Over the past several months, I have to say that I’ve been pretty darn lucky. It started out where after having worked in the IT department for most all of my professional career that my job was going away, a victim to outsourcing. I pretty much expected it when we were first acquired by “Giant Corp” — it was just a matter of when.

Fortunately for me, I was able to cash in on my podcasting experience and parlay a position within our User Education department. My IT skills, coupled with my podcasting experience, meant I was able to continue working at the same company with the same people I enjoyed working with but just doing something else — something that was equally, if not more, exciting than what I’d been doing for so many years before.

They today, lady luck was on my side yet again. Upon making my move in to the User Ed department at work, I’ve been working on my eLearning certificate from the University of Washington. During that time, I’ve kept a blog (off and on) of my endeavor. During these last few months I’ve been working with all sorts of eLearning software — one piece of software I’ve become very fond of, but unable to convince my boss to purchase a copy.

Well… this evening, my blog was stumbled upon by an individual from the company who makes the piece of software that I am so fond of and asked me if I was interested in participating in an upcoming beta of their product.

So, you just never know… There’s a good chance what you blog about or podcast about may work in your favor at some time in the future. A new job position or a chance to play with some cool software, you just never know.

For those of you doing audio production, Adobe has released a great list of tips if you’re using Windows XP and Adobe Audition — especially the latest edition of Audition, 3.0.

However, these tips apply just as well for ANY audio production tool running under XP

Enjoy!

For those who actively comment on blogs, you may find it difficult, as I do, to keep track of posts which you have commented on and wish to perhaps keep the conversation going.

The cure to this ailment is co.mments.com. This little service is awesome! You can track any blog posting that you want to follow simply by clicking on the bookmarklet that you add to your bookmarks bar. Even better, you can configure the service to send you an e-mail message when the post that your tracking has been commented upon.

Enjoy!