You asked for it, and it’s finally here: lynda.com videos are now iPhone and iPod Touch compatible.
All of our 2009 courses are already iPhone watchable, and we’ve got numerous servers munching away on 2008 courses, which will be available soon. And yes, we even have an iPhone app in the works, with a planned launch in early 2010.
Let us know what you think!
Lynda receiving the SMPTE 2009 Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award for her role as an education pioneer. Lynda is the first woman to receive this award.
We are very proud that Lynda was honored last night by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) with the 2009 Eastman Kodak Gold Medal Award. Lynda was honored for her “contribution to education of technologies and practitioners in the field of media production, in particular, as a pioneer in online education through creation of the website lynda.com which provides affordable, interactive training programs for film, television, sound, and web production.”
The purpose of the award is to honor the recipient by recognizing outstanding contributions, which lead to new or unique educational programs utilizing motion pictures, television, high-speed and instrumentation photography or other photography sciences. The award recognizes developments in equipment, systems, or instructional applications, which result in advancing the educational process at any or all levels.
Lynda among several other honorees who received awards at the SMPTE event.
Top left: lynda.com circa 1996. Top right: lynda.com in 2000. The lynda.com logo first hit the site in late 1997. Lower left: lynda.com in 2005. Lower right: The web site for Lynda and Bruce's school, The Ojai Digital Arts Center, circa 1998.
The lynda.com URL is going on 15 years old, and we’ve been through a lot of iterations and adventures. We’re putting together a history section on lynda.com that documents our path from our humble beginnings to where we are today. Do you have a story about how lynda.com has impacted your life? Pictures of you with past books, classes with Lynda or Bruce, events, Flashforward, etc? Were you a member of Lynda’s early web designer mailing list? Send your stories and pictures to history@lynda.com if you want to share!
We’re really excited about our new partnership with Microsoft: With its release yesterday, new Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition (and upgrade) customers get lynda.com training in the box. Here’s the official press release:
SEPTEMBER 16 – CARPINTERIA, CA - lynda.com, the award-winning provider of online training and education for consumers, businesses and schools, today announced its collaboration with Microsoft to be the exclusive video training partner for its Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition products. Training will be included in product boxes for all purchasers of Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition and the Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition upgrade.
“We are proud to partner with Microsoft by providing in-the-box training for Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition customers,” said Lynda Weinman, co-founder of lynda.com. “Our goal is to help Office 2008 for Mac users to get up to speed on all the applications in this collection of top business software. Our partnership also underscores our commitment to providing high-quality video training content for a wide range of Office 2008 for Mac users.”
“Microsoft is pleased to partner with lynda.com to support our Office 2008 for Mac community,” said Kurt Schmucker, Senior Evangelist for the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft. “With lynda.com’s top-quality training videos included with the Business Edition and Business Edition upgrade, we know users can be productive and creative with our enhanced suite of business software and tools right out of the gate.”
The new Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition includes updated versions of Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Entourage®, and much more. Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition launched on Sept. 15, 2009.
Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition users are also invited to accept a special offer from lynda.com for further training in all Office 2008 for Mac software. More information is available at http://www.lynda.com/promo/MacOffice08
If you haven’t started racking up Certificates of Completion for lynda.com courses yet, now’s the time to start. Check out the Certificates of Completion information page, and be sure to watch the video that explains how it all works.
Whether you’re up for a promotion, seeking employment, or just wanting to show off to your friends, you can share a Certificate of Completion when you finish a lynda.com course. We’ve also created banners and links for your web site, blog, or social networking profile—all at no extra cost to you.
By popular request, the free Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland series published here every Tuesday on the lynda.com blog is now available as a video podcast. Subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or any other podcatching software of your choice and you’ll automagically receive each new episode every Tuesday, conveniently downloaded directly to your computer.
Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, or paste our feed URL into your podcatcher or RSS reader.
For the month of September, we’re offering lynda.com members a limited-time 50-percent off deal on all the CD/DVD-ROMs in the lynda.com store.
Benefits of buying lynda.com training on CD/DVD-ROMs:
Whether you travel a lot and want to take your learning on the road with you, or want to give the gift of learning to someone going back to school or who may not have high-speed internet access, as a lynda.com member you’ll save half the price of each lynda.com CD/DVD-ROM—even the ones that are already on sale!
Remember, you only have until September 30, 2009 to take advantage of this great deal.
Get the 50% off coupon code here for lynda.com tutorials on CD/DVD-ROM! Good only until September 30, 2009.
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You already know how passionate we are about teaching, and we’re honored and thrilled that our service is used by thousands of teachers to better their personal skills and enhance classroom teaching.
We recently launched an academic program for campus-wide licenses that allow students, staff, and teachers to access the lynda.com Online Training Library® from anywhere on their network using existing campus login credentials. We also have special programs for classroom training, and have a three-month semester-long membership that we think is an ideal gift for students heading off to college. If you want to learn more about our programs, a good start is our Never Stop Learning page.
The lynda.com member home page has a new look based on what you've told us you want: quick access to new releases, Creative Inspirations, the blog, and more.
Current members – have you noticed anything new at lynda.com? We’ve launched a new current-member home page to help you quickly find the information you told us was most relevant to you, such as new training releases, new Creative Inspiration titles, and recent blog postings. Based on cookies, we can now detect whether or not you are a member, and based on that criteria, we serve up either a member home page or a non-member homepage.
If you haven’t signed in yet since around midnight on Wednesday, you’ll still see the old home page when you go to lynda.com. After you’ve signed in once and our cookies are accepted in your browser, your subsequent visits will start off at this new page. Let us know what you think!
We are pleased to announce Final Cut Studio Overview, with nearly three hours of free video training content for Apple’s latest release of Final Cut Studio. Produced and recorded by Damian Allen, these video tutorials will introduce you to new features and have you up to speed in no time. Check out new content on Final Cut Pro 7, Motion 4, Color 1.5, Soundtrack Pro 3, DVD Studio Pro 4, Compressor 3.5, and Final Cut Server 1.5: http://www.lynda.com/finalcutstudio/
Jon Gray, an out-of-work planning and analysis manager featured in The Wall Street Journal “Laid Off And Looking” segment, today named lynda.com as his online training site of choice in his blog entry.
The Modern Media Leadership Institute recently blogged about the importance of digital literacy and how it “is critical in life and in every kind of job and organization.”
A news report by WSIL included lynda.com as a resource for those laid off or looking for better jobs.
lynda.com was recently featured in an article on careerbuilder.com, 15 Companies Hiring In July.
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