Live Webinar – October 25th 2012, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

SharePoint 2013 is a significant release with a ton of new features to talk about! In this webinar, we’ll show you the new look of SharePoint 2013 and demo some of our favorite new features listed below. J

Join this webinar to learn about SharePoint 2013, how to implement within your organization, and some of the great new features you can start taking advantage of

SharePoint 2013 The 10 New Features You’ll Love

1. Search Engine Optimization – is TONS better. Much of this is due to Analytics moving into search. This will make Analytics Processing Component in SharePoint Server 2013 Preview runs different analytics jobs to analyze content in the search index and user actions that were performed on a site to identify items that users perceive as more relevant than others.
2. My Documents — My “SkyDrive for Work” – Storing all your documents in the cloud via your MySites was always a good idea – but a bit clunky. SharePoint 2013 greatly improves the MySites capabilities and defaults to saving to SkyDrive. You’ll love the ability to save and sync documents directly to SkyDrive.
3. Rich Workflows – If workflows were a sore point, they’ve gotten a lot better and seem much more able to handle more complex activities including looping and working with webservices (anyone thinking orchestration?).
4. App Store – Microsoft is introducing the new App Store model to SharePoint! Users will find dozens and hundreds of pre-built applications you can easily add to SharePoint.
5. Social Enterprise – Micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, Following, Likes, and Reputations are some of the new social features being added. The ability to follow users or content will be especially helpful.
6. Mobility – Microsoft has recognized the importance of mobile optimized views for SharePoint. You will see greatly enhanced mobile capabilities.
7. Site Permissions – SharePoint 2013 offers a simplified sharing-based model for site permissions management. This will give users easier ways to manage site security.
8. Themes – SharePoint 2013 brings much richer theme functionality and the ability to add background images.
9. Content Search Webpart – A really cool webpart. This can be thought of as the next generation of Content Query webpart. Content Search Web Part displays content that was crawled and added to the search index via a query. This query is automatically issued, and it returns results from the search index when users browse to a page that contains the Content Search Web Part.
10. Metro Interface – The new metro interface sports a much cleaner and concise look. Less clutter. And optimized for touch devices.

Presenter: Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar October 24th 2012 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Presented by: Metavis

The social features of SharePoint are one of the main investment areas in SharePoint 2013 and Office365, but research by industry analysts suggest that 75% of social computing initiatives will fail.

In this session we will explore the key social features of SharePoint 2013 and discuss how they can be used to deliver business value.

Presenter: Symon Garfield (LinkedIn profile) is the Head of Business Consulting for Foundation SP, Microsoft’s worldwide Portals and Collaboration Partner of the Year 2012, and works with Microsoft as a Virtual Technology Solutions Professional. He is an international speaker at Microsoft and SharePoint events, a co-author of The SharePoint 2010 Handbook: A Collection of Short Chapters for Delivering Successful SharePoint Projects, author of The Art Of SharePoint Success: Delivering Business Value From SharePoint Investments, and a regular columnist for CMSWire. He also leads the London branch of the SharePoint User Group.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.5 Report Performance

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’

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Live Webinar 2 Offerings
October 24th, 2012 10:00 am – 10:30 am EDT
October 24th, 2012 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 30 Minutes Credits: 0.50 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: Competitive Solutions Inc.

Employee Accountability has become a high priority for many leading organizations today.

This recent focus on measuring accountability levels and getting people more engaged has created a variety of issues for leaders. Although studies show that 90% of leaders say engagement directly impacts their organization’s success, only 25% of those leaders actually have a strategy in place to create a highly engaged workforce.

What You’ll Learn in this Webinar:

• How to define Accountability for your employees
• How to set goals and track Accountability levels
• Processes to foster and encourage high levels of Engagement
• How to create a culture of “doing” through deliberate and demonstrative behaviors
• What tools you can provide to your peers for both Empowerment and Engagement

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’

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Live Webinar October 26th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Many “Lean” or Process Improvement initiatives focus on driving out process waste and errors, but the challenge is knowing where to begin and which projects to initiate in order to achieve the highest impact and return on investment.

Use of the Brown Paper Process Modeling technique is a powerful way for organizations to enable stakeholders, with a vested interest in the desired change, to gain an understanding of current state People, Systems and Processes and develop a Future State model to drive tactical and strategic projects for process improvement. .

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• Characteristics of a Brown Paper Process analysis effort
• Modeling techniques to create fully documented high level Logical models to low level Physical models enabling stakeholders to clearly define details of work performed in the organization
• Developing a project list based on stakeholder assessments of current state strengths and weaknesses

Join Solutions Cube for this free 1 hour webinar and learn how to use the power of Brown Paper Processing Modeling techniques to qualify strengths and weaknesses of a Business Area and identify appropriate projects to introduce targeted cost effective change.

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Live Webinar October 24th, 2012 11:00 – 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by QuantumPM (REP #1264 )
Duration 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Cat A – Free PDU
Event Details (Event Code:161627)

Learn how many companies are using the power of SharePoint and Project Server to help them capture and build upon the good ideas of their people. Leverage the power of social networking within your corporation to identify the best ideas. Take these ideas from concept to reality using state-of-the-art technology.

Instead of creating long lists of ideas that are difficult to manage, use Innovation Director to quickly find and capitalize on the ideas that rise to the top. Innovation is driving much of our current work load so we would like to share with you some of the ways in which we are using Microsoft SharePoint and Project Server to help our customers leverage their resources.

Recommended Audience: IT Managers, IT Professionals, Project Managers, IT Directors, Solution Architects, Product Managers, Software Developers, Developers, Architects

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

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Live Webinar – October 24th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A – Free PDU

This session is for business analyst leadership and development executive looking to make long term, systematic improvement to their business analyst organization.

IAG will draw from its project experience with over 700 customers to baseline organizations, assess the value of improvement, and determine the action plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

1. How do you assess the maturity of an analyst organization?
2. Where do you focus for improvement?
3. What implementation guidelines should be used to enhance success?

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