Event Overview:
Even the finest digital photographers need to spruce up their images in Photoshop. This Webinar focuses on the different tricks and techniques Photoshop offers for correcting exposure and contrast problems as well as retouching parts of an image. We will walk through the correction and retouching of a photo for a brochure, learning adjustment layers, Levels corrections, and retouching tools along the way.

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Event Overview:
Almost everyone has seen or worked with a chart at one time or another–charts illustrate data, relationships, or trends, graphically. Like the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words,” charts are often a better tool for presenting information than hard-to-read numbers. This course covers just about everything there is to know about charts. The dazzling charts you will be able to create after you finish this course will impress both you and your colleagues.

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KnowledgeWave Webinars

KnowledgeWave would like to invite you to attend our Webinar for Microsoft Windows Vista Tips and Tricks. This is a no fee webinar. KnowledgeWave is pleased to provide this event at no charge. KnowledgeWave provides over 80+ webinar titles in both open enrollment and closed corporate format. This event is open to the general public and there is no fee. Enroll today and learn from the experts.

Product(s): Microsoft Vista.
Audience(s): Business Professional.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date:  January 16, 2009 10:00 AM EST
Fee: None

Event Overview:
Explore the powerful new features in the Windows Vista operating system, including, the new user interface, search, and organizational tools. We also provide useful tips on using Windows Internet Explorer 7 and illustrate practical desktop techniques that help you to be more productive right away. Join us for this informative session to see how Windows Vista represents a breakthrough in user experience.

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For more information on this wwebinar and to view our full webinar schedule of events, please go to our website at http://www.knowledgewave.com/webinars

Trends

Changing trends tell us what’s happening now, and from current events we can figure out what might happen in the future if events continue. So here are some trends we’ve noticed:

• Smaller workforce, which means only a small number of personnel can be out of the office at a time for training. As the number of single-person businesses increases, more people simply cannot take an entire day or several days to attend lengthy training sessions.
• Globally dispersed workforce, which means that physical training locations are no longer an optimal solution for training.
• Advances in technology (and in how technology is used), which provide entirely new ways of communicating and interacting, such as webinars, teleconference classes, social media, web video, blogging, and more.
• Rising fuel costs, which make travel more expensive.
• Increasing desire to cut costs, which make time- and money-sucking travel a much less appealing option for training.
• Environmental impact awareness, which makes us conscious of how travel takes its toll on the environment by producing greenhouse gases and using fossil fuels. The use of consumable goods increaeses during travel, producing more recyclable and non-recyclable waste.

How KnowledgeWave Answers the Trends

We’ve taken a hard look at what’s happening in the world and have morphed our business into a highly competitive 21st-century operation. We’ve done this by redirecting our attention to the entire world, not just our “back yard” of Vermont. We’ve embraced technologies and business practices that meet the needs of the world, not just Vermonters.

Highly cross-trained and knowledgeable staff 

Nobody at KnowledgeWave does just one thing. All of us are trainers, but some of us are also designers, marketers, salespersons, copywriters, accountants, and courseware writers. We are small and extremely agile. Case in point: we successfully launched our webinar offerings two months ahead of schedule.

Moving from the classroom to the internet

Physical travel is becoming less desireable for many reasons, as the above trends show. Eliminating travel saves money, time, and the environment. Through webinars and remote classroom instruction (RCI), we can actually offer more for the same amount of money or less, but our clients enjoy reduced or eliminated travel expenses and time out-of-office.

Embracing managed asset reflation

Other training companies become our allies, not our competition. The in-house training departments of companies around the world have now become our customers, instead of our competition.

Here’s how:

1. Find a website or a blog that you want to receive updates from. Look for the little orange icon with the “radio waves” on it like this: (we have one here on our blog, too, on the right side of the page). Click on that. Dont’ worry about what the page looks like, just copy the address out of the address bar at the top.
2. In Outlook 2007, you should have that same orange icon in your inbox folders on the left. It will be labeled as RSS feeds (RSS stands for real simple syndication). Right-click on that and choose to add a new feed.
3. A message will appear, choose to accept the feed.
4. There will be a plus (+) button next to RSS feeds. Click on it to expand it, and you’ll see your feeds listed below it.
5. When a feed updates with new information, it will look and behave like an unread email, and you can navigate and read your feeds just like emails. Unlike emails, however, you may want to delete old feed updates, instead of archive them.

Now you can pore through hundreds of web pages in only a few minutes! You don’t have to visit the web pages, they come to you.

The webinar is running November 10 at 10:00 AM Eastern time.

Learn more about this webinar here or register immediately here.

You can see info about all of KnowledgeWave’s webinars here.

