We recently had the opportunity to sponsor the 2014 CEdMA spring conference in San Jose, which was hosted inside the beautiful Brocade building. CEdMA (the Computer Education Management Association) is the foremost organization for training executives and managers within technology companies. If you are an education management professional for a software or hardware manufacturer that delivers training on your products, than you are a perfect candidate for CEdMA.

Do marketers care whether their service partners practice environmentally friendly business practices? Absolutely! However, you must be careful to look “under the hood” when considering working with a company that tosses around the term “sustainability” like beads off a Mardi Gras float in New Orleans. You can get swept away by promises and bravado.

Most training teams at high tech companies start out fairly small doing everything in-house themselves. In start-up mode, training managers are required to wear multiple hats, responsible for not only curriculum development, technical writing, and conducting training but also for identifying and scheduling training locations, ordering catering, and printing & shipping training materials. They have to handle all of the other day-to-day operations necessary in establishing, running and growing a world class Education Services business.

Just in case you’re unfamiliar with the major differences between digital printing and offset (or lithographic) printing, this blog post is for you.

Marketers are skeptical about sharing too much information with their service providers. We get it. We know you have budget guidelines and other proprietary information about your business that should be held close to the vest.