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I think the topics seem a little too contrived. For example - who is really going to go looking for training in the "Politics" category? There may be some thi

I think the topics seem a little too contrived. For example - who is really going to go looking for training in the "Politics" category? There may be some things, but I don't know that many people would look for it there. My suggestion: let topics be determined more organically, and use a tagging mechanism like the one on del.icio.us where you can combine tags to refine the particular topic you want. To go back to the "Politics" topic, I might rather see all topics tagged "politics+communications" to learn more about making political speeches, or "politics+county+texas" to learn about how county governments in Texas work. Or, if I just had a general interest in mathematics, I could just look at the list of courses tagged "math". Etc, etc, etc. I don't think this means you have to show a tag cloud on the front page, but you might show a simple list of the 10 most popular tags instead of imposing a topic list. I realize this is a very common way to organize user-generated content, but I think it's very effective, and I think it's even now something that web-savvy users now come to expect (like me - I very quickly get frustrated with searching for untagged content).

lux 18y ago
Thanks! We're definitely looking to completely revamp the public lesson browsing with a more complete experience for users. I agree that tagging like you describe is the best approach there. For our "1.0" launch we're focusing more on the lesson delivery for companies and trainers, which we've been calling their "private learning network" and "lesson storefront" where they get companyname.dojolearning.com (or a few other domains we registered :) and send their learners there. You can see simian.dojolearning.com as an example, which is the learning site for my other software project. For our "2.0" we're hoping to put more emphasis on the public side and also add some social elements so users can find lessons through each other and get recommendations in the system too. But for now we chose to really hone the lesson builder and lesson delivery and just get it out there for companies to use. So right now it's more of a Basecamp style (private focus), and the 2.0 would be more of a YouTube (public focus) in that sense :)

lux 18y ago

Thanks! We're definitely looking to completely revamp the public lesson browsing with a more complete experience for users. I agree that tagging like you describe is the best approach there. For our "1.0" launch we're focusing more on the lesson delivery for companies and trainers, which we've been calling their "private learning network" and "lesson storefront" where they get companyname.dojolearning.com (or a few other domains we registered :) and send their learners there. You can see simian.dojolearning.com as an example, which is the learning site for my other software project. For our "2.0" we're hoping to put more emphasis on the public side and also add some social elements so users can find lessons through each other and get recommendations in the system too. But for now we chose to really hone the lesson builder and lesson delivery and just get it out there for companies to use. So right now it's more of a Basecamp style (private focus), and the 2.0 would be more of a YouTube (public focus) in that sense :)