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Microsoft Silverlight and its associated development tools, Expression Blend and Visual Studio, are used to reproduce the look and feel of a desktop application in a browser-deployed, cross-platform framework. In Silverlight 4 New Features, author Walt Ritscher highlights the new features delivered with Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4, with bonus coverage of out-of-browser application deployment. This course covers the most exciting additions and enhancements to this rich Internet application (RIA) development framework, including new customizable form controls, rich text and media support, drag-and-drop data binding, and more. Exercise files accompany the course.

Recommended prerequisite: Silverlight 3 Essential Training.

Microsoft Silverlight 5 is a rich application framework for creating high-performance, cross-platform desktop and mobile applications. In this course, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to build a variety of applications in Silverlight, with particular focus on building compelling business applications and delivering premium video and audio content. Developers will work with the C# programming language and Visual Studio Professional, as well as Expression Blend, a tool that simplifies creation of the interactive user interfaces expected in modern-day applications.

Learn how to apply Six Sigma to drive improvements in the performance of your processes, products, and services. Dr. Richard Chua explains the fundamentals of Six Sigma—a customer-focused, data-driven approach to improvement. He'll go over the basic concepts, including critical-to-quality (CTQ) requirements, variation, defects per million opportunities (DPMO), the roles and belts of Six Sigma professionals, and the criteria for identifying Six Sigma projects successfully. The rest of the course walks through the five phases of Six Sigma DMAIC—Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control—and the steps, data, and key deliverables involved in each phase.

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Demonstrate your mastery of Six Sigma principles, philosophies, and related tools by becoming a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Black Belts operate under Master Black Belts to apply Six Sigma methodology to specific projects. They devote all of their valued time to Six Sigma. In this course, operational excellence expert, master Black Belt trainer, and professor Dr. Richard Chua explains how to use Six Sigma and its quality and statistical tools as he prepares you to become a Black Belt.



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The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. Dr. Richard Chua builds upon his Six Sigma: Green Belt, Six Sigma Foundations, and Learning Minitab courses—which are prerequisites to this course—and covers an array of topics, including measurement system analysis, hypothesis testing, response surface methods, displaying improved process capabilities, and more.

Go beyond the basics and become a SharePoint power user. Dive deep into SharePoint Online and explore advanced customization and administration features that can help you meet the unique needs of your organization. Instructor Gini von Courter covers creating custom lists and libraries, building and branding team sites, customizing pages with app parts and web parts, and customizing SharePoint search. Plus, learn about adjusting user permissions, customizing content types, creating workflows, and integrating Power BI for reporting and visualization.

Teams and individuals use the power of SharePoint to share content and collaborate, improving their productivity from virtually anywhere. This weekly series is designed to provide quick tips you can use to get the most out of the features in SharePoint. Navigation, customization, file management, and more are explored. Check back each week for a new tip.

Records management is critical for any business that faces regulatory scrutiny, including healthcare and financial services. Luckily, SharePoint makes it easy to stay compliant while saving money and effort on digital records discovery and destruction. Learn how to manage records in SharePoint and become more compliant today, in this course with Tiffany Songvilay. Tiffany explains how to create a centralized repository, secure confidential files, and discover and hold records for litigation. She also covers topics such as creating an information management compliance strategy, setting up document handling rules, and automating several compliance functions.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

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Do you realize that you can solve dozens of common business problems, without writing a single line of code, using Microsoft SharePoint? With SharePoint Composites and some Office integration, you can combine data, documents, metadata, and workflows to solve day-to-day business problems without having to code or consult a developer—and quickly modify your solutions as business needs change.

So join Ron Davis as he shows how to get the most out of your SharePoint investment, with SharePoint Composites and some inventive sample business solutions. Ron shows how to gather requirements, use templates, create composites, integrate with Excel and other Office services, and implement solutions for a range of scenarios.

SharePoint site owners have a lot of control over the look and functionality of the sites they manage. In this course, Bill Kulterman shows how to customize your SharePoint site to suit your company's brand and your team's workflow. Get simple customization tips to add navigation, apply out-of-the-box themes, add and edit pages, change layouts, and insert elements such as backgrounds, images, and custom colors. Plus, learn how to use App Parts and Web Parts to provide more functionality and a better user experience.

