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Northwest
Central invites you to check out some of the upcoming continuing
education webinars and events happening this September!</span></font></b><br><br><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"></span><br><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"></span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="">09/18/13</span></span>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/emotional-intelligence-your-workplace-part-1-3">Emotional Intelligence in Your Workplace (part 1 of 3)</a><br></b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Emotional Intelligence – maybe you’ve heard the term, but what in the
world does it mean? The short answer is simply being intelligent about
emotions – yours and others’. The longer – and much more interesting –
answer will fascinate you. In the first session of this 3-part series, we’ll discuss the idea of
Emotional Intelligence and why interest in the field is increasing.
We’ll delve into how our behavioral styles can affect our levels of
emotional intelligence.</span><br><b><br>FREE!</b> </span><span class="">0<b>9/24/13</b></span><b>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/leaving-fort-ref-frontiers-embedded-librarianship">Leaving Fort Ref: Frontiers of Embedded Librarianship</a><br></b><br>At the innovative Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries, librarians don’t
just wait for the questions to come to them. They leave the building and
embed the public library
in the community. Through a series of projects and experiments, the
Douglas County librarians have explored a new dimension of modern
reference service, one that places their expertise at points of need to
respond to the questions the public <em>didn’t</em> take to the library.
By helping to define and answer questions in context, the embedded
librarians add value to their community.<br><b><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><br>FREE! </span>09/25/13</span>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/qa-webinar-crowd-source-testing">QA Webinar: Crowd Source Testing</a><br></b><span class=""><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>Crowdsourcing has become widely acknowledged as a productivity solution
across numerous industries. However, for companies incorporating
crowdsourcing into existing business practices, specific issues must be
addressed: What problem are we trying to solve? How do we control the
process? How do we incentivize people to achieve our goals? Ultimately,
the key to successfully employing a crowdsourcing model is to move
beyond the realm of the "mob" to create an engaged, interactive
community of diverse and skilled professionals. In the world of quality
assurance, crowdsourcing has the potential to effectively solve emerging
challenges and take your testing to new heights. Using real-world
examples, uTest's<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlmontgomery"> John Montgomery</a></span><u> </u>explains
how you can leverage the crowd to complement your internal systems,
ensure systems work as intended under real-world conditions and
effectively manage the scalability of efforts. </span><br></span></span></span><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b><br>FREE! </b></span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="">09/27/13</span></span>
<a href="http://www.nwcentral.org/sing-our-kids">Sing With Our Kids</a><br></b></span><br>Based on Nancy Stewart's two-year Sing With Our Kids pilot
project for early learning through community singing; Nancy will model
how to use songs and singing to create community, promote early
literacy, and incorporate technology responsibly.<br></span><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><span class=""></span></b></span><br><br></div><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:center">
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