Recently I entered into a partnership with a seminar company. I decided to partner with this company for two reasons. First, I love to speak. Second, I love to provide individuals with information and resources that enhances their personal development.

I absolutely love to help people to transform their lives to reach their full potential. There are very few things in life that give me more personal satisfaction. The other reason is that this company provides me with the opportunity to sell resources that help people to improve their lives.

Currently, I do not have any resources of my own to sell. The opportunity to work with this seminar company allows me to place products + information into people's hands that will help them to reach their goals. I have decided to teach Excel. I chose Excel because I have close to 25 years of experience in the information technology field as a software developer and my Masters degree is in educational technology.

In fact, it has been my social experience within this workspace that has led to my starting this blog. I have been asking this question for more than 2 decades now, "Where Are Blacks in Technology". My new seminar experience has been much of the same.

Since March, I have been out on two trips to conduct Excel training. During that time I have only come into contact with two African American attendees. These seminars have each had more than twenty people in the room. I have seen two Black people out more than 120 seminar attendees.

During my first seminar, I thought ok, no problem maybe it has to do with the region. I was in South Texas. But, then on my second trip, I only had one person in the seminar and this was in the Dallas area, where I lived for over 10 years, so I know there is a significant population of Black people

Where are the Black people? Why are we not attending affordable, quality training that is being delivered right in your own backyard? You do not have to travel and you can learn the basics of a very popular product, one that can land you a job for an affordable price.

If you are interested in training in Excel 2003 or a myriad of other topics, please Google seminar companies or visit the websites of National, Dale Carnegie, Fred Pryor or SkillPath and see what kind of training is coming to your area.

This is a great way to establish new skills that may put you over the hump on your next job interview or helping you to run that small business more effectively.

Warmest Regards,
Kai Ajala Dupé
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EarthClassMail

I am trying out this new service called EarthClassMail. It is a mail service that digitizes my mail and delivers it to me via a web interface. With this service and I am able to check my mail from anywhere as long as I have access to the web, which I usually have since I have an iPhone. Recently I read a few negative reviews regarding this service so I decided to check it out for my self. I signed up for the service for six months.

I mailed a letter to them last week. I mailed it on Monday. I assumed the letter would be received by Wednesday. It was Saturday before I was notified that I had received new mail. That is s a bit slow, but I am sure that will get better with time. The bottom line is that in future all mail will be digitized and delivered electronically. If EarthClassMail is successful it can save me a great deal of time and offer me wonderful flexibility regarding how I handle mail.

It simply makes sense in this digital age. I am just so enamored with the idea that I can check my mail from anywhere and I do not have to travel to the post office or the postal annex to retrieve my mail. Moreover, the cost of using the service is less expensive compared to my postal annex box. Check back in six months and I will report back and review the service at the end of my trial period.

If you want to try them out for yourself before I write my review you can check them out at http://www.earthclassmail.com

Warmest Regards,
Kai Ajala Dupé