Upcoming Partner Academy Live Webcasts!

PSX213PAL: Selling Microsoft Office 365 to State & Local Governments: The Partner's Story Session 3
Presented by: Brian Campbell, Ron Braatz	Webcast Date: 5/24/2012		PLC   Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
Join this segment   of  Cloud Unplugged web series featuring Microsoft Silver partner  Liftoff. President Ron Braatz will be discussing the significance of  archiving for SLG customers.  Now entering their third year of offering  nothing but cloud solutions such as Office 365, SharePoint, Microsoft  Dynamics® CRM and others to their clients. They have become experts in cloud  deployment of Microsoft business applications and are dedicated to helping  companies push off in the right direction. Liftoff has accumulated extensive  experience in the past few years and has now deployed their 100th  client.  Partners in attendance will be invited to ask question at the  end of the session.
UC132PAL : Office 365 Lync-to-Phone – Briefing for Microsoft Partners
Presented by: Ziv Fass	Webcast Date: 5/30/2012		Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
Lync-to-phone is an upcoming capability in Office 365 that enables users to make and receive  phone calls from any number, using calling services from Microsoft partners.  Come to this session to learn more about this new and frequently asked-about  capability in office 365 – how it works, what features are included, who is  the target audience, how to best position to customers, what are the plans  for commercial availability and the partner opportunities that are associated  with this new capability.
PSH87PAL : Microsoft Office 365: Healthcare Partner Update
Presented by: Mohamed Ayad, John Squire	Webcast Date: 5/31/2012		PLC Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
Microsoft Office 365 supports a secure, cost-efficient IT infrastructure while giving care  providers and administrative staff easy-to-use productivity tools. As a  healthcare partner, you can compete and win with Office 365 in healthcare  organizations of all sizes.  During this partner briefing, we’ll provide  an update on Office 365 compliance, showcase the capabilities that are  resonating with healthcare customers, and hear an update on the partner value  proposition for healthcare partners across the Provider, Health Plans and  Health and Human Services verticals.
SPS40PAL : The Business-Critical SharePoint Partner Program: Delivering Value with SharePoint and LOB Systems
Presented by: Gideon Bibliowicz, Dene Cleaver	Webcast #1 Date: 6/5/2012 Webcast #1 Start Time: 7:00 AM (Pacific)		PLC Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast #2 Date: 6/7/2012 Webcast #2 Start Time: 5:00 PM (Pacific)		PLC Registration Link for Partners
This webcast will be offered live at two separate times to accommodate various time zones and busy  schedules. The presenters will cover the same topics at each session; please  attend the one that best fits your schedule.  Join us for a webcast with the SharePoint Business Group to learn how to build on the most  pervasive collaboration platform in the world and deliver business-critical  solutions through surfacing line-of-business data in SharePoint. Whether you  know SharePoint inside out or currently support Line-of-Business (LOB)  systems, you can add more value by connecting them. Learn how you could scale  your business/practice through the new partner program from Microsoft,  including the partner benefits such as training resources, marketing support,  and business-development opportunities from Microsoft. Business-Critical SharePoint has been tested and validated through work with Microsoft  partners, and offer business benefits such as: Becoming more of a trusted advisor to customers through impact on the customer’s core business processes Providing a higher value-add while extending engagement length and complexity, yielding higher margins Developing a cross-platform practice  –  a valuable asset in a world where most enterprises manage multi-vendor datacenters   NOTE: System Integrators and ISVs who are currently not part of the Microsoft Partner Network are welcome to apply for this program.
PSH88PAL : Cloud Services: Healthcare Partner Update
Presented by: Hector Rodriguez, Dave Meyers, Les Jordan	Webcast Date: 6/7/2012		PLC Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
As health organizations transform how they serve their patients and partners, partners have an  opportunity to extend their offerings and deliver cloud services from the  public cloud, a private cloud, or in an integrated environment.  Hear  from Microsoft’s Healthcare team as they provide a current update on  Microsoft’s healthcare cloud strategy, compliance details, and how to  effectively compete to win across the Provider, Health Plans, Life Sciences  and Health and Human Services verticals.
EPG300PAL : Windows Server 2012 for Service Providers
Presented by: Scott Ottaway	Webcast Date: 6/14/2012		PLC Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
Join us in this live webcast to learn about how Windows Server 2012 can accelerate new business  opportunities and lower your operational costs for your existing hosted cloud  services including Windows Server virtual machines, web hosting and  application hosting. This session will cover the new features of Windows  Server 2012 as well as new business opportunities including Desktop Hosting.
SMSP233PAL : The Digital Handshake: Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media
Presented by: Kelly Stark, Paul Chaney	Webcast Date: 6/14/2012		PLC Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
Even today’s most successful businesses are seeing shrinking returns on their advertising and  marketing dollars. The Digital Handshake explains why advertising and  marketing are losing their effectiveness and how to solve the problem using  social media to corral elusive consumers. It explains the best practical  business applications in current use and how you can use them to ramp up your  business. Using case studies gleaned from real businesses, author Paul Chaney shows you how companies both  large and small can tap social media to mitigate market changes and reap  valuable business benefit in the real world.  Participants will learn:   Why social media marketing is the wave  of the future (and the NOW!)   How to use social media to increase  word-of-mouth and new client referrals   How online conversations can lead to the  building of long-term, trusted client relationships   Seven of the most commonly used social  media tools for engaging customers   How to build a strategic plan for  effective and time-efficient social media engagement
EPG301PAL : System Center 2012 for Service Providers
Presented by: Scott Ottaway	Webcast Date: 6/19/2012		Registration Link for Partners
	Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
Join us in this live webcast to learn about the newest features and improvements around System  Center 2012, including new business opportunities by selling System Center to  your customers so they can self-managed their cloud hosted applications,  databases and web sites.  This session will also cover how System Center  2012 delivers best-in-class Windows management and lowers your operating  costs by enabling automation and end-to-end management and monitoring from  hardware to applications.