Category Archives: Partnerships

Strategic partnerships.

The Pluralsight Opportunity

Posted on by
8

Since our recent Series A funding announcement, we have received numerous emails a day from candidates interested in authoring courses for our professional training library. The questions are usually the same so I decided it was time to write this article on the Pluralsight opportunity and how to get started for those interested.

Our goal for 2013 is simple:

Amass the largest, highest quality, body of knowledge for professional software developers on the planet.

We are accomplishing this by partnering with today’s leading software development experts to produce “courses” for our fast-growing training library. This year we have an aggressive goal to publish over 600 new courses, which will bring our library to over 1,000 courses by year-end. This creates a tremendous opportunity for future authors.

experts-kid-einstein

The hardest part of this, however, is finding the right experts because, by definition, they are in short supply and scattered all over the world. Nevertheless, we work tirelessly to find them each and every day. If you believe you’re one, please keep reading.
Continue reading →

Pluralsight + SharePoint = Awesomesauce

Posted on by
5

Pluralsight has been investing heavily in building a complete online SharePoint training curriculum for a while now. We’ve been proud to work with expert instructors like Sahil Malik, Rob Windsor, Janis Hall, and Dan Wahlin so far! But we’ve struggled to keep up with the massive size of the SharePoint platform, the version changes, and the different user roles who all desperately need training online today!

Well, a few months ago that changed pretty dramatically for us.

We formed a content partnership with Critical Path Training, one of the industry leaders in serious, professional SharePoint classroom training. You can read more about our partnership here, but basically, Critical Path Training is publishing their entire SharePoint classroom training curriculum online at Pluralsight. Critical Path Training boasts a thorough and deep curriculum that targets information users, administrators, developers, and web designers. Check out the entire Critical Path Training catalog.

Since we announced the partnership, we have jointly published 39 new SharePoint courses and we have many more planned for the months ahead! That gives us a grand total of 53 SharePoint courses in our online training library today!

Critical Path Training’s cofounder, Andrew Connell, recently published six new courses on SharePoint 2013 designed to quickly ramp-up serious developers.

We believe these are the ONLY online courses available today on SharePoint 2013.

We want to celebrate this achievement and give everyone a chance to experience the quality of our SharePoint content. Hence, we’ve decided to unlock all six of our new 2013 courses – they’re FREE for the next 48 hours starting today Nov 13 (through Thursday, Nov 15, 5pm ET)!  - Free offer has now expired. Get a 10-day free trial on our website.

Watch the following SharePoint 2013 courses today!

This series is a MUST for SharePoint developers. Kudos to Andrew Connell.

Today we’re confident that Pluralsight has the most comprehensive and high-quality online training library for SharePoint thanks to our partnership with Critical Path Training. We believe this will dramatically improve educational opportunities for SharePoint professionals around the globe.

We’re also happy to give them a free trial to the entire library and can give their organization a free company pilot to check our license management and report features.

This week we’re at The SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada exhibiting and working side-by-side with our partner, Critical Path Training, to engage with the SharePoint community here. If you happen to be here at #SPC12, please stop by and say hello! We’d love to meet you, give you some free stuff, and enter you to win one of two (2) Windows 8 Surface tablets!

Happy SharePoint learning!

Critical Path Training Joins the Pluralsight Library – Over 30 SharePoint Courses Today!

Posted on by
4

Today is a big day for Pluralsight customers interested in hardcore SharePoint training. We are excited to announce a new strategic content partnership with Critical Path Training, the leader in professional classroom training for Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. Through this partnership Critical Path Training will publish their catalog of world-renowned SharePoint courses within the Pluralsight online training library.

Over the next several hours we’ll begin publishing our first set of Critical Path Training online courses, and by the end of the day, you will see a total of 33 new SharePoint courses added to the Pluralsight library! These new courses primarily cover SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 for developers, administrators, end users, power users, and web designers.

By end of year, we expect to release another 22 courses from Critical Path Training that will exclusively cover the SharePoint 2013 release.

Continue reading →

Free Facebook Platform Training

Posted on by
Reply

Learn how to integrate Facebook with your apps in less than 75 minutes!

In partnership with Facebook, we’ve released a professional Facebook Platform Overview online course that you can now watch absolutely free (click below).

This professional training course was designed for those who want to integrate Facebook into their own applications/sites and don’t know where to start. The course was authored by Yasser Shohoud, a Facebook engineer who helps their partners build social apps on the FB platform every day. We hope this courses gets you up to speed quickly!

If you like what you see, be sure to check out how you can get access to hundreds of additional Pluralsight courses  for only $29/mo. We have more Facebook training coming soon. What Facebook courses would you like to see?

