Steve Flowers
Steve Flowers
Performance Consultant and Producer at U.S. Government Agency
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    Steve Flowers

    ***My opinions are my own and do not reflect past, present, or future employer's views*** @xpconcept on twitter. General and specialized problem solver, designer in multiple disciplines, and developer (tool pilot), change agent and solution champion. Co-wrote a book on Storyline: http://go...
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Review Publish from Rise Blank
"Anyone else experiencing a problem publishing from Rise to Review for the last hour or so? Seeing a blank publish for all new published o..."
  • over 6 years ago12/13/17 at 9:17 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Strange Theme Behavior - Feedback Master Madness
"Had a strange experience with Storyline themes. First time I've used these for a large project but this definitely doesn't seem normal. H..."
  • 8 years ago03/12/16 at 1:42 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Example: Show or Hide any Object on Cue with a Trigger
"Little known neat trick: Setup triggers to dynamically cue entry and exit of objects. Once setup, you can cue entry and exit as often as ..."
  • 9 years ago02/18/15 at 10:48 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Neat online cutout tool for isolating objects in images
"I'm sure this will be helpful for lots of folks: http://clippingmagic.com/ Quality separation of images from background if you've got the..."
  • over 10 years ago09/12/13 at 4:21 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Screenr: Using WebObjects to "carry on" lots of files
"Take a look at this screen recording for a method you can use to consistently attach files and employ them using a relative link (HTML5 a..."
  • 11 years ago04/02/13 at 6:39 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion [Demo] Multiple test banks, multiple attempts per bank
"Someone asked the other day if this use case could be supported with a Storyline output: "I want my participants to be able to take a pr..."
  • over 11 years ago01/21/13 at 2:16 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Free: Road Sign Graphics
"Here are a set of road sign backgrounds I built up for a recent project. These are Fireworks source PNG's so if you have Fireworks you ca..."
  • over 11 years ago08/23/12 at 7:59 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Widget: Stop Sounds
"There's currently a bug in the Storyline player that will allow multiple sounds to play at once if you have different tracks in a particu..."
  • over 11 years ago08/11/12 at 12:00 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Storyline Example: Generating Closed Captions
"One of the complaints I've seen with Storyline's accessibility is the challenge of adding Closed Captions. There are a few ways to accomp..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/27/12 at 3:03 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Leveraging Animation Speeds in Storyline
"Got to playing with grouped / nested animations this weekend while trying to work out more subtle transitions. The figures and example be..."
  • almost 12 years ago06/18/12 at 6:08 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Cool vintage marketing and training videos - prelinger archive
"Ran across these today. There is lots of stuff in these old archives. Some could be useful for reference if you're aiming for an "old tra..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/17/12 at 11:52 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Storyline Anatomy: Printout / PDF
"Made up this quick PDF for folks to print out and scribble as they work through Storyline. Hope it's helpful"
  • almost 12 years ago05/09/12 at 8:00 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Example files: Generating a certificate from Storyline
"This example demonstrates how you can take user input and generate a certificate for printing. Any Storyline variable or score can be use..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/09/12 at 6:37 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Storyline Anatomy
"Storyline is pretty easy to pickup. Even so, wrapping your head around SL's "mental model" can be challenging if you're not used to a too..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/02/12 at 12:23 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Storylineauthors
"Anyone remember the Flash community ramp up in the early days? Macromedia made a dynamite tool that changed the landscape of the Web. A c..."
  • almost 12 years ago05/02/12 at 10:52 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Dan Roam's Napkinacademy
"Just signed up for this and looking forward to digging in. Dan Roam launched a curriculum online for quick visualization and solving prob..."
  • 12 years ago04/08/12 at 1:32 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Google Webfont Awesomeness
"These fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts are available with fonts and source here (700MB of free font goodness): http://code.google.co..."
  • over 12 years ago01/10/12 at 5:50 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Symbols: The Noun Project
"Stumbling through my morning reading I ran across this gem. If you're looking for symbols or icons in the "road sign" style - The Noun Pr..."
  • over 12 years ago11/16/11 at 4:48 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion FYI: Flip Mino HD on Woot today (07Oct)
"We've used flip cams for a range of stuff. Mostly for quick lend-outs and mail-outs to document tasks. The results are better than fair. ..."
  • over 12 years ago10/07/11 at 4:52 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion iPad App: DesignJot for Instructional Designers
"Haven't tried this out yet. WIll probably do so today. Interesting application of technology. Seems to require quite a bit of text entry...."
  • almost 13 years ago07/15/11 at 4:48 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Human Performance Technology Workshop 2011 (Free Conference)
"Howdy all! If you're in the area or can plan to be, we put on a free workshop every September in beautiful Williamsburg, VA. This event d..."
  • almost 13 years ago06/09/11 at 1:28 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Video: Persuasion Triggers (TEDx Atlanta Presentation)
"One of the things that bugs me when folks start talking about engagement is the mention of Gagne's Instructional events. While I think th..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/29/11 at 10:53 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Handy Narration Estimator
"I found this handy tool awhile ago, lost it, then found it again. I think you could easily do the same thing with word count and a quick ..."
  • almost 13 years ago05/27/11 at 12:14 pm (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Royalty Free Music
"I found these a few months ago while scanning portfolios. A fellow at one site dropped a track behind his demo reel. Some of this stuff i..."
  • 13 years ago02/24/11 at 5:11 am (UTC)
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Steve Flowers started a new discussion Tip: Clearing Cache
"One of the things that we run into when testing during development is the browser cache. Some environments make clearing the cache a chor..."
  • 13 years ago02/09/11 at 7:16 am (UTC)