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FREE 1-Day SharePoint 2010 Power User and Site Owner Boot Camp

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Register NOW for a chance to participate in a FREE SharePoint 2010 Power User and Site Owner Boot Camp!

Do you have limited or even no experience with SharePoint? Do you need to know how to use the core functionality of SharePoint, like Lists, Libraries, Forms and Workflows? Do you need to be able to create and manage a SharePoint site? Well now is your chance to learn it all from a seasoned SharePoint expert, for FREE!

On Thursday, December 6th, ASPE is hosting a FREE 1-Day Live Online version of our SharePoint 2010 Power User and Site Owner Boot Camp.

This 1-day training event will be the standard 3-day version our our SharePoint 2010 Power User Boot Camp condensed into a 1-day virtual training session. Beginning with the basics of SharePoint 2010, you’ll progress through techniques and tools for site creation and customization and learn how SharePoint can be used to improve everyday team communication, business processes, information sharing, and reporting. View the course outline here.

This FREE 1-day SharePoint training event will be taught by ASPE instructor, and seasoned SharePoint Guru, Mark Weinstein. Mark is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 25 years of experience in the technology industry.  He has authored various SharePoint related courses both for SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Learn more about instructor Mark Weinstein.

Don’t miss your opportunity to participate in this FREE SharePoint training event! Register by Friday, November 23rd.  Thirty lucky people will be randomly selected from the entries on Monday, November 26th.

Register NOW!

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Training Budgets Go Further When Its Hot!

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

Are you currently making your summer plans? Maybe a drive down the coast with Jimmy Buffet blasting is in your future? Or will you be found sipping a Corona on the beach? Whatever your summer plans, ASPE wants to be included. Take advantage of our July and August specials and train with us this summer!

All companies need training from time to time. For some, training is an ongoing business function. For others, training fills a critical juncture during important projects or initiatives. But one thing is true for all companies: it’s important to get the best value for your training dollar.

Believe it or not, the summer months offer a great opportunity to get the most out of your training dollars. Because the business world slows down during the summer, several opportunities open up for anyone who needs training. While the slowdown can present a challenge, savvy folks can actually take advantage of it. Here’s how:

  • Your competition is sluggish during the summer slowdown. Get an edge going into Fall.
    Remember, all companies deal with the summer doldrums. Some make cutbacks or generate busy work to keep the gears turning until business picks back up. Naturally this creates a lag when business picks back up in the fall, because people lost their momentum filling time with busy work. It also dulls employee enthusiasm. You can gain a competitive advantage by maintaining a productive pace until the fall. Training your people is a perfect way to do it, since it builds enthusiasm and gives your people fresh new skills. By the time business begins to pick back up, those skills have really been mastered and integrated into the organization. You’ll enter the fall market with an edge, while your competitors are busy trying to shake off the lull of the summer blues.
  • When business is slow, employees have time to pick up new skills.
    With a decade of experience training all sectors of the corporate world, we’ve found that employee flexibility is at its peak during the summer months. When projects heat up later in the year, sometimes training can be more of a distraction or burden than an aid. But if your people experience a lag in their schedule, backfilling that time with new skills or certification training is a good move.
  • Training doesn’t just improve your people. It upgrades your business processes.
    A potential slowdown can offer an opportunity to upgrade processes, as well as employees. Employee training almost always goes hand in hand with adjustments (usually improvements) in business processes. If there is a new methodology to adopt or software to deploy, the summer months provide a good time to make the transition. Your busy time of year isn’t the best time for such a rollout. If you have a bit of summer flexibility, you can afford to upgrade without disrupting your business flow.
  • Virtual training allows you to train at any location.
    Many times the date or location of training conflicts with schedules. With virtual training you can keep your summer schedule and fit in training. It’s a win-win for you. ASPE can offer you Agile training as you lounge by the pool, or if you’re really ambitious, teach you how to be a SharePoint Power User while you’re on your Hawaiian cruise. Our virtual training goes anywhere you go. So take ASPE to the beach with you this summer!

You can currently save 24% on July and August sessions or 20% on other sessions if you book your upcoming training this summer. Learn more about how Training Budgets Go Further When It’s Hot!

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The Value of an Effective SharePoint Implementation? $22,500 per worker

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

It’s In There

Sometimes when I listen to our instructors listing the capabilities of Microsoft’s current SharePoint applications I am reminded of the 80’s Prego spaghetti sauce tagline, “it’s in there.”  With the ability to provide content management, reduce agency emails and document storage, promote knowledge sharing, automate processes, and promote intra-agency competency sharing through its social networking features, it’s no surprise that most Federal agencies with access to SharePoint barely scratch the surface of its benefits — or its ROI.

