Microsoft Philanthropies Invites NGOs to achieve more, at Dubai Productivity Workshops

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Microsoft Philanthropies Invites NGOs to achieve more, at Dubai Productivity Workshops

25th January, 2017; Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Microsoft Gulf Philanthropies team today invited regional non-profit organisations to join a series of Dubai-based workshops that will impart important pointers and methods on ways to obtain the best out of Microsoft solutions. It is hoped that new-found knowledge of Windows and Office 365 will certainly free up non-profit volunteers and employees to take modern technology even more, and accomplish even more.

Microsoft has actually collaborated with distinguished modern technology mentor Vickie Sokol Evans, to develop a program that will enthral and motivate. The company is certain that students will leave with a better understanding of the potential of technology. Each session will be held at Microsoft's Dubai Internet City office (Building 8) and will certainly likewise be simulcast by means of webinar. The first seminar will certainly take place on 31 January, 2017, from 2.30 pm to 5pm. Interested NGOs can sign up here.

" Regional non-profits have done sterling operate in taking on many social problems; they encounter enough interior and outside challenges without needing to fight with modern technology," said Tanya Rudd, Philanthropy Lead, Microsoft Gulf. "Microsoft's charitable software program donations program can assist attach NGOs with the cloud, Office, business knowledge tools and even more. These workshops will certainly furnish them with the knowledge to take those technologies additionally, and achieve more."

Microsoft Certified Instructor Vickie Sokol Evans is author of the bestselling "100 Tips" series, and Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Austin, Texas-based The Red Cape Company, which is experts in productivity training in modern technology products and solutions. Vickie's programs are advised by 99% of participants and 100% of IT professionals. Her last online lesson is attributed with creating more than $1.3 million in efficiency savings amongst its greater than 600 guests.

"Productivity is about the reallocation of time from repeated tasks to value-adding tasks. Vickie is admired throughout the industry for her capacity to demystify technology and make it function, like never before, for thousands of people. She reduces to the chase with every item, showing individuals just the hyper-useful features they never recognized existed. Those suggestions have equated into substantial, real-world gains for lots of organisations. After these sessions, Gulf-based non-profits will certainly be masters of their modern technology, and will be much better able to get back to just what they do best-- making lives much better." Added Rudd.

At the Dubai sessions, the Microsoft Philanthropies group will certainly inform individuals on the company's software program donation programs and just how they could be leveraged to enhance daily operations for non-profits. Vickie will certainly after that introduce some lighting and timesaving productivity tips for Microsoft Windows, and Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Tips will certainly include one-click tricks that shave hours off duplicated tasks; approaches that guarantee top quality, error-free deliverables in less time; and advice on how to stay clear of unneeded work, so that customers could concentrate on doing great work.

Lessons are based on Vickie's bestselling "100 Tips" series, which takes on the theres got to be an easier way philosophy when creating ideas and techniques for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other devices.

Non-profit and volunteers will certainly discover how produce all type of papers in Word; take care of different type of information in Excel; automate record development using Word Designs, Style Sets and Themes; master the tremendous power of Excel Tables; and promptly produce and format PowerPoint discussions all with simply a couple of clicks of a mouse. Vickie's Dubai masterclasses will certainly centre on situations details to non-profits, such as project proposals, contact and volunteer information, and project-status presentations.