Gini von Courter

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    Moderator & Chief Governance Officer

    Unitarian Universalist Association

    - 9 years 9 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Elected to three terms as Moderator for the 1000+ congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). The Moderator, the highest volunteer position in the UUA, serves as Chief Governance Officer. As Moderator, I conducted quarterly meetings of the 24 member Board of Trustees and annual business meetings for the 2000+ congregational delegates directing the affairs of the Association.

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  • SharePoint 2016: Managing Large Lists

    Lynda.com

    Customization can increase the speed and efficiency of SharePoint users with large libraries of documents and lists. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how to optimize SharePoint when libraries and lists become too long for practical use. Learn how to use indexes and folders; filter lists with dynamic views; and load data faster with item limits and groups. Gini also shares three different strategies for using Access and Excel to work with list data outside of SharePoint. These are not only…

    Customization can increase the speed and efficiency of SharePoint users with large libraries of documents and lists. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how to optimize SharePoint when libraries and lists become too long for practical use. Learn how to use indexes and folders; filter lists with dynamic views; and load data faster with item limits and groups. Gini also shares three different strategies for using Access and Excel to work with list data outside of SharePoint. These are not only programmatic changes but also best practices for managing large libraries of content, which will help you become a better SharePoint user and admin.

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  • Outlook on the web Essential Training

    Lynda.com

    Learn how to use Outlook on the web, the web-browser version of Microsoft Outlook, to manage your email when you're away from your desktop. In this course, author Gini Courter starts off by showing you how to sign in to Outlook on the web; navigate the interface; and compose, receive, and manage your email. Next, learn how to use the calendar feature to create appointments, share your calendar with colleagues, and view multiple calendars. Finally, learn how to use Outlook on the Web to track…

    Learn how to use Outlook on the web, the web-browser version of Microsoft Outlook, to manage your email when you're away from your desktop. In this course, author Gini Courter starts off by showing you how to sign in to Outlook on the web; navigate the interface; and compose, receive, and manage your email. Next, learn how to use the calendar feature to create appointments, share your calendar with colleagues, and view multiple calendars. Finally, learn how to use Outlook on the Web to track your tasks, work with meetings, manage contacts, as well as how to access your account from your mobile device

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  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 First Look

    Lynda.com

    Dynamics 365 brings together the most popular features of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) in a single solution that can be accessed from anywhere. It comes in editions for both enterprise and small to midsize businesses, and the flexible, cloud-based architecture of Dynamics 365 allows you to scale as your business needs grow. Get your first look at Dynamics 365 in this course with Gini von Courter. Gini shows how to get started with a Dynamics 365…

    Dynamics 365 brings together the most popular features of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) in a single solution that can be accessed from anywhere. It comes in editions for both enterprise and small to midsize businesses, and the flexible, cloud-based architecture of Dynamics 365 allows you to scale as your business needs grow. Get your first look at Dynamics 365 in this course with Gini von Courter. Gini shows how to get started with a Dynamics 365 account, reviews the various apps available, and looks into the future of the product.

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  • Outlook 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks

    Lynda.com

    Get tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts that will increase your efficiency with Outlook 2016. Gini von Courter shares over 65 power shortcuts to save time, increase productivity, and help you stay organized—whether you're sending emails or managing your task list. Start with Gini's top 10 shortcuts, and power up from there. Learn techniques for quickly organizing your inbox, managing incoming messages, and replying to emails, and a few other cool tricks, like sending texts directly from…

    Get tips, tricks, and keyboard shortcuts that will increase your efficiency with Outlook 2016. Gini von Courter shares over 65 power shortcuts to save time, increase productivity, and help you stay organized—whether you're sending emails or managing your task list. Start with Gini's top 10 shortcuts, and power up from there. Learn techniques for quickly organizing your inbox, managing incoming messages, and replying to emails, and a few other cool tricks, like sending texts directly from Outlook. This course also helps you manage your appointments, share calendars, work with contacts, and stay on task with Outlook 2016.

