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| UPCOMING TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Spend an hour with the WIRC and learn how to take advantage of some of the online resources available to you. Workshops are held on Wednesdays from 10am-11am in the ITS Training Room (2nd Floor). Register for these classes in the NAR Staff Training database in Notes.
Summer 2005 Workshops
JULY 6: Introduction to Factiva
Background information on Oklahoma's minimum services law, the Reuters story on existing home sales that was released an hour ago, the Miami Herald profile of Senator Martinez from last November... Over 9,000 thousand newspapers, newswires, media transcripts, industry newsletters, and popular magazines are available to search on Factiva, where you can find the latest news, background information, and article archives. In this workshop you'll learn how to use keywords and manipulate dates, sources, and regional features to search for information in Factiva. (This workshop will be offered again in September).
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JULY 13: Hoover's Company Records
Who owns Congressional Quarterly? Which companies are Homestore's main competitors? How old is the CEO of Citigroup? If you need to find out information about for-profit organizations large and small, Hoover's is the database to search. This workshop will cover how you can access Hoover's and search the database to find corporate key contacts, subsidiaries, company histories, financials, competitors, and more .
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JULY 20: Firefox Rules!
Microsoft's Internet Explorer isn't the only Web browser out there. Mozilla Firefox is quickly gaining in popularity, and for good reason. In addition to its tabbed browing and many other useful features, Firefox offers greater security, ease of use, and hundreds of options -- even ones that will let you zap annoying ads and images (not just the pop-ups), quickly copy text from a webpage while leaving the graphics behind, and arrange your bookmarks any way you like. Find out more about Firefox, its advantages and disadvantages, and how to customize it to fit your needs.
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AUGUST 10: Introduction to ProQuest
The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Real Estate Issues, and 1,400 other business and trade publications are available to search on ProQuest. Find out more about what Proquest is and what it can do for you, how to search it, and how you can take advantage of it to save some money on your paid subscriptions. Get searching tips and tricks to make the ProQuest experience quick, easy and useful.
AUGUST 17: Introduction to REALTOR.ORG
How many members does NAR have now? How many were there in 1922? Is John Doe a member of NAR? What is the Austin Board's address? What is this home staging trend all about? Where can I find an article from the May 2002 issue of REALTOR Magazine? The answers to these and countless other questions await on REALTOR.ORG. Take a tour of some of the resources available to you and NAR's members on REALTOR.ORG: the Virtual Library, NRDS, REALTOR Magazine Online, and more.
AUGUST 24: RSS & News Alerts
More and more websites are making it easy to keep up with the topics and issues that are important to you, delivering up-to-the-minute, customized information right to your inbox. In this workshop you'll learn what RSS feeds and news alerts are and what they can do for you, how to set them up, how to delete ones you no longer need, and how to use an RSS reader.
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