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IT Trainers Newswire - Issue 12
7 March 2001
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/it
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1. RESOURCES: In the money - are you eligible for a grant?
2. NEWS and INFORMATION: IITT Awards winners profiled
3. WORK OPPORTUNITIES: IT training associates for new TUC scheme
4. COMMUNITY FEATURES: Any Answers, Webwatch
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Editor's Note
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Information overload? If you've got it, you can content yourself
with knowing that at least you're a victim of a current trend.
E-mail is often seen as one of the main offenders - once your e-
mail address is out in public, you're likely to receive plenty of
unsolicited as well as solicited mail. While the debate over
exactly how private e-mail at work should be rages on, Nestle
Rowntree have taken the bull by the horns and banned the use of
e-mail on Fridays. Whether this has the desired effect of
encouraging people to communicate direct with each other remains
to be seen - how will relationships with clients and customers be
affected? TrainingZONE wonders whether it isn't just a case of
'think before you mail'...
Stephanie Phillips
Editor, TrainingZONE
TrainingZone's dedicated IT Training pages can be found at
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RESOURCES
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A comprehensive library of practical resources is available at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/toolkit
Get information about grants to help your business easily
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Did you know there were over 2,000 sources of business grants
available to businesses in the UK? Most businesses qualify for
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loans or grants because of they just don't know what they're
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financial support for your business online. Just enter your
postcode and the search process helps you to define your needs
before listing all available grants. Problem solved!
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40026
Need a legal document? Download the completed version here!
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Making sure your employment contracts, partnership agreements and
sales contracts are legally valid can be a real problem. Help is
at hand through our new partnership with LawRights, which offers
over 40 different legal documents online. A simple wizard helps
you complete all the necessary details and, hey presto, you just
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Put valuable business services onto YOUR website
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Spring may be on the way, but it's getting HOT on TrainingZONE
already as we finalise details for the Hands on Training
(H.O.T.) Conference 2001. Find out who's speaking, programme
information and how to book at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/35266
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NEWS AND INFORMATION
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IITT awards 2001
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Our very own IT Editor Carrol Rowe was part of the judging panel
which awarded this years Institute of IT Training's IT Training
Awards at the beginning of February. Over the last month, we've
been profiling several of the winners to hear about best practice
in this area.
Anna Robinson won the Institute of IT Trainers Award for IT
Trainer of the Year 2001.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40152
Bradford & Bingley won the IITT Award 2001 for Internal training
project of the year which involved a fundamental change to their
approach to training.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/39107
Delay on publication of employment code for e-mail use
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The Information Commission, previously known as the Data
Protection Commission are delaying their publication of the draft
employment code until they are sure of their advice to firms
regarding the monitoring of employees e-mail and internet usage.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/39557
IBM Watch - February
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A roundup of events happening with IBM in February.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/38268
Terrorism Act unlikely to deter hackers
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Legal and technical experts state that the new Terrorism Act 2000
is likely to have little impact on most computer hackers.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/39569
Microsoft e-mail software opens way to viruses
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Microsoft have admitted to problems with Outlook and Outlook
Express that could allow pieces of code to be attached to virtual
greetings cards which could end up crashing systems once the
cards are opened.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/39563
Steps in avoiding information overload
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Is your organisation suffering from information overload? An
article written by Mike Thompson from the Butler Group addresses
what he thinks as an appropriate solution to deal with this
problem that the internet has brought about with it.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/39642
Ode to the spell checker
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A gentle warning about relying too heavily on that in-built spell
checker.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40032
Leave e-mails alone on Friday, says Nestle
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E-mail is coming under attack with the introduction of an
electronic 'dress down day'.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40192
WORK OPPORTUNITIES
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The TUC is looking for IT training associates for a new learndirect-
supported initiative. Interested? Find out more at
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/jobs
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22,000 members working in training and development. For more
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COMMUNITY FEATURES
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Any Answers
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Top IT questions this week:
- How do I become an A+ trainer?
- I need information on e-learning for my college project
- I need to give a presentation on the demand for ICT in three
years - help!
Can you help? If so, see
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/anyanswers
Webwatch
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Site review: Mike Wills Learning Services
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Mike Wills Learning Services aims to cover 'all aspects of
individual and organisational development', and it certainly
manages to bring together some useful background information and
pointers for anyone interested in learning theory and practice.
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/39923
TrainingZONE gets there first!
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When we reviewed academic website Boxmind in October, we didn't
realise it would take the newspapers so long to catch up!
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/40183
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