Training Program to raise Online Publishing productivity by 4X

Pigtail Pundits, a Mumbai based interactive agency, announced a new training program, as part of its web consultancy practice, that will enhance traditional Online Publishing productivity by 4x.

[ClickPress, Thu Apr 19 2007] Pigtail Pundits, a Mumbai based interactive agency, announced a new training program, as part of its web consultancy practice, that will enhance traditional Online Publishing productivity by 4x.

The training program, aimed at small and medium sized publishers and entrepreneurs, in Mumbai, India, helps take advantage of the growing power of the Internet in building sustainable and profitable communities and portals using proven Open Source tools and internet marketing technologies.

According to Pauravi Pathak, Creative Director, Pigtail Pundits, the training program is best suited for Designers as well as Programmers involved with portal and online community building. For the moment, the training program is available only in Mumbai, India.

This training program introduces a fast-track, rapidly deployable solution for companies interested in building online communities. It will also help existing portal owners seeking to revamp their portals to a Web 2.0 solution, build a more functional, customer-centric site.

According to Rajesh Khanna, Director, Pigtail Pundits, the new training program evolved out of several new market realities.

One, Pigtail Pundits has been helping clients and customers globally to build portals and communities using new age web tools for almost 3 years now. As a result, the company is well suited to extend this skill set to a whole new audience.

Two, there is a renewed interest on the web in India, in the last one year and many of Pigtail Pundits’ existing clients have warmed up to the idea of training in-house staff to build, manage and maintain portals.

Three, there is an acute shortage of web talent, both programmers and designers, which is causing publishing companies to look at more efficient ways of working compared to creating portals using traditional software development models.

Four, Open Source software has grown in sophistication, richness, widespread use, scalability, continuous improvements and robustness, in the last couple of years. This has short-circuited traditional software development cycles, time-to-deploy, costs and use of resources for interactive companies.

Five, most of the portals and community sites in existence today are at least 2, 3, 4 or years old technologically. They cannot be scaled to accommodate new realities in web technology without a complete rewrite of the code.

The Pigtail Pundits customized training program for Online Publishing starts with an audit of the client’s publishing team’s current skill levels and resources. The program is then created for raising efficiencies by 4x over a period of 2-3 months. It involves creating a brand new portal, which gets executed as part of the training, by the client’s project team.

Krishna Unni, Director, Pigtail Pundits believes that it is a win-win situation for clients and the agency. Clients save costs on expensive portal development by third-party developers, or in-house developers, following traditional software development models.

For one, they get a spanking new, Web 2.0 site developed at the end of the training period. Their staff gets fully trained on the use of Open Source tools required to create, manage and maintain these sites. What’s more, the staff will also gain the ability to build any number of such properties thereafter at greater speed and with fewer in-house resources. Productivity increases of 3-4x are guaranteed over conventional methods of site building.

For more information, on the Training Program for Raising Online Publishing by 4x, log on to Open Source CMS training.

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