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Complimentary "Lunch & Learn Webinar Series"
(January-April 2008)

Get your brown bag lunch (or snack) ready, and join us online every Thursday at 12:00 noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes to learn the latest and most innovative tips and techniques for individual and team productivity, and get the latest updates about important workplace and community issues such as computer stress injuries, reducing your carbon footprint, and social networking. Join our mailing list to stay updated.



The “Lunch & Learn Webinar series at a glance
*Please note: All webinars are on Thursdays at noon Pacific Time for 45 minutes. Click on the desired date to register. Scroll down to the detailed descriptions to learn more.

January 2008

February 2008

March 2008

April 2008

2/7 Boosting your productivity with MindManager 3/6 Facebook in action 4/3 Speaking with impact
2/14 Computer stress injuries: Relief and prevention 3/13 Virtual Worlds and Second Life TBD Google tools and apps
1/24 Wiki Use Case: Managing Team Meetings: Agendas, Minutes and Tasks 2/21 Reduce your ecological footprint 3/20 Social Networking in action 4/17 Office 2007 tips and techniques
1/31 Sharepoint in action



--------> Below are the session descriptions

--------> All sessions start at 12:00 noon and end at 12:45 pm Pacific Time.

Date

Session Title

Session Description

Jan. 24
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Lunch & Learn: Wiki Use Case: Managing Team Meetings--Agendas, Minutes and Tasks

Project management tools are great for managing and presenting the highly structured elements of a project: resources, milestones, time-line, and budget. But they are not as effective for managing the unstructured information and the their inter-linkages: documents, notes, meeting agendas, and specifications. Wikis provide an on-line workspace for a project team to store and manage unstructured documents that's browser accessible. Learn tips on how wikis can cut the time needed to reach consensus on project deliverables when a deadline looms. You will leave with a practical understanding of usage models that leverage the distinct strengths of wikis for global project teams. This session will be presented by Sean Murphy, principal of SKMurphy Inc. (http://www.skmurphy.com).

Jan. 31
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Lunch & Learn: SharePoint in action

Windows SharePoint, a Microsoft add-on to Windows Server 2003, offers web and intranet functionality. It is a powerful collaboration tool as well as an application development platform. It enables the creation and sharing of web pages, documents, team and project sub-sites, version-controlled document storage, and basic search functionality. In this session, we will explain and demonstrate the benefits of Windows SharePoint, and how it can be used to enhance collaboration and information management within a team or an organization.

Feb. 7
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Lunch & Learn: Boosting your productivity with MindManager

Don't we all want to work smarter, think creatively, and save time? One of the challenges most of us have is getting a handle on all the ideas, plans, and implementation details, as well as organizing them and sharing them with others. In this session, we will see a demonstration of MindManager from MindJet (http://www.mindjet.com) and how it can help us improve strategic alignment, bring products to market faster, and shorten project timelines to drive business performance.

Feb. 14
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Lunch & Learn: Computer Stress Injuries--Relief and Prevention

Desk-Trainer is a series of short interactive exercises that incorporate The Anat Baniel Method – a cutting edge technique to relieve pain and achieve higher performance level at work, in creative endeavors, in sport activities and to maintain a more active lifestyle for those in their retirement years. In this Lunch and Learn Webinar, Ms. Baniel will explain how the future of advanced fitness training, strength and flexibility can harness the power of the brain to form new and less stressful body movement patterns. Pre-existing pain injuries, such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, have been shown to be reduced or averted by The Anat Baniel Method. Join us to hear Ms Baniel live and to learn more about Desk-Trainer (http://www.desk-trainer.com).

Feb. 21
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Lunch & Learn: Reduce your ecological footprint

Details coming soon!

Mar. 6
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Lunch & Learn: Facebook in action

Facebook is a social networking website, launched on February 4, 2004. Initially the membership of Facebook was restricted to students of Harvard College. It was subsequently expanded to other colleges, and then high schools and some large companies, and finally to the public. Worldwide membership was approaching 60 million users at the end of 2007. The question is why should we care? What is social networking anyway? What capabilities does Facebook offer? What are the popular Facebook Applications and what is the Facebook Application Platform? What impact does this have on business and what is the future of Facebook and social networking look like?

Our guest speaker, Ellen Leanse, founder of Social Power Advisors, has built her career on creating customer loyalty for technology, consumer and membership enterprises, including companies such as Apple, Oracle, MCI, Samsung, and a number of venture-backed startups. Whether you are a novice or an experienced Facebook user, join our lunch & learn webinar to hear Ms. Leanse’s valuable insights about Facebook and social networking including live demonstrations of Facebook features and applications.

Mar. 13
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Lunch & Learn: Virtual Worlds and Second Life

You may have heard about Virtual Words, or more specifically about Second Life (one of the popular Virtual Words platforms), or you may have already experimented with them, and you may be wondering about their applications and impact on your business in the future. In this lunch & learn webinar, our guest speaker Eilif Trondsen, the Research and Program Director of the Virtual Worlds Consortium for Innovation and Learning at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (www.sric-bi.com/vwc) in Menlo Park, will talk about the definition, evolution, and applications of Virtual Words, and provide a lively demonstration of Second Life.

Mar. 20
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Lunch & Learn: Social networking in action

Social networks are communities of people who share interests and activities and are interested in exploring these interests and activities with others. Social networking has become a phenomenon and went beyond the social aspect to become an integral part of business, especially as the lines between personal and business lives continues to blur.

In this session, our guest speaker Jason Alba, CEO and creator of JibberJobber.com, author of “I’m on LinkedIn – Now What???” and co-author of “I’m on Facebook – Now What???”, will start with an overview of social networking, and continues to explore its business applications, and the reasons why business professionals and businesses of all sizes needs to get engaged in this field. Jason will also compare some of the popular platforms and include live demonstrations and useful tips.

Apr. 3
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Lunch & Learn: Speaking With Impact

Whether you present in-person, on the phone, video or audio conferencing, webcasting, or all of these! You need to know the most up-to-date and reliable ways to attract the attention of your audience and ensure they understand your message and are likely to take the action you most desire! In this session, Judy Grant will share with us valuable tips and techniques that can help get your audience’s attention and enhance all aspects of your communication. Judy Grant is the founder of Grant and Associates (http://www.grantandassociates.com/) which provides news media training and public speaking skills to a wide variety of clients including Cadence Design, the Charles Schwab Corporation, Macy’s and CBS 5.

TBD

Lunch & Learn: Google tools and apps

There is more to Google than the Google search. You may also be familiar with Google Mail, but how about the RSS Reader that lets you stay up to date on your favorite blogs and websites, the Google Alerts that alerts you when new results become available for the keywords that are important to your business, the custom Google Home Page that you can customize with hundreds of useful sources of information? In addition, have you ventured into the Google Docs and Spreadsheet, created blogs with Blogger.com, or posted videos to YouTube to help your marketing effort? The time has come for you to take advantage of these tools. So join this session to learn more.

Apr. 17
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Lunch & Learn: Office 2007 tips and techniques

Details coming soon!



If you have questions, or to bring the training onsite or online to your organization, or to get more information about the Productivity Nano-Conference, please e-mail training@people-onthego.com or call 415.503.1649

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