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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T054520Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100216T163700Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100216T163700Z UID:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/it-102-withdrawal-itil-v2-2010-how-minimize-impact URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/it-102-withdrawal-itil-v2-2010-how-minimize-impact SUMMARY:IT 102\: Withdrawal of ITIL V2 in 2010\; How to minimize the impact? DESCRIPTION:Overview
The webinar is aimed at raising individual’s understanding of ITIL® V3.0 framework and how individual and organization can be benefited by adopting ITIL V3.0 good practices in IT Service Management.
Benefits
The webinar will help the participants\:
* To understand ITIL V3.0 framework and good practices
* Aligning / Upgrading organization to adopt ITIL V3 good practices without much impact on organization operations
Webinar Outline
* The webinar would cover the following main areas\:
* ITIL V2 Withdrawal
* ITIL – Evolution
* Why ITIL needed to change
* ITIL V3 – Purpose
* The new structure of ITIL
* ITIL V3
* Business benefits of V3
* Service Lifecycle and Key Principles
* Services - Value creation
* Implementation Approach
Audience
This webinar would be useful for\:
* IT professionals who require a basic understanding of the ITIL® V3.0 framework and how lifecycle approach to IT Services will help organization\, to be more effective and efficient in managing IT services and achieving business goals and objectives. This may include but is not limited to\, IT professionals\, business managers and business process owners.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T054520Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100218T100000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100218T100000Z UID:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/sign-talend-and-jaspersofts-new-webinar URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/sign-talend-and-jaspersofts-new-webinar SUMMARY:Sign up for Talend and JasperSoft's new webinar! DESCRIPTION:\\"Get ahead of the Game with Next Generation Open Source BI\\"
This one-hour Webinar\, brought to you by Jaspersoft &\; Talend - experts in BI and Data Integration needs – will present
- How Jaspersoft and Talend provide everything you need for data integration and data quality for BI\, data warehousing\, and operational applications
- When to use Jaspersoft\, and when to use Talend
- The advantages of using open source for BI\, Data Integration\, and - Data Quality
- How to assess the quality of your data
- The impact of poor data quality and how to clean it up
- How data integration can be used for operational and BI data sources and targets
- The specific constraints of ETL for BI\: high data volumes\, multiple and heterogeneous data sources\, data quality management\, specific data structures
A demonstration of several concrete cases will also be performed.
February 18th\, 2010 at 10am GMT
Sign up now \: https\://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/982787938
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T054520Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100218T083600Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100218T083600Z UID:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/it-102-tools-first-or-processes URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/it-102-tools-first-or-processes SUMMARY:IT 102\: Tools first or processes? DESCRIPTION:Overview
4 Ps of Service Management –People\, Process\, Product and Partners. But among Product (Tools/Technology) and Process\, what comes first. Is it that first I finalize methodology and process and then buy a tool and customize it or should I first go and buy a Service Management Tool and then based on it I customize my processes?? Well\, sounds simple but still there is a deliberate\, lot of debate on this. Let’s discuss.
Benefits
The webinar will help the participants\:
In Knowing
* Benefits of preferred approach
* Constraints in following alternate approach
Webinar Outline
The webinar would cover the following main areas\:
* Highlights of both approaches and pros and cons of each approach
Audience
This webinar would be useful for\:
* Any one who deals with IT and IT services.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T054520Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100219T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100219T200000Z UID:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/print-and-where-it%E2%80%99s-going-conversation-key-editors-entertainment-and-sports-section-brown-b URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.webinarcentral.net/content/print-and-where-it%E2%80%99s-going-conversation-key-editors-entertainment-and-sports-section-brown-b SUMMARY:Print and Where It’s Going\: A Conversation With Key Editors\: An Entertainment and Sports Section Brown Bag Teleconference DESCRIPTION:Join PRSA’s Entertainment and Sports Section for this brown bag teleconference\, a virtual roundtable where participants learn about best practices on topics of interest to practitioners in entertainment or sports communications.
Mark Miller\, from the U.S. Bowling Congress\, will lead the Entertainment and Sports Section in a conversation about how newspapers are positioning entertainment and sports stories\, along with how coverage of these topics are being shared across print outlets and expanding into social networking.
Discussion topics will include\:
Is the consolidation of newspaper sections a cost cutting trend?
Are journalists being asked to expand their scope of coverage to different areas?
Are newspaper staffs being cut across the board?
How are print publications using the web and social media to expand their coverage?
Where is cost cutting most efficient for newspapers?
What is the future of print? Will everything move online?
Moderator
Mark Miller\, corporate communications manager\, the United States Bowling Congress in Arlington\, Texas.
Panel\:
Bill Wyman is a longtime arts editor for institutions representative of both new media and traditional print journalism. Most recently\, Wyman served as an assistant managing editor at National Public Radio in Washington\, D.C.\, where he oversaw the network's arts\, entertainment\, digital and media coverage. Previously\, he was also arts and entertainment editor for Salon.com. Wyman has written widely on music\, film\, television and digital issues. His recent 9\,000-word essay “Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers are Failing” was covered by The New York Times.
Matt Kinsman is executive editor of Folio\, the trade publication dedicated to magazine management. Folio has featured numerous articles on the longevity of print\, and Kinsman has written up the subject in several recent articles.
Section brown bag teleconferences are a free Section member benefit. Section members\: please note that the registration form will request your credit card information\, but your card will not be charged.
For the cost of this event\, PRSA members will receive a free Entertainment and Sports Section membership (a $60 value).
Non-PRSA members will receive a free PRSA and Entertainment and Sports Section membership (a $350 value)\, pending approval of your membership application.
Friday\, February 19\, 2010
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Member $60 / Non-Member $285
Entertainment and Sports Section Member $0
Overview
This Webinar gives an overview to PRINCE2® - the defacto Project Management methodology used in UK and in many other Countries- with special reference to the 2009 edition
Benefits
The webinar will help the participants\:
* To understand PRINCE2® at an Overview Level
* To appreciate the linkages between processes\, Themes and Principles in a PRINCE2® Project
* To understand how PRINCE2® can be used in diverse scenarios
Webinar Outline
The webinar would cover the following main areas\:
* PRINCE2®- Process model
* Interlinkages between Processes and Deliverables
* How PRINCE2® can be customized to specific Project level context?
Audience
This webinar would be useful for\:
* Project Managers wanting to get an appreciation of PRINCE2®
* Team/Quality Managers wishing to get an overview of a structured global PM model