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How to Optimize your Database Start: 02/25/2009 10:00 am This webcast will focus on tips and techniques used to make your SQL database run smoothly with your Servoy solutions. Many of the topics discussed will apply to most database platforms, not just SQL Anywhere. Topics to be discussed will include: - Indexing best practices - Query optimization - Writing more efficient SQL statements - Database optimization tools, as well as tools to monitor performance - Servoy programming that can affect database performance We will use real examples to see how database performance can change depending on just a few small changes in design or SQL usage. Jason Meunier is a Sales Engineer at Servoy and an expert in SQL and Databases. He spoke at ServoyWorld 2008 in Las Vegas and got rave reviews for his calm, personable manner of teaching. To sign up for the webinar, please click the link below. Make sure to register as soon as possible if you plan to attend - as space is limited and this session WILL NOT be recorded. Best Practice Blended Training Designs Start: 02/25/2009 11:00 am By using the right mixture of online and classroom resources, you can create a training program that generates exactly the results you need in a cost effective manner. In this webinar, VP of Applied Learning, Dr. Vicki Halsey will share some of the best practice designs she has created for clients of The Ken Blanchard Companies such as American Express, Sprint, and Nike. You'll learn how to: Combine existing instructor-led training and online material into new blended designs. Connect training to business results to ensure your people will transfer learning into action. Hold people accountable for using what they have learned by hard-wiring it into the systems of your company. Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to create engaging content that changes behavior while minimizing time and travel costs. Secrets of Lead Generation Webinars Start: 02/25/2009 12:00 pm iscover tips to help you plan and execute effective marketing webinars. You set a tone for interaction with your prospects from initial promotion and marketing of an event through registration and pre-event communications. Your presentation content and the way you deliver it determines whether your audience will advance along the sales cycle or drop out of your opportunity list. And post-event communications reinforces the impression they have of your company and competence. Learn how to prepare, produce, and deliver marketing webinars that build enthusiasm among your target prospects. Find out what mistakes companies often make in their marketing webinars and discover easy ways to avoid them. Enjoy greater responsiveness and participation by your prospects, leading to easier sales communications and higher conversion percentages. This seminar is appropriate for producers and presenters of business marketing webinars. It is valuable for those currently using webinars in their business and for those just getting started with webinars as a new marketing channel. A live question and answer session will let you guide the session to concentrate on topics of the most interest and benefit to you. You will learn: Best practices for encouraging registration and attendance How to engage prospects before and after your webinar Tricks to make you an empathetic presenter Tips for including demos in marketing presentations Common mistakes that undermine your webinar Webinar: Document Conversion: Prepare for Success Start: 02/25/2009 1:00 pm Fact: Managing documents electronically is more effective and efficient than leaving them as paper. Another fact: Not all of those documents NEED to be digitized for conversion to be a success—part of effectively managing content is identifying content that isn’t required and disposing of it appropriately. With a brief overview of the business value of document conversion (WHY you should care about this), this session will walk you through the steps you need to take to plan a successful paper to electronic document conversion process. It’s not as simple as feeding paper into a bunch of scanners. Part 2: Staffing Your US Business: Finding and Recruiting Your Most Valuable Resource Start: 02/25/2009 1:00 pm End: 02/25/2009 2:30 pm As a successful Canadian company, you will eventually want to establish a sales/customer service in this important market, and possibly develop a distribution or manufacturing presence depending on your product and business strategy. Just as in Canada, your employees will be your most valuable resource. Identifying, recruiting and hiring the best talent are essential steps in launching a successful business in the U.S. Georgia is the fourth-fastest-growing state in the U.S. with 100,000 people moving to the state each year. More than half of the state's 4.7 million strong work force are between the ages of 20-54, representing a highly-educated and skilled group. Georgia offers the # 1 ranked work force training program in the U.S. Offered free of charge as an incentive to qualified companies, Georgia Quick Start delivers individualized training in classrooms, mobile labs or directly on the plant floor. Representing 35 public colleges and universities, the University System of Georgia is the fourth-largest university system in the country, graduating more than 44,000 students per year. Innovative programs allow Georgia companies to tap into the technical, engineering and research capabilities of these schools to identify the unique HR talent required of high tech, biotech and other leading edge companies. In this second in a series of three webinars about establishing, developing and growing your Canadian business in the U.S., a panel of experts will provide insight into issues regarding work force, executive recruitment, personnel transfer from Canada and the search for HR talent in the U.S. in general. Participating in this webinar will be a business visa and immigration attorney and an executive placement professional. Local Search: Opportunities for National Marketers Start: 02/25/2009 1:00 pm Speaker: Greg Sterling, Sterling Market Intelligence and Search Engine Land Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 1:00 PM EST (10:00 AM PST) As search - and searchers - becomes more sophisticated, local search continues to be a popular choice for consumers who are ready to buy. For national marketers, local search is now an important piece of any strategic marketing plan. In this webcast, Greg Sterling will discuss the latest developments in the Local Search landscape and how successful brand marketers can - and must-take advantage of local search in their overall marketing efforts. He’ll provide an industry overview, as well as examples of what works and what doesn’t. Maximizing Your IT Infrastructure Return with Workload Automation Scheduling Start: 02/25/2009 1:00 pm Many enterprises use a disparate collection of applications, databases, servers and platforms to manage their business data. Each system has its own way of scheduling work, but all too often, they are not good at communicating with one another or coordinating their efforts to provide the enterprise with a consistent, up-to-date picture of information that decision-makers rely upon. Join Mark Scott, author of The Shortcut Guide to IT Workload Automation and Job Scheduling, as he discusses how to use workload automation and scheduling to help integrate these servers and draw the information into a cohesive whole. This webinar will show you how the business can coordinate the activities of these servers as they share information while minimizing the impact on users. It will look at the process of designing and scheduling these tasks, as well as how to simplify and improve execution of job automation for the entire organization. Finally, Mark will demonstrate how the servers can be used to provide the most output for the lowest expenditure.