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We are giving away 2 copies of this book (each worth $50 at www.amazon.com , absolutely free of charge . Just send your email and phone number to mail@websesame.com by July 20 to qualify for the draw.Or connect with the author at http://www.facebook.com/timi.ogunjobi

Product Details
Hardcover: 259 pages
Publisher: Auerbach Publications;USA 1 edition (July 5, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1466503815
ISBN-13: 978-1466503816

Demystifying one of the most popular content management systems in use today, Drupal Web Profiles offers a complete introduction to the installation, configuration, and administration of Drupal versions 6 and 7. Filled with worked examples, step-by-step instructions, and hands-on projects, it provides readers with the tools to develop effective business web solutions using Drupal.

The book supplies easy-to-follow instruction on the primary aspects of the Drupal framework—from basic installation, configuration, and administration to creating new functionality with custom modules and themes. Defining key Drupal terminology in a way that users and developers can easily understand, this project-based guide explains how to:
Create an installation environment for Drupal as well as how to carry out the actual installation
Build web applications using Drupal builds and profiles
Add new content to a Drupal site and describe, classify, and organize content using the Taxonomy module
Optimize Drupal performance with automatic throttling, bandwidth optimization, and page caching
Customize Drupal themes and create, install, and debug modules

The first five chapters describe how to install, configure, and administer a basic site using Drupal version 6 or 7. The next five chapters introduce Drupal profiles and explain how to get them set up and running. Supplying in-depth treatment of web analytics, including Google analytics, parsing Web logs, and node tagging, the book arms you with time-tested advice on how to monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of your Drupal installation.

This Quality Assured Level 3 Diploma course is aimed at providing a foundation in business consulting skills. It will contain 10 carefully selected and created modules to cover all aspects of Business Consultancy from Stakeholder Management to making Client Presentations. The widely recognised accreditation of this course will look great on a CV and be particularly appealing to prospective employers.

The Level 3 Diploma will particularly appeal to those who wish to enter the profession of Management Consulting. This may be pursuing a career in an international consulting firm that offers business advisory services to clients or by taking up an internal consulting position within a business organization. The course equally provides a foundation for those looking at postgraduate studies in Management or Management Consulting or those seeking to study the subject at higher or further education.

Recent years has witnessed some re-alignment of the profession. In the United Kingdom the Institute of Management Consultants has allied itself with the Chartered Management Institute. On the international stage the CMC qualification is rapidly gaining status as the definitive qualification for recognizing practicing management consultants who abide by a professional code of ethics, are properly qualified and subscribe to a practice of Continuing Professional Development. The need for expert guidance has seen an increasing number of publications and job opportunities in this area.This course together with its accreditation from NCFE and the Institute of Management Specialists promises to be an exciting and highly desirable qualification for all students.

What is Management Consulting?
Management consulting (sometimes also called strategy consulting) refers to both the practice of helping companies to improve performance through analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans, as well as to the firms that specialize in this sort of consulting. Management consulting may involve the identification and cross-fertilization of best practices analytical techniques, change management and coaching skills, technology implementations, strategy development or even the simple advantage of an outsider's perspective.

Management consultants generally bring formal frameworks or methodologies to identify problems or suggest more effective or efficient ways of performing business tasks. There is a relatively unclear line between management consulting and other consulting practices, such as Information Technology (IT)Consulting

Why study Management Consulting?
Students will expect to derive the following benefits from the diploma course:

Understand different business consultancy models and why organizations emphasize leadership, change management and business strategy
Learn to determine the usefulness of management reporting, evaluate financial statements and receive tools to analyze and explain what these activities mean to upper management
Develop skills to deal with Executives in terms of both relationship building and maintaining effective client relationships. Embraces concepts of effective report writing
Gain an appreciation of the tools and techniques that Consultants use as part of their " toolbox" on client engagements
How to properly manage and structure client assignments, manage project teams and report progress to Executive level clients
Discover ways to improve organizational communications while utilizing and developing human resources, group effectiveness and employee satisfaction
Develop effective consulting skills and learn how to interact with Executives
How to collect and disseminate information, carry out research and differentiate between different data sets and information gathered
Learn how to make effective presentations to people and develop your confidence in public speaking and addressing executives at board meetings
A greater awareness of the international dimensions of business and how you will be expected to fulfil your role in the new global village. The art of communication & rational persuasion
An understanding of what drives organizational change, the implications for individuals and how aspects of change should be managed.