Dodging adversity is often not a choice. Encountering a devastating event—the gut-wrenching kind that zaps away joy—is an inevitability of life. In their New York Times best-selling book Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton psychologist Adam Grant share their insights on building resilience in the face of such setbacks. They offer practical steps you can take to reimagine and rebuild your life when your first choice—your Option A—is no longer on the table, and you're faced with the task of making the absolute best of Option B. This course highlights some of the powerful topics in this book, including how to talk to friends and colleagues who are hurting when you're not sure what to say, how to fight the idea that the hurt you're feeling is permanent, and how to give yourself permission to experience happiness again.

For additional resources and support, check out OptionB.Org, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to helping individuals build resilience in the face of adversity.

SmugMug is a popular photo-sharing site that also enables photographers to create online portfolios with customizable, drag-and-drop design templates and provides the option for selling prints. In this course, photographer and educator Justin Reznick shares tips for getting the most out of SmugMug. Justin shows how to choose the right SmugMug plan for your needs, set up and design a site, and customize the look and feel of your portfolio. Plus, he covers how to set up services on your site, sell prints, and look under the hood on a live site.

Social media is having a dramatic impact on the professional photography and video industry. This course shows how to use social media to its full potential and leverage the unique benefits it offers photographers and filmmakers. Rich Harrington presents strategies for being more effective on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, and more. From scheduling to posting and connecting, learn the building blocks to increase your social media reputation.

Small businesses can't afford not to be active on social media. Having a Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter account keeps you tuned into your customer base and helps drive traffic to your website or brick-and-mortar store. Learn what it takes to be successful at social media marketing, without a lot of resources or dedicated marketing staff. Digital and social media strategist Martin Waxman explains the key terms and definitions (everything from SEO to hashtags) and tells you how to start finding your customers online. Learn how to make an action plan that outlines your goals, team, and budget, and find time to implement your ideas. He'll also talk about what content to publish where and the tools you need to measure the success of your efforts.

Proving social media return on investment (ROI) is one of the toughest challenges facing marketers. This course helps you transcend vanity metrics, such as number of likes, to demonstrate precisely how social media creates value for your organization. Instructor Luan Wise covers the measurements that really matter, how to use Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram analytics to define and track measurements, and how to use this information to produce actionable insights and drive continuous improvement for your business.

Landscape and fine art photographer Seán Duggan has long been drawn to Iceland's primal landscape, where great light, ice, and mountains meet. While he loves taking photographs that stand on their own, he also keeps an eye out for shots he can combine into imaginary landscapes, driven by story and metaphor. In this short documentary, we follow Seán from shooting the ice flows and volcanoes of the Icelandic wilderness to compositing into his images into a new creation, "Fire and Ice," using Photoshop. Follow along with the entire process—start to finish—only on lynda.com.

Sebastien Deguy started out as a mathematician working on a CGI prototype. Ten years on, his prototype has become a full-fledged software company called Allegorithmic. Allegorithmic makes a new breed of creative tools, which use mathematical algorithms and physically based rendering (PBR) tools that have changed the creative pipeline in game development from AAA to indie games. In this in-depth interview, Sebastien discusses the product strategy at Allegorithmic. Learn about their quest for a subscription model that's fair, the secret to marketing to young and indie game developers, and the big changes coming for 3D—virtual/augmented reality and 3D scanning.

The rapid expansion of IoT technology brings with it an array of exciting and imaginative ways to make our products smarter and our lives easier. But the growth of this emerging technology also brings with it huge gaps in security. The IoT is plagued with vulnerabilities, malware, DDoS attacks, and the potential to disrupt infrastructure.

In this course, join Lisa Bock as she explores the relationship between security, privacy, and the IoT. Lisa discusses how the vulnerabilities in IoT devices have the potential to compromise user privacy and make them more susceptible to attacks and glitches. In addition, she discusses IoT privacy concerns; existing standards, regulations, and guidelines, such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley; and proposed standards and legislation that are currently in the works to ensure the privacy of the data collected on the IoT.

