Live Webinar – March 24, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 CAT A Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

SharePoint has fast become the most effective and useful collaborative tool that the business world has experienced in a very long time.

Why not? It offers the variety of functions, capabilities and the flexibility to meet the needs of most industries and businesses. But with this increased reliance on a growing platform, there comes a certain amount of risk. If mismanaged or not managed at all — there goes the effort, cost savings and benefit — right out the window.

Have you set out who will be in charge of migrating your shared drives to SharePoint? Who will be authorizing new sites to be created and setting out an information lifecycle to manage your data? What about indexing information so it can be easily searched should you need an answer to be at your fingertips? If any or all of this sounds like a challenge to you, you are not alone.

With this webinar we would like to give an overview of SharePoint Governance and an introduction to the following topics:

• Understanding Governance and business Requirements
• Defining a Governance Team
• Critical SharePoint Decisions
• Determining Best Practices for Your Organization
• Ongoing Reviews of Governance Policies

Presenter:
Mark Weinstein has more than 25 years in the technology industry, and is a systems analyst and consultant based in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a consultant specializing in collaborative technologies, Mark’s attention is primarily focused upon Microsoft’s Exchange and SharePoint servers. Mark consults on several high-end projects for enterprise companies with thousands of users. His forte is building and teaching courseware that makes hands-on material practical and usable in a real-world environment, while keeping the general information on the subject easy to retain. In addition to being a published author and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Mark holds several industry certifications and serves a diverse customer base ranging from healthcare to large public universities.

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Online Webinar
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 30 Min 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU – 0.5 Cat C Free

Agile allows you to be more creative and flexible in your project delivery while keeping focus on the business requirements and customer needs.

During this event, Nancy Nee (LinkedIn profile), an expert on Agile project management and business analysis, she lends her expertise on what’s current in Agile and how leaders in the project management industry are using this framework for building a successful project approach within their organizations.

By attending, you will learn:

• How Agile methods can be complemented with traditional project managements techniques
• What characteristics projects and organizations have when Agile methods are successfully implemented
• What challenges exist when using Agile methods and ways to effectively remedy these challenges

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Live Webinar March 23 2011 – 9:00 am – 10:00 am PDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat C Free
Presented by: The Ken Blanchard Companies

In this webinar, Blanchard teams expert Dr. Eunice Parisi-Carew (LinkedIn profile) will explore some of the common reasons why teams fail including a lack of chartering, inability to deal with conflict effectively, and unclear roles and goals.

Drawing on more than 30 years of experience working with organizations of all sizes, Dr. Parisi-Carew will show you how to improve the way that people work together in your organization by:

• Understanding the barriers to collaboration
• Dealing with conflict effectively
• Learning the five steps to creating a team that works

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to reduce friction and dissension among people to create a cohesive team that ramps-up faster, accomplishes more, and brings out the best in people.

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Online Webinar
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat A Free

The different types of requirements have always been a confusing aspect of Business Analysis, a fact made worse by the fact that different organizations and corporations sometimes have their own definitions for each.

In this webinar, we will look at how the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) defines the different types of requirements, giving everyone a common context to work with when defining project requirements.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare is the Business Analysis Practice Director and a Senior Instructor for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

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Live Webinar – March 23, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 CAT A Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

Too many marketers jump into social media marketing without fully developing a strategy or plan. They create budgets, strategies, and plans for their other marketing channels, but neglect to do the same for social media.

They fail to put solid numbers around it, so very few utilize social media effectively. Often times marketing managers or marketing executives don’t see an immediate impact, and give up on social media as a marketing tool.

To be successful you have to be able to judge your performance, show business impact and measure results.

Often times in business we hear, ‘What’s my Return on Investment’ (ROI). One question you may want to also ask is, ‘What’s my Return On Conversation’, since social media really is about engagement and the conversations you have.

You may have even heard Return on Time (ROT)…perhaps from some very astute marketing folks here at ASPE-ROI. But with all of the acronyms bouncing around, how do you know what is right for you?

Is one right and the rest wrong?

Jeremy Smith, ASPE-ROI Instructor and Social Media Authority, and JT Moore, Director of Marketing will discuss the philosophies behind each of The 3 R’s in Social Media Marketing:

• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Return on Conversation (ROC)
• Return on Time (ROT)

At a very high level, they will show tips and tricks to get you started monitoring your social media marketing under each of these philosophies. They will discuss when one ‘R’ is more appropriate than others, as well as their individual preferred philosophy.

You will leave the event with a strong understanding of The 3 R’s of Social Media Marketing, and have best practices and tips to help you put a solid strategy around your social media marketing efforts.

Presenters: Jeremy Smith (LinkedIn profile) and JT Moore (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar – March 22, 1:00 PM EST
Offered by GoToMeeting Corporate Featuring Stephen Covey

Today’s virtual office tools benefit employees and businesses alike – but only if managers can trust their employees to produce results outside the bounds of the traditional workplace.

The challenge, then, is how do you build an organization of trust?

Join this live free webinar to hear Stephen M. R. Covey, author of The Speed of Trust, demonstrate trust as an economic driver and share tips on how to profoundly impact the level of trust in your relationships, your team and your organization.

Attend the webinar to learn:

• The business and economic case for trust
• Why trust is the critical leadership competency in this new global economy
• How to become a more effective leader and build an organization of trust
• Tips for building trust at a distance

*Free Bonus! All webinar attendees will receive the Soundview Executive Book Summaries® edition of The Speed of Trust, written by Stephen Covey.

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