Software choices for the Fall 2009

Military Spouses obtain free training through the DoD MyCAA Program

Military Spouses: Join Millbrook Office Support and Training Center 21 November to learn how the MyCAA program can help you obtain the skills you need to compete in today's competitive job market.

Our special guest will teach you:

• About the Military Spouses program- MyCAA
• Give you the information and knowledge on how to sign-up for the program.
• How to create a required training plan.
• Help you get registered during the open house.

Once everyone has a full understanding of the MyCAA program, we will help you understand how Millbrook Office Support can help you receive the training you need and earn the related certification(s).

Date: 21 November 2009
Time: 10:00

For questions or to RSVP e-mail: mycaa@millbrooktrainingcenter.com

Food and Refreshments will be provided!

For more information on MyCAA click here

Adobe Video Training Week

Hi Everyone,

Have you noticed the quality of video productions have improved? Man of those Hollywood style techniques can now be created on your computer. Join us s for our first Adobe video week. In September, we will be hosting an entire video training week featuring Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Encore CS4. This will be an incredible chance to attend this instructor led week of training. Each course will take you one step closer to helping you understand the ins and outs of the new video editing CS4 suites.

In this week long training session you will learn everything you need to know to capture video, edit it, add special effects, and create a slick looking DVD interface.

Click the link belo0w to learn more about this incredible training event.

www.millbrooktrainingcenter.com/schedule

For those web developers, our Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 and Adobe Flash courses are also guaranteed to make.

If you are more into print design, our Adobe InDesign CS4 course is also guaranteed to make.

Join us in our celebration continues through September and into October. We will be opening the new training room with our video week. This will give our instructor more freedom to move around the room.

If you have any questions shoot us an email at sales@millbrookofficesupport.com

Until next time!

Dennis Tomlin

Fall training schedule

Hello Everyone,

I have been a bit neglectful to my blog. I promise to make it up. I have a great training schedule to throw out there.

Let's start with Microsoft Sharepoint

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for the Site Owner / Power User Course Code: MSPS073001 About this Course This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SharePoint Team Site in the role of site owner or power user.

Audience Profile This class is designed for the owner of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server site who needs to know how to create sites and lists, manage user access and customize lists and web part pages.

At Course Completion After completing this course, students will be able to: Use and customize Lists and Libraries Create Forms Libraries Create Basic and Web Part Web Pages Customize Sites and Workspaces Manage Users and Groups Monitor Site Activity.

This course is next week! Act fast! Visit www.millbrooktrainingcenter.com/schedules

Introduction to Development Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Course
Code: MSP3001

This is official Microsoft sanctioned curriculum taught by a Microsoft Certified Expert.
To view the full course curriculum click here

About this Course: This in-depth, two-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge of using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to create reusable and modular Web sites for use in intranet, extranet, or Internet scenarios. Students will learn how to manage access to information stored within a SharePoint environment, how to perform common object model tasks, and how to create Web parts to customize user interfaces. Participants will also learn how to use Web services for data requests transactions, how to create and deploy event receivers, and how to utilize Windows Workflow Foundation.

Audience Profile: This course is intended for Developers and IT Professionals.

At Course Completion:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Discuss the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 architecture and the key elements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, such as site collections, Webs, lists, and Web Parts.
• Understand the new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 features, such as galleries, master pages, site columns, content types, and workflow.
• Understand the new features available only through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. * Extend an existing Web application with the ASP.NET 2.0 pluggable authentication.
• Configure user access to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment and configure user permissions, and implement security with Users/Groups, SharePoint objects, and permission levels.
• Understand the ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web Part infrastructure, and the SharePoint Page and Web Part life cycles.
• Use the Microsoft Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services Framework to build a custom Web Part.
• Understand the advantages and limitations of Web service orientation in SharePoint technologies.
• Use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web services in development projects.
  
• Create an application that uses SharePoints Web services to extend SharePoint functionality.
• Understand when to use event receivers versus when to use workflows and list the types of SharePoint objects that support event receivers.
• Create and deploy a basic event receiver.
• Discuss the basics of Windows Workflow Foundation, how they fit into Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and how to leverage this technology in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
• Build a workflow in SharePoint Designer.

This course is next week! Act fast! Visit www.millbrooktrainingcenter.com/schedules

We are an Adobe Authorized Training and Microsoft Partner. We are a locally owned small business. Try us, you will enjoy the custom flavor of our classrooms.

See you in class!

Career Development & Technology Training

What's New: Our Career Development Center

Why Chose Career Development?

Whether you want to train for a new career, advance within your current company, or simply learn new skills to stay competitive in today's job market, Millbrook Office Support and Training Center's hands on instructor led classes can help.

The technology industry has developed a diverse range of careers, including everything from tech support specialists to database administrators to specialized project managers, to office specialist. These are the go to people in your office.

