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<title>IBM Lotus Quickr - technical sales test v1</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>IBM Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 - technical sales test (Russian)</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Lotus Notes and Domino V8.5 technical sales test! This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 10 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M38 IBM Lotus Notes and Domino - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v2. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/ovrM38.shtml</p>]]></description>
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<title>IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 - technical sales test (Russian)</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>IBM Information Management DB2 - technical sales test v2</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Information Management DB2 Technical Sales Test v2. This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product.The test consists of 10 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M45 IBM Information Management DB2 - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v2 which is included in the Growth Through Skills Initiative. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/ovrM45.shtml</p>]]></description>
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<title>WebSphere Think!Thursday: How to sell ILOG in your industry </title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>While ILOG solutions are cross-industry, they have unique industry expertise in Financial, Public, Distribution, Industrial and Communications. Join this call to understand how to leverage ILOG in your customers' Industry. This call is tailored to Resellers, Value Added Distributors and System Integrators. ISV's and IBM Business Partner Representatives will also find this topic of interest.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Tivoli Think!Thursday: How you can make the most of Pulse 2010 and the IBM Tivoli Business Partner summit</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Join us to learn about the many opportunities available to Business Partners at Pulse 2010 and the IBM Tivoli Business Partner Summit, coming February 21- 24, in Las Vegas, Nevada. We will help you understand how to leverage the event for your business, how you can save money, what educational opportunities are available, where the subject matter experts will be, and when/how you can engage customers.</p>]]></description>
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<ibmpw:product>Tivoli</ibmpw:product>
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<title>Hospital industry update, sales strategy and solution portfolio overview </title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Join Tony Bosselait, IBM Software Group's healthcare executive, as he discusses the current hospital challenges within the healthcare industry, introduces the Health Integration Framework (HIF), and highlights IBM's Hospital solution portfolio. </p>]]></description>
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<title>Service provider delivery environment (SPDE) framework</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>This session provides a discussion of IBM's framework for the telco industry, which supports Service Innovation, Service Creation, Service Delivery, Service Integration, Service Management, Partner Interaction, and the Information Agenda.</p>]]></description>
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<title>WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) documentation, success stories, and other resources</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Business analyst skills for IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Looking for IBM ILOG training? A number of classroom courses are available worldwide for IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS. The Capturing and Authoring Business Rules with IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0, Capturing Business Rules with IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules V7.0, and Authoring Business Rules in IBM WebSphere ILOG Rule Team Server V7.0 introduce business analysts to IBM WebSphere ILOG Jrules Business Rule Management System and teaches the concepts and skills necessary to capture, author, and manage business rules using IBM WebSphere ILOG Jrules V7.0.</p>]]></description>
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<title>IBM ILOG Optimization technologies documentation, success stories, and other resources</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p></p>]]>Now on the Virtual Innovation Center: find resource links for various IBM ILOG Optimization products.</description>
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<title>IBM ILOG Optimization product training</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Looking for IBM ILOG training?  A number of classroom courses are available worldwide for IBM ILOG Optimization products. These Instructor led courses teach students how to work with IBM ILOG Optimization Decision Manager, IBM ILOG CPLEX, IBM ILOG OPL, and the IBM ILOG OPL integrated development environment.</p>]]></description>
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<title>IBM ILOG Visualization technologies documentation, success stories, and other resources</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p></p>]]>Now on the Virtual Innovation Center: find resource links for various IBM ILOG Visualization products.</description>
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<title>IBM ILOG Visualization product training</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Looking for IBM ILOG training?  A number of classroom courses are available worldwide for IBM ILOG Visualization products. Access the link below to see detailed course descriptions, locations, and to register for any course. This 5-day instructor-led course teaches students how to create and style dashboard and diagram displays, and how to add specialized functionality to these components for use in diagramming applications.</p>]]></description>
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<title>Lotus Think!Thursday: Leveraging IBM communities to grow your business</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>In today's difficult economic climate everyone is being asked to do more with less. One way to make that happen is with the help of like-minded people. IBM offers communities of people with similar interests that can lead to greater knowledge, faster turnaround and an increase in the bottom line. You'll learn about IBM communities at developerWorks, PartnerWorld, and Lotus Greenhouse and how they can help you find answers to technical problems, solutions for customer needs, and access to innovative technology. You'll be able to easily navigate the sites and leverage them to grow your business.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, lotus, selling</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2677</ibmpw:course_number>
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<ibmpw:product>Lotus</ibmpw:product>
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<title>Rational Think!Thursday: Cut costs and accelerate delivery for WebSphere and Portal customers</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Learn how the new Rational Automation Framework (RAFW) offering can help accelerate your sales and drive new opportunities. Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere delivers immediate and significant value to WebSphere Application and Portal Server customers who are looking to cut cost, accelerate delivery all while improving quality. Join this webinar to learn how this new, yet proven offering can help you generate significant software and services revenue. Our RAFW team will provide a high level overview and demo of RAFW, and be available to answer your questions!</p>]]></description>