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Instructor Interview with Mark Weinstein

Monday, April 12th, 2010

ASPE Inc. Instructor Interview with Mark Weinstein

We recently had a chance to sit down with Mark and ask him a few questions.  Mark has had an interesting and unique career with computers, 1980′s hair bands, and world travel. Watch the interview to see and hear a quick run down of Mark’s past and present escapades. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

Mark teaches public courses but is also available for a personalized on-site training courses that can be tailored for your companies needs, for more information please visit our On-Site page.

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SharePoint 2010 Info Galore!

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

With the release of SharePoint 2010 hopefully coming in May, we have been hard at work developing new resources and info on what we know and have seen in SharePoint 2010 up to this point. In addition to updating our courses, we have presented several web seminars recently on the new features, and how they will work/integrate with other Microsoft products.

So far in 2010 we have demo-ed the current Beta/Release Candidate, shown the new features of SharePoint 2010 and how they integrate with the new 2010 release of Microsoft Office, and also partnered with our friends over at BrightWork to show you how Project Management in SharePoint will become easier with the 2010 release.

Here are some of the recent SharePoint 2010 web seminars PowerPoint files in case you missed them. The recordings of these events are available at the Web Seminar Recording Archive.

SharePoint 2010 First Look: A Hands-On Demo

SharePoint Office 2010 Web Seminar
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February Savings from The ASPE-SDLC Blog

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Winter weather got you down?

We’ve had a miserable winter by NC-standards, so we are looking to turn things around.  Lucky for you that translates into saving for you!

Get 25% Off when you register for any of our upcoming February public courses. This is the perfect time to snatch up that training you missed in 2009. The discount applies to all public courses offered this month by any of the ASPE Family of Companies, so if you haven’t looked around our other sites recently see if anything strikes your fancy.

To take advantage of this offer enter BLOGSAVINGS at checkout or call your ASPE Training Advisor directly and mention the code.

The only thing shorter than a North Carolina winter is this limited time offer only available through our Blog, so act fast!

* Offer good on public courses delivered between February 8th – 28th. Some exclusions apply. Eligible courses are subject to change. For a complete list of courses contact your ASPE Training Advisor.

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Q&A With Mark Weinstein, author of Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I have worked closely with Mark Weinstein for most of my career here at ASPE. Not only is Mark the developer of our extremely successful SharePoint training curriculum, he is quite the character. I was able to keep Mark’s attention long enough to talk him into doing a quick Q&A with me about his new book, Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010.

Q: Your new book Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010 is now available for Pre-order on Amazon.com. What can we expect from it?

Mark: The book is specifically going to focus on using SharePoint 2010’s out-of-the-box features for Project Management, including the new integration features that can be found in Microsoft Project 2010. It will cover topics ranging from the basics of SharePoint to the more advanced features and will focus on many of the best practices as they relate to Project Management concepts and methodologies.

Q: What is the biggest improvement to SharePoint 2010 in terms of use with Project Management?

Mark: SharePoint 2010 improves upon many of SharePoint’s features, as well as introduces a few new ones. Integration with Microsoft Project 2010 is now available, which makes the need for 3rd party tools for synchronization unnecessary. In addition, many of the features of SharePoint 2007 such as the user interface, document and data management, and workflows have been greatly improved. Overall, this should make the overall user experience much better with the new version.

Q: SharePoint has become the fastest-growing product in Microsoft’s history. How do you feel the 2010 release will fare?

Mark: I think that SharePoint 2010 is going to solidify SharePoint’s role in the enterprise. SharePoint 2007 was widely adopted by organizations wanting an easy-to-use platform to manage data and documents for the enterprise and I feel that SharePoint 2010 is going to build upon that solid foundation. Many of the new and improved features have been developed based on feedback from SharePoint users, so Microsoft has been listening to the needs and wants of its customers and has delivered with the new SharePoint 2010. Though it may take a little time for much of the user base to upgrade to the new version, I think that based on what it has to offer, most organizations will see a large benefit by upgrading.

Q: What did Microsoft neglect or miss in the 2010 release of SharePoint?

Mark: Though I don’t feel that it is a “miss”, so to speak, SharePoint 2010 has a few requirements that may prove to slow its rapid adoption by many organizations. SharePoint is now going to be offered exclusively as a 64-bit application and requires a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 as well as a 64-bit SQL Server 2005 or 2008 installation. Because of this, there is no “upgrade” path to the new version of SharePoint since users will have to install a new operating system on 64-bit capable hardware. Unfortunately, since many organizations may not have an immediate budget for a new server deployment, I feel that many people may have to delay their deployments until their budgets improve. Again, it’s not necessarily a “miss”, but it could prove challenging for the product’s growth.

Q: Where do you see SharePoint heading with future releases?

Mark: I think it’s FAR too early to tell. SharePoint is unique in that its capabilities and its ability to integrate with Microsoft’s other business tools, such as Office, Project Server, and SQL Server makes it the perfect back-end companion for Windows-based organizations. I think that the upcoming industry trends for business Intelligence and Data Management will further change SharePoint’s course and the product will continue to adopt to the needs of both small and large organizations as those needs continue to change.

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