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  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Customer Service

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    Streamline your customer service operations with Microsoft Dynamics. This course shows you how to use the essential customer service features of this CRM, including the interactive service hub. See how to create cases, add activities to the timeline, escalate issues, manage contacts, research in the knowledge base, and document resolutions. Learn how to use the dashboard to monitor and assess your service performance. Join Microsoft expert Gini von Courter in this course for step-by-step…

    Streamline your customer service operations with Microsoft Dynamics. This course shows you how to use the essential customer service features of this CRM, including the interactive service hub. See how to create cases, add activities to the timeline, escalate issues, manage contacts, research in the knowledge base, and document resolutions. Learn how to use the dashboard to monitor and assess your service performance. Join Microsoft expert Gini von Courter in this course for step-by-step instructions and tips along the way.

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  • Yammer 2016 Essential Training Share

    Lynda.com

    Yammer is an enterprise social network for businesses to get work done smarter and faster. It's built by Microsoft but powered by employees like you. In this course, Gini von Courter takes you through all the essential features of Yammer 2016. Learn how Yammer works, and find out how to join or create a Yammer network at your organization. Communicate with posts, messages, and chat; collaborate on files; and create and administer groups. Plus, learn how to get and give feedback with polls and…

    Yammer is an enterprise social network for businesses to get work done smarter and faster. It's built by Microsoft but powered by employees like you. In this course, Gini von Courter takes you through all the essential features of Yammer 2016. Learn how Yammer works, and find out how to join or create a Yammer network at your organization. Communicate with posts, messages, and chat; collaborate on files; and create and administer groups. Plus, learn how to get and give feedback with polls and praise. Start now and find out how to foster the kind of collaboration that makes a positive impact on productivity with Yammer.

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  • Power BI Pro Essential Training

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    Microsoft Power BI has been replaced with a far more powerful version—Power BI Pro—which combines Power BI Services, Desktop, and Mobile into a formidable business intelligence and analytics package. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how and why to get the most out of this toolset, including Power BI Publisher and the Power BI mobile apps. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how and why to get the most out of this package: Power BI, Power BI Publisher, and the Power BI mobile apps…

    Microsoft Power BI has been replaced with a far more powerful version—Power BI Pro—which combines Power BI Services, Desktop, and Mobile into a formidable business intelligence and analytics package. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how and why to get the most out of this toolset, including Power BI Publisher and the Power BI mobile apps. In this course, Gini von Courter shows how and why to get the most out of this package: Power BI, Power BI Publisher, and the Power BI mobile apps. Learn how to connect to external data sources and upload CSV and Excel files, and then use Power BI Pro to create insightful reports, visualizations, and dashboards, complete with charts and maps. Get further insights from your data with Power BI Q&A and Microsoft Cortana, and then share the results with colleagues. Gini also covers the desktop and mobile versions of the software, which allow you to conduct analysis offline or on the go.

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  • Time Management with Outlook for Mac 2016 Calendar and Tasks

    Lynda.com

    Learn how to use the robust calendar and task management capabilities of Outlook for Mac 2016 to manage your work. Author Gini Courter explains how to use Outlook as a full-fledged time management system: for scheduling appointments, tracking and delegating tasks, and finding and organizing your high-priority items. She also shows how to schedule recurring meetings and tasks, and use flags to follow up on important items and quick to-dos. Plus, learn how to set Outlook preferences and options…

    Learn how to use the robust calendar and task management capabilities of Outlook for Mac 2016 to manage your work. Author Gini Courter explains how to use Outlook as a full-fledged time management system: for scheduling appointments, tracking and delegating tasks, and finding and organizing your high-priority items. She also shows how to schedule recurring meetings and tasks, and use flags to follow up on important items and quick to-dos. Plus, learn how to set Outlook preferences and options to support your work styles. With these tips and techniques, you'll spend less time planning your schedule, and more time working on what matters most.

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  • SharePoint Online Essential Training

    Lynda.com

    The most powerful features of SharePoint—custom web apps, file sharing, site collections, team sites, and more—also come bundled with the cloud-based edition, SharePoint Online. This course delivers essential training on SharePoint Online (2016), teaching viewers how to use SharePoint for business collaboration and real-time file sharing. Gini Courter shows SharePoint site owners and members how to create, edit, and save documents; create and use team sites; work with libraries and list apps;…

    The most powerful features of SharePoint—custom web apps, file sharing, site collections, team sites, and more—also come bundled with the cloud-based edition, SharePoint Online. This course delivers essential training on SharePoint Online (2016), teaching viewers how to use SharePoint for business collaboration and real-time file sharing. Gini Courter shows SharePoint site owners and members how to create, edit, and save documents; create and use team sites; work with libraries and list apps; build site collections and sites; integrate SharePoint with other Office 365 apps; manage permissions; create workflows; and work with content types and documents.