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<ibmpw:product>Rational</ibmpw:product>
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<title>Tivoli Think!Thursday: Introduction to Tivoli Netcool Performance Flow Analyzer</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Tivoli Netcool Performance Flow Analyzer is a new offering that provides flow-based network traffic analysis and performance reporting. This session will help you understand how it facilitates cost effective network capacity planning and faster solutions to network performance problems, an especially important topic for customers who are adding more and more new applications that require differentiated services and service levels.</p>]]></description>
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<ibmpw:product>Tivoli</ibmpw:product>
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<title>WebSphere Think!Thursday: WebSphere Commerce V7 overview</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Join us for a first look webcast highlighting the new features and enhancements in the upcoming WebSphere Commerce V7 release.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, websphere, commerce</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2715</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Selling resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>WebSphere</ibmpw:product>
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<title>Lotus Think!Thursday: Social software - empower your customers to innovate and execute</title> 
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Are you using IBM Lotus Connections for Partners, the new online social networking and collaboration environment that can support your business's ability to grow? Are you able to identify the sales opportunities and showcase the value that IBM Lotus Connections brings to your customers? </p>
<p>This call highlights the partner specific opportunities you'll want to be aware of to help your customers access the expertise and knowledge they need to accomplish their business goals using Social Software. IBM Lotus Connections provides a forum for building dynamic networks of coworkers, partners and customers to foster community-based innovation. Plus, hear what is new with IBM Lotus Quickr 8.2. Your customers will benefit from the End-user and administrative enhancements to the Lotus Quickr services for Domino and Lotus Quickr services for IBM WebSphere Portal corresponding higher margin. You will learn how these technologies apply to each customer segment; to improve existing Domino/Notes customers' experience, or acquire new customers with financial gain for your company.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, lotus, connections, quickr</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2653</ibmpw:course_number>
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<ibmpw:product>Lotus</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM Maximo Asset Management - technical sales test (Korean)</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Maximo Asset Management technical sales test! This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 11 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M36 IBM Maximo Asset Management - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v1. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/eduM36.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, tivoli, maximo</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2673</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Solution resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>Tivoli Enterprise Asset Management</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM Maximo Asset Management - technical sales test (Japanese)</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Maximo Asset Management technical sales test! This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 11 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M36 IBM Maximo Asset Management - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v1. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/eduM36.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, tivoli, maximo</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2664</ibmpw:course_number>
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<ibmpw:product>Tivoli Enterprise Asset Management</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM Maximo Asset Management - technical sales test (S. Chinese)</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Maximo Asset Management technical sales test! This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 11 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M36 IBM Maximo Asset Management - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v1. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/eduM36.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, tivoli, maximo</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2663</ibmpw:course_number>
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<ibmpw:product>Tivoli Enterprise Asset Management</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM Maximo Asset Management - technical sales test (Russian)</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Maximo Asset Management technical sales test! This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 11 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M36 IBM Maximo Asset Management - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v1. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/eduM36.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, tivoli, maximo</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2665</ibmpw:course_number>
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<ibmpw:product>Tivoli Enterprise Asset Management</ibmpw:product>
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<title>Rational Think!Thursday: Greater confidence. Improved performance. Quality driven software delivery</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Organizations today face growing pressures to deliver high-quality software faster that aligns with business outcomes, drives down cost and keeps a competitive edge. Achieving greater value and performance from your investments in software requires you to manage continuous change, strike a balance among driving revenue, investing in new capability and effectively executing core/non-core business processes, all without interrupting service.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, rational</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2662</ibmpw:course_number>
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<ibmpw:product>Rational</ibmpw:product>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ibm.com/isv/news/rss/victransform.jsp?p1=2662&ca=vic-2662]]></link>
