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From graphics to web development, audio to video and more, get the skills you want from our family of tutorial and resource sites. Need more? We also offer a Premium membership where you can access source files and bonus tutorials

Free Adobe Creative Suite Tutorials. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere Pro 

Various photoshop tips & tricks, tutorials.

Extensive photoshop tutorial list. Also includes photoshop for branding/marketing materials.

We are currently sourcing materials for a range of free English language training courses, such as ESL, ESOL, IELTS and TOEFL. Our interactive English language courses feature audio, native speakers, and opportunities to practice your English. If you are learning or teaching English as a second language, or if you want to improve your business English, improve your English for free on ALISON!

Creative Writing On-line course. ExpertRating is a trusted name in on-line testing and certification. It is ISO 9001:2000 certified.

On-line workshops - Blogging for Profit or Pleasure, How to Quit Your Day Job, Writing Historical Fiction, etc. Fees varies

A 6-week Writing Skills Training & Certification. ISO accredited.

Gotham Writers' Workshop. The most comprehensive creative writing classes On-line and in N.Y.C.. Fiction writing, Creative Writing, Article Writing, Blog Writing, Non-Fiction Writing, Business Writing, Children's Book Writing, etc. Affordable rates.

Helpful list of free on-line writing courses (free & paid)

Poynter's News University is one of the world's most innovative online journalism and media training programs. We are open to journalists, bloggers, freelance writers, journalism students. Anyone who wants to improve their journalism-based skills. We serve more than 130,000 users through self-directed courses, group seminars, and Webinars, covering subjects from multimedia techniques, to writing, to reporting, and beyond.

We offer you Level 1 and Level 2 courses in technical writing, plus a workshop on writing system requirement specifications. We're constantly updating and restructuring our content.We also welcome your active participation in building and improving this learning community.All technical writing and analysis course work is free for you to use, copy, modify, and adapt as you see fit. This is open source learning

Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced writer--we have a course to fit your needs. Are you a passionate memoir enthusiast? Need help in business or technical writing? Want to learn how to write poetry? Looking for help in publishing and marketing your writing? Or perhaps you just want to brush up on the basics...well whatever your writing need, look no further! We have just the course for you.

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Flavors.me is your elegant narcissist web page. This is me smiling, this is my blog, here's where you can find, here's what i read, here's what i listen to. It's pretty cool.

When you are in corporate, the company  pretty much determines what are the competencies & skills you need to possess so you can do your job well. The company then helps map out a training plan for you. But now that you are the owner of your Virtual Assistance Business, you are fully responsible in mapping out your Individual Development Plan (IDP). And the first step in developing your IDP, is establishing the competencies your target niche demands of you.

Even the best of writers experience the "writer's block" every now and then. As I mentioned in my 3 Simple Yet Critical Questions | Before You Start a Virtual Assistant Blog, lack of blog content is one of the most common reasons why blog dies. And if you are a Virtual Assistant, chances are, you don't even have as much time to focus generating blog ideas as full time bloggers do. No worry. Today I'll share with you the simplest, yet most effective way to generate ideas for your Virtual Assistant Blog.

BUT positive as all these may sound, Calson's Blog Statistics & Demographics prompts you to think twice about jumping in the blogging wagon. The review reports that roughly 60%-80% of blogs die within a month; 66% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months - 2.72 million blogs! ; and that 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no posting on subsequent days!  "The 'average blog' thus has the lifespan of a fruitfly…"