Biddeford Adult Education
Biddeford, ME
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in Business & Skills Training at Biddeford Adult Education
Online Advertising
with Dan Belhassen, Biddeford Adult Education
Get the keys to making online advertising work for you and your organization. See how pay-per-click advertising with Google AdWords works. Find out how to test low budget Adword campaigns. Learn how you can target local audiences. Then discover Facebook advertising and how you can determine the demographics and even numbers of people you want to reach. No experience necessary, but if you are at an advanced level, your instructor is an online ad expert and can answer your toughest questions as well.
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Project Management Knowledge Area
with Gail Singleton, Biddeford Adult Education
In today’s business environment, there is a need for good project management. Project management provides visibility of project health to the business and the customer. Through continuous monitoring, early detection of variations to plan, schedule, and budget can be communicated to stakeholders for quick resolution, including project cancelation. The Project Management Professional community does this through the five (5) Project Management Processes supported by the ten (10) Project Management Knowledge Areas. This course introduces the student to the ten (10) Project management Knowledge Areas and their support role and relationships to the five (5) Project Management Processes.
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Remote Work Manager Practicum
with William A. Draves, Biddeford Adult Education
Your third month will be spent mastering what you need to know and documenting your achievement. The practicum includes:
- Weekly communication 1:1 with your instructor
- Study and taking of the RWM (Remote Work Manager) exam.
- Writing a 750- 1,000 word (roughly 3 pages) paper on how you will next work to implement or improve your management of remote work.
Available and included in the Certified Remote Work Manager program.
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Remote Working and Communicating
with William A. Draves, Biddeford Adult Education
Working remotely does not make you an expert on remote work. Gain new insights, experiences and advanced tips for working from home. Find out the 5 bad habits too many remote workers and their managers acquire from lack of experience, tools and expertise. Then acquire the latest strategies for communicating with remote workers. Come away with a deeper understanding of this enormous cultural and work shift going on in the workplace and in society.
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Social Media for Business Certificate
with Travette Webster, Melissa Torres, Jo-Carolyn Goode, Biddeford Adult Education
Get in on this exciting and growing way to communicate, market and serve your customers and clients. For businesses, nonprofits, government, and other organizations. From Facebook to Twitter, blogging, YouTube, LinkedIn, and more, discover the new principles of communication that apply across all networks and how these specific social networks work and the possible uses for your organization. Learn how social networks are used to develop a two-way communication and marketing strategy for your organization. Then find out what you can be doing, what you should be doing, and take back a plan to integrate social networks into your communication and marketing. Whether you are new to social networks or already involved, you will come away with both an understanding of social networks and practical, how-to techniques to integrate social networks into your organization or business. Your instructors are outstanding practitioners who also speak, write, and train others on social networks. Introduction to Social Media must be taken before Integrating Social Media in Your Organization and Marketing Using Social Media.
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Understanding Debits and Credits
with Sharon deFonteny, Biddeford Adult Education
In this course, you will learn about the accounting equation and the five categories involved in every business (Assets, Liabilities, Owner’s Equity, Revenue and Expenses). Every financial transaction falls into one or more of these categories. Learn how to create a chart of accounts that meet the needs of your business. You will learn how double entry bookkeeping works and the process of recording debits and credits. This course will show you how to identify, analyze and record transactions using journal entries under the cash basis accounting method.
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Using Personality Profiles for Better Work Performance
with Sally Klauss, Biddeford Adult Education
Understanding yourself and others will increase your overall effectiveness at work, home, and in all of your relationships. Learn how to improve your communication with others, convey your ideas effectively, and improve your ability to understand what is important to those who don’t share your same style. Course fee includes your own DiSC Behavioral Personality Profile assessment and review.
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WordPress Certificate
with Andi Helmi, Biddeford Adult Education
WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) for website and blog design. During the first week, you will learn or refresh your knowledge of all the initial steps and the required elements for having a website. Then find out how to build a simple WordPress website or blog. Topics include an introduction to CMS, WordPress installation and setup, page and content creation, administration, themes (selection, purchase, installation, and setup), working with widgets and plugins, and more. Finally, acquire advanced knowledge about WordPress options and features. You will learn how to modify WordPress web pages by hand-coding, learn about simple yet effective search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that improve your website ranking, and much more. After successfully completing the WordPress Certificate you will know how to build a WordPress website or blog, customize your WordPress site by hand-coding HTML, CSS, and PHP, know necessary regular WordPress maintenance, create WordPress website backup, and know how to apply SEO techniques in WordPress.
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