FiveRuns Receives $6.2 Million In Funding

It would have been more fitting (in terms of alliteration) if FiveRuns had gotten around $5 million in funding.  Instead, the company, which works with Ruby on Rails, did especially well and took in $6.2 million.

Increasing Webinar Attendance

I received an email (actually a comment to one of my posts on typical webinar attendance rates) asking for advice and suggestions on how to improve attendance rates for training webinars. This email came from a vendor who works with independent franchise operators who sell the OEM's portfolio. He said he wanted to train them, get their attention, and motivate them to sell his services.