"Web developers, for example, are responsible for the behind-the-scenes code and programming of Web sites and Web-based services. While the edges are often blurred in Web positions, Web developers typically have a more technical orientation than Web designers, who focus on a site's look and feel, and information architects, who focus on sites' organization. Web developers' projects vary widely, ranging from bare-bones active Web pages to complex, multilayered Web applications that might power an ecommerce site." This paragraph I thought really summed up IT diversity. It came from http://www.insidetech.com/.

All of these skills can be picked up through career development programs at local centers like ourselves.

We offer two forms of career development:

Specialized courses:

• All of our courses are taught by certified experts, without exception

• They are intensive and condensed - ranging from 16 to 40 hours per course

• Courses are taught by industry experts who offer valuable insight into industry trends and best practice

Certification tracts:

We offer training tracts to help you prepare for your desired certification exam.

Upon completion of your certification coursework and successful exam completion you will both CEU's and college credit in some programs.

Certification Programs

Earning a certification in an area of study can be extremely important to your career development plan. Whether you want to train for a new career, advance within your current company, or simply learn new skills to stay competitive in today's job market, Millbrook Office Support and Training Center's hands on instructor led classes can help.

Look for this area to continue to grow!

Explore the Microsoft training option a little more by visiting http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com/career_development/microsoft_certifications.php

This information and much more can be found on our web site at: Millbrook Training Center

Our Microsoft Schedule will be posted this week. We will be adding more certification options in the very near future.

Until next time,

Dennis Tomlin

Adobe InDesign CS4 Course Guranteed To Make

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all finding the career tools you need to help you either find a new job or even a new career. We are excited to announce our second Adobe CS4 class is filling up.

Only a couple of weeks ago we announced we were beginning the switch to the new Adobe CS4 Creative Suite and now we are pleased to announce there are only a couple of seats left in the upcoming instructor led Adobe InDesign CS4 class left. Bill Carberry will be teaching this fantastic course. So, no matter if you are new to page layout and design or ready to begin making the most of InDesign this is the class for you.

So, if you are looking for Adobe InDesign training in Alabama, we can help and are actually based in Alabama. You can read more by visiting Adobe InDesign CS4 or you can check dates and register by visiting Adobe Courses.

Remember always train at an Adobe Authoriozed Training Center(AATC) to make the most of your training budget.

Until next time,

Dennis Tomlin

Adobe CS4 training opens with a bang

We would like to thank Stacy Cates for a great opening class. Today was our first Adobe CS4 class and we started it in true fashion with Adobe Photoshop. It wasn't the largest class we have had since opening last year but everything went off incredibly. The students are already buzzing about the intermediate class in May and asking when would we be offerring an advanced Photoshop class.

It looks like we will be adding an Advanced Photoshop class to the June schedule. The CS4 package is definitely living up to its hype.

Enough about the Photoshop class. It is not too late yet but it is getting close too being too late to signup for the Iluustrator CS4 class on April 27th with Adobe ACE Bill Carberry. To signup visit our site at: http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com/schedule/index.php

Bill is an incredible instructor with 20 years of practical "real world" expereince he able to bring into the classroom. His background in print and typography allows him to help each student overcome issues they are having in their own professions.

So don't miss another great Adobe class at Millbrook Office Support and Training Center, Alabama's only Adobe Authorized training center.

To learn more about Illustrat or other upcoming claasses visit us at: http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com

Hope to see you soon!

Dennis

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and other training

Since we opened our training center I get asked what is the training plan, especially on a budget? So, I thought it out a little, copied parts of some of my other post and thought I would share it here.

All of it really depends upon your learning preferences. I have been a multimedia specialist for the Air Force for about 5 years now. I started in 2000, as an assistant doing general office duties, with some web, graphics, etc as I could encourage them to let me do them. My original degree is in Mass Communications, specializing in Radio, Television, and Film. How did I get here?

I have used Lynda, Total Training, the WOW books, and instructor led hands on classes. The instructor led classes are more expensive but I think they are extremely valuable. In fact, I believe in them enough, my wife and I opened Millbrook Office Support and Training.

As much as I would love to tell people class room training is the only way to go, well it is not, especially if your training budget is out of your own pocket and your budget is limited. I get asked for training plans a lot and I pretty much stick to the same general plan concept.

First, I tell them to get the software. Open it up and actually experiment with it. Explore the help files and FREE online tutorials.

Then look at Lynda or Total Training on a month to month plan but rarely a full year subscription. Make sure you can fit in the time to use the pay plans before committing a lot of money on them. It can be difficult to set aside the time everyday, other day, or so on to sit down and use the online training. You really have to be dedicated to it.

Then attend a training class at a certified training center. A certified expert can teach you ways of saving time, money, and really cool tricks that are priceless that you may never discover by training on your own. This advice is the same no matter what the type of training it is. Adobe, Microsoft, 3D Max, any of the complex programs can be difficult to figure out on your own. A true Adobe certified expert at an Adobe Authorized Training Center is well worth the time, the money, it will cost to attend a Photoshop or Illustrator class.

If ever in Alabama, we would love for you to attend one of our training classes. You can find us at http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com

I wish you well and good luck with which ever plan you decide on.

Dennis

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Course at the end of April

OK, OK, I know I just posted the Photoshop deal but I did want to give my faithful a heads up. Sometime between now and then there will be a super deal on the coming Adobe Illustrator CS4 Course.

This is going to be a really fun class. Bill Carrberry, one in incredible Adobe ACE, will be back in town to head this one up. I have been in his CS3 classes but I can't wait to really see what Adobe Illustrator CS4 can do in the hands of a true craftsman.

There will more on this in the future. Until then, feel warned there is a deal in the water and it has teeth.

Learn more about he class at: http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com/schedule/Adobe-Illustrator%20CS4-55.html

Til then, good luck on the Photoshop contest.

A Photoshop training offer to any blog followers out there.

Hello Everyone,

if you have looked in my profile you saw where I own Millbrook Office Support and Training Center. This forum is for social networking and I started thinking what a great opportunity to truly introduce who we are to my followers.

So here it is. We have an incredible graphic designer and an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop. Stacy has won all kinds of awards in graphic design.

She is a Photoshop user and certified trainer. She will be in our center on April 13th and 14th. I know it is really short notice, sorry I just thought about it. I will reserve 2 seats for the first two bloggers to post a follow up post, that would like to come. Even better, I'm going to drop the price.

For her class only, I will drop the price from $749.00 to $449.00. You have to tell my office this is the "Blogger Photoshop" deal. This class is hands on and instructor led.

Here's a little about my company:

Millbrook Office Support & Training Center offers both instructor‐led and web based training you need to become more productive and creative.

As the only Adobe Authorized Training Center(AATC) in Alabama, you will have a rare opportunity to be trained by the best designers, artists,
and instructors in the country.

You can learn more about us at http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com or http://millbrookofficesupport.com .

I am going to start doing stuff like this on my blogs. So stay tuned.

Hope to hear from you!

Offer expires Saturday night at 9:06pm CST. That's 24 hours to win

Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC) and a Microsoft Partner closer to you than you might have thought

Welcome to Millbrook Office Support and Training Center's newsletter and blog. If you are receiving or reading this for the first time, we hope you are pleasantly surprised to learn there is an Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC) and a Microsoft Partner closer to you than you might have thought.

Our entire team thanks you for your support. Our goal is to bring you training and information that will help you become more creative and productive.

Please remember custom classes are available both on-site or at our training center.

Sincerely,

Dennis Tomlin
Millbrook Office Support and Training Center
http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com
http://www.millbrookofficesupport.com

Training Center in the New

Things will get better but don't cut our future short

Hello Everyone,

It doesn't seem like a day goes by without hearing more economic bad news. I can't imagine when that will stop but I do hope soon. One thing I can tell you is we all need to stick together and become more efficient and much more sufficient on our own businesses if we are going to turn things around any time soon.

Training in any form is a key part to making this happen. We have to invest in our children's education so they can compete for jobs that have been being out sourced. We also have to find ways to invest in our own current adult workforce much for the same reason.

Hang in there everyone. We will pull through these very tough times.

To learn more about registering for our instructor led classes visit Call 334-285-6808 or visit http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com/
Til next time.

Dennis Tomlin

Our first Adobe Photoshop CS4 class is almost here

Your chance is slipping away to get involved in the first Adobe's CS4 class at Millbrook Office Support and Training Center, Alabama's Only Authorized Training Center Center.

On April 13th, we will have Stacey Cates in for an incredible hands on training class. She will be teaching all of the essentials for Adobe Photoshop CS4. The class is guaranteed to make. There will be many other CS4 classes but this is the first.

Here' a snippit of our upcoming schedule:

Adobe InDesign CS4 Class on March 30th
Adobe Introduction Photoshop CS4 Class on April 13th
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 on April 6th
Adobe Flash on May 18th
Adobe Acrobat 9 Class on May 25th

We have left plenty of dates open for both custom classes or special requests. If there is something you need in the way of an Adobe or Microsoft instructor led class, just let us know.

To learn more about registering for our instructor led classes visit Call 334-285-6808 or visit http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com/
Til next time.

Dennis Tomlin

The Creative Explosion at the Legends

We are about to make an an incredible announcement concerning a conference we are planning. It is called the The Creative Explosion at the Legends.

Stay tuned to learn more.

Until then, check out our new CS4 training schedule at hands on training schedule.

