Archive for November, 2009

Who needs Sharepoint workflows when you have the Web at your disposal? In spite of all the YAs (yet another …) every once in a while there’s that one particular application that really catches your attention -Backboard really does belong to that last category. Want to know why? Then read on …

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I haven’t been quite happy with my firefox lately -it crashes more than Richard Hammond and is often as slow as Captain Slow himself-, so much so that I wouldn’t mind switching to Chrome for good, if it weren’t for all those addons I have to come to love: think Xmarks (used to be Foxmarks), Downloadhelper and the likes. Recently I have added two that may prove indispensable as well: Juice & Webmynd, both add-ons that promise enhanced search features.

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WordPress, one of the better blog systems out there (so good that we at Let’s Learn IT are using it ourselves ), and probably the only blog system that you’ll have up and running on your server in 5 minutes or less, have upgraded their software to version 2.8.6.

The latest version can be downloaded from their site, and contains the following changes:

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From February 7–13, 2010 in Ghent (Belgium) vzw Let’s Learn IT organizes the workshop:

Web 2.0, Multimedia & Presentation Skills: Empowering IT Competences For Today’s Job Market (Workshop Reference number: 2009-1-BE3-GRU13-01100)

The main objective behind this workshop is to give the participants a decent training on how they can use computers to enhance their chances for finding a job. The focus will be on various web 2.0 applications, presentation tools, and digital audio and video.

Objectives

Participants will have learnt the following:

• how to use computers and computer peripherals to create multimedia presentations;
• how to use modern web 2.0 applications like wikis, blogs and social community websites;
• how to work with digital audio and video;
• how to give an efficient presentation.

Interested?

Thanks to the Grundtvig programme of the European Commission and the Flemish National Agency, vzw Let’s Learn IT can offer this workshop completely free of charge (flight ticket, hotel, breakfast lunch & dinner will be paid by us) to 20 unemployed candidates. If you are interested in attending this workshop, you can send us a letter (or email) of motivation in which you tell us why you would like to attend this workshop. You will need to prove that at the moment of applying you are officially unemployed.

• Where? Ghent, Belgium
• When? February 7-13, 2010
• Who? Unemployed European citizens
• Costs? All costs related to the programme will be paid for by the organization

For more information, please visit Let’s Learn IT.