“Microsoft certification promotes individual growth by improving their ability to find or keep a job or lead to a promotion. 43% of respondents reported salary increases as a result of Microsoft certification”
- Redmond magazine’s 11th annual survey of Compensation for Microsoft IT professionals
From Microsoft Learning:
In the real world, you may need more than one chance at certification. This means that if you sign up for the Second Shot offer and you do not pass a certification exam on your first try, you have a free, second chance to pass it.
Microsoft Certifications recognize and validate your real-world IT skills, support you with access to unique resources that help you stay up to speed on the latest Microsoft technologies, and help you succeed in your IT career by developing skills that are relevant to your chosen field.
This offer is available for a limited time, so be sure to register now.
Which exams qualify for this Second Shot offer?
Any Microsoft Learning IT professional, developer, or Microsoft Dynamics exam qualifies for this offer.
You have until June 30, 2009, to register, obtain an exam voucher, complete your first exam and retake your exam (if you did not pass on your first attempt).
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Ok, I admit I love shortcut keys. As you know Internet Explorer version 7.0 has those wonderful tabs so you can have multiple web sites open at the same time (instead of multiple windows). Well if you love shortcut keys as much as I do, here are a few that will allow you to navigate between tabs without the mouse.
- CTRL + T - to open a blank new Tab
- Alt + D - to select content of address bar
- CTRL + W - to close the active web site
- Alt + Home - to go to your home page(s)
- CTRL + Tab - to go to the tab on the right
- CTRL + Shift + Tab - to go to the tab on the left
- CTRL + n - to go to a specific tab number (where n is a number 1 thru 8). Note: this only works with the numbers above the letters and not the numeric keypad at the far right of your keyboard
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Benefits of Training
By Sheri T
People are either thrilled or upset when their company tells them they have to attend a training. I do understand that when you are already very busy, it just makes your day more stressful to be away from your desk for several hours. BUT, when you take the time to learn the most efficient way of performing task, you will be more efficient. Training.com states that you will actually be 230% more effective than someone who has not been trained. This means that the few hours you give up in a training class, you will make up for in efficiency multiple times over!
In today’s economy the best thing you can do for your career is to be up-to-date with the latest technology as well as being an efficient user of that technology.
Don’t consider training a burden on your day. Consider it a benefit, one that no one can take from you (even if you do have to change jobs). It is reassuring that your company is spending their money investing in your skills.
Filed Under Access, Desktop Education, Excel, General, Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Word |
Happy Independence Day
By Jeff T
Happy Independence Day!
Springhouse would like to wish all of our blog readers, clients, customers a Happy Independence Day.
Please remember to be safe and enjoy the holiday!
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We launched our first email marketing campaign in May 2008 to deliver our upcoming class schedule to our clients, customers and students. Our first mailing was very receptive receiving above industry averages for open rate, click-thrus and we even received a few nice emails in return! Here is one of them.
I just wanted to say thank you for adding me to your email list (announcing upcoming classes). I was really impressed with your facility when I recently took my Access class and mentioned it to my coworkers.” — Megan H.
What Is In Our Newsletter?
Our newsletter is sent out twice a month, typically. (To view a sampling of our monthly newsletter click the thumbnail to the right.)
Around the 1st of the month our customers will receive an email containing upcoming events and seminars hosted by Springhouse. These events are part of our Executive Briefing Series and are complimentary. The topics covered focus on Enterprise Project Management, SharePoint Solutions and Professional Development. For more information and to see a schedule of our upcoming events visit the our Executive Briefings Events Page or sign-up for our newsletter.
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Wanted to poll our blog readers to see what areas of the blog you’d like to see additional posts created. Our blog is authored by numerous Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who have lots to share regarding SharePoint, Project Management, Professional Development and Soft Skills, and all the MS Office Products (Word, Excel, etc).
Springhouse wants to be able to give our readers, students and clients as much information that is relevant so please let us know what you think. To leave a vote please click on comments and leave your comment for us. We appreciate your feedback!
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Windows 7 – Now a mid-2009 launch ?
By Gerry V
Recently Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft was aiming to deliver Windows 7 in mid-2009. This is even earlier than previously announced indicating what may be a less-than-enthusiastic acceptance of Vista.
Up until now, Microsoft’s official line has been that Windows 7 will ship three years from the date that Vista became generally available. Microsoft began offering Vista to its business customers in the fall of 2006 and to consumers in January 2007.
Redmond is citing the revised launch date is due to the holiday PC sales season. With Vista, Microsoft missed getting code to its PC partners early enough for them to preload it on machines they sold during the holidays and my guess is that Ballmer won’t let that happen again.
Filed Under General, Microsoft, Servers & Infrastructure, Software Licensing, Technology |
Springhouse Education & Consulting Services today announced that Peggy A. Stelle, Vice President of Professional Development, was recognized as a finalist for the Delaware Valley HR Person of the Year Award in the 1 to 500 employee category. The award is given annually by the HR Association of Southern New Jersey, Chester County Human Resource Association, Delaware SHRM, Greater Valley Forge HR Association, Philadelphia Regional SHRM, and Tri-State HR Management Association chapters of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
“Walking the talk” is primary to Peggy’s personal and professional outlook. Having originally supported Springhouse as an outside consultant, Peggy now continues to foster relationships and lead the internal growth of the team as Vice President of Professional Development.
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Multiple sources, including Microsoft itself, have confirmed the next version of Office is currently designated Office 14 – interestingly, the next designation was to be Office 13, but Microsoft determined that Office 13 could be “construed as unlucky…” (You couldn’t make this stuff up folks).
The focus of the new suite is to create productivity tools that are more role-based in nature as well as “baking in” the web-collaboration pieces already apparent in MOSS 2007.
The thought is that the applications will be more web-based, ala Google-docs, however Microsoft is beta testing an adjunct to Office (and non-Microsoft office suites) known as Office Live Workspace, which adds document collaboration/sharing capabilities to Word, Excel and PowerPoint (the XP, 2003 and 2007 releases), but Workspace doesn’t provide online/offline sync for Access, OneNote, Publisher or other more business-targeted members of the Office product family… not yet anyway. Stay tuned.
Filed Under Desktop Education, General, Microsoft, Microsoft, Office, Web Accessibility, Web Technologies |
WordPress 2.5 RC-1 Released
By Jeff T
Just received the update that the developers of WordPress have released a sneak peak of the latest and greatest version — Wordpress 2.5 RC-1.
This version looks to me to be a great step forward, offering:
A customizable dashboard, multi-file upload, built-in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades, tag management, built-in Gravatars, full text feeds, and faster load times sound interesting? Then WordPress 2.5 might be the release for you. It’s been in the oven for a while, and we’re finally ready to open the doors a bit to give you a taste.
They should be releasing the version within a few days, but for now go grab the release candidate and check it out, download WordPress 2.5 RC1.
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