About-Technology | About provides a directory-type search for IT topics. It offers ~40 portals to basic IT information with free tutorials in every section. |
Bill Gates's Website | Bill Gates's website has videos and transcripts of his speeches. |
Michael Dell's Speeches | Michael Dell's Speeches. |
Microsoft Webcast Archives | Microsoft's webcast archives. |
SANS Institute | SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Networking, and Security) is a non-profit organization that provides high quality security training. |
Singing Fish | Singing Fish is a search engine that only indexes audio and video files. It is a great way to find free tutorials or speeches. Search for Bill Gates and you will find 74 items. |
SkillSoft | SkillSoft, 877-545-5763, provides online desktop software, business, and IT certification training, to individuals and organizations. They offer over 2,000 courses and offer subscriptions to four bundles: business, desktop, IT certification, and all three combined. |
SoftLookup | SoftLookup contains a wealth of written free IT tutorials. |
Specialized Solutions | Specialized Solutions, 800-942-1660, provides online desktop software, work safety, and IT certification training to individuals and organizations. They offer about 100 courses. |
TechTutorials | TechTutorials provides a wealth of written free tutorials on practical IT topics. |
Total Training | Total Training provides DVD training on Adobe and Macromedia products. |
VTC | VTC (Virtual Training Company) offers online software training with access to all their 43,000+ videos for 338 software products for $30/month, or $250/yr. There is a delay of several months between the release of a software update and the addition of updated training. |
Webcasts, ZDNet | Webcasts, Videocasts, and Audiocasts from ZDNet on current IT topics. |
Webex | Webex provides Web based online meetings without the need for an in-house server. |
Whiteboard Videos ZDNet | Whiteboard videos by ZDNet on current IT topics. |
Windows Academy | Windows Academy provides DVD training for various software products. |
See Also | In the "Articles & Databases" section, see ACM and IEEE. They both offer hundreds of online courses in these categories that are free to members: certification, programming, project management, and software applications. |