Busy month

It is a month full of trainings for myself including my staff this time around. In total there are four different trainings I must undergo with each different from one another. It is a coincident as it falls right after one another.

The first short seminar was on the importance and guidelines of updating an official government website. As part of my job is also to update the department’s website, I alongwith my other staff including our public relations officers and those related with IT matters in our department attended this held at the Civil Service Institute.

The seminar itself was alright but I was hoping that the organisers would give more emphasise on cooperation between IT and PR people in updating a website. I mean let’s face it, it is the PR people who has most of the information and the IT people with their technical aspects. The matter was discussed but only on its surface. The guidelines given were good and I hope to get the full version once it is endorsed. Matters on security were discussed but I was also hoping that they’d give recommendations on what types of anti-virus that ought to be used to avoid being a victim of malicious activities.

The panel of presenters. Picture taken from Pelita Brunei (picture taken by Hernie Suliana)

Overall, it was a good step by the relevant authorities and hopefully they’d improve the content for the next batch.

The other course I attended was on CS4 Adobe Flash… now that was a very knowledgeble and beneficial learning session. It was a three-day course held at Micronet, and fully sponsored by our office. It is very useful and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

And at the moment, I am attending a five-day course on web journalism. A program organised by our official tv statio, Radio Televisyen Brunei with AIBD/IBU. Today is the third day of the course and so far we’ve learned quite a number of new interesting things. I’ve used Google before but never to such an extend and that’s because I didn’t know there are such features; discovering new search engines; RSS and many more. I am also enjoying this… thank you RTB for remembering us although we are from a different department. I hope we’d get more invitations from RTB in the near future

And the last course for this month, which will take place at the end of the month will be a course on Dreamweaver. I’ve never used this program before so I am looking forward to this course too.

So there you go.. my schedule for this month.

On a personal note, my parents will be leaving for haj in November, so a doa selamat will be held somewhere end of this month. I’m not sure how it will be as the last time my dad left for haj was back in the 90’s and this will be the first time for my mum. I pray to Allah, safejourney and that their haj will be a meaningful and blessed one. Amin…