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  • SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online New Features

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    What's new in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online, the cloud-based version of SharePoint? Office 365 integration is a big win, as well as role creation control, new compliance features, and the touch-friendly interface for mobile devices. Learn about all these new features and more in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online. SharePoint expert Gini Courter covers the new features and the enhancements to the user interface, file storage, links, infrastructure, records compliance, data loss, and…

    What's new in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online, the cloud-based version of SharePoint? Office 365 integration is a big win, as well as role creation control, new compliance features, and the touch-friendly interface for mobile devices. Learn about all these new features and more in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online. SharePoint expert Gini Courter covers the new features and the enhancements to the user interface, file storage, links, infrastructure, records compliance, data loss, and more.

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  • Time Management with Outlook 2016 Calendar and Tasks

    Lynda.com

    Learn how to use the robust calendar and task management capabilities of Outlook 2016 to manage your personal and professional schedules. Author Gini Courter explains the difference between Outlook tasks and to-do lists, and shows how to use Outlook 2016 to make appointments, complete tasks, and find and organize your high-priority items. She also shows how to use built-in and custom Quick Steps to automate common or repetitive tasks, and use flags to follow up on important tasks. With these…

    Learn how to use the robust calendar and task management capabilities of Outlook 2016 to manage your personal and professional schedules. Author Gini Courter explains the difference between Outlook tasks and to-do lists, and shows how to use Outlook 2016 to make appointments, complete tasks, and find and organize your high-priority items. She also shows how to use built-in and custom Quick Steps to automate common or repetitive tasks, and use flags to follow up on important tasks. With these tips and techniques, you'll spend less time planning your schedule, and more time working on what matters most.

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  • Efficient Email Management with Outlook 2016

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    Get a handle on your inbox. Learn to streamline your Outlook 2016 workflow with tips, strategies, and techniques for reviewing and organizing email. Gini Courter shows how to use views to rearrange and sort email, organize email with folders and categories, and use rules and Quick Steps to automate many common tasks. With these techniques, you'll cut down on the time and energy you spend on email every day.

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  • Learn Microsoft Power BI Desktop: The Basics

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    Get more insights from your data, whether it's stored on your computer or the cloud. Learn how to connect to and merge data with Microsoft Power BI Desktop, the powerful data analysis and visualization software. In this course, you'll learn how to connect various data sources, including Excel, Access, and web data sources (including Facebook), and search and transform the data with simple queries. Gini Courter also shows how to create relationships between data sources, merge data, and build…

    Get more insights from your data, whether it's stored on your computer or the cloud. Learn how to connect to and merge data with Microsoft Power BI Desktop, the powerful data analysis and visualization software. In this course, you'll learn how to connect various data sources, including Excel, Access, and web data sources (including Facebook), and search and transform the data with simple queries. Gini Courter also shows how to create relationships between data sources, merge data, and build and share reports.

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  • Mail Merge in Depth with Word 2016

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    Learn how to use Word's Mail Merge feature to quickly build customized documents, everything from personalized letters and envelopes to labels and email messages. Author Gini Courter shows how to use Mail Merge to take a form letter or any other template and insert data in the form of variables, such as names, addresses, dates, and amounts due. She also covers how to connect to existing data sources in Access, Outlook, and Excel; create new data sources; add attachments to merged email…

    Learn how to use Word's Mail Merge feature to quickly build customized documents, everything from personalized letters and envelopes to labels and email messages. Author Gini Courter shows how to use Mail Merge to take a form letter or any other template and insert data in the form of variables, such as names, addresses, dates, and amounts due. She also covers how to connect to existing data sources in Access, Outlook, and Excel; create new data sources; add attachments to merged email messages; use rules for advanced mail merges; and troubleshoot Mail Merge issues.

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  • Forms in Depth with Word for Mac 2016

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    Learn how to create electronic forms that are visually pleasing and easy to navigate with Word for Mac 2016. This course covers designing a form; capturing data effectively with form controls such as dropdown lists, date pickers, and check boxes; and testing, protecting, and distributing forms. Gini Courter also shows how to accelerate form creation with free Microsoft.com templates and customize and share templates with colleagues.

