This guest blog post is by Articulate Community Manager Jeanette Brooks.

Everybody likes presents, which is cool because sometimes it’s like a virtual holiday party around here (except nobody gives you tacky sweaters).

There’s always great stuff being exchanged among folks in the Articulate community, and the past week was especially packed with all kinds of neat e-learning tips and giveaways. In case you missed out, here’s your one-stop shop for some of the week’s best insights & advice:

Notable tutorials:

• Disable the “related videos” at the end of a YouTube video you insert in Presenter

• How to subscribe to threads in the Articulate community forums

• Create a TV in your e-learning course in less than 3 minutes

• Display a “video loading” message for movies you insert in Presenter

Conversations in the Community:

• A free PowerPoint e-learning template, inspired by the Screenr home page

• Learn & share best practices for selling your Articulate-built courses

• Tips for building an online employee orientation

• Creating your own graphics in PowerPoint

• An iPad-style design theme, animated talking avatars, and more cool ideas

• Download a clever PowerPoint effect: panning office scene (jump here if you missed the beginning of the thread a couple weeks ago — it contains yet another great PowerPoint giveaway!)

New blog posts:

• A Free PowerPoint Template and a Simple Way to Share Files

• Get Trained in 2011: Choose From 39 New Open Enrollment Dates

• Why You’ll be Psyched About Mike Enders’ Bronze-Winning Course

Seen on Twitter:

• @slhice shares a quick way to create placeholders for your e-learning projects

• @tmiket shares a source for free textures and background images

• @hamtra shares lessons learned from her recent LMS implementation