Feedback on my learning startup
aggieben: I think the topics seem a little too contrived.For example - who is really going to go looking for training in the "Politics" category?  There may be some things, but I don't know that many people would look for it there.My suggestion: let topics be determined more organically, and use a tagging mechanism like the one on del.icio.us where you can combine tags to refine the particular topic you want.  To go back to the "Politics" topic, I might rather see all topics tagged "politics+communications" to learn more about making political speeches, or "politics+county+texas" to learn about how county governments in Texas work.  Or, if I just had a general interest in mathematics, I could just look at the list of courses tagged "math".  Etc, etc, etc.  I don't think this means you have to show a tag cloud on the front page, but you might show a simple list of the 10 most popular tags instead of imposing a topic list.I realize this is a very common way to organize user-generated content, but I think it's very effective, and I think it's even now something that web-savvy users now come to expect (like me - I very quickly get frustrated with searching for untagged content).