Live Webinar – August 10, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

QR codes have been spreading across marketing campaigns and popping up all around us, so much so that even the USPS is offering a discount for using them in direct mail pieces.

With the emergence of the “Now Generation” and the rapidly growing use of smart phones and tablets, QR codes are bridging the chasm between traditional and electronic marketing offering a unique, fast and easy way to access information at your fingertips.

Providing instant gratification to the consumer with little effort, QR codes are effectively changing how consumers interact with companies. Gone are the days of marketers placing URLs on direct marketing pieces with the hope that even a minimal number of consumers take the time to go to a PC, type in the address, and visit their website, Facebook page, etc. No matter where you are or what you’re doing, with a smartphone you can instantly go from looking at a poster or piece of mail straight to a web page, or even dialing a number when a QR code is scanned.

In this web seminar, you will learn:

• What a QR code is and how it works
• How to create a QR code
• Benefits of using QR codes
• Examples of QR codes in marketing campaigns
• Tracking the use of your QR codes
• What is the USPS QR code discount
• Best Practices for using QR codes

You will leave this web seminar knowing what a QR code is and how to effectively integrate QR codes into your marketing campaigns.

Presenter: Katie Cothran

Click to register for Integrating QR Codes Into Your Marketing Campaigns

One day Conference October 18th – Houston Texas
Registration By August 15th 2011 – Free
Registration After August 15th 2011 – $195 USD
Presented by : Acumen
Duration: up to 6 session Hours Credits: Up to 6 PDU Category C
NOTE: This is now a Category B activity
A Certificate will be provided to Attendees Indicating the sessions they attend

Summit Details: October 18, 2011
Hotel Sorella, 800 Sorella Court, Houston, TX

Our Keynote Speaker Dr. Dan Patterson, PMP is the founder and CEO of Acumen and is a recognized thought leader within the project management industry. Dan is also responsible for developing a now widely accepted integrated qualitative/quantitative approach to risk analysis through facilitated risk workshops. His depth of knowledge extends well beyond risk into schedule analytics and project optimization.

Come Early and join our Networking Breakfast and/or stay for our Wrap Up Cocktail Reception. We look forward to seeing you at some of our more popular presentations including – Cost Risk Analysis Method – Getting Beyond Compliance and into Real EVM Data Analysis Register early while space is still available.

Join Acumen for their first annual summit and project management conference! They are very excited to bring together the best and the brightest in project management for networking, learning, and discussion on improving planning quality and execution performance through project schedule, cost, risk and performance analytics.

Who Should Attend

• Current and prospective Fuse users
• Project managers
• Planners
• Schedulers
• Risk Analysts
• Cost Analysts
• Project Controls Managers

Key Summit Topics

• Acumen’s S1<S5 Schedule Maturity: Learn more about how our schedule maturity framework is transforms projects
• Gain insight into schedule, cost, risk, and earned value best practices
• Understand schedule compliance standards and methods for ensuring your projects are correctly prepared for review
• Learn new methods for cost and schedule integration techniques and the importance behind joining the two
• Hear how other Primavera, Microsoft Project, and Deltek users are benefiting from Fuse
• Attend the official launch of Fuse 360, the next generation for project analysis software from Acumen

Click to see the PDF of the Conference Summary & Summit Overview

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 6 – Time 7 – Cost 11 – Risk 12 – Procurement

• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 7.3 Control Costs
• 11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• 12.3 Administer Procurements

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Acumen’s First Annual Project Management Summit

Live Webinar – August 9th, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn UK ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Project.

Looking for ways to make your projects more efficient, wow your co-workers, and learn some new skills?

Tony Zink, Director of Client Services, EPM Architects shares tips and tricks he’s picked up in 15 years of “front line” experience. (Open to members and non-members for no charge).

This session will walk teach you how to create custom calculated fields and graphical indicators that allow you to easily identify tasks that need to be updated, building project status indicators using red/yellow/green graphics, as well as creating simple, useful macros and custom toolbars that will save you a great deal of time and effort when working in your projects.

Speaker: Tony Zink (LinkedIn profile), Director of Client Services, EPM Architects

Tony has spent over 15 years managing engineering and IT projects and working with various-sized companies to implement PM Processes and Technologies such as Microsoft Project, Project Server, and SharePoint. Tony is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional and Microsoft Certified Trainer in EPM, and he is co-author of the two best-selling EPM books: ‘Implementing and Administering Microsoft Project Server 2010’ and ‘Managing Enterprise Projects Using Microsoft Project Server 2010’.

MPUG members can register for the presentation with their MPUG membership number. If you are not a member register as a GUEST.

NOTE: Remember when registering for this event you must answer the the question “Are you requesting a PDU for this event?”

Click to register for Tips, Tricks, & Best Practices: Using Microsoft Project.

Live Webinar – August 9, 11:00 AM EST
Offered by: Roeder Consulting ( REP 2453) 1 Category A PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

A plan is not a crystal ball, however, the process of planning is informative and incredibly useful.

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”

When Dwight D. Eisenhower said these words he was referring to the reality that things change.

In this one-hour webinar, Tres Roeder, PMP, will discuss how to deploy a balanced approach to project planning … and what to do in those inevitable moments when things don’t go according to plan

Click to register for A Balanced Approach to Project Planning

Online Webinar
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Date: This event took place live on January 12 2011

NOTE: This is a senior technical presentation – There is good information within the presentation about hiring the correct staff to accomplish complex distributing systems

Building distributed systems is painful. Many organizations are approaching the point where their data and application infrastructures are being run on many servers (in the cloud or datacenter). Our software practices don’t reflect that, often with disastrous results. This talk is a collection of scalability principles, anecdotes and practices from experts (and personal experience) from engineering, operations, and business perspectives.

About Bradford Stephens

Bradford Stephens (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, who created Spire, a distributed database with real-time queries and fulltext search. His passion for scalability is reflected in many talks at conferences, articles, and on the Program Committee for O’Reilly and GigaOm conferences. Bradford also spent time at Microsoft (SQL Server team), in politics (Presidential and U.S. House campaign manager), and music (metal guitar). He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Political Science. His blog on scalability can be found at roadtofailure.com, and is @LusciousPear on Twitter.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to view How to Decrease the Pain in Building Distributed Systems

NOTE: This session would not qualify for a PDU but has some great information on earning PDUs

Live Webinar – August 5, 2011 12:00PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Presented by: Beyond 20 (REP 2842)
Duration: 1 Hour No PDU Available for this session

This Session is sponsored by Beyond 20

In need of PDUs?Not to worry, Beyond 20 can help!This webinar will cover lots of great ideas on how to get the 60 PDUs needed to maintain your credential without breaking the bank (and you might have some fun too!).

Click to register for Don’t let your PMP certification expire! Fun and creative ways to get PDUs fast!