Webinars
New Horizons free training webinars are a great opportunity for business decision-makers, training professionals, developers, engineers and project managers to see the real value the latest technologies can bring to their organizations. Our training webinars cover the latest topics in the industry including IT training, information security, graphics and design, business skills, office productivity and more. With new topics every month, there’s something for everyone.
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2012 Webinar Schedule
New webinars are scheduled on Cloud, Office 2010 and Online Marketing! Register for these webinars to get free tips and tricks for working in this new platform.
FEBRUARY
Tame your Social Media Workload with Tools: Work Smarter not Harder
Date: Thursday, February 2nd
Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT
Presenter: Steve Machesney, WebMark Education
With all of tools that there are to communicate with your followers it's hard to stay on top of posting and responding across a host of platforms (think Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn). We'll look at some tools to make your life easier.
Introduction to Microsoft Private Cloud
Date: Tuesday, February 7th
Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 6:00pm GMT
Presenter: Symon Perriman, Microsoft Worldwide Technical Evangelist 
Everyone is talking about “The Cloud”, but what does it really mean to an organization and the IT Professionals that are managing it? How does the private cloud drive down cost and increase efficiency while making the role of the IT Pro more important? Which Microsoft technologies contribute to the Microsoft Private Cloud and what does your organization need to do to get there? Join Symon Perriman, Microsoft’s Private Cloud Technical Evangelist, to learn the basics of the Microsoft Private Cloud. This session will offer guidance and best practices to help you understand the benefits of moving your datacenters to the next computing evolution, and will cover such technologies as Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V and System Center 2012.
As Microsoft’s worldwide Technical Evangelist covering Private Cloud, Virtualization, Windows Server and System Center technologies, Symon Perriman is a recognized industry expert in high-availability, virtualization, datacenter management, disaster recovery and mobile. Symon holds several patents; contributed to several technical books for clustering, virtualization and SQL; founded the Failover Clustering & Network Load Balancing Blog; and also serves as President of FanWide Technologies LLC.
Microsoft Office 2010 Application Content Sharing
Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 6:00pm GMT
Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Learn the ways and approaches for sharing content, from simple cut, copy & paste to shared drives, and information from your PC to the internet and back. Learn the tools, formats and reasoning behind how Microsoft Office system shares and accesses content for productivity. This will be demonstrated using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Google's "Freshness" Update: Is your website stale or just out of the oven?
Date: Thursday, February 16th
Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT
Presenter: Steve Machesney, WebMark Education
Google's recent "Freshness" algorithm update affects 35% of search queries and has made new winners and losers in the battle for page rank supremacy. Learn how this update affects your site and how to take advantage of this change to the algorithm.
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MARCH
Tracking Social Media in Google Analytics: Are your social media activities paying off?
Date: Thursday, March 1st
Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT
Presenter: Steve Machesney, WebMark Education
All social media tools have some degree of tracking. The tough part is having to go to a bunch of different websites to collect data that still doesn't tell you if your social media efforts are affecting conversion. This webinar will teach you how to use Google Analytics to track your social media tools in one spot.
Tips & Tricks for Troubleshooting Simple Issues in Microsoft Office 2010
Date: Wednesday, March 14th
Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 6:00pm GMT
Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Learn how to fix simple mistakes, problems and troubleshooting strategies for working with Microsoft Office System. Learn where to look and what to do IF and when certain situations occur such as application recovery and version control as well as updates and security for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Excel.
What's in it for me?: Visitors decide to stay or go in 10 seconds or less… create sticky content for your online outlets
Date: Thursday, March 15th
Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT
Presenter: Steve Machesney, WebMark Education
How many websites have you visited that the company is "we-weing" all over the place? "We do this" and "we do that" and "our product does this" and "our service does that". We'll explore ways to start thinking like a customer again.
It's Time to Get Mobile: Are you ready for the mobile revolution?
Date: Thursday, March 29th
Time: 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT
Presenter: Steve Machesney, WebMark Education
Mobile Internet use is expected to exceed traditional Internet desktop use by 2014. Learn how mobile is impacting search, marketing and site design.
