opportunity to speak with good presenters outside of their sessions, including many whose names you see here. DemoFest is an informal collection of demonstrations by organizations and individuals of what they've done and how they did it; a great way to see examples and connect with a lot of different people.

I think there's a good balance between "here's a great way to do X" and "here's a challenge we were facing and the reason we took approach Y."

There was also a substantial Canadian contingent. Since I was doing a workshop on building job aids, I created the attached quick reference and shared it through the conference app, since (to the astonishment of Americans) many Canadians don't know how hot 83 F is.

Thanks!  It's funny, I made a work trip to Winnipeg a few years ago and experienced -40C...  Soon after, I made another work trip to the states where I tried to describe how cold that is.  That was when I learned that -40C is the same as -40F.  Way too damned cold to use your scale.  :P

Got you beat, Terry. When I was a teacher in northern, BC I got to experience -52C! Luckily there was no wind that day, so it was literally a solid -52. Thanks for the temperature scale, Dave.

Speaking of conferences, I have not been fortunate enough to attend DevLearn but hope to one day. Thanks again for your insights, Dave.

On another note, it would be interesting to have a conversation about Pro-D at our upcoming meeting. Who gets what? How often? What conferences/organizations are providing good ID Pro-D? etc.

P@

They say anything below -35 feels the same.  lol  I don't know who "they" are.

Good idea to add Pro-D to our conversation, thanks Pat.

Is anyone going to DevLearn? I'm signed up and pretty excited. Looks like some good stuff there.