Safari® Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the on-demand digital learning library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today announced it has partnered with Clarity Business Education to provide Safari Books Online subscribers a new innovative way to make learning time more efficient -- Clarity SMART Guides designed for individual or trainer/instructor use.
 

Today’s professionals, both in corporations and as individuals, struggle to keep abreast of constantly evolving technology and business environments.  Clarity SMART Guides accelerate learning by presenting topics in a concise, guided training format that includes links to other related content within the Safari Books Online learning library.  This related content includes digital books, videos and short articles on a myriad of topics such as Time Management and Leadership to create a gateway for the complete learning experience. Clarity SMART Guides are available in both PDF and EPUB formats and are specially tailored to provide an excellent user experience for Safari Books Online subscribers who learn on their laptop/desktop or who take their library on-the-go while using an iPad, tablet and other mobile devices, m.safaribooksonline.com.

The first four Clarity SMART Guides available in the library cover management “hot topics" which are in high demand among Safari Books Online corporate and individual subscribers:

• Time Management
• Coaching Employees
• Empowering People
• Leadership

“Our partnership with Clarity Business Education, and the offering of Clarity SMART Guides, is a great example of where corporate learning is heading,” explained Mark Brokering, VP Content, Safari Books Online. “We are moving beyond reading lists and a course syllabus to a more guided training experience. We think this is going to be a popular tool among our subscribers and we will continue to expand the SMART Guides topics throughout the rest of this year.”

Benefits of Clarity SMART Guides in Safari Books Online:

• Concise content, diagrams, tables and illustrations help simplify complex management concepts and theories.
• A template for training or mentoring sessions within an organization.
• Assistance with effective study, review and completion of assignments.
• Support for learning objectives of individuals and teams. 
• Live links connect directly to recommended resources in Safari Books Online.
• Practical tools and techniques that can be implemented in any individual, team, department or organization.

About Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com and www.safaribooksonline.de) is an on-demand digital library that delivers a wide range of vetted learning resources in both book and video form from the world’s leading authors in technology, digital media and business. Technology professionals, software developers, web designers, and business and creative professionals use Safari Books Online as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training.

Safari Books Online offers a range of product mixes and pricing programs for organizations, government agencies and individuals. Subscribers have access to thousands of books, training videos and prepublication manuscripts in one fully-searchable database from publishers like O’Reilly Media, Prentice Hall Professional, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft Press, Sams, Que, Peachpit Press, Focal Press, Cisco Press, John Wiley & Sons, Syngress, Morgan Kaufmann, IBM Redbooks, Packt, Adobe Press, FT Press, Apress, Manning, New Riders, McGraw-Hill, Jones & Bartlett, Course Technology and dozens more. For more information about Safari Books Online, please visit us at www.safaribooksonline.com and www.safaribooksonline.de.

Media Contacts
Rich Mullikin
Rocket Science
rich@rocketscience.com
415-464-8110 x216

Rose St. Clair
Safari Books Online
rstclair@safaribooksonline.com
707-827-4100

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