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Something on this list may be nagging at you.
You’ve been wanting to:
Be able to get a phone number in seconds from AddressBook.
Find that certain photo in iPhoto and email it in just a few clicks.
Spend less time in Mail
Instantly find all email correspondence and documents relating to….
Get some of your recurring events in a digital calendar so it can send you reminders by email
Quickly look up the date you had your last appointment with…
Get paid faster (if you’re in business) without spending hours sending out invoices
See all your bank transactions and balances instantly on one screen without typing them in
Not have to remember all your passwords
Spend less time keeping up with people on your various social networks or see all your connections’ posts from those places in one screen.
Create a snazzy graphic email invitation for a party in minutes and know who is coming before you order the food
Start a blog (personal, business, or moneymaking)
Set up a website (personal or business)
Start a nice looking (and legally compliant) email newsletter with an automatically managed list
Or, just get your Mac to do all those things you had originally bought it for to make your life easier?
And it seems like you can never make the time for these daunting projects or it now seems like it will take a lot more work on you than you thought.
How would you like to learn how to:
Put all your friends family and business contacts’ phone and email into address book
Get your email organized
Set up a way to make sure your getting things done from those emails sitting in your inbox
Get your finances up to date on your computer
Set up a system to track your passwords or start using safer passwords
Put all your photos from all over your hard drive into iPhoto and organize them
Website, blog, social networking, email newsletters?
Don’t even know where to start let alone the possible tens of hours to figure it out?
What if you could accomplish these so you can actually do the things mentioned in paragraph 1?
What if the projects were turned into smaller chunks and you were provided some direction, knowledge and resources to do them in an efficient way?
Please hang on here with me while I tell you a short story, it will all come together in the end.
Something you might not have known about me. I left the corporate software world at what some would say the top of my career. Then my consulting company, started from scratch with a parter with $500 each, was earning more than seven figures annually without much overhead when I sold my ownership less than five years later to focus on raising my son.
Well I couldn’t stay out of the mix and took on roles at several tech companies that I was excited about. I really dived into projects and roles related to web 2.0 hosted software for Elearning. It was amazing what was being accomplished. It was expensive and seemed only the largest of organizations could afford it. This did not seem right to me knowing how inexpensive cloud computing was getting and how it was revolutionizing everything. So, after my last deal closed, selling a Fortune 500 company an annual license for hosted Elearning software at $1.5 million a year, I stopped.
There had to be a way to bring this great way of learning and combine it with live online sessions and some social functions for employee collaboration to smaller companies at an affordable price.
I wanted every company and it’s employees to enjoy the benefits of lower training costs, just in time access to learning, and the efficiencies gained from well-trained employees who get to collaborate.
Where am I going with this and what does it have to do with you getting your photos organized?
Technology and web standards have come a long way. There are now afforadble ways for a small organization or an entrepreneur to provide a great learning experience online. applejuiceacademy.com is going to be a way for me to help many more Mac users like you, in a convenient time and place, no matter where you are located.
I want to get way into it and have people I know and trust in there with me. To make this happen course content must be created. You can’t just take a successful classroom workshop and replicate it exactly online. That doesn’t take full advantage of the benefits and possibilities of online learning and technology.
So, myself and other subject matter experts will need to create that course content. I want to test out some topics with you to find what you most want to learn. And in that process, collect information about what can be added to make a full online course from that topic, or know it’s not a topic that should be a course on its own, or even included in a course.
While the software is being set up for applejuiceacademy.com , I am going to produce a series of how-to videos with accompanying documents, links, recommendations and whatever I can compile for you from my research and experience.
I see this as a great learning experience for me. Not the production; I’ve been producing online learning since 2000 and worked since 1990 with the large software companies that pioneered computer-based training.
I want to learn from you:
What interests you
What solutions in the courses work for you,
what doesn’t
Get your feedback for future course topics and material.
Are you game?
I am. I’m so excited at the prospect of being able to assist and coach more people to enjoy using their macs.
I prefer to interact live, but I tried that last year with my clients and the majority around here (I did get participants from out of state) were hesitant to get online in a web classroom or conference. I think everyone benefits more from that experience, but I’m not going to push that just yet.
I promise to record my step by step clicks and movements on my screen and provide you with pleasant visuals in short, recorded video that you can watch when you can. You’ll be able to play along to try things yourself by pausing and rewinding. You’ll be able to ask questions. You will even be able to see my answers to others’ questions.
Here is all I ask of you:
- Sign up
- Participate
- Provide your opinions
In exchange for your effort, I am going offer these early courses at a very low fee. The same courses when offered in applejuiceacademy.com will be at market rates which are currently $30-50 each.
To get things rolling, I’m going to bundle them into groups of 3 or so and charge $50 for each bundle. Applejuice tech support members get a discount. If you are not a member and are interested, let me know as we have opened up membership again for a limited time for just a few more individuals a no more than three more corporate members.
If you know anyone, located anywhere (that speaks English) that might be able to participate in these classes, please pass this on.
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First Bundle:
Mail, Address Book and iCal
(including integration with Google mail, Contacts and Calendar.
(3 modules over 3 weeks)