WOLC the WOLC, TALK the TALK

Dont forget the World Of Learning Conference is on today and tommorrow at the NEC, Bham and is full of all your favourite IT Training and Development needs.
I shall be there to make new contacts and see what's happening out there in the current world of training.

Many key companies and trainers will need to think of new dynamic approaches to training as the reccession bites and budgets are at rock bottom.

Smart Training is required and cost effective approaches to training your staff.

Courses are being condensed as TIME is a costly asset for Managers, a day out of the office for 2 or 3 delegates is difficult as work demands have doubled and even tripled for our poor IT workers as other staff have been made redundant or have been given other duties to juggle.

Good Luck

JJSurf IT Training Ltd hits the waves !

Hi all,
Don't forget to check out my new website on www.jjsurf.co.uk
I shall be developing this a little bit as time goes by but it contains all my contact details.

If you need IT Applications Training give me a call. I am Midlands based but can travel if required. I cover all MS Office apps plus a few extras. My CV is downloadable via the website.

email : jjsurf@btinternet.com

Thanks again

Jamie Johnson
MCT, TAP, MCAS and MOS Master

Free to Fly !!

Having been freed today of my Corporate Bondage, I am now free to fly as a Freelance IT Trainer and Contractor.

So onwards and upwards !!!

Many thanks to all my colleagues old and new and keep watching this space for news and help on everything Microsoft Office related.

Plus I will be expanding a little into Technology, everyone loves a bit of Gadge !! now and again !!

Jamie

Geek T-shirts

Hi all,
While I am waiting here for Visio 2007 to install I am perusing the web and came across a link to cafepress, here you can find all manner of geeky, nerdy T shirts so I have put a link for you below ... go on you know you want to click it ...

http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/geek_mens-clothing?fp=25198913

J.

PowerPoint Heaven ..in the Spring

Hi all , Spring has springed and daffodils are everywhere again !

Why not revamp and spring clean your dusty PowerPoint slides with a few squirts of elbow grease and a little help from the following sites :

http://www.pptheaven.mvps.org/

http://www.fotosearch.com/

http://www.istockvideo.com/

http://www.freestockfootage.com/

Happy Spring Cleaning !!!

J.

Blog changes

New Year - New Template !!

I thought I would just refresh the Blog site and change templates to a more wintery, icy feel especially in these times of snow and ice we are all having.

KEEP WARM !!

Jamie

BT Vault for useful files - EXCEL

Hi everyone, many thanks for your comments on the Blog DBUI who ever you are !!

I have now sorted out some web space to post files for you all, so use the link below to gain access to EXCEL TOOLS, to begin with. it contains Duplicate Master and Excel Dictionary.


http://digitalvault.bt.com/invite/login?c=383730393732&i=17852a-11ef224ac95-gemini05&t=d966a1c919f343f8&r=mg&lang=en

More to follow,

enjoy

Jamie

Happy New Year 2009 to all Bloggers ...

Jamie

Microsoft Video Website

http://preview.microsoft.com/video/


A new site , here you can watch videos about new MS Products inc Office and Vista.
Check it out on the above link.

JJ

Microsoft Office Labs

Fancy doing some undercover Microsoft Research into new products and up and coming ideas/software betas ???
then have a look at this link below ...

http://www.officelabs.com/Pages/About.aspx

go to the home page once you have looked at the about page.


... dont tell anyone else !

Jamie

PowerPoint Delivery Shortcuts ....

When the pressure is on and you need to deliver the goods during your Presentation don't forget the following shortcut blags :

F5 to run the Presentation, shift F5 to run from current slide in PPT 02 and 03/07

1. Use B or W to Blackout oe Whiteout the screen during talk time or using a whiteboard.
2. Use Spacebar to progress the slides and backspace if someone asks a question and you need to go back to a previous slide.
3. ESC quits the presentation
4. You can use N for next and P for Previous slide
5. dont forget Annotations, right click and choose a pen colour to then write notes on ths slides during delivery and save them at the end of your presentation for further use later !

Good luck and relax/smile and crack a few jokes ....

JJ

Blog from your Email to your Blogsite DIRECT !

Yes,

Hi Folks

I have now discovered you can email from anywhere you have web access straight into your blog site, either as a draft or straight to live !! via a configurable email address on blogspot.

Very useful !!

This message was emailed via Outlook 2007 to the Blog site !

Jamie

Office 2007 Certification Program [MCAS/MCAP]

Hi all,
If you are now happily playing with Office 2007 then isnt it time you got some qualifications on it ?
try out this MS Link below to take you to the new certification for Office 07 and Vista via Certiport, we at QA-IQ use them to test and take exams with for our delegates and our own staff !

http://www.certiport.com/Portal/desktopdefault.aspx?page=common/pagelibrary/mbc_mcas.html

Jamie

You turn your back and ...

IE8 is on the doormat ...

Well not quite on general release yet but it's coming soon , watch out !!
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

JJ

IE for the Web !

Internet Explorer has it's own blogsite, oohh get you !


http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/

Vista Blog for the masses !!!

Link below for Vista News

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/

Any Office Zealots out there ??

This site has some up to the minute office news and interesting articles.
Plus its now moved onto a SharePoint platform !

http://www.officezealot.com/Pages/index.aspx


enjoy !!!

JJ

News for Developers and Microsoft people from Redmond, USA

http://reddevnews.com/default.aspx

Visio and Infopath Blogs

http://blogs.msdn.com/visio
http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath

I still keep finding 'em !! :)

JJ

Groovy Project

http://blogs.msdn.com/groove
http://blogs.msdn.com/project

more links to useful blogs, telling us all about the funky stuff in 2007 products !!!

JJ