Course Content
The course is made up of the ten following modules:

Module 1 - Introduction to Business Consulting
The first module will focus upon the development of business advisory or consulting skills. It will examine how the Administration function interfaces with external consultants and business service providers. It seeks to ramp up the business knowledge of consulting skills and provide an improved understanding of the importance of these skills, together with the service they provide. Consultants are normally used in the capacity of "Corporate Problem Solvers", provision of specialist services e.g. Strategy studies, business process reviews, HR consulting etc. and as a valuable aid to busy executives in the form of interim management services of a specialist nature.

Module 2 - The business of Consultancy and Advisory services
This part of the course will focus upon the consulting process. How the profession of consultancy is changing within the context of the new global economy.The reasons that consultants are employed and the type of engagements that they will be expected to perform. Added focus will be on the roles of the professional bodies providing governance to the Consultancy profession and how they are evolving and changing within the context of globalization.

Module 3 - Effective Stakeholder Management
This course will be focused on how to build key client business relationships, maintaining confidence and trust of clients, delivering quality services, managing client expectations and achieving value-added contribution raising client satisfaction indicators.

Module 4 - Key Consultancy Skills
This section is all about techniques and skills that the qualified Management Consultant will employ on business engagements. The creation of business networks, leveraging on the strength of the IMC profession, developing respected professional consulting skills

Module 5 - Managing Project Assignments
Project Management is best defined as Planning, Organization and Control in a structured and managed environment. This unit focuses on managing third party and sub contract relationships, managing consultancy staff, record keeping, client progress reporting, seeking closure, maintaining client relationships

Module 6 - Planning Consultancy Assignments
This course will focus upon the Planning consultancy engagements, methods of costing assignments, how to manage the engagement. A logical extension of the previous unit but directly focused on the business planning of consultancy engagements

Module 7 - Data Collection and Analysis
Techniques for collection and assessment of information / data. How data is to be interpreted, sifting facts from opinion, creating objective and reliable information.

Module 8 - Effective Report Writing Skills
Writing effective management reports, techniques for board room presentations.

Module 9 - Making Client Presentations
The art of making efficient client presentations, use of software, technique of delivery, different types of presentations and techniques to use.

Module 10 - Rational Persuasion
The technique of gaining support for your arguments and winning through on business recommendations.
Course Provider: Oxford College
Approximate duration (Hours): 200

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This Quality Assured Level 3 Diploma course is designed for those who are considering becoming a child coach or to those who wish to expand their existing knowledge of the subject. This is a field which is less than fifteen years old, despite having historic origins that span more than a century.

The course will cover definitions, standards and models in child coaching as well as examining the core principles and concepts which enable the successful establishment of a child-coach collaborative and positive relationship. Due to the vulnerability of children and the need for different or alternative methods of communication, there will be some material covering child development both physically and psychologically, parent-child relationships and how children learn and shape behaviour through different forms of communication.

Unlike adult coaching techniques, when working with children one has to employ flexible methods, and these may be through creative mediums and other 'hands' on strategies, all of which will be studied throughout the course material.

The fully accredited Diploma course will cover a broad selection of topic areas to provide the student with an in depth knowledge of the Child Coaching field.

Course Content
The course will contain the following modules:

Module 1: Beginnings
The first module introduces child coaching, its uses and contexts. A presentation and discussion of the psychological development of children (up to the age of 18), and integration of relevant physical aspects will be given.

Module 2: How children learn and respond
In order to effectively communicate with children we need to have an understanding and knowledge of how they learn and assimilate what they hear, feel, see and perceive in their world. This module will discuss these processes and it will aid programme design and effective use of appropriate communication models and techniques.

Module 3: Communication and specialist coaching skills
This module deals with listening and congruence; how children react and respond withindifferent contexts and situations. The module will also explore and discuss some of the specialist coaching skills needed when working with children.

Module 4: Special considerations
This module deals with ethical issues when working with children, such as consent, criminal records documentation, professional codes of conduct and working with vulnerable groups. It will also address issues of coaching responsibilities and how a successful collaborative relationship can be built and maintained with children of all ages.

