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Safari Books Online Adds Training Video Titles

Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), an on-demand digital library for technology, creative, and business professionals, announced that it is offering more than 250 new training videos from top training video companies such as Total Training, Inc.; Talented Pixie; Class On Demand, Inc.; Skill-Pill; and PeepCode. Many of the videos are available now, with the rest coming online over the next month.

With Total Training and Talented Pixie videos alone, Safari Books Online customers will have a one-stop shop for finding any video about Adobe's Creative Suite 4 as well as a full set of training videos for CS3 products. The other video producers add important training opportunities for Safari Books Online users seeking to improve their business skills or other professional development skills.

Training video companies will be adding the following content to Safari Books Online's library:

*Total Training-This will add 151 Total Training titles (700-plus hours) to Safari Books Online's library when completed. The list of videos includes tutorials on all Adobe CS3 and CS4 products.

*Talented Pixie-The expanded list of 36 training videos being added includes a complete list of Adobe CS3 and CS4 titles on Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign, and Acrobat.

*Class on Demand-This will add 28 titles focusing on topics for creative professionals and digital-media enthusiasts.

*Skill-Pill-The company will add 30 business titles about various business skills such as effective communications and leadership.

*PeepCode-This will add 12 titles about professional development topics such as Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Git, Objective-C, and Clojure.

Safari Books Online offers a range of product mixes and pricing programs for organizations, government agencies, and individuals. Subscribers have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully searchable database.

Source: Safari books Online