I came to lynda.com to learn some programming stuff, but please keep these courses coming! Even though I am primarily programming, anything that saves me time and helps me work more efficiently is welcomed. Given that a lot of subscribers are probably working their own business or project, what about a few more practical courses for small business or home office? General book keeping (as opposed to how to use a particular piece of accounting software), basic marketing etc.

Well done and thanks especially to Dave – this will save me a LOT of time

I would put myself in the group of subscribers you refer to, Michael, who are longing for these soft skills courses. Please, please, please keep them coming.

You’re only challenge in doing so will be continuing to meet the bar you’ve set for yourselves with this course. I watched it once here at work, and I just finished watching it a second time last night, at home with my wife. We’re pumped on it.

So anyways, thanks a million.

Though originally using lynda.com for software training, this course looked interesting so I clicked in. I think it gives me tools that I had not

Changes inspired so far:

In the home: Now I am going to have an inbox that I can go to for unfinished projects. With a boisterous toddler, I have recently had problems losing things. An inbox gives me a plan.

With work related to our home business: Keeping a calendar with me at all times was a great idea. I already feel less stressed as my new electric calendar notifies me about upcoming appointments.

I think my favorite thing about Dave’s approach is that he breaks things down to a simple, easy level so that I, who am not an organized person by nature, can begin to form organized habits. His points are perceptive enough though that my husband, who is a naturally organized person, also found the course helpful.

Thank you for the great course!

First and foremost, we work 100% for our members. Our mission is to provide the training they are asking us for, and whenever possible to actually exceed their expectations. There will always be more requests than we are capable of producing at any given time, so our challenge is to prioritize and pick the topics that will benefit the most amount of our members.

While it is definitely true that at our core, we have a rich history of focusing on training for software, our members have been steadily asking us for more and more coverage that they feel is related and complementary to the software tools training we publish.

For example, we recently started publishing content on the Foundations of Photography, covering topics such as Exposure, Lighting, Lenses, etc. Now none of these courses are about “software”, but I would argue that they are completely relevant to just about any user of Photoshop, Lightroom or Aperture software. And judging by how many views these courses are getting and the feedback we are hearing from members to publish more courses like this, we have reason to believe that our members value these “non-software” courses. This does not mean we will no longer publish courses on photography software.

Over the past twelve months or so, the fastest growing topic area request from our members has been for us to start adding some “soft skills” courses to our library. Members are asking for us to help support their personal and professional development in and out of the workplace. The Time Management Fundamentals course we published last week is the start of our attempts to service those member requests.

To put this into perspective though, we are marching towards the goal of publishing 300 new courses in 2011. Of those 300, less than 5% of them will be soft skills courses and documentaries. We ourselves are a learning organization, in that on a daily basis we ask ourselves how can we do what we do even better. We want to ramp up the soft-skills content slowly. This will allow us to get feedback from our members and ensure we develop the content so that it is engaging, meaningful and effective for their needs.

The beauty of our “library” model is that as a subscriber, you can pick and choose only the courses that are relevant to you and ignore the rest. The question we expect and want you to ask yourself is this… Is there enough value and content that is of interest to you available in the Online Training Library®?

We will continue to strive to make sure the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.” If at any given time the answer for you is “no,” then we certainly understand you may choose to cancel your subscription. In fact, with our “month to month” model with no long-term contract required, we make it very easy to cancel. Just come back and check us out again in the future as we publish new content every week.

And lastly, the most direct question I can think to ask you after reading your comment to this post is this… What software training do you feel we are missing? Let us know because we are listening.

Thank you,

Michael Ninness
VP of Content, lynda.com

P.S. Now my video game secret nerd side is out in the open!

I was so shocked to see all the chaos i had that was wasting my time!
I really thought multi tasking was great…but it really has been messing with me..

I have put time in my diary to do this course,…i don’t have the time NOT to learn this!!

Thank you lynda.com…
I am setting more lynda.com time aside…committing to learning it

You guys are great!