Project Learning Newsletter

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Volume 3, No.5

 
Dear Andy,

Welcome to the fifth Project Learning newsletter of 2005.  Regular newsletter subscribers will have noticed the lack of a May newsletter.  The reason for this is that we've spent the last month giving the projectlearning.net website a complete makeover. 

We commissioned a website usability expert to give us his 'harsh but fair' website analysis, and we've acted on his recommendations.  We've also added many completely new pages, including a Microsoft Project Resource Centre, complete with a knowledge base containing links to key Project-related resources and a page that dispels commonly-held Microsoft Project myths.

To accompany this month's newsletter, we've added some help and assistance for the growing numbers of Microsoft Project users that have Project Mentor as their PC-based training tool.  The assistance provided helps users get the most from their learning by creating their own personalised learning plan.

I hope you like our new website.  Please feel free to email me at andyj@projectlearning.net if you have any good (or bad!) comments.  If you're interested in a 'harsh but fair' analysis of your own website, take a look at http://www.digitalnation.co.uk/hbf.htm

Sincerely,

Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder

In this newsletter:

New Project Learning website
Every so often a website needs a complete overhaul, with all pages updated with a new look, or new content.  When you have a website that contains well over 250 pages, an overhaul becomes a project in itself.  Like any good project, we set a budget (time and money) aside and we also did a feasibility study in the form of a detailed analysis of our existing site. 

The good news was that "nothing was completely broken", but that "every page needed to be changed."  So, armed with Microsoft FrontPage and plenty of coffee, we set about the rewrite.  We're pleased to say that the time budget was exceeded by only a slight amount (due to setting up a new internet service provider) and the cash flow stayed within budget.  The amount of coffee drunk did exceed initial estimates however.

We hope that you like the look of our new site, and that you find it more content-rich and easier to navigate than its predecessor.  To see the results of our efforts, just go to:

www.projectlearning.net

To go directly to some key new (or significantly revised) pages, use the links below:

Microsoft Project Knowledge Base

 http://www.projectlearning.net/microsoft_project_knowledge_base.htm

Explode the myths regarding Microsoft Project

http://www.projectlearning.net/microsoft_project_myths.htm

Microsoft Project Training solutions

 http://www.projectlearning.net/microsoft_project_solutions.htm
Microsoft Project EPM solutions http://www.projectlearning.net/total_microsoft_project.htm

Help and Assistance
One of the key features in our Project Mentor system is the Personal Learning plan - or PLP.  Within a PLP, users get to rate their existing knowledge to help them structure their learning.  A common question from Project Mentor users is “How can we get the best from using our Personal Learning Plans within Project Mentor?”

To answer this question, we’ve complied key topics from within Project Mentor’s help system to provide an understanding of the Personal Learning Plan (PLP) system, together with how you can automate the logging on process and gain the best from your Project Mentor usage.

If you click on the link below, these tips and tricks explain about the PLP and how you can get the most from using it.

http://www.projectlearning.net/newsletters_tipstricks.htm

Forthcoming MPA meeting
If you are already a member of the MPA (The new name for the Microsoft Project User Group - MPUG), or you are contemplating becoming one, a great way to share information is to attend a chapter meeting.  The next UK meeting is on July 13th at Microsoft UK's offices in Reading.  The afternoon keynote will be a presentation by Paul Major of Management Framework presenting his White Paper on the Business Value of Enterprise Project Management.

If you want to know more about this event, just go to the new MPA UK Chapter website: www.mpuguk.org

For a list of all forthcoming chapter meetings worldwide, just use the link below: http://www.mympa.org/calendar.aspx

April and May prize draw winners
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