Date: December 17th 2008
News from alexsbrown.com:
**** My Holiday Gift to You ****
My gift to you this year is some great new audio and video. Several recorded speeches are available for free on the site today, and I will convert all of them to the new, easier-to-access format (see more about this below). I will also get one or two new speeches up on the web site before the first day of 2009.
Happy winter holidays to you!
(I am not a fan of those click-to-open, fancy e-mail holiday cards, so do not expect one of those from me. I hope you find my gift more useful than one of those.)
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Register today at the Real-Life Projects store: http://secure.rlprj.com/cart/
There is a small fee ($5 USD) to join the seminar this month, but I guarantee you will profit from it. If not, let me know and you will get a full refund.
**** Project Manager Gift Idea ****
Project managers are hard to shop for, especially in the holiday gift season. To help with your gift-giving, I am offering quantity discounts on the Project Charter LIVE! DVD. Buy one for $48, two for just $12 more, five or more for $25 each, and 20 or more for $20 each. Buy one for everyone on your team. This special quantity discount will be in effect from now until the end of 2008 at the Real-Life Projects store.
Buy a set of the DVDs for the project managers in your PMO, your local professional group, or the project managers on your gift list. If you were thinking of buying a DVD for yourself, buy two for just a few dollars more and give one to someone you know.
Order soon if you need your copies by Christmas or by the New Year. If you miss the shipping deadlines, just ask me and I will give you a "sorry we were late with our delivery" coupon that you can present instead.
**** Podcasts and Video Come to alexsbrown.com ****
The audio and slideshow recordings that have been on this site are now getting unleashed as podcasts and on-line video.
I resisted on-line video in the past because I could not get the quality I wanted. I found a way to get better quality than what I see on most sites, and with open-source tools. You have to see it to believe it. Take a look at the first speech I have put into the new format, �Project Charters Bridge Cultures�.
http://www.alexsbrown.com/project-charters-speech.html
Read more about Podcasts and Video:
http://www.alexsbrown.com/podcasts-video-news.html#more-188
*** "Change: The Only Certainty in Your Project Plans" Web Seminar Recording Available ****
Trying to �control� and prevent change leads to frustration. Change is natural, and you cannot avoid it. You can decide how to deal with it.
Learn how to take a realistic, practical approach to the changes on your projects.This one-hour web seminar will guide you.
Available on-demand, anytime at:
<http://www.alexsbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/change-web-2008-11-25>
Have a great holiday season!
Thanks,
Alex S. Brown, PMP IPMA-C
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