Our "front-line" experiences in managing information technologies help our clients get the most value out of their investments. Institutions of higher education use our consulting services to evaluate and plan their programs in information technology.

Technology should empower learners, employees, alumni and other constituencies. It should contain costs while creating and sustaining active participation in an organization's mission. Technology can improve communications when face-to-face contacts are impractical. Ideally these tools should take on the character of an invisible, reliable utility, but few if any of these goals are easily achieved. Based on our experiences, we offer consulting services to help organizations apply technologies effectively.

The members of The Longsight Group have a decided advantage over many other consulting groups: we are all full-time practitioners in the management of information technology. We are involved in work on the front lines of technology, working with faculty, students and administrators on a daily basis, keeping abreast of the latest changes in pedagogy and management, carefully choosing projects from the vast array of today's technological possibilities. We have many years' experience in creating and managing technology infrastructures for both academic and administrative purposes.

Our clients often seek an external review of the appropriateness, currency and adequacy of current and planned efforts to support information technology for their institutions. Each consultation is unique in goals, execution and product. However, we usually gather background information and then conduct on-site visits from which we develop verbal and written reports.

For more information about Longsight's Consulting Services, please contact us.

We offer on-site training programs to cover our web services as well as a broad range of basic and advanced information technologies.

For the past twelve years, the members of the group have designed and delivered customized training seminars for college faculty, school teachers, students, corporate employees and citizens' groups. We have been called upon to cover the full range of information resources:

• Training on Sakai, Drupal, DSpace and other carefully selected open source applications, for both administrators and end-users,
• Workshops on the quality of information to be found on the Internet,
• Week-long exploratory institutes to help clients discover what suits their needs,
• Seminars on collaborative learning through technology,
• Strategic planning sessions for faculty planning to use technology in teaching, and much more.....

Our seminars are not "canned," but are built to meet specific goals, and often involve the creation of customized workbooks and web pages, some of which have won national awards for training materials.

For more information about Longsight's Training Seminars, please contact us.