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This will be my last blog entry for a year, because I am taking a personal leave of absence to travel the world!

Visiting Central and South America plus learning Spanish along the way has always been a dream. This dream is now coming true and tomorrow will be my last day at work - at least for a year. I'll be back - no worries.

RJ Jacquez, our Sr. Product Evangelist, is now finally a blogger :) I have been bugging him for quite a while to blog, because RJ knows our products inside out and has lots of great ideas and many tips and tricks to share.

I uploaded a sample file to our contest and noticed that uploading works best in Firefox. If you have created Flash files for your learning content, you can easily convert those files into video using Sothink SWF to Video converter.

Rick Zanotti is doing a great job posting video podcasts on Adobe Captivate. Several episodes are already posted and cover topics from microphone tips to recording a movie.

I just learned about the coolest carbon footprint calculator - it's a plugin to Acrobat Connect Pro that shows each attendee how much CO2 was saved.

I am getting questions on the main new features in Adobe Captivate 4 - we can't talk about them yet but we are going to have a special Sneak Peek session at the Adobe Learning Summit. You can register already at www.adobe.com/go/als

The engineering team is busy working on Adobe Captivate 4 and the beta is going to start soon.

The Adobe Captivate Product Management team just started a blog - check it out :)...

We have an internal sustainability email list at Adobe for informal discussions and sharing. I asked members what green blogs they read. With the responses and my own favorite blogs, I came up with a list of 10 blogs that cover many sustainable topics. To get started thinking about sustainable practices around your eLearning, take a look at these blogs and the additional links they offer: