aaronSILVERS.com = Flash for Learning

It’s been a busy month. My workload at… well, at “work” has increased both in scale and diversity of projects. My involvement with LETSI has increased quite a bit in the last month as I read and continue to comment on the over 90 white papers submitted (so far). I’m picking up contracting work from Facebook, of all places. And there’s real life, which has lots of interesting and pleasant distractions from activity online.

Which is ultimately why I’m merging my two main blogs, Flash for Learning and Gen1us into aaronSILVERS.com. There’s two main reasons: convenience and evolution.

I’ve been actively maintaining three blogs and a music podcast, as well as a presence on my company’s wiki. I just don’t have the time to keep up with all these different online activities. Family blog and everything else is one thing. Personal blog, Family blog, Professional blog… I love the sound of my own writing voice, but not that much :)

Plus, after three years of active blogging, I’m at a place where I’ve learned a bit about my writing style. Between Gen1us and Flash for Learning, I have over 600 posts. Not that many are about Flash, which makes it hard to be honest about a site called “Flash for Learning.”

Twitter has thankfully given an outlet to be weird. Yammer has given me a new opportunity to share and read project activities in a way that’s easy for me to write and consume. My need for a “personal” blog has been satiated by Twitter. I’m wanting to write geekier about a wide variety of subjects — but not so different and off-kilter that my rambling on technology has no basis in knowledge sharing.

There will still be irreverent posts on the new aaronSILVERS.com, but I’ve scraped all my content (the 600+ posts over the last three years), re-categorized my writing into the five major themes that dominated my blogging: Flash, E-Learning, SCORM, Nerd and Personal.

I’ve even called out the categories so you can subscribe to each by email or your RSS reader, in case going to the site isn’t your thing. This way, if you don’t want to read about my quests for world domination, or you just don’t want to read about my adventures in distracting my three year-old with my iPhone — you don’t have to (they’re filed under “Personal” and “Nerd” respectively).

This site and the other one will stay up at least throughout the year, and then we’ll see. You’ll still for the time being be able to find everything you’re looking for here. Anything new I write is going to be on aaronSILVERS.com — so if you’re not subscribing now… consider doing so before I start blogging about SCORM 2.0 work… and my plans to rule the world.