Live Webinars

There is certainly no shortage of literature describing the importance of “high-performance teams” and the rising importance of “cross-functional collaboration.” In tech comm and elsewhere, we hear often about the need to break the “silos” of our organizational team structures to work more “horizontally.” In week one, we’ll examine different modes of working together in order to understand how to select and leverage the best approach for each project or objective.

In this introductory webinar, we’ll address the importance of professional development in a changing economy; how to craft a plan for your development; how to be the Chief Marketing Officer of your career; and a variety of resources that can help you get there.

Anyone writing, editing, or managing any type of communications for a living is feeling the crunch. There is less time to create, review, and edit; more types and formats of content; and an increasing number of applications, software, and systems. Become a more productive editor by learning how to better use the most ubiquitous office software, Microsoft Word, and by addressing a multitude of modern dilemmas with a relatively old-school hack, an editing checklist. The session will show how to make an Editing Tools tab in Word, customize the Spell Check to work harder for you, and automate some editing tasks using find and replace with wild cards and simple macros.

We are living in an “at a glance” society. People want to learn as fast as possible. Infographics, when done correctly, are one of the fastest ways to improve understanding, recollection and adoption. Get the latest tools and techniques to make professional infographics quickly with little to no money. No design skill needed. All participants get free tools which include 1,800 icons and symbols as well as the popular Graphic Cheat Sheet. Join Mike for this high-energy, enlightening event and improve your success rate with clear, compelling graphics.

Your users are NOT all created equal; why should they get the same content? In this webinar we look at some examples of user context, examine the relationship between information and user context, and how current research on context and prediction may be used to drive future technologies.