Module 5: Changes
This looks at some of the reasons that children come for coaching. They may be shy and unable to 'fit' in with their peer group; they may need to achieve more in terms of education, sport, etc. The reasons for attending may be complex and even involve family situations such as divorce, separation or loss. All these issues will be examined in this module.

Module 6: Consolidation and processes
This brings the whole process together and looks at it from assessment to closure of the programme. In addition some example documents and templates for communication models will be given.

Course Provider: Oxford College
Approximate duration (Hours): 120

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This Event Planning Diploma includes the online version of the course only. It has been authored and is tutored by the gentleman who organised Madonna and Guy Ritchie's wedding, Ashley Judd and Dario Franchetti and Robbie Williams' 30th Birthday Party!

The conference and event market is a very diverse market, covering everything for small company board meetings, through to private parties to large out door events or exhibitions. The conference and event market in the UK alone is estimated by the British Association of Conference Destinations (BACD) at £8 billion in 2007.There are four main types of events all covered within the Event Planning Diploma:

Conferences and Meetings for associations, corporations and the public sector
Private Events with catering such as birthday parties, weddings and christenings
Outdoor festivals and events such as music festivals or parades
Exhibitions – trade exhibitions where suppliers demonstrate and promote their goods.
Destination Management is the name given to companies and their agents who specialise in travel itineraries for clients who require fully exclusive and managed travel, incentive packages and events. This Destination and Event Planning Diploma works very well for people who may also want to achieve a tourism qualification.

Our aim is to provide you with the best deal available when purchasing this Event Planning Diploma, therefore registration fee, certification fee and full tutor support is included in the course price for you.The good news is that no prior learning knowledge or experience is essential to take this Distance Learning Diploma in Events Planning
Event Planning Diploma. This Event Planning course is openly available to anyone wishing to learn more about the role of an Event Planner and would like to take part in a highly rewarding home study course. You have the freedom to start the Event Planning Diploma at any time and continue your studies at your own pace for a period of up to 12 months from initial registration, with full tutor support.

Support
This Event Planning Diploma has been authored and is tutored by the gentleman who organised Madonna and Guy Ritchie's wedding, Ashley Judd and Dario Franchetti and Robbie Williams' 30th Birthday Party!
You will be provided with comprehensive materials designed to provide you with everything required to complete your Event Planning Diploma. You will have your own dedicated tutor who will guide you through your course work and answer any questions you may have during your Event Planning Diploma. Additionally our Help Desk will provide you with any practical advice by email or phone. Full tutor support is provided for a period of 12 months and included in the cost of the Event Planning Diploma programme.

Assessment
When you have completed the Event Planning Diploma, your tutor needs to verify that you have worked through all parts of the Workbook and completed all of the Activities and Exercises successfully. The completion certificate at the end of the Event Planning Diploma course workbook must also be signed and dated by your tutor.

Modules
Module 1: Destination Management
Module 2: Introduction to the Event Planning Process
Module 3: The Venue
Module 4: Catering
Module 5: Entertainment
Module 6: Photography and Audio Visual Requirements
Module 7: Staging the event
Module 8: Preparing event proposals
Module 9: Marketing and selling your Event Planning Service
Module 10: Setting up your business
Module 11: Preparing your own task lists and action plans


Course Provider: Oxford College
Approximate duration (Hours): 220
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Having a certificate is not as having a career or a profession. A certificate is to prove that you are able to LEARN. A professional skill proves that you are able to EARN .

Forget looking for a job and get trained a new profession for life . Get more details at www.ensap.com

We are looking for agents countrywide to introduce our growing list of online training to corporate and government clients and also to professionals. This is a commission only work and agents work freelance, For more details please visit the site http://www.ensap.com/content/agents

timbs001: Most companies nowadays hiring PHP developers are requiring knowledge of Object oriented PHP as a requisite. I have worked with many Frameworks such as PEAR, Zend Framework and also Drupal CMS and all of them are developed using object oriented Approach. Most PHP developers are still comfortable with the old procedural way of coding and are seemingly scared of the word OOP. I want us to use this medium to enlighten everyone the advantages of OOP PHP over the old procedural way and also post relevant tutorials to help pple learn. Once pple signify interest , I will also start posting tutorials also. Pls let's keep the thread Educative and dedicated to PHP

Point of correction . Drupal is not in OOP

Basic and intermediate Drupal 7 or Drupal 6 tuition is now available. To access please visit weblearn.xceedia.co.uk . Contact for more detailed summaries and payment instructions.