Free Pluralsight AOP Training for PostSharp Customers

Posted on by
Reply

Today we’re excited to announce a new partnership with SharpCrafters that provides all PostSharp customers with a free 1-month subscription to our new Aspect-Oriented Programming in .NET online training course authored by Donald Belcham, a PostSharpo MVP and Pluralsight Author.

We’re happy to partner with SharpCrafters provide this benefit to the PostSharp community. If you’re a current PostSharp customer and haven’t received an email about this offer, you can apply here.

Happy Learning!

Free Pluralsight Training for ReSharper Customers

Posted on by
1

Today we are excited to announce a new partnership with JetBrains that provides all R# customers with a free 1-month subscription to our popular Resharper Fundamentals online training course, authored by James Kovacs, a long-time R# guru and JetBrains Academy Board Member who has some amazing R# tips and tricks to share with you through these videos.

We’re very happy to provide this benefit to the R# community and want to thank the good folks at JetBrains for partnering with us to make it possible.

If you’re a current R# customer but haven’t yet received an email about this offer, please contact sales@jetbrains.com with your license information. Enjoy!

BizSpark + Pluralsight

Posted on by
4

Today we’re excited to announce our third “Spark” partnership that gives all BizSpark members free Pluralsight On-Demand! training benefits

Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business.

Today we’re adding to these core benefits by giving all BizSpark members access to a 90-day Pluralsight On-Demand! subscription (the free subscription comes with the Monthly plan features). You can learn more about this offer on the BizSpark Training & Support page shown here.

Simply click on the Pluralsight logo and make sure you’re logged in. Then you can retrieve your Pluralsight activation code through the button below.

We hope BizSpark members throughout the world will take advantage of this new benefit to learn about the latest Microsoft technologies through our extensive online training library that covers things like ASP.NET 4, MVC 3, Silverlight 5, jQuery, HTML 5, Entity Framework, LINQ, WCF, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, and much more!

See DreamSpark and WebsiteSpark for more info on those Pluralsight partnerships.

Happy learning.

WebsiteSpark + Pluralsight

Posted on by
10

Today we are excited to announce a new strategic partnership between Pluralsight and WebsiteSpark. This partnership gives all WebsiteSpark members free Pluralsight On-Demand! training benefits.

WebsiteSpark gives Web designers and developers a jump-start by providing the tools and resources needed to build great websites, free of cost. WebsiteSpark members receive valuable software like Visual Studio, Expression, SQL Server, Windows Web Server, and even dedicated support services.

Once a company decides to join WebsiteSpark, training often becomes the next big challenge for the business. This is where Pluralsight comes in.

Pluralsight has joined forces with WebsiteSpark to provide each verified member with a free 90-day Pluralsight On-Demand! training subscription (the free subscription comes with the Monthly plan features). Members can retrieve their Pluralsight activation code after logging into the WebsiteSpark site as shown below.

We hope WebsiteSpark members throughout the world will take advantage of this new benefit to learn how to apply the latest Microsoft Web technologies including things like ASP.NET 4, MVC 3, Silverlight 5, jQuery, HTML 5, Entity Framework, LINQ, WCF RIA Services, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, and much more!

Happy learning.

Pluralsight Signs Strategic Partnership with SoftFluent

Posted on by
1

Pluralsight is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with SoftFluent, a leading Microsoft training and software provider located near Paris. Through this partnership, SoftFluent will act as Pluralsight’s exclusive reseller to corporations in France.

“Through its network of world-renowned authors, including many veterans in the Microsoft ecosystem, Pluralsight has developed the most advanced training library on Microsoft development technologies. We quickly decided this was the best option for us to provide high quality training to our customers in France”, said Omid Bayani, Co-Founder of SoftFluent.

In addition, SoftFluent has begun the process of translating Pluralsight courses into French and will be delivering numerous Pluralsight courses at their training facilities just outside of Paris in the months ahead. SoftFluent has published the upcoming schedule for several of these courses here.

A key part of Pluralsight’s future strategy is to scale our reach through geographic resellers who bundle our online training product with their in-person training or consulting solutions. We chose SoftFluent as our strategic partner in France because they have exceptional depth and field experience with the Microsoft development platform, and perhaps more importantly, the same focus on quality as we do ourselves.

We are excited to move forward with SoftFluent as our partner in France and believe this strategic partnership will prove successful for both companies in the years ahead thanks to our complementary business models and strengths.

For more information, read the full press release.

DreamSpark + Pluralsight

Posted on by
6

Today we are excited to announce a new strategic partnership with DreamSpark, a Microsoft program focused on giving students professional tools at no charge.

Pluralsight has a similar goal, only we’re focused on giving students professional training on the tools at no charge. And that’s why we joined forces with DreamSpark.

All DreamSpark verified members can obtain an activation code for a free 90-day Pluralsight subscription directly through the DreamSpark website. Simply click on the “Pluralsight” tile shown above, follow the steps, and enjoy your free training!

Happy learning.