A Quick Look at FutureU

FutureU provides professional services—research, training, and consulting—for the development, enhancement, and evaluation of organizational initiatives in virtual communications and technology-enriched learning. As experts in corporate culture and human-centered work processes, we help organizations develop and implement strategies that emphasize outcomes, encourage acceptance of change, and add value to every dollar spent on technology. We have developed reseller relationships with a few key vendors in order to negotiate the best possible prices for our clients. However, we approach every consulting engagement seeking the solution that will be best for the client, whether or not that solution is something that we also sell.

In addition to our customized professional services, FutureU offers cost-effective turnkey solutions in the form of e-books, courses, decision making tools, and research reports. Ask about our Faculty Web Book, Student Web Book, Learner Web Book, Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Own Course Web Site, Choosing Course Management Software tool,, and our reports on Comparative Features Analysis of Course Management Software and Virtual Collaboration Software.

FutureU was one of the first online publishers to specialize in non-fiction. The company's Web books and planning tools are delivered entirely online, with relevant hot-linked web resources built into the text, plus topic-specific discussion forums and annotated book lists hot-linked to Amazon.com for purchase. We are honored to have sold our online publications to organizations throughout North America, from British Columbia to Puerto Rico.

FutureU also has a growing catalog of continuing education programs in five broad subject areas: Innovations in Organizational Leadership, Workplace Issues, Career Planning, Best Practices in the Use of Technology and Lifestyle Issues.

FutureU is a majority woman-owned company, founded in 1997 and incorporated in April 1998 by Gail Terry Grimes and Claude Whitmyer as a privately owned, limited liability company.

We are researchers, educators, communication specialists, and organizational consultants with expertise in e-learning and virtual communications. Longer than most people have even owned computers, we have been advocating for a reasoned, professional approach to the social processes of technology-enhanced communication. More...

• Project planning and evaluation
• Industry analysis and buying support for decision makers
• Support for the successful adoption of new social processes
• Needs assessments
• Readiness assessments
• Training for academic faculty in instructional design and course authoring for Web-delivered education
• "Best- practice" training for participants in e-learning and virtual communication
• Web-based textbooks, user guides, and planning tools on the subjects of e-learning and virtual communication
• Wrap-around e-learning Web sites to supplement face-to-face events
• Course conversion for Web delivery
• Off-the-shelf workshops and courses (online, face to face, and blended) for continuing education in such non-traditional subjects as systems thinking, group creativity, and the search for meaning in work.

For more information, visit one of our catalogs:

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• FutureU.Com (main site)
• FutureU.Net (virtual community of practice)
• FutureUStore.Com (online store)
• BetaTestLab.Net (open source software testing)
• MeaningfulWork.Com (career and entrepreneurial guidance)