Heather Beaudoin
Heather Beaudoin
Learning & Development | Leader & Collaborator
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    Heather Beaudoin

    I love giving people the help they need to learn how to optimize use of products and processes. I develop in-person, online, and self-paced training, and I work closely with sales & marketing and customer success to develop content for prospects and customers.
  • Remote - Colorado Springs, CO
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Have an interesting way of presenting controls?
"Here's an example of how I've handled it in the past.  The reason I use music on the first slide is so they're not missing any audio you ..."
  • 12 years ago04/19/12 at 7:48 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Instructional Design Student
"I really agree with the Project Management suggestion, too.  I'll add that to my graphic design comment.  I think they both have one thin..."
  • 12 years ago04/11/12 at 10:27 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Instructional Design Student
"I strongly recommend graphic design.  Whatever you're developing (eLearning, instructor-led training, videos, job aids), they all need go..."
  • 12 years ago04/11/12 at 9:29 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Camtasia video with hotspot inserted into Presenter
"I know this used to work, and now I can't find any combination of settings to get it to work.  I tried it with both Camtasia 7 and 7.1.  ..."
  • 12 years ago03/16/12 at 12:21 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Best Practices for Writing Scripts for Narration
"I'm glad my suggestion got you thinking about how it might apply to your project. You don't want the learner's attention split between tr..."
  • over 12 years ago01/17/12 at 3:01 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Best Practices for Writing Scripts for Narration
"Two additional suggestions... 1. You have to visualize what's going to be on the screen when you write the script.  Boring narration tend..."
  • over 12 years ago01/17/12 at 1:28 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion How would you explain this to an SME?
"If I read this right, everyone involved works at the same company, and the SMEs are asking for PPT files to save them time creating a pre..."
  • over 12 years ago11/18/11 at 1:26 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion DYK: Basic tips everyone in the world should know
"I'm going to throw a "must use" productivity tip into the mix: Quick Access Toolbar - https://player.vimeo.com/video/149037435"
  • over 12 years ago11/09/11 at 2:22 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion What is it that you actually do?
"A lot of identifying how to reuse content in a variety of ways across the company -- software documentation team, marketing, sales, profe..."
  • over 12 years ago11/08/11 at 11:44 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion To review or not to review, that is the question
"I guess it could depend on your environment -- what you're teaching and why.  I just can't think of any reason of the top of my head why ..."
  • over 12 years ago08/09/11 at 12:51 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion How To Describe Presentation Abilty to Potential Clients
"I'm glad you found my unsolicited advice helpful and didn't take offense to a couple suggestions.  You can see how I addressed audio on ..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/22/11 at 7:27 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion How To Describe Presentation Abilty to Potential Clients
"Looks great!  Sure, I think "multimedia presentation" would work fine.  Maybe someone else will have a better suggestion for you. I notic..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/21/11 at 4:26 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Basic Stuff
"Unless somebody knows something I don't (which happens all the time!), the answer is no.  You need to publish the Articulate presentation..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/21/11 at 2:28 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion How To Describe Presentation Abilty to Potential Clients
"1. Does it have audio narration? 2. Does the viewer ever need to click to proceed, or does it just continue unless they pause it? 3. Are ..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/21/11 at 2:23 pm (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Need ideas: How to display Do's and Don'ts
"I suggest not telling them the do's and don'ts. Just start with telling a story about someone doing a few things -- say 5-6 of the policy..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/29/11 at 11:30 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion Boring content!
"Hi, John.  I handle the training development for Corepoint Health's Corepoint Integration Engine -- which facilitates the electronic mess..."
  • 13 years ago04/15/11 at 8:04 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion I'd like to talk about Screen Capture
"David Anderson said: Heather Steckley said: You do have to set your Camtasia audio settings and Articulate audio settings to be the sam..."
  • over 13 years ago02/01/11 at 11:55 am (UTC)
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Heather Beaudoin replied to the discussion I'd like to talk about Screen Capture
"a-What you use for screen capture I used to use Captivate, but now I almost exclusively use Camtasia.  This is due to its zooming feature..."
  • over 13 years ago02/01/11 at 9:07 am (UTC)