For nearly a decade, my colleague Tony Byrne has traveled around the world to teach Web Content Management seminars. Hundreds of conference-goers have had the opportunity to attend his half-day tutorial introducing and exploring the concepts of WCM technology that we've documented over 15 editions of The Web CMS Report. At the same time, we receive many inquiries from new WCM project teams who would like guidance when starting an implementation. Unfortunately, we're unable to meet all requests to teach this course in person.

To meet this demand in a different way, we're excited to introduce a new option - Online Education - for those interested in learning the fundamentals of content technologies. Today we debut our WCM course, and we'll be adding new courses throughout the rest of the year and into 2009. Each course is designed for completion in a half-day, but they're each split into shorter modules, so you can complete them at your own pace over the course of a full year, from wherever you have online access.

For our first course, we've taken Tony's half-day WCM technology tutorial and made it available online for anyone to digest at their own leisure. The Fundamentals of Web Content Management Technology course is broken up into 5 modules:

• Introduction to WCM
• WCM Core Technology Services
• Web Content Production Services
• Web Content Delivery
• WCM Vendor Landscape and Trends

We've added a new Online Education section to our site with information about the course format, what's included in the course (and what's not included), who should take the Fundamentals of Web Content Management Technology course, and upcoming courses.

Please direct any questions or suggestions about the course to education@realstorygroup.com.