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In this issue: Season's Greetings We want more of your suggestions Buy Project Mentor with American Express Project Mentor Savings Calculator Winners of the prize draw for new newsletter subscribers
Project Learning Newsletter
www.projectlearning.net www.projectlearning.co.nz	Volume 5, No.5

Dear Andy,

Welcome to the fifth and final Project Learning newsletter of 2007. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and newsletter subscribers who have supported us over the last year and to wish you all a peaceful and prosperous 2008.

We've got lots of exciting plans for 2008, so do watch this space!

Sincerely,

Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder
andyj@projectlearning.net

Season's Greetings

Thousands of companies around the world will currently be sending millions of greetings cards to celebrate the festive season. At Project Learning, we decided several years ago to not follow this practice. Instead we'll be donating the money we would have normally spent on cards and postage to the following worthwhile causes:

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org/

The Multiple Sclerosis Society http://www.mssociety.org.uk/

I hope you'll agree with us that the money we would have spent can be spent much more productively by helping those less fortunate than ourselves.

We want more of your suggestions

In our last newsletter we extended an invitation to all subscribers to give us suggestions for webcasts and also for a major Microsoft Project usage survey that we'll be conducting early in 2008. We've had lots of responses from all around the world, but to ensure that we can fulfil the expectations of everyone we're extending the invitation until the end of 2007.

So please do give us your feedback. This is what we're looking to do:

Early next year we're going to be conducting a survey aimed at the Microsoft Project user community. This, however, will be a survey with a difference. Firstly, we'd like YOU to suggest questions that you'd like answers to. For example: things you like or dislike about MS Project; how much of a benefit or overhead you perceive MS Project to be. We'll collate the most popular questions and these will form the survey. To get your questions to us, just email us at: survey@projectlearning.net The second difference to this survey is that we'll provide you with the complete survey dataset so you can analyse the data as you want. We will of course remove all personal information from the dataset prior to publication.

Also, commencing in 2008, we're going to start publishing webcasts illustrating tips, tricks and best practices in using Microsoft Project. Lasting between 5 to 10 minutes, each webcast will illustrate practical real-world Microsoft Project examples, together with advice on how to avoid costly mistakes and pitfalls. Again, we want your suggestions. Just email us at webcasts@projectlearning.net and let us know what you'd like to know more about. As with the Microsoft Project survey above, we'll collate the most popular requests and these will be made into webcasts that we'll make available to you all.

Please don't forget that we can't do all this without you; so start thinking about survey questions and webcast content and share your thoughts with us.

Buy Project Mentor with American Express

As our Project Mentor system is being used more and more within large corporations, we've received lots of requests for people to use their company's American Express cards to make purchases. Up until recently, our online merchants WorldPay and PayPal have only been able to accept Visa or MasterCard for online transactions. We're delighted to say that we can now accept American Express as well.

If you've been looking to purchase Project Mentor, but you didn't want to use a personal credit card, American Express can now be accepted on the following pages on our website:

USA & Canada purchases (US$): http://www.projectlearning.net/mentor_purchase_USA.htm

UK purchases (UK£): http://www.projectlearning.net/mentor_purchase_UK.htm

New Zealand purchases (NZ$): http://www.projectlearning.net/mentor_purchase_NZ.htm

Australia purchases (A$): http://www.projectlearning.net/mentor_purchase_AU.htm

Purchases elsewhere in the world (US$): http://www.projectlearning.net/mentor_purchase_ROW.htm

Project Mentor Savings Calculator

A common question we receive is "Just how cost-effective is Project Mentor?" To help people work this out, we now have a savings calculator on the following page of our website:

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

Why not give the calculator a try and work out just how much Project Mentor can save you, as compared to attending a traditional classroom-based training event.

Prize draw winners

The five winners of the draw of new newsletter subscribers are:

November 2007

Each of them will receive a $10 Amazon voucher with the compliments of Project Learning International Limited.

If there is anything you would like us to cover or include in future newsletters, please complete this simple form. While we can't promise anything, we'll certainly take a look at your suggestions.

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