A New Type of Class
This past quarter for the Simplicity Institute was not a good one. I had to cancel every classroom class due to lack of registration. I've asked around to find out why people haven't registered, but I don't have a clear, conclusive answer yet.
I can't really afford to do more classroom classes if I have to cancel them, because I still have to pay for the marketing material (10,000 mail-outs) and the classroom space, even if no one shows up.
Soooooo, my idea is to hold classes over the Internet. This makes sense in several ways. First of all, I can do a lot of "guerrila marketing" over the Web that won't cost as much as those danged paper mail-outs ($5,000 per quarter!). Second, I don't have to rent classroom space. And third, my job several years ago was the technical training director at a computer consulting company, where I instituted Web training for our international staff and it worked quite well, even though Web training was in its infancy back then. You can still read the press release about our little adventure back in 1998.
Now is the time to make a change. I'm going to use this blog to organize my thoughts, hopefully keep myself on track, and inform you about what it's like to set up a Web training curriculum. It will be interesting...
My goal is to have five classes up and running by January 15, 2004. Some of those classes will be full-blown, self-paced Web classes. Some will be teleclasses (classes you take by phone using conference calls) and some will be simple e-mail classes.
Please join me in my journey!
2:12:29 PM 
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