Guy Kawasaki (The Art of the Start) has a venture called Alltop.com, and through Cammy Bean‘s tweet on Twitter, I learned that Alltop.com has added the e-learning category at:

http://elearning.alltop.com

What is this? It’s all the top news about e-learning! In one place, on one Web page.

Twitter

You can follow me, Cammy, and Guy:

@jenisecook

@cammybean

@GuyKawasaki

My Minnesota born-and-raised mom said that phrase often while I was growing up, and it easily slipped into my DNA. Yet, the “geeky” truth behind my introduction is that I am so excited about WordPress’s latest upgrades, I can’t keep it inside. I have to post about it.

I’m not new to blogging; we have a private family blog created in Blogger that’s a couple of years old. However, one of my pet peeves with Blogger is that I cannot easily upload my custom Flash movies to share with my family “peeps”.

The key word there is: easy.

Sure, Blogger’s developers and fans have created workaround solutions, but that’s not the point. In today’s 21st century, social-networking world, blog software should be flexible enough to adapt to what the admins/bloggers want and need. Today. Now.

So, when I found out that WordPress makes it easy to insert custom SWFs, I told myself,

“Self, I’d rather switch than do workarounds.”

I finally carved out the time, found Tom Johnson’s tutorial (see the “Welcome!” post), and started this blog. When I logged in just now as my blog’s Admin, I saw this link on the Dashboard page:

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-rc2/

If you click to visit, notice the embedded Flash movie!

That’s why I voted with my fingers and chose WordPress. Now I, too, can embed movies easily in my blog. Just think of it: e-Learning “courselets” , Flash demos, screencasts…the blogosphere is now my oyster! Well, maybe not, but WordPress provides the features and functions I want. And, all of us wp-admins will get a new Dashboard UI to boot! As a new wp-admin, I cannot wait to see the “reveal” next time I log in.

Thanks to WordPress, I’m “Always Learning”.