{"id":56,"date":"2013-03-21T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/got-22-minutes"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:09:02","slug":"got-22-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/03\/got-22-minutes.html","title":{"rendered":"Got 22 Minutes? Why not learn something new about SolidWorks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017ee99fba88970d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2017ee99fba88970d\" title=\"Clock-22-minutes\" alt=\"Clock-22-minutes\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017ee99fba88970d-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, who decided that all classes or meetings should be an<br \/>\nhour long anyway<\/strong>?\u00a0 Most meetings here at SolidWorks take an hour\u2026sometimes just 30 minutes (these are my favorite).\u00a0 But, I wonder if anyone ever did a study on the ideal meeting time?!\u00a0 I previously worked at a company that had 15 minute stand-up meetings.\u00a0 These were good, but they always ran over the 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>We have found that a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/upcoming-webinars.htm?scid=sm_bl_upcomingwebinars\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks webinar<\/a>\u00a0only needs to take 22 minutes.\u00a0 The timing of the webinar breaks down this way: 10 minutes for an overview and identifying the challenges, 10 minutes for a product exploration (product demo), and a couple minutes for stuff like intros and the conclusion.\u00a0 So far, we have received extremely positive feedback on the timing.\u00a0 People feel like they get enough information and they don\u2019t have to sit through 30 or more minutes of gibberish and fluff (I<br \/>\nthink that\u2019s a technical term).<\/p>\n<p>We have heard very positive feedback from you about the webinars, particularly around \u201cuseful information\u201d and \u201cgreat presenters,\u201d but I think there must be some who just like them because nobody wants to sit through an hour long<br \/>\npresentation? Like this guy.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017ee99fbc34970d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2017ee99fbc34970d image-full\" title=\"IStock_000014218993Small\" alt=\"IStock_000014218993Small\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/6a00d83451706569e2017ee99fbc34970d-800wi.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember sitting in on a webinar recently, where it took almost 10 minutes to introduce the 5 presenters\u2026seriously.\u00a0 I logged off after 11 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you are interested in learning more about our products, and don\u2019t want to spend an hour doing it, you should check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/upcoming-webinars.htm?scid=sm_bl_upcomingwebinars\" target=\"_self\">Upcoming SolidWorks 22-Minute webinars page here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, we record all of our webinars and place them here (you may have to register): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/resources\/recorded-webinars.htm?scid=sm_bl_recordedwebinars\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks 22-Minute Recorded Webinars page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in webinar topics we have not presented yet, please let us know (comments below are fine). We will be sure to find an expert, and put 22-minutes on his\/her calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>-Cliff-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, who decided that all classes or meetings should be an hour long anyway?\u00a0 Most meetings here at SolidWorks take an hour\u2026sometimes just 30 minutes (these are my favorite).\u00a0 But, I wonder if anyone ever did a study on the<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/03\/got-22-minutes.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":1183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}