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If you have SharePoint Server 2007 in your organization and you are keen to start taking advantage of more than the Team Site functionality, SharePoint Solutions is offering a 3 day instructor-led course that you shouldn’t miss.

It’s called Mission: Automation – SharePoint Workflow and InfoPath and is designed to teach information workers how to leverage SharePoint Workflows, InfoPath and SharePoint Designer to automate business processes.

Ever since the dawn of the Internet, the way in which one writes for e-media has been a struggle. Too much text will bore your reader -- not too mention frustrate your designer! Write too little and you leave the user searching in vain for information. Let the gurus at e-write set you free.

Register now for Repurposing Print for the Web.

Scheduled for March 13, 2008 in Silver Spring, MD, the one-day course features:

• A repeatable, flexible process for repurposing your print documents
• Strategies for breaking the post-a-PDF habit
• Why print documents don't work "as-is" as web content and how to explain this concept to your web writing collaborators
• How to identify the steps in the print-to-web publishing cycle
• How to allocate time and resources for each step
• How to find successful examples of repurposed print content on the web and how to use these examples as models for your own repurposing projects
• How to decide whether to repurpose a print document for the web

Need more reasons? How about great discounts for CMSPROS and DC Web Women?
Register today!

For those of you overwhelmed by the notion of dipping your feet in the CMS waters, the folks at joomlaforbeginners.com are here to make your learning experience as easy as possible -- and free.

I admit it. I stop to ask directions when I am lost and I always watch the online tutorial offered when using a new product. Whether it be for a new Web-based app for the iPhone or the latest in Web design tools I marvel at their succinct ability to demonstrate the most challenging of hoops and hurdles.

I guess it has the same appeal of cooking shows and anything marketed as DIY. It all just looks so easy.

The Web journalism niche has seen a lot of pushback from traditional publications trying, understandably so, to protect their line of work. But the industry has changed, for better or worse, with the speed and ease of online publishing, so smart institutions are leveraging that understanding.

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is one such institution. Having long taken it upon itself to help journalists hither and yon find the training they need, its latest effort, JournalismTraining.org, is a treasure trove for journalists -- online and off -- seeking information about professional development opportunities.

The Web CMS software purveyors at Ektron have announced the launch of the Ektron Certified System Administrator Training Program for web masters, web admins and the other geeks who keep the wheels of so many company websites turning.

Each certified training course lasts for two days and will be held twice monthly in Amherst, NH -- where the company's training facility is located.

Starting Aug 4th Sun's Sang Shin is kicking-off a free 10-week online course for budding AJAX developers. The course is both for people just getting started with AJAX and for those looking to refine their AJAX dev skills. It should come as no surprise that the context will be strongly colored by Sun's penchant for Java technologies.

One of our favorite ASP.NET component vendors, Telerik, has recently launched an AJAX developer center portal. Its pretty light weight for the time being and is obviously geared towards Telerik's own ASP.NET rich callback component suite, but does offer some valuable resources for those just getting started with rich client AJAX dev.

Resources include: History of AJAX, Getting Started with AJAX, Problems and Challenges with AJAX (ASP.NET specific), etc. Telerik AJAX Developer Center