Discover how to implement workload specific security in Windows Server 2016. In this concise training course, instructor Ed Liberman discusses secure application development, including how to install Security Compliance Manager (SCM) and configure and deploy a security baseline. He also covers secure file services, discussing quota management, file screening, and storage reports. Upon completing this course, you'll be equipped with strategies that can help you maintain a secure server environment.

Keywords are the crucial foundation for online marketing efforts, and in this course, author Matt Bailey shows how you best structure search engine optimization and pay-per-click plans around the insights you glean from keyword research. He helps you explore the sources for keywords and build a keyword list with research and management tools like Raven Tools, Moz, SEMrush, and Wordtracker. He shows you how to filter and interpret keyword data, observe trends, and better understand the intent of the searcher, and how to develop an informed strategy and implement keywords throughout your site for maximum searchability. Matt also covers how to apply your keyword insights to Google AdWords campaigns and measure the results of your SEO and AdWords efforts.

Service innovation means changing the way you serve your customers to create greater value for them and deliver more revenue for your organization. IMD Professor of Service Management Stefan Michel shows you how to identify service innovations—whether they are process innovations, new services, or new service-driven business models—and then embed them into your business.

Once you understand service innovation in its different forms, you can design and implement your own innovations. Each chapter combines real-world case studies with a methodological framework to help you become a better "idea hunter" for service innovation. After you identify an innovative model, you will learn how to align and execute your innovation by applying the customer star model and by embedding your innovation approach in your overall business strategy.

Marketing is an important business investment. How much you budget for marketing will directly impact your growth and profitability. Marketing expert Luan Wise walks through the cost of marketing and the different ways a marketing budget can be set. Learn how to price products, find the lifetime value of your customers, and know the costs of various marketing activities. Plus, get budgeting and cost management tips, and find out how to measure your success.

Employee goals should be driven by the organization's needs—whether it's to cut costs, drive revenue, or build skills—and keep employees motivated to succeed. Mike Figliuolo, managing director of thoughtLEADERS and former McKinsey consultant, helps you set employee goals that are SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Using the SMART framework, he shows you how to develop goals that are achievable and appropriate to your employees' roles.

Along with providing guidance on how to link individual employee goals to organizational strategy, Mike walks you through the different types of goals, including bottom-up, zero-based, commit, and stretch goals. He also helps you use goals to change behaviors, build new skills among employees, and make goals actionable by using incentives and tying them to specific activities. He concludes with a comprehensive plan for setting and implementing goals, and some tips on dealing with challenges such as conflicting goals.

The best UX design tools are nimble, collaborative, and efficient—just like Sketch. Learn how to use this Mac-only, vector-based app to craft great user experiences. Renata Phillippi concentrates on a workflow that takes advantage of Sketch's huge library of plugins, templates, close integration with software like Illustrator and InVision, and best practices (such as the use of style guides and open-source fonts). Follow along to learn how to set up your Sketch workspace for maximum efficiency, speed up design with reusable styles and symbols, build responsive site maps and wireframes, and design mobile apps for iOS, Android, and even watchOS with Sketch. Plus, learn how to integrate Sketch with other popular UX design applications such as Illustrator, InVision.

Is your design process developer friendly? Learn how to streamline your UX workflow and collaborate more effectively with developers using Sketch. Natalie Schulz shows how to find and install templates and plugins to automate parts of the design process, set up your project for the correct dimensions and resolution, and use symbols and styles to be more consistent and efficient. At the end of the workflow, she shows how to export assets in a format that developers can use right away.

Product design sketches should be technically accurate as well as aesthetically pleasing—even when it's a part as complicated as a Formula 1 steering wheel. Veejay Gahir shows you how to render a design in SketchBook Pro using this complex example: from importing reference images and the initial outline to adding shading, highlights, and feature lines with tools like Flood Fill, Lock Transparency, and various brushes. Veejay also walks you through how to add text to your design and export the final work as a JPEG file.