Graduated from Blogger class!
Whee hewww! Finished all the videos for the Blogger class at Lynda.com.
I have to reiterate here that I took this class to have a benchmark to compare the quality and depth of Lynda.com video training in a program I already thought I knew well.
So, as expected, I did not learn a lot in the Blogger class. But, I did fall in love with Molly Holzschlag.
Molly Holzschlag
She’s got a beautiful, pleasant voice to listen to and a nice way of putting things.
Molly also has an intimate knowledge of the Blogger.com platform.
Or, anyway she did back in June-July 2004 when these videos were made.
And there is my first “boo on you”, Lynda.com. I really think you can afford to pay Molly to update the Blogger video and it would be worthwhile. Unless, of course, maybe I’m the only one who has chosen to view those particular videos for the past couple of years.
Luckily, Blogger.com was a stable platform when Lynda.com produced the videos. They had a great piece of online blogging software way back then. Blogger has actually changed very little since Molly was teaching about it. They’ve added a few new features but the basics still work just the way she shows you that they do. Of course, Google, who now owns Blogger, could change that any day.
And that’s the basic problem in producing “training videos” for an online platform of any kind. Many online programs change often and dramatically. If you are interested in any kind of instruction for a program, online or on your local computer, try to ascertain that the book, video or class pertains to the version of the program that you want to use.
All in all, if you’re interested in establishing a weblog at Blogger.com, this is still a very worthwhile online class to take. If you’re new to the whole concept of an online blogging platform, it will tend to help you no matter where you end up blogging.
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