This week, I will be presenting live from Australia the final session of the Fall PMI College Of Scheduling (COS) Wednesday Webinar Series: Scheduling in the Age of Complexity. This hour-long event will provide key insights for better scheduling from a personal level: What is the role of the scheduler and what is our future?

The PMI-COS Fall series is designed to bring highlights from the 6th Annual Scheduling Conference held in Boston, MA earlier this year.  Archived presentations are available at http://www.pmicos.org/ondemandlearning.asp if you find them of interest, why not sign up for the College?

The Featured Presentation:   Scheduling in the Age of Complexity

Scheduling was developed as a computer based modelling process at a time when ‘command and control’ was the dominant management paradigm. The mathematical precision of the early scheduling calculations were somehow translated into certain project outcomes. Today, the certainties are no longer so apparent. Most projects run late and uncertainty and complexity are starting to take center stage.

This paper identifies the key elements in Complexity Theory to suggest the real role of a schedule in ‘the age of complexity’. It concludes by recommending a way to re-establish the role of the scheduler in the successful delivery of projects in the 21st Century.

DATE:  Wednesday, December 2, 2009
TIME:   5:00pm EST (US Eastern Daylight Savings Time); Doors open at 4:45pm

LOCATION: http://pmi.acrobat.com/r31077016/

There is no dial-in telephone option for the presentation. All voice will be through the classroom platform.

First of all…Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I’m excited because I recently joined an online group called The Global Education Collaborative. Dr. Ransom heard about a webinar on twitter that he thought I would be interested in viewing about e-pals. That’s how I found out about this group. Some members of the Global Education Collaborative have invited me to be their “friends” and this week one person invited me to join the ning.  In class a few weeks ago when we had to join a ning, I found the National Council of Teachers of English ning, and someone just “friended” me today. I have to admit I have not done much with these two nings but now that other members have shown interested in me, I’m going to explore these groups more.  It’s really amazing how online networking works and how you can meet other teachers like yourself and share career information with them.   

The two videos below were recorded from a webinar that we did a couple of weeks ago. The webinar was put on to help our JavaFit team leaders (open to everyone) put together there own coffee blog and begin to create their own unique online presence.

This is a really an effective way to separate yourself from the rest and show your prospects that you are serious. On our team, we help walk you through these techniques that separate you and help you take your JavaFit business to the next level.

Watch these two videos below as team leader Beau Armstrong takes us through building your own coffee blog, step by step:

We also have two very good team websites for our JavaFit team.
You can view them here: http://www.MyJavaTeam.com and http://www.MyJavaSystem.com

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One effective way to get your message to a new audience online is by hosting and promoting a webinar or even a series of webinars. Webinars are inexpensive and relatively simple to produce and they connect you to people who are genuinely interested in what you have to say. Services like WebEx, GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect, and Microsoft Live Meeting offer you intuitive production tools and excellent coaching and assistance from real human beings.

The strategy behind your webinar should be to offer valuable content to people in your target audience. Your goal should be to establish yourself as a thought leader in your field, a unique source of information, and as a professional and trustworthy service provider or product reseller. People won’t attend your webinar if they think it is just a big commercial, so you need to offer information, tips, techniques, news, or educational material. You want people to think, “This person or company is knowledgeable, helpful, and likable. When I am in the market for the product/service they provide, I would consider buying form them.”

When developing your content, try to think of what your customers might like to know. An accountant’s webinar might be on “10 Tax Savings Tips You Need To Know.” An animal clinic’s topic might be, “How To Check Your Dog’s Dental Health At Home.” A realtor’s topic could be, “5 Easy Ways To Increase Your Home’s Resale Value By $10,000.” As you can see from these examples, you could easily create a series of webinars and hold them three or four times a year.

Once you develop the idea for your webinar content, then you need to write it. This is easy to do in PowerPoint. I recommend that you keep the entire presentation to 30 minutes or less. People’s attention span drops off substantially after that point and your webinar is probably not their only commitment that day. You might also keep the content to within 20 minutes and consider opening the session up to 10 minutes of questions from your listening audience.

Next, you need to promote your event to your customer or prospect list, which you can do by email, direct mail, phone, or even signage in your office or store if you have walk-in traffic. I recommend that you use all of these methods to reach your audience, but you should expect that the greatest return will come from email. Recipients can simply click on the hyperlink, register in seconds, and have it scheduled on their calendar. You will receive a report from your webinar service provider showing all the people who attended, and all those who registered but did not attend. This list provides a terrific follow-up tool for you to connect with the registrants afterwards.

Should you charge for your webinar or offer it free? Well, I have paid for some webinars and would continue to do so if the content were valuable. The challenge is that selling access to information is difficult when there is so much free access to it. Today, 99% of webinars are free, so people would think twice when someone asked them to pay for one. This is because the standard webinar model is sponsorship-based, with a blend of promotional and educational content.