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<title>IBM Think!Thursday - IBM Innovation Centers</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Learn how to use the worldwide IBM Innovation Centers to help build, test, market and sell your solutions. The IBM Innovation Centers are at the heart of the technical community, providing a place where you can innovate and collaborate with IBM, other Business Partners, developers and academic leaders. Work with our architects and consultants to leverage the latest technologies in your solution, test your solution thoroughly in our labs, then invite your prospects to the center for your sales meetings. Learn about the Virtual Innovation Center, a complementary resource.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, innovation</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2688</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Selling resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>Cross Brand</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 technical sales test v2</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Lotus WebSphere Portal technical sales test! This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 10 multiple choice questions. This can also be used as a practice test for the formal M37 IBM WebSphere Portal - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v2. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/ovrM37.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, lotus, websphere, portal</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2659</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Solution resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>Lotus Portals</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory technical sales test v2</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the WebSphere Portlet Factory Technical Sales Test v2. This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product.The test consists of 10 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M46 IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v2 which is included in the Growth Through Skills Initiative. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/ovrM46.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, lotus</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2690</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Solution resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>Lotus Portals</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM Lotus Web Content Management technical sales test v2</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to the Lotus Web Content Management Technical Sales Test. This test has been designed to assess your knowledge of this product. The test consists of 10 multiple choice questions. This can also be used has a practice test for the formal M48 IBM Lotus Web Content Management - Technical Sales MASTERY Test v2 which is included in the Growth Through Skills Initiative. Recommended training, test objectives and additional information can be found at http://www.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/ovrM48.shtml</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, lotus</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2689</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Solution resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>Lotus Collaboration, Lotus Portals</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>IBM is adding the rich security environment of Lotus Notes software by introducing a new email security appliance called IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security. Lotus Protector for Mail Security is a spam prevention device that has all the same underpinnings as the intruding prevention devices and firewalls that are part of the ISS Preventia family. Lotus Protector for Mail Security will help companies of all sizes safeguard the confidentiality of their corporate information. The product utilizes information security technologies and sits on top of the network and protects it from internet threats. This world-class protection is easy to acquire, deploy, manage and support.</p>
<p>In this workshop, you will have access to browser video (Camtasia) presentations with audio, as well as instructions on how to build a lab environment to run the lab exercises. The presentations cover subjects ranging from customer and end-user values, how Internet mail security is managed, and where Lotus Protector fits into internet mail routing. The labs provide hands-on experiences in setting up and configuring Lotus Protector as well as Domino, ensuring product performance and capability, customizing Lotus Protector, hints and tips, and techniques to use.</p>
<p>This workshop is ideal for anyone who needs to add Internet mail security and protection for Domino servers and Lotus Notes users. Prior knowledge of Lotus Notes and Domino environment is strongly recommended before taking the workshop, also an understanding of basic internet mail routing and operation is suggested. After completing this workshop, the student will be able to describe the features, functions and capabilities of Lotus Protector to customer and end-users. In addition to this, students will have the knowledge and experience to install, configure, apply custom rules, and integrate with Domino.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, lotus, notes, domino, security</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2685</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Technical resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>Lotus Notes/Domino</ibmpw:product>
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<title>IMPACT comes to you: Empowering eco-friendly computing with IBM WebSphere sMash</title> 
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>IT executives are scaling back their 2009 spending plans and business is demanding more from the technology to compete and grow in 2009. In this presentation ZSL recommends how a business can save and become "green savvy" with WebSphere sMash by covering three main areas. First, a company can become eco-friendly by implementing business process and integration in a simple and agile way using the WebSphere sMash platform, which uses minimal resources and can deploy for an optimized environment. Second, WebSphere sMash can be used for cloud computing allowing businesses to use resources as needed and as they grow in order to avoid or reduce the capital expenses. And thirdly, with green IT initiatives, data center managers can learn to identify application types that require less processing power, preventing wasteful use of servers.</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>vic, ibm, training, websphere, smash</ibmpw:keywords>
<ibmpw:course_number>2666</ibmpw:course_number>
<category>Selling resources</category>
<ibmpw:product>WebSphere</ibmpw:product>
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<title>The VIC is on Twitter</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Follow our daily tweets! http://twitter.com/ibmvic</p>]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>news, vic, ibm</ibmpw:keywords>
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<title>PartnerWorld iPhone interface: Virtual Innovation Center featured online courses</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Use your Apple iPhone to stay in touch with PartnerWorld news and information feeds. Learn about new Business Partner content on the Web, listen or watch podcasts, read through available workshops and seminars, and more--all on your iPhone.]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>news, vic</ibmpw:keywords>
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<title>Featured online courses from the IBM Virtual Innovation Center</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are over 800 courses available at the Virtual Innovation Center. Learn more about these featured online courses.]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>news, vic</ibmpw:keywords>
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<title>RSS feed: Get the latest the online courses from the IBM Virtual Innovation Center</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Subscribe to the online course RSS feed and learn about new courses from the IBM Virtual Innovation Center.]]></description>
<ibmpw:keywords>news, vic</ibmpw:keywords>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/isv/news/rss/feeds.html?ca=drs-1409#vic]]></link>
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