Basic Drupal 7:
Drupal installation, content creation and editing , back end administration , site migration and backup

Intermediate Drupal 7:
Drupal theme development , module development , performance and security enhancement , Views development

Basic Drupal 6:
Drupal installation, content creation and editing , back end administration , site migration and backup

Course description:
These are online courses . Course material are well-illustrated tutorial notes . We do not make use of annoying videos . Tutorial notes can be read online or printed out for study .These tutorial notes are complemented by online forums and exercises , off site assignments and unlimited email support from course facilitator.

Free monthly newsletter containing new user tricks, traps, productivity updates, security updates and power user snippets


Course location : www.weblearn.xceedia.co.uk
or email mail@xceedia.co.uk for more details

Are you looking to learn Drupal in Nigeria ?

Get details of our online and site based training at http://www.weblearn.xceedia.co.uk/brochures/drupal_training.pdf

You may also (by prior appointment - 08031811137) attend one of our monthly consultation meetups in Lagos and Ibadan.

Also drop in (by appointment - call 08031811137) to our Ibadan office .

Corporate training undertaken

Please call 08031811137 or email mail@xceedia.co.uk for an appointment.

We TEACH YOU TILL YOU UNDERSTAND !!


Online January training : Basic Level Drupal 7

Outline :
• Introduction to Drupal
• Basic concepts and features
• Installing Drupal
• Adding, classifying and viewing content
• Administration overview
• Basic Backend administration
• Drupal taxonomy
• Moving a static site to Drupal
• Backing up and migrating Drupal
• Drupal performance and security


Online February training : Intermediate Level Drupal 7

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Download brochure for more information as well as payment details.
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ilekky:
Distance is no barrier.If you are really interested,you can

call 08028359239 or visit www.yemlattechnologies.com

for our contact.We are very vast in both PHP/MYSQL

and ASP.NET/MSSQL.A trial will convince you.

joomlaman:
@ e-monkey,
Location shouldn't have been restricted, however u have your reasons best known to u! I am based in Abuja and we can work via the internet, call me on: 08039508010

Cheers!

Thanks for your interest. I need someone on site. I am already able to get thousands who want to work remote from any part of the world. Rgds

If you are a PHP programmer looking for work in Ibadan please contact mail@websesame.com. Also looking for a freelance web UI designer with a persuasive portfolio.

Basics007:
This post and the responses are so funny.

Not funny bros. In fact I wrote them a letter last year about this , including the fact that it is so difficult to get wrapping off the damn cube, and I have several times cut my finger with a knife while trying to do this, until I stopped using Maggi. They did not reply my letter . Why do this people think customers who complain are mad ?. I can now see that I am not the only sufferer. Thank you good men .

Please note that the email is "educeremail" and NOT "educaremail"
Thanks

A new tutoring institution with a country- wide reach is looking for FREELANCE experienced tutors in all subjects and disciplines including vocational skills development. Primarily we are looking for professional teachers but we also think that "if you have learnt it , you probably also can teach it " so all are encouraged to apply.

Please send the following information (only) about yourself to educeremail@gmail.com

First Name
Last Name
Email Contact
Telephone Contact
Sex
Age
Town of Residence
State
Highest Degree Achieved (Phd/Msc/Bsc/A-levels/O-level)
Present Occupation
Subject(s) Able To Teach
Level Able To Teach  (Secondary/Tertiary/Vocational)


Closing date  October 31, 2011

^^^ For editors , candidates living in Ibadan or Lagos preferred.
For illustrator , distance does not matter as you will be working remotely all the time with periodic group meetings.

A new publishing enterprise is looking for following to fill important positions in an exciting cutting-edge venture :
2 Trainee Editors - Qualification : BA English  and a good eye for literature . Must be excellent with MS Word.
2 Assistant Editors - University undergraduate  (English major) in search of  Industrial Training attachment.
Graphic illustrator - Unusually gifted graphic artist.
No experience is required  for the editorial positions but the qualifications are absolute prerequisites.

