Let me introduce a web utility that lets you take screenshots of webpages without any software. All you need is your browser.

Let’s say I want to screen capture the Wikipedia home page (http://www.wikipedia.org)

Type the following URL in your browser

http://aviary.com/http://www.wikipedia.org
This is how it looks on your browser

The first part (http://www.aviary.com) is a web service. Aviary has built image processing tools that work on your browser. The second part is the web page we want captured. You can replace this part with the URL of whichever web page you want captured.

You will see the wikipedia page over-layed with tools that aviary.com provides. Using these tools you can resize the screen image, add text, crop the image and apply couple of other image effects.

After you are done editing, you can save the captured image.

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Want to take notes in a meeting or brainstorm with colleagues in real time? Just hop over to Etherpad.com.

Etherpad gives you blank page and an URL.

Just send this URL to your collaborators. Once they open this URL on their browser, they will be able to edit the page. Each collaborator’s text entry appears in a different color.

You can export the finished document in multiple formats.

The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies features a directory of learning professionals. The people featured in this directory are all active online.

Earlier this week The Christian Science Monitor carried an article on Ethics training and how firms hard hit by the economy are looking to trim it.

The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association says that at least six of its member firms have recently cut ethics budgets, and at least two others have consolidated their ethics and compliance programs. ECOA declined to name the companies. And firms making such cuts don’t exactly trumpet the fact.

The article argues its precisely when the economy is weak that the incidents of fraud go up and workers need ethics/compliance awareness.

Training may be the core testing ground for the idea. Forty percent of companies have recently decreased overall employee training and another 14 percent are considering doing the same, according to a Hewitt Associates survey of 518 executives in April. Ethics training – one of the more expensive parts of compliance programs – would be a natural area of scrutiny for corporations looking to cut costs.

The articles also looks at alternatives to keep costs down - online ethics/compliance training and ethics discussion in staff meetings.

We at NetDimensions have developed a set of solutions for Compliance Management that can help you in delivering compliance programs, reporting, document management, conducting audit trails and make sure that you deliver up-to-date information throughout your orgainisation.

Clive on learning share his reflection on going through a compliance program presented in e-learning format. Clive wonders if the design of compliance courseware prompts the learner to skip content that they feel is not important for the assessment.

The Webinar Blog has useful tips to make sure that your webinar goes according to plan. One of the points the blog makes is to have an alternative platform ready in case the main platform fails. This can be accomplished quite easily with Skype running at either ends.

We’ve all come across services such as TinyURL that can be used to shorten a very long URL to a short one.

Say, these are some sites that you wanted your contact to browse. It is very difficult to remember one URL let alone three. Also, it is tedious to type in or paste the URLs one by one into the browser. Is there a service that lets me 1) bundle multiples URLs into a single URL and 2) generate a memorable URL that I can pass around.

I found this service called Krunchd.com where you can type in multiple URLs one after the other.

Think of a memorable word that your audience can remember and type it into the box.

Next, you can fill in some description for the bundle. The email is optional.

Type in the captha code and hit the “Krunch It” button.

Krunchd will return with the shortcut URL.

This is how the results are displayed. Each of the three sites can be viewed via the menu on top. Try it yourself, the URL we generated is http://krunchd.com/googlewave.

Corporate elearning strategies and development blog announces a two day series of online forums that explore the use of multimedia in elearning.

Having trouble keeping track of the time you spend on various projects? try Lego. via Compliance Building.