With that said, people do spend a lot of money to attend non-promotional training seminars, workshops, and conferences on the topics that interest them. So if you can convince your target audience that the webinar content will be truly educational, valuable, and exclusive (not free elsewhere), then people will pay for it.

The cost of hosting your webinar varies, but my company pays a few hundred dollars a month for our service. You might expect to get just a few people or a few dozen people to attend the first one. But over time, you will create a following and add more value to your existing and future customer relationships. A webinar program can be a profitable and effective part of most any small business’ marketing strategy.

From “Once Upon A Time” to “Happily Ever After”, every child knows the “proper” way to tell a bedtime story — and woe be unto the narrator that knowingly or unknowingly deviates from the expected framework. Some narrative frameworks have utility that goes well beyond soothing sleepless toddlers, though: these frameworks will form the focus of this session. We will also see how to integrate them into a digital toolkit, and how to use them as a basis for collaborative digital storytelling.

Joining this Webinar

• This webinar will be offered twice on December 3 — once at 3:15pm, and once at 7:15pm.
• To register for the webinar, please click on the following link: Registration.
• If you have not participated in one of these sessions before, guidance and support regarding how to access these webinars is available by clicking on the following link: Support.

Join us for our next webinar presented by Direct Capital:

Beginner’s Guide to Section 179: A step-by-step guide on how to leverage this key tax savings.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT

Register Now!

IRS Section 179 is a tax deduction that can save you thousands of dollars on your upcoming equipment purchases. Learn a step by step process to find out how to take leverage this key tax savings before its too late!.

This webinar will cover:

• What you need to do today to leverage IRS Section 179
• How much you can save on equipment purchases by using Section 179
• What the deadlines are to take advantage of this deduction
• Whether or not your equipment purchases are eligible for Section 179
• And much more!

Our presenter will be David Verno, CPA, Leone, McDonnell & Robers, P.A.

David is a 1990 graduate of Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania where he earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Accounting. Upon graduation, Dave joined Hill, Barth & King, a large regional firm. He also worked for the international accounting firm, Price Waterhouse prior to relocating to New Hampshire, where he worked as an internal auditor for Timberland, Inc. for two years. While with Timberland, Inc., he obtained the designation of Certified Internal Audio (CIA). Dave joined the firm of Leone, McDonnell & Robers in July 2002, and w as admitted as a shareholder effective July 1, 2008. Dave’s relevant experience includes providing tax and financial services to many closely-held businesses and their owners as well as audit and consulting service to not-for-profit organizations and retirement plans.

Reserve your spot for this special free web clinic

Top Ten Tips is a series of practical, fact-based webinars using the Path to Success methodology developed at IntellaCore.  The webinars are short, hard-hitting, and are always combined with a whitepaper.  Each webinar breaks down an important way that a company can increase revenue, reduce costs, and become a sustainable, competitive business.

Environmental sustainability is one of the big buzz words at the moment.  Many businesses are finding that they are saving money by making their business environmentally sustainable.  Could your company benefit from taking a few small steps to become environmentally sustainable?    Join this webinar to learn about some simple things your company can do to save the earth, reduce costs, and become more competitive.

This webinar will be held on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 at 2:00 ET.  Click here to register.  Please enter BLOG in the Invitation Code text box.  Note: there are a limited number of spots open for this webinar.

The Top 10 Tips you will learn more about in the webinar are:

1. Initiate a recycling program in your office
2. Reduce energy consumption
3. Make your products as environmentally sound as possible
4. Make your company’s supply chain more efficient
5. Reduce your company’s paper consumption
6. Offer incentives to employees and customers
7. Use technology to decrease your company’s carbon footprint
8. Continue to search for green products and services
9. Work with like-minded companies
10. Let people know your company is environmentally sustainable

While there are many international experts or technology experts, we are both.   IntellaCore has a unique point of view because we are positioned at the critical crossroad where very few are — that place where the global economy meets the Internet.  Based on decades of experience in both International business and Internet-based activity, Path to Success aligns technology to the business plan, internally transforms the operations of the business, and expands their market presence into new domestic, international, and virtual markets.

I found a great blog called Catechist’s Journey.com by an 8th grade catechist named Joe who “knows his stuff” and provides resources and discussion about catechesis.  He’s been in ministry for 30+ years and does online seminars called “webinars.”  Check it out … especially if you’re a catechist.

In the above video, I especially like the following (I’ll use it in class next week)

Jesus’ Three Comings:  In …

1. History — when Jesus came Man (incarnation)
2. Mystery –as Jesus comes to us today in many ways, especially in the Eucharist
3. Majesty — as we look forward to His triumphant return at the end of time

Lots more on his site.  Check it out!