Send a one-page letter, of no more that 300 words , explaining why you want to work in publishing , together with a one page CV . No phone calls or visits will be entertained.
Send applications to editor@lagosliteraryjournal.com

Before September 20, 2011

I have already found a contractor. Sorry no more inquiries

I am looking for someone to create a good website header with distinctive Nigerian motifs in png from supplied graphics. Please show me what you have previously done and give a ballpark quote. Email mail@websesame.com

We are an Internet marketing company and a major part of our service is about creating websites, purchasing domain names and web hosting for clients. Therefore if you will take pains to further expand your investigations you will find several dozens of domain names linked to the address that you have found. Our web development department is at www.websesame.com. Xceedia Limited primarily does Digital Marketing and Software Development and we have had satisfied clients from all over the world. Thank you.

UKman37:
i checked your previous posts

another comapny you represent is an oil and gas company wih headoffice in UK , but no telephone numbers and no company number is nigeria

but contact details for nigeria

I seached for both companies on Comapnies house in the UK and they do not exist?

the funny thing ensap website has been going for years but the registered address for that website is idenditcal for that for xceedia.co.uk

so please can you expain why I can't find you in UK Directories

The address for your xceedia looks like a residential address

You are quite observant, though I am not sure how your research relates to this post.
ensap.com belongs to Engineerig Services and Projects Limited (ensap) (UK incorporated in 2003 ) and which has been retired since 2006 and therefore unlikely to be found in Companies Register.
Xceedia Limited is registered in Nigeria and only has a UK contact address as you have found.
Thank you for finding the time to do a thorough check.

(Adding Edit to the Above)



Our company, Xceedia Limited offers world class Internet related services to companies all over the world. Typical we execute Internet marketing projects and services relating to building and keeping customers , and therefore effecting an improvement of the all- important business bottom line. Our services are already being used by several Blue chip companies in Nigeria and we will like to partner with you.

Do you have high level contacts within a major company in Nigeria ? We would like to purchase your contact. Actually what we will be doing will be to sell them a proposal specifically for their industry. As a reward, we will pay you a 20 % commission on our invoice. You absolutely don't need to sell anything at all; no fuss, no sweat. It may be advantageous though if you share a personal relation with these persons in case we need to ask some business questions .

What we want : We will be looking for information such as Name, position,email, mobile phone number. We are only interested in positions such as Managing Director, Corporate Affairs Director, Marketing Director and General Manager.

Please contact mail@xceedia.co.uk to ask more questions or to propose a contact.

Our company, Xceedia Limited offers world class Internet related services to companies all over the world. Typical we execute Internet marketing projects and services relating to building and keeping customers , and therefore effecting an improvement of the all- important business bottom line. Our services are already being used by several Blue chip companies in Nigeria and we will like to partner with you.

Do you have high level contacts within a major company in Nigeria ? We would like to purchase your contact. Actually what we will be doing will be to sell them a proposal specifically for their industry. As a reward, we advantageous that you share a personal relation with these persons .

What we want : We will be looking for information such as Name, position,email, mobile phone number. We are only interested in positions such as Managing Director, Corporate Affairs Director, Marketing Director and General Manager.

Please contact mail@xceedia.co.uk to ask more questions or to propose a contact.

One each still wanted in Ibadan and Ilorin please

@Ademiller
When looking for a job it always pays to remain positive. The world is not full of crooks , and anyone who needs your photo so badly can easily search for it from Facebook. We are asking for photos because it is not feasible to interview everyone for these positions , so we just need to initially know that they are "presentable" before sending them to do business for us. These are freelance jobs as mentioned and we expect that it will serve as "door-openers" to better appointments for our reps through those that they meet on assignment. Remain blessed.

No worries madam. If you apply you get more details.
More applications wanted from Abuja, Port Harcourt, Benin, Maiduguri , kaduna, Kano, Jos , Enugu please. Too many from Lagos already. Thank you

Freelance means that you do not earn a salary and you get paid commission based on performance. It also means that your time is yours and you are free to do any other business or job alongside

A software company is looking for presentable graduates with good Internet skills to follow up sales presentations to hospitals and educational institutions all over the country. Generous commissions paid. Please send CV with photo to mail@ensap.com

Freelancers may also apply.

Sufficiently motivated men with formidable contacts either in company top level or in thriving medical practises or hospitals may also apply.