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<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><i><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><i><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">IT Professional</span></i><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN"> magazine seeks <strong>IT training materials</strong> for practitioners for posting on <a href="http://www.computer.org/cn" target="_blank"><font color="#336699">Computing Now</font></a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">Specifically, we are looking for 30- to 45-minute multimedia training sessions that present procedures and strategies that address common problems faced by IT professionals around the world. These sessions should offer practitioners appropriate methods, approaches, techniques, guidelines, and/or tools. Topics of interest include (but not limited to) the following:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">Submissions must be practical in nature; overly complex, purely research-oriented, or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. In addition, they should include one or more of the following elements: video, audio, or PowerPoint slides.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">Submissions deemed within scope of this project will be reviewed by members of the <i>IT Professional</i> editorial board and may be edited for clarity, organization, and length. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">For more information, contact Associate Editor in Chief <strong>San Murugesan</strong> at <a href="javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(115,97,110,49,64,105,110,116,101,114,110,111,100,101,46,110,101,116)+'?'"><font color="#336699">san1@internode.net</font></a>. For questions about file formats and sizes, please contact <i>IT Pro</i>'s lead staff editor, Bob Ward (<a href="javascript:location.href='mailto:'+String.fromCharCode(98,110,119,97,114,100,64,99,111,109,112,117,116,101,114,46,111,114,103)+'?'"><font color="#336699">bnward@computer.org</font></a>).<br style="mso-special-character: line-break">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">Upload submissions to <a href="ftp://ieeecs:benefit@ftp.computer.org/mags/incoming/ITPro/Training_materials" target="_blank"><font color="#336699">ftp://ieeecs:benefit@ftp.computer.org/mags/incoming/ITPro/Training_materials</font></a> along with a two- to three-page description of the session (including scope, coverage, target audience, intended benefits, and brief bio of author(s)) and send San an email (with "IT Pro training" in the subject line) that you've uploaded files for review.</span></p>
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