Live Webinar – June 13th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: Training Magazine Network

You’ve probably seen short, animated videos and thought you couldn’t create them.

Well, you can!

Using animated templates created in PowerPoint, you can create awesome videos.

These are especially useful for intros and outros.

• Create one intro and outro for each course and use them before and after each lesson
• Customize the images and text and you’re set to go—you can even add music!
• Create awesome change-ups and section slides that get your learners paying attention again!

In this webinar, Ellen will teach you how to use a set of templates and customize them for your own use. Come and join the fun!

Presenter: Ellen Finkelstein (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint presentation skills. One of only 37 Microsoft-appointed PowerPoint MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) in the world, Ellen is a lively, confident speaker who freely shares her substantial experience in order to help others. In her books and webinars, she addresses the full range of issues associated with creating effective presentations, including:

• PowerPoint for Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (Grades K-12)
• How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (How to Do Everything)
• AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
• Flash Professional CS5 and Flash Catalyst CS5 For Dummies
• OpenOffice.org For Dummies
• Jakarta Struts For Dummies
• Macromedia Flash 8 For Dummies
• Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies ®

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How To Create Short Animated Videos In PowerPoint –
With Templates To Make It Easy

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Live Webinar June 12th, 2018, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Customers’ preferences are changing and they’re increasingly using message-based communications, making it more difficult and costly for businesses to effectively engage with them. Automating customer engagements is an intrinsic need in any customer-facing organization, but success has been limited.

Intelligent agents, such as virtual assistants and chatbots, are evolving beyond ‘tools’ to become a powerful set of ‘actors’ that are radically reshaping customer relationships.

In this webinar, Brian Manusama (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director will describe how the emergence of this artificial intelligence (AI) conversational landscape will change and improve the customer experience.

Discussion Topics:

• What conversational platforms are
• Ways conversational platforms will impact customer experience
• How you can benefit from using conversational platforms

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Improve Customer Experience With AI Conversational Platforms

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Live Webinar June 13th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

In this webinar Wes Balakian will discuss the value of using project management best practices to execute our organizations’ strategic goals and themes.

Presenter : Wes Balakian PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a PMP prep instructor, speaker and author of both books and materials. His products include:

• Harnessing the Power of Project Management – Book
• Project Management Templates – 101 Forms – CD
• Ultimate PMP Exam Prep Guide – Book
• PMP/CAPM Exam Prep Flash Cards 5th Edition – Flash Cards
• ULTIMATE PMP Exam Prep Audio CDs – Audio CD’s

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How To Leverage Project Management Best Practices
To Deliver On Strategic Objectives

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Live Webinar – June 13th, 2018 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Think Managing Up Is Just Brown-Nosing In Disguise?
Think again!

Managing up in projects done well will bring clarity, commitment, ownership, and support your project needs to meet time lines, get resources, and nail project objectives.

In this webinar Alison Sigmon will explore how to work with higher ranking stakeholders in way that gets results and creates wins all around.

Presenter:  Alison Sigmon PMP (LinkedInprofile,  @alisonsigmon, Instagram ) is a  certified project manager, clinical therapist, business executive and author of Delivering Bad News in Good Ways . Companies around the world have relied on her expertise to train, and coach tens of thousands of people. She has won awards for her leadership and training efforts. Leading projects, her efforts focus on the behavioral side of project management and relationships. Articles, presentations, and training materials can be found at several noted digital and traditional publications and her website.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Managing Up to Keep Your Projects From Falling Down

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Live Webinar June 11th 2018 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  10.5 Hrs  105 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

The Agile Testing Pyramid is a great metaphor, and it can be very useful when
applied properly. However, it can also lead to some serious dysfunctions in
organizations that misunderstand, misapply, or misinterpret it.

Are you using the Agile Testing Pyramid properly?

Rex will help you answer that question, and help you resolve problems if they exist. Learn the rights and wrongs of the Agile Testing Pyramid

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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One Key Idea: Use & Abuse Of The Agile Testing Pyramid

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Live Webinar June 11th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

IT leaders are working aggressively in two specific ways: provisioning infrastructure for business unit stakeholders and ingesting artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to improve infrastructure and operation (I&O) efficiencies.

In this webinar, Chirag Dekate (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director will share the I&O best practices that characterize highly successful and productive AI ecosystems.

Discussion Topics:

• How AI helps IT operations
• Select the right infrastructure delivery strategy for AI
• What I&O leaders can learn from successful AI initiatives

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I & O Best Practices For Productive AI Ecosystems

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