Teacher Websites Training Followup, originally uploaded by juggernautco.

Created a one-page follow-up to extensive training materials for teachers who have yet to make the most of their TypePad publishing system.

I’ve found that as time passes after training, the people who did not immediately start publishing need a spark. The 24-page, customized publishing manual is of little use to people who forgot their password.This short, breezy page helps people get re-engaged with their websites.

• Client’s existing promotional video placed on homepage inside Flash
• News section based on TypePad, allowing client to easily update the site and leading to improved search engine optimization
• Trained client on how to update website
• Project included copywriting

• Met with client to determine needs, interest, skills, hardware, and software and researched leading e-commerce packages
• Site is completely based on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions e-commerce platform,  making it easy and inexpensive for client to learn and maintain the system
• Highly recommended if you want a non-technical person to maintain the store after launch
• Set up all product categories and populated the store database with products from client’s FileMaker Pro
• Created custom, easy-to-follow documentation and trained the client onsite until they were comfortable with the system
• Used the built-in weblog tools from Yahoo! Merchant Solutions to create an artist  weblog for search engine optimization, including info on Fantasy figurine artist Amy Brown

• Over 50 teacher websites based on the TypePad weblog content management system.
• All of the teacher sites run off of the same template, which reduces admin maintenance while assuring that each website has the CCS website look & feel
• Teacher sites allow for customization at the blog level– teachers are able to put in the own header, subhead, “my links”, categories, and so on
• RSS feeds automatically served by FeedBurner, making it easy for parents to understand RSS and subscribe through various services
• Installed and configured the Moodle Learning Management System with the school’s look & feel
• Set up Google Calendar so that everyone can keep up with the many events from Pre-K to 12
• Created OPML file of feeds for all teacher sites for easy importing into RSS readers so that parents, teachers, and administrators can keep up with the whole school

First website for a timely new company, Business Ethics Consulting Group LLC. It’s a nifty fresh little site that gets all things done you’d expect to see– about them, why you need them, how to contact them, and other things.

It also has a news section based on TypePad. David Montgomery uses the easy TypePad publishing platform to publish some great insights on moving past Enron and smart commentary on current topics in business ethics. Overall, a great new addition to the internet and the burgeoning world of RSS.

Without any expertise in the speciailized subject matter, my role was to take information from dozens of original sources, create training materials, and work with the trainers in basic training tactics. I also completed a number of important, ancillary tasks such as booking the training space, managing the duplication of training materials, and creating an overall atmosphere conducive to training 50 people to act as one group.

Here are some stats:

• Put together 33 separate courses covering 28 hours of course time in just three calendar weeks
• Worked with 13 separate trainers to pull out knowledge and put down into training
• Sorted through over 700 images, 13 PDFs, and 2 videos
• Managed a team of two designers who developed templates for PowerPoint and MS Word training materials as well as a final CD of all training
• Managed the duplication of 50 binders with 1,000 pages of training materials

• Manage the entire project—working with Account Managers, Trainers, and client subject matter experts spread over three cities
• Develop & deliver custom training on a custom dependency relationship tool as well as the company’s custom Release Management Process and Change Management software
• Manage the development of other training materials, from assessment documents to draft training to post tests
• Provide feedback loop to client based on class comments
• Incremental sales to client based on the need for additional internal marketing materials for better training communications