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How to Inspire Your Project Teams
Topic: How to create more inspired, higher-performing project teams
Format: Website/blog with continually updated collection of inspirational quotes and matching activities or “Challenges”
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: This post is all about my new blog! So I am hereby shamelessly self-promoting it and introducing it to the world! With this new blog, I have leveraged my 20+ years of teaching and writing about Project Management to help focus on the “heart” of project teams… the ideas that inspire them. I truly believe that by using the powerful quotes and matching Challenges, you and your fellow project team members can become more inspired and more effective! (The Inspired Project Teams blog is new, so there are only 5 posts… but stay tuned: More will be coming out weekly!)
Promote Your Business with Social Networking
Topic: All about social networking tools and how to use them to promote your business
Format: Web-based text lessons, links to samples & examples, quizzes, assignments, message boards. Downloadable as PDF. (Free registration required.)
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
So… Is your business using SMO (social media optimization) to encourage viral marketing, social bookmarking, traffic to your blogs and websites, and customer or brand loyalty? Do your potential customers or suppliers follow your tweets on Twitter? And is your blog or website sufficiently “sticky,” while employing widgets, chicklets, feeds, and other social network tools? If you said “No” to most of the preceding questions… or if you said, “HUH???….” to some of the terms used, then you need this course!
VARK: How to Take Advantage of Your Unique Learning Style
Topic: How to determine your unique learning preferences (modalities) and how to modify your learning experiences to match these preferences.
Format: Web-based questionnaires, analyses of results, and recommendations and tools for helping you match your training and education experiences to your learning style
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
Ever wonder why some training experiences seem to be really effective for you and some just don’t seem to work? Or worse… have you been in a class with other students who are really “getting it,” while you feel lost or bored? It might be that the training simply wasn’t matching your unique learning style. The good news: Using the VARK learning style analyses, you can analyze your learning style, find out what you need to do to help you learn most effectively, and take steps to convert any learning experience to one that meets your needs!
From the website: “… VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic sensory modalities that are used for learning information… When students make changes to their study methods based on their VARK preferences, their learning will be enhanced… “
Child and Family WebGuide (Tufts University)
Topic: How to effectively parent and care for kids of all ages
Format: Web-based collection of websites, reviewed and recommended by experts
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
It’s always amazed me that we must be properly trained and pass a test to drive a car, but when it comes to something as complex and important as parenting, well… we’re on our own! As a parent, I’ve often wished for a single-source of expertise that I could trust to help me deal with all those weird and crazy issues that come up when trying to raise kids. Well, with the Child and Family WebGuide, my wish has come true!
From the website: “Online searches for many parent topics yield information that is inconsistent with child development research… The WebGuide is a directory that evaluates, describes and provides links to hundreds of sites containing child development research and practical advice... topics [based on] parent recommendations; they cover all ages, from early child development through adolescence… The WebGuide selects sites that have the highest quality child development research and that are parent friendly… with support from such noted child development experts as David Elkind, Edward Zigler, and the late Fred Rogers.” The bottom line: You can use this site as a powerful, trusted resource to teach yourself (as needed) almost anything you need to know to be a more effective parent!
Hey, Team Obama: How About a Whole-Earth Free Training & Education Dashboard?
President-elect Obama has announced his intention to appoint the nation’s first ever Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to update the government’s IT operations. At the same time, he has vowed to improve our education system at all levels and make training and higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone. So I found myself wondering: What could our new Chief Technology Officer do to help the Obama administration’s education leaders bring about their reforms? And how, given the inevitable cost-constraints, can we achieve these reforms while saving money? One potential solution keeps popping into my mind: Our new CTO needs to create a Whole-Earth Free Training & Education Dashboard.
Build Your Web Business 20 Minutes at a Time
Topic: How to develop a marketing strategy & business plan for a successful web-based business
Format: Web-based text lessons and self-assessment exercises with 20-minute assignments
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com
There must be hundreds of websites and services out there who offer to help you get started with your own internet-based business. Most that I’ve seen offer very little useful information — unless you pay a hefty fee up front. This amazing free website consists of 48 specific lessons, each of which contains a carefully crafted “20-Minute Task,” that will help you create a business plan, marketing strategy, and operational approaches for setting up you own successful web business.
