IN THIS ISSUE:
– Happy New Year! Resolved to be more organized? Sign up for “Effective Time Management: Designing Your Life” seminar Ottawa January 25
– Tip: Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Sites: Habit #2
– Last reminder: “Successful Management of Web Site Projects” seminar in Ottawa January 19-20
– Hosting events made easy
– We designed a new font called Culture …download it today!
– Other upcoming event dates (including our new “Accessibility for Your Web Site” seminar)
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SEMINAR: EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENT: DESIGNING YOUR LIFE, OTTAWA, ONTARIO, JANUARY 25, 2005
January is a great time of the year to make resolutions that will ensure a productive and successful new year. This seminar isn’t just another time management course… join David for a full day packed with creative solutions as he shows you how to start designing the rest of your life.
David will start easing your scheduling stress by:
– helping you plan extraordinary goals into your day-to-day routine
– teaching you fresh and simple techniques to manage your most challenging priorities
– enabling you to get more accomplished in less time, and
– helping you find balance amongst clutter, and turn intent into action
For details on this full-day seminar, click https://davidberman.com/seminars/timemanage.php .
Plus: for the January 25 seminar each participant will receive:
– complimentary lunch and snacks
– one license to the world’s best to-do list management software (worth US$149)
– a coupon for 20% off a future seminar (for you, or transferable to a friend or colleague)
– a thirty-minute personal coaching tele-session within a month of the seminar
– the option to attend this seminar again in the future, as a refresher, at no cost
– a money-back guarantee: if, after coaching and a refresher, you’re not satisfied, we’ll refund your entire registration fee
Get the registration form at https://davidberman.com/SeminarRegistrationForm.pdf or call (613) 728-6777. Seating is limited.
“I feel as if I will be on a talk show in a few years from now talking about how David Berman helped me to design my life.”
– Drury Stratly, Calgary AB
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SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE WEB SITES: HABIT #2
Web sites are uncommonly complex projects, requiring “uncommon sense”. Here is the second of seven habits to help your Web presence fulfill its promise…
2. Start with a strategic plan. No matter how much effort, money, and technology we invest in our Web site, if we haven’t agreed on what we’re trying to achieve, the likelihood of gaining valuable business results is thin.
Often, people tend to start designing a Web site before having agreed upon desired results. They may fear that by starting with strategy, the project will simply take too long. However, while it’s true that they’ll start designing later, it’s also true that they’ll reach their goals sooner.
Everyone on the project team should be able to answer the question “How will we know when we’ve succeeded?” So, the first step of every strategy is to set measurable objectives. Carefully describe the minimum desired results (not methods, but outcomes) as part of a strategic plan written in a vocabulary everyone on the project team can understand. Only then can they begin to develop an effective Web presence.
Our next e-newsletter will feature the next habit. Can’t wait? Learn all seven habits and David’s entire methodology, at our upcoming seminar …”Successful Management of Web Site Projects” ( https://davidberman.com/seminars/websuccess.php) in Ottawa January 19-20. Get the registration form at https://davidberman.com/SeminarRegistrationForm.pdf or call (613) 728-6777.
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HOSTING EVENTS MADE EASY (exclusive for e-newsletter subscribers)
Advice on hosting an event: enjoy tips (including a checklist) collected from those who have hosted our events at this hidden URL: https://davidberman.com/seminars/easyhosting.php . When you’re ready to host your next successful event, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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DOWNLOAD: CULTURE FONT
For a recent project with our federal government, we designed a custom typeface that shows our pride in Canadian culture. The typeface reflects a sophisticated, modern direction based on Inuktitut type forms (honouring aboriginal culture with one of only two alphabets in use in the world today that were intentionally designed). The entire alphabet is now available in ISO-compliant format for both Windows and Macintosh computers, at no charge…
Follow links to download either the Windows TrueType font or the Mac Postscript font: https://davidberman.com/design/2cultureca.php#culturefont
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SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS SPEAK
“The presentation was almost like a wake-up call: a punch in the face. The social awareness is extremely inspiring.”
– Sarja Hasan, Virginia Commonwealth University ethics workshop attendee
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THANK YOU…
… to Matt Woolman and the Virginia Commonwealth University for helping make David’s recent presentations and workshops in Richmond such a success!
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EARLY BIRD REWARDS
Speaking of thank you’s, we are thinking of offering a thank you gift for “Early Bird” sign-up of our seminars… what kind of incentive would you most like to see? Please reply to this e-newsletter with your ideas.
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UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENTS
Successful Management of Web Site Projects https://davidberman.com/seminars/websuccess.php
Learn “The System” for bringing in Web projects on time, on budget, and on target.
Upcoming seminars> Ottawa (Canada): January 19-20, 2005 (two-day), February 10, 2005 (one-day, federal government only), February 18, 2005 (one-day)
Time Management for Creative Professionals https://davidberman.com/seminars/timemanage.php
One-day immersion in an innovative approach to creatively finding the time to get the important things in your life accomplished.
Upcoming seminar> Ottawa (Canada): January 25, 2005
Developing Your Web Strategy https://davidberman.com/seminars/strategysuccess.php
Two-day seminar on how to apply strategic process to get remarkable business results from any Web project.
Upcoming seminar> Ottawa (Canada): March 2-3, 2005
Weapons of Mass Deception: Design and Social Responsibility https://davidberman.com/seminars/howlogo.php
Lecture on the role of visual communicators in helping repair the World.
Upcoming lectures> Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina): March 5, 2005 | Beirut (Lebanon): April 14-16, 2005
Principles of Graphic Design and Electronic Publishing https://davidberman.com/seminars/designprinciples.php
Two-day seminar exploring the qualities of excellent design and how they are manifested in the variety of channels we use to publish today.
Upcoming seminar> Ottawa (Canada): March 17-18, 2005
NEW: Accessibility for Your Web Site https://davidberman.com/seminars/accessibility.php
One-day in-depth seminar that explains the role of accessibility and includes a full review of common look and feel policy for Web sites.
Upcoming seminar> Ottawa (Canada): March 23, 2005
Developing Your Project Strategy https://davidberman.com/seminars/projectstrategysuccess.php
Learn David’s step-by-step approach to developing a complete strategic charter for any creative or communications project.
Upcoming seminar> Ottawa (Canada): June 16, 2005
For other seminars and dates, please consult https://davidberman.com/seminars/schedule.php .
Are our events inconvenient for you? If you’d rather attend shorter seminars by telephone, please tell us.
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NEWEST INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Culture.ca interview with David Berman (English)
http://www.culture.ca/canada/perspective-pointdevue-e.jsp?data=200412/tcp01100122004e.html
Culture.ca interview with David Berman (French)
http://www.culture.ca/canada/perspective-pointdevue-f.jsp?data=200412/tcp01100122004f.html
To view other interviews and publications, please go to https://davidberman.com/about/publications.php .
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