Topic: Basic Business, Managerial, and Workplace Effectiveness Skills
Format: Collection of online courses by many different publishers (free registration required)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
The LatitudeU website, which offers online courses from many different publishers, continues to expand its catalog of free and pay-per-course online courses. One of our favorite LatitudeU publishers is Global Mindset, whose courses are short, no-nonsense, yet quite well designed.
Topic: Project management; How to help inspire project teams to be their best
Format: eduFire live video class
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
I’m teaching a free, live video class on eduFire: “Project Management for High-Performing Teams” on Friday, August 14.
To learn more and to register, click the graphic below. Hope to see you there!
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P.S. — Please go to this link for info on all my upcoming eduFire classes:
http://edufire.com/search?q=Michael+Greer&commit=Go!
Topic: Overviews of technology-related topics, finance, and more
Format: Website featuring ultra-brief (under 5 minutes!) videos that are uniquely animated, fun, and filled with big ideas.
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
So how much content can you cram into 5 minutes (or less) of video…. and still have powerful, clear explanations? You can see for yourself at the amazing Common Craft website! It’s recently been completely reworked and has a great, easy-to-use new interface.
If you want tight (and fun) little explanations of all sorts of complex topics, then you gotta check this site. And if you are a video producer or a trainer, you need to see what these guys are up to! They set the bar very high indeed for quick, clean, efficient, and effective training tools!
I’m a big fan of Common Craft and have reviewed several Common Craft videos on this blog in recent months. And they are all amazing, fun, and information-packed.
You’ll find links to my past reviews, as well as a complete list of all Common Craft videos available at the website, below:
Topic: Debate re: how the “millennials” (those born between 1980 and 2000) differ in terms of information processing, learning, intellectual prowess, and overall competence compared to other generations
Format: Video, 1 hr., 32 min (online Flash)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
Chances are you know a few “millenials” (someone born between 1980 and 2000) and must work with them, train them, parent them, or simply figure out how to live or work productively with them. What makes this generation special is the amazing amount of technology they have had to integrate into their lives, as well as the impact of this technology on the way they learn and process their world. This online video will help you educate yourself about what makes this generation tick, their strengths and weaknesses, and how to interact with them effectively.
Topic: Inspirational quotations, interpretations, and suggested follow-up discussions & “Challenges” designed to help project teams (and project managers) achieve their best
Format: Podcasts (MP3s)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
I just finished converting all 12 of my Inspired Project Teams blog posts to audio (MP3/podcast). Visit the blog by clicking below!
Click “Read the Rest of this Entry” below to see a complete list of all Inspired Project Teams Podcasts.
Topic: Inspirational quotations, interpretations, and suggested follow-up discussions & activities designed to help project teams (and project managers) achieve their best
Format: Podcasts (MP3s)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: I am shamelessly promoting these podcasts which I’m releasing on my other blog, Inspired Project Teams.
These 1st four Inspired Project Teams Podcasts include: Quotations, Reflections, Team Challenges, and Project Manager Challenges (specific follow-up activities) related to these topics:
8 more podcasts are scheduled for release in the near future. So… Stay tuned!
Topic: All about social networking tools and how to use them to promote your business
Format: Web-based text lessons, links to samples & examples, quizzes, assignments, message boards. Downloadable as PDF. (Free registration required.)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
So… Is your business using SMO (social media optimization) to encourage viral marketing, social bookmarking, traffic to your blogs and websites, and customer or brand loyalty? Do your potential customers or suppliers follow your tweets on Twitter? And is your blog or website sufficiently “sticky,” while employing widgets, chicklets, feeds, and other social network tools? If you said “No” to most of the preceding questions… or if you said, “HUH???….” to some of the terms used, then you need this course!
