Using the Internet to Communicate and Collaborate  

With this subscription-based Web book, you will learn how to create a secure space for sharing ideas, solving problems, facilitating interaction among multiple organizational functions, keeping everyone in the team informed. Also, guidelines for communicating with email, voice mail, conference calls and video conferences. Self-paced, password accessible web site. Pay online by credit card. Equivalent to a 100+ page workbook. More Information…

Price: $100.00. 2-99: $60. 100+: $50.
Full refund if not completely satisfied within 30 days of purchase.

Introduction to Virtual Communications   

This two-week, instructor-led online module covers the same content as the Web book Learning and Communicating Online, described above. The Web book serves as a core text to introduce readings, assignments, and discussions. Also available as a one-day, face-to-face workshop.

Price: $3,000 for up to 60 online participants or 20 face-to-face participants.
$50.00 for each additional participant.
(plus the cost of a Web book. Also add travel time and expenses for two trainers if delivered face to face.)

Real-Time, Web-Based Meetings  

Training for staff in the use "online meeting" software for communication and collaboration. Covers use of chat, desktop video conferencing, application sharing, large-audience presentations using commercial packages such as Centra, Elluminate Live!, LiveMeeting, WebEx, etc.

Price based on product choice, scope of use, number of functions/features, etc.
For more information, call 415-824-7726. (Two-Week Online Module or One-day, face-to-face Workshop.)

Project Support "Wraparounds"   

Custom designed 10-page web site, hosted by FutureU. Password protected, linked to your company Web site, supplemented with FutureU resources about virtual communication and virtual team work. More…

Price: $3,000 (Additional pages, $300 each)

Modify template for each additional project: Price: $200/hour (estimate 2-6 hours)

To manage the Web site. Price: $500/month per site
(Most sites need managing only for the duration of the project. After that, they are archived for later reference.

To train your personnel to manage. Price: $3,600

Choosing Virtual Collaboration Software  

Several hundred players are currently struggling to grab market share in the dynamic, rapidly evolving world of virtual collaboration software (VCS) For years, our company, FutureU, has been helping organizations not only control costs but actually improve communication and training by adding a virtual component to their interactions.

However, the choices of software for this purpose are so unproven, so varied in their design and pricing structure, and so frequently updated that even experienced technology decision makers hesitate to move forward. We help them clarify what they really need, navigate the many choices, minimize resistance and instill best practices among the people who will be using the software. In short, we help them make the most of what is often a major investment.

Price: $200.00 per hour or $1,500 per day per consultant. Plus travel and expenses.