These classes include; InDesign CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Photoshop C4S and more.

Check us out at www.millbrooktrainingcenter.com.

Until then,

Dennis Tomlin

Adobe Introduction Photoshop CS4 Class and others now at Millbrook Office Support in Alabama

Wow it is finally here! Adobe's CS4 has been out for since late 2008 and now it is available at Millbrook Office Support and Training Center, Alabama's Only Authorized Training Center Center.

On April 13th, we will have Stacey Cates in for an incredible hands on training class. She will be teaching all of the essentials for Adobe Photoshop CS4. The class is guaranteed to make.

If you are ready to make the switch, we are there with you.

Here' a snippit of our upcoming schedule:

Adobe InDesign CS4 Class on March 30th
Adobe Introduction Photoshop CS4 Class on April 13th
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 on April 6th
Adobe Flash on May 18th
Adobe Acrobat 9 Class on May 25th

We have left plenty of dates open for both custom classes or special requests. If there is something you need in the way of an Adobe or Microsoft instructor led class, just let us know.

To learn more about registering for our instructor led classes visit Call 334-285-6808 or visit http://millbrooktrainingcenter.com/
Til next time.

Dennis Tomlin

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Hands On Training

We are now teaching Adobe CS4 Suite classes. We are starting them out with one of the Adobe flagship programs... Photoshop CS4.

This class is for all levels of Photoshop users. Seasoned users may wish to take this class in order to fill in holes in their Photoshop knowledge or to rid themselves of bad Photoshop habits. Students will learn not only about how Photoshop works, but also about many of the new CS4 features.

This class will be taught by Stacy Cates. Stacy Cates, co-author of the Photoshop CS4 Bible, has been in the graphic design and printing industry for more than 20 years. She has been teaching Adobe Photoshop since 2001 and holds Adobe Certified Instructor and Comptia Certified Technical Trainer certifications, as well as a Georgia Institute of Technology Certificate in Web Design. Her teaching experience ranges from training one-on-one to teaching college-level computer art courses. Stacy brings to the classroom knowledge about a wide variety of practical applications for Photoshop. She specializes in using Photoshop to design and prepare images for printing, to color-correct, and to retouch images. Stacy has earned numerous awards for publication design from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

The instructor will go over the differences of CS3 and CS4.

Click here to review course outline.

You can register for this hands on, instructor lead class by visiting Millbrook Training Center or call (334) 285-8955.

Options for those needing to retrain

Everyday it seems the unemployment numbers continue to rise. Maybe seeming to rise is an understatement as we are setting new records for unemployment. Saying I sympathize with how so many that are losing their jobs, we would on the surface would appear to be a slap in their virtual face. However, I truly found myself in their shoes.

In 2000, I found myself without a job and without insurance. I had been a broadcast instructor with a local community college. Due to cutbacks my department was cut and my job with it. I went to scrambling. Hunting through want ads on web sites, news papers, and friends. It was only after a temporary job with the Census, that lead into a short stint with the Social Security Administration, that helped me land a career as a civil servant with the Air Force. Yes from teacher to a multimedia specialist. Only in America.

That's right though, only in America do you have so many opportunities even when things look there bleakest. We do have to willing to compromise and to work hard.

While the glass may currently appear half empty for you, try to make the most of this opportunity. How many times did you day dream about a better job, a different job? A job that truly tested you. Maybe one that allowed you to be creative? Now is the time for action! Take this time to be retrained in to a career that you love.

Many former employers are offering money for retraining as part of your severance package. Both state and federal grants are available to attend technical schools, college, or even training. Make the most of this time and money to go back to school or attend training that will help you obtain a new career when our economy rebounds.

Have you always wanted to be a graphic artist, a designer, illustrator, bookkeeper, or anything you weren't? Join us for some Photoshop or InDesign classes. Attend your local college, most of all keep your head up. See an opportunity and take it.

Until next time.

Dennis Tomlin
Millbrook Office Support and Training Center
Adobe Training Classes

I am glad 2009 is finally here

Hello everyone,

Are you glad 2009 is here? Personally, I am. You see, we have created small and hopefully realistic goals for our training business. If you are just joining us, in June of 2008 we opened a new computer training business and custom print service. By July, we became the only Adobe Authorized Training Center in Alabama and a Microsoft partner. Shortly after that...well the good news was few and far between, at least as far as the training goes. We have had a few good classes but only a few.

We are hanging in there thanks to some wonderful testing opportunities and we are about to become an ACT testing center. These opportunities have been true blessing and have kept us afloat.

Now, 2009 is here and we are setting micro goals. So far, we are optimistic. I will keep you posted. 2009 is going to be a great year for education and a great your for training.

Talk to you soon.

respectfully,

Dennis Tomlin
Millbrook Office Support and Training Center
Adobe Training Classes