Dear Jennie,
is there a requirement to book a place for the "taster" session?
Can the newsletter be received electronically?
best wishes,
Maurizio Ferrari
Open University
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>Friday 03 November 2000 Decision Explorer Update.
>
>Below you will find a brief outline of the following information:
>1. FREE Decision Explorer "taster" sessions
>2. The Decision Explorer Viewer - first announcement
>3. Forthcoming training events - UK
>4. Newsletter information.
>5. Decision Explorer workbook in French
>
>Further details of events etc. are posted on our web pages at
>http://www.banxia.com. Information about current workshops/ events
>mentioned below (or mentioned on our web pages) can also be obtained by
>email to [log in to unmask] Thank you.
>
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>1. FREE DECISION EXPLORER "TASTER" EVENTS
>
>UK "Taster" events (FREE 2 hour sessions giving an introduction to
>Decision Explorer - not a substitute for training!)
>
>Academic users Come & See Day. Sessions 9.30am - 11.30am and 12.00 -
>2.00pm
>Date: Thursday 30th November
>Venue: Sage Publications, 6, Bonhill Street, London. UK
>Brief description: A free event for an audience of lecturers, research
>students and researchers. Two sessions repeated during the day, where
>you are invited to come and talk about and try out Decision Explorer
>
>Date: Friday 1st December
>Commercial users Come & See Day. Sessions 9.30am - 11.30am and 12.00 -
>2.00pm
>Venue: Sage Publications, 6, Bonhill Street, London. UK
>Brief description: A free event for an audience of managers and
>management consultants. Two short sessions repeated during the day,
>where practitioners are invited to come and talk about and try out
>Decision Explorer.
>
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>2. THE DECISION EXPLORER VIEWER
>We will shortly be releasing a Viewer for Decision Explorer. The Viewer
>will be distributed free of charge, as a free download from our web
>site and on future versions of the Decision Explorer install CD for the
>full product. The availability of the Viewer means that you will be
>able to distribute Decision Explorer models to your colleagues, without
>them having to own a full, licensed copy of the software. The Viewer
>will allow users to manipulate models for exploration, but will not
>allow users to add or edit concepts, to add or edit links or to save a
>new version of the model. Further details of the Viewer will appear
>shortly on our web pages and in the forthcoming edition of the Decision
>Explorer Newsletter.
>
>***************
>3. TRAINING EVENTS
>
>UK Training workshops
>
>Date: Monday 11th December 2000
>Title: An Introduction to Decision Explorer
>Tutor: Dr Silvana di Gregorio, SdG Associates
>Organiser: SdG Associates
>Venue: Sage Publications, 6, Bonhill Street, London. UK
>Brief description: One-day, hands-on workshop taking you through the
>theory and practice of cognitive/ ideas mapping and the use of Decision
>Explorer.
>
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>4. DECISION EXPLORER NEWSLETTER WINTER 2000/2001
>
>The Winter 2000/2001 edition of the Decision Explorer Newsletter will
>be published and distributed during December. The Newsletter is FREE!
>It is automatically sent to anyone who has purchased Decision Explorer
>and for whom we have a valid mailing address and to anyone who has
>registered an interest. Back copies of the Newsletter can be found on
>our web site. We also have some spare copies of some of the earlier
>issues of the Newsletter, so if you would like a hardcopy (rather than
>downloading it from the web) please let us know.
>
>If you would like to be on the postal mailing list for future dates of
>either of the above events, please contact us.
>
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>5. DECISION EXPLORER WORKBOOK IN FRENCH
>
>The Decision Explorer workbook, "An introduction to Decision Explorer:
>Workbook 1", has now been translated into French. We will shortly be
>making this resource available through our web site.
>
>If you would like a copy (before it goes on general release through the
>web site) please let us know and we will email you a PDF copy.
>
>As I am sure many of you realise, Decision Explorer can be used in many
>different languages (any language which is not ideographic ... so
>languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, German etc can be used in
>Decision Explorer). The menus and commands are still in English, but
>the map/ concepts which are displayed can be in your own language.
>
>I'll let you know when the document is posted on our web site.
>
>Regards,
>Jenny Brightman
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>Banxia Software Limited
>Tel: +44 (0) 870 787 2994
>Fax: +44 (0) 870 787 2995
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