Analyzing Data Dynamically using Excel 2007 PivotTable Reports

Join us as we demonstrate how Microsoft Office Excel 2007 PivotTable reports can enable you to analyze your spreadsheet data effectively. In this 1-hour webinar, get tips and tricks as we show you how to create a PivotTable report, format a PivotTable report to make its data easier to understand, and rearrange the data dynamically so that you can discover vital information about your business.

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Analyzing Data Dynamically using Excel 2007 PivotTable Reports

Webinar give you the chance to immediately improve your productivity and skill in the software that’s most important to you—and vital to the success of your business.  Webinars are live, scheduled events you attend from the convenience of your desk. KnowledgeWave Webinar topics include but are not limited to:

• Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint
• Google Docs
• Google Analytics
• Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Corporate Blogging

KnowledgeWave webinars allow you to experience an in-depth topic on a specific software feature that you need. No need to waste expensive gas and time driving to a class. No need to sit all day through a long class when you only need one piece of it. Get targeted training right in your own workplace, right over the web.

KnowledgeWave has a complete listing of available Webinars and scheduled dates.

KnowledgeWave Open Enrollment Webinar Schedule

Until recently, creating and working with an intranet was a painstaking business, because the pages of the website were all singular static web pages. You had to have someone on staff or hire someone who knew how to design the pages. Now, however, we use content management system (CMS). A CMS uses a database to store information for the intranet and a program to turn that data into web pages for people.

What this means is that it’s possible for any person to use a web browser interface to create web pages or work with information very easily. What was once a simple website has evolved into a knowledge management and content management system that’s capable of supporting thousands of people. And yet the interface is so easy anyone can learn it with minimal training (from half a day to two days, depending on a user’s job function).

Microsoft SharePoint is Microsoft’s version of an intranet. It’s basically "intranet in-a-box." Microsoft SharePoint replaces at least eleven different applications at once, and does so in an environment which is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

Current File System Problems

Current file systems are rife with numerous problems:

• Security issues
• Document versioning problems
• Deleted, moved, or renamed files
• Inappropriate file folder organization
• Lack of any electronic audit trail
• Redundant and inappropriate data and document storage
• "Trapped" information in Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and Access databases
• Lack of usage information
• Lack of integrated workflow

Microsoft SharePoint Advantages

• Centralization of security, authority, information, knowledge, and group communications
• Automated "behind the scenes" document versioning, complete with minor draft versions and publishing capability
• Control over file storage, organization, placement, and meta information
• Freeing up of "trapped" information by storing data in SharePoint lists instead of format silos like Word, Excel, and Access.
• Centralized "big picture" reporting and usage information
• Integrated workflow

How Does SharePoint Do This?

SharePoint uses several components to accomplish this:

• Seamless logon: users are automatically logged into SharePoint when they log into Windows. This saves time, since users don’t have to worry about multiple logons and passwords.
• Central security templates: IT controls security in a safe, manageable fashion that still gives users full capability to perform their functions. This reduces problems by less tech-savvy users and users who know a little too much for their own good.
• Easy site and sub-site creation: if there is one thing to be emphasized about the SharePoint environment, it is that SharePoint is easy to use. As a software trainer for over eight years, I’ve never seen anything from Microsoft that is this easy. Staff can be trained on SharePoint quickly and with high confidence.
• Document Libraries for central document storage and access with automatic versioning. These eliminate many of the known issues around typical network and file system document storage and management.
• Group Calendars for a team or organization. One problem with Outlook is that there were never any true group functions in it. Outlook services individuals, not groups. SharePoint calendars are for groups. Users can be alerted to calendar changes automatically and even view SharePoint calendars inside of Outlook.
• Group Task and Project Task lists are similar to Outlook tasks, except for a team and the project task list displays a simplified Gantt chart.
• Automated workflow is when the application of business rules within an organization are facilitated and automated through software. SharePoint has workflow capabilities achieved via coding or no-code workflows in SharePoint Designer 2007 (the replacement application for FrontPage). This eases document production friction and lightens administrative burden throughout an organization.

• Tremendous Advantages

As you can see from the list above, there are tremendous advantages to using Microsoft SharePoint in your organization if you’re not using it already. If you’re interested in learning more about SharePoint, check out these resources:

• Microsoft SharePoint Blog
• What is Microsoft SharePoint?
• KnowledgeWave Webinars (including SharePoint)

Event Over View:
In this Webinar, we explore the powerful new features in the Windows Vista operating system, including , the new user interface, search, and organizational tools. We also provide useful tips on using Windows Internet Explorer 7 and illustrate practical desktop techniques that help you to be more productive right away. Join us for this informative session to see how Windows Vista represents a breakthrough in user experience.

Register Online