Webinars are a good way to mix up the way you deliver your message to tradesmen. They allow you  to set yourself apart as an expert, gives you visibility, credibility and  immediate feedback on your topic. They take a lot of work, but if done right will reap you benefits for a long time. You can also repurpose them as webcasts and put them on your web site so the contractors can view them at their leisure. Here are some tips on how to make sure your Webinar is successful:

• Pick a timely subject - You want to not only be topical but timely with what you pick as a topic. Remember, one of your objectives is to be a thought leader.
• Make sure you address “what’s in it for them.” How will your new tool or process help them do their job better.
• Promote it both pre- and post-event - Make the most out of it by using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and any groups you belong to, to generate interest and sign ups. Promote it to your customer and potential lists, as well as through any trade organization or association. After the event, convert it to a Webcast and put it on your web site.
• Keep it to no more than an hour. My rule of thumb is keep your presentation to ideally 30 minutes, but no more than 40, and leave the rest of the time for questions. Also, when appropriate, add some humor. Tell a joke or show a cartoon to help illustrate your point.
• Don’t try to put 10 lbs. into a 5 lb. bag - If you have that much info, break it up into 2 Webinars. Remember, people can only retain so much info, so make your point and then deliver on it.
• Keep audience engaged by taking little surveys throughout the presentation. This not only gives them a reason to stay engaged, it gives you a moment to get ready for the next point.
• Practice, Practice, Practice – This might be the most important point of all. Remember, you’re trying to come off as the “expert”  and you don’t want to stumble through the presentation. Prepare and give it to some co-workers or friends and listen to their critiques. You need to be upbeat and engaging in order to keep the audience from clicking off.

Webinars are not hard to do, but they do take time. Don’t be intimidated. You can do a simple Power Point presentation. Remember, content is the important factor here, not some slick graphics or flash presentation.

Is it a webinar or a workshop?

Please take a moment and click and vote on my poll here. http://polls.linkedin.com/p/67393/qftet

Thanks,
Linda

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HeinOnline offers researchers a vast array of material including

• U.S. Reports (1754-2005)
• U.S. Reports Preliminary Prints (2002-2006)
• U.S. Reports Slip Opinions (2002-to date)
• Rules of the Supreme Court (1890-2007)
• Constitution (1992 & 2002 editions)
• Books on the Supreme Court
• Periodicals on the Supreme Court

Learning how to search this Library in HeinOnline helps you become a better researcher.  HeinOnline is offering a Webinar on Dec. 2d focusing on its Supreme Court library.  Go to the link and sign up.  The 2 pm webinar translates into 9 am Hawaii time.  If you miss it live, you can always view the webinar from the archive.

Workflow Tools:
How to PROFIT from Automation & Optimization

December 1, 2009
1:00 – 2:00 PM Eastern U.S.

Key tools and techniques for building more efficient workflows

This action-packed Webinar will show you how to increase your throughput and shorten turnaround times, causing a direct impact to your bottom line!

Workflow automation allows print and prepress service providers to reduce costs and open up new market opportunities. Today’s automation tools can enhance productivity and reliability at multiple points within your business, and are available at a variety of competitive price points.

Join us as we focus on practical applications that cut production time and manpower requirements while increasing quality and accuracy. From online interfaces and Web-to-Print through JDF, MIS and pressroom computerization, we’ll examine the key vendors, tools and techniques for building more efficient workflows.

You’ll hear from users who have installed these systems, as well as the product managers responsible for their implementation. We’ll cover solutions for service providers of every size, demonstrating how workflow automation can provide a competitive advantage for your business.

We’ll be examining:

• Customer-facing portals for order entry, proof approvals and fulfillment (Dalim DiALOGUE)
• Building “open” prepress workflows (Enfocus Switch and partners)
• Automating plate exposure/verification/punching/distribution (Glunz & Jensen)

Available 24/7 from IPA Webinar Library after LIVE webcast

Instructor: Hal Hinderliter

Free Webinar November 24, 7:00 EDT

Short Sale Transactional Funding is the hottest deal in Short Sales right now!
It opens the door of opportunity for many people, who otherwise could not participate to buy and sell properties at huge profits.
This webinar will give you the Inside Scoop about Back to Back Closings with Transactional Funding.

You will learn about:
How to choose the correct Purchase Agreement
What you need to send to the Mitigator
How to close with your Seller the same day
What happens once  the title company gets your closing funds
and much more.

With Short Sale Transactional funding you get your deals funded right when you need it most.
Join me for this Free Webinar before you even think about winging this on your own!

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To Your Success,
Hunter
407-772-52274