Free Lynda.com Membership

[The Penguin]

After finishing work today, I decided to wait near the library. I saw an ad at my local library that the city of Halifax is offering free membership to all local residents that haves a library card.

For those don't know what Lynda.com, they offer online training courses to learn various skills for employment, animation, IT and many other areas. This got me thinking they might be other cities libraries around the world might have this type of service?

What I found is neat I can migrate my existing account to the library account so I don't loss my history of all content I have accessed. This is perfect timing as my existing membership expire this fall.

 

[Katleya]

LinkedIn often offers a free one-month membership to Lynda.com, but I've never tried it.
Would you be able to tell us, later on after you've used it a bit, how extensive their training catalogue is, perhaps review some of them?

 

[The Penguin]

I have been using them for years. I always found organizations to cover the cost for me. But this year will be the first year the whole city will have access to it.

I use it for two purposes. Leisure and my job. For leisure, it to improve my photography and videography skills including editing. For my job, is building many technical skills learning the latest technologies.

What I like when you complete a course, they make it easy to share your certificate on LinkedIn. Bear in mind LinkedIn owns Lynda so this make sense.

Lynda focus working with very knowledgeable people to contribute to their library.

Without Lynda, I would't have all these opportunities I been having in my life.

 

[Katleya]

Thank you for explaining, Penguin!

 

[Bolletje]

Ah, cool! I've been wanting to give it a try, don't think any local libraries offer the same thing, but I might give the free trial through LinkedIn a go though.

 

[Butterfly88]

That's cool you get it for free. I may try the free trial from LinkedIn too as Bolletje said.