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  • Forms in Depth with Word 2016

    Lynda.com

    Learn how to create electronic forms that are visually pleasing and easy to navigate with Word 2016. This course covers designing a form; capturing data effectively with form controls such as dropdown lists, date pickers, and check boxes; and testing, protecting, and distributing forms. Gini Courter also shows how to accelerate form creation with free Microsoft.com templates and customize and share templates with colleagues.

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  • Up and Running with Skype for Business

    Lynda.com

    This course helps you understand and use Skype for Business, the enterprise version of Microsoft's popular conferencing and communication app. First see what plans are available, then see how to best Skype with contacts. Author Gini Courter also explores the instant messaging (IM), audio, and video features, including how to send files, start and join conversations, and add contacts to existing calls and IMs. Plus, learn to schedule meetings and poll participants, use the presenter toolkit, and…

    This course helps you understand and use Skype for Business, the enterprise version of Microsoft's popular conferencing and communication app. First see what plans are available, then see how to best Skype with contacts. Author Gini Courter also explores the instant messaging (IM), audio, and video features, including how to send files, start and join conversations, and add contacts to existing calls and IMs. Plus, learn to schedule meetings and poll participants, use the presenter toolkit, and connect with mobile devices.

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  • Word 2013: Mail Merge In Depth

    lynda.com

    Take advantage of Word's Mail Merge feature to save time building customized documents. This course offers tutorials on creating personalized letters, envelopes, labels, and even email messages. Author Gini Courter shows how to connect to data sources in Access, Outlook, and Excel; create new data sources; add attachments to merged email messages; use IF…THEN…ELSE and other rules for advanced mail merges; and troubleshoot Mail Merge issues.

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  • Data-Driven Presentations with Excel and PowerPoint

    lynda.com

    Learn how to drive your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations with data straight from the source—Excel. Gini Courter first shows you how to use conditional formatting to highlight important data, summarize data with PivotTables, and visualize your data with sparklines and charts. Then learn how to leverage the linking and embedding features of Office to bring Excel tables and charts into PowerPoint. Gini then uses SmartArt to provide a conceptual framework in PowerPoint and animates the results…

    Learn how to drive your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations with data straight from the source—Excel. Gini Courter first shows you how to use conditional formatting to highlight important data, summarize data with PivotTables, and visualize your data with sparklines and charts. Then learn how to leverage the linking and embedding features of Office to bring Excel tables and charts into PowerPoint. Gini then uses SmartArt to provide a conceptual framework in PowerPoint and animates the results. Finally, learn to create links from PowerPoint to Excel to fire up a workbook directly from a presentation. If you've wondered how to create compelling, data-driven presentations that always stay up to date, this course is for you.

    Topics Include:
    Using Excel themes
    Formatting tables
    Highlighting data with conditional formatting Creating pie, column, and combination charts Creating PivotTables Pasting and linking charts and tables Creating SmartArt diagrams Animating charts, tables, and SmartArt Finalizing your presentation

    Duration:
    3h 46m

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  • SharePoint Online Essential Training

    lynda.com

    SharePoint has joined the Microsoft cloud-based services as SharePoint Online, eliminating the hassle of setting up servers. In this course, author Gini Courter shows you how to get started using SharePoint Online for business collaboration and real-time document sharing with Office 365. Get a high-level review of the entire family of products, so you can understand if SharePoint Online is right for your organization. Then explore it in depth. Learn how to use team sites to collaborate with…

    SharePoint has joined the Microsoft cloud-based services as SharePoint Online, eliminating the hassle of setting up servers. In this course, author Gini Courter shows you how to get started using SharePoint Online for business collaboration and real-time document sharing with Office 365. Get a high-level review of the entire family of products, so you can understand if SharePoint Online is right for your organization. Then explore it in depth. Learn how to use team sites to collaborate with colleagues, create and customize lists and libraries, build a wiki page for your site, use the SharePoint social networking features, set up user permissions, maximize workflow efficiency with automation, and create, edit, and save documents.

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  • InfoPath 2013 Essential Training

    lynda.com

    How to create and publish sophisticated electronic forms using the latest version of the Microsoft form-creation tool InfoPath. The course features the InfoPath Designer tool and provides in-depth tutorials on designing form templates, and explains how to create and publish forms via email, the web, a network share, or SharePoint. Also demonstrates advanced aspects of InfoPath, like connecting forms to outside data sources and building templates from Office documents, databases, or XML files.

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  • SharePoint Server 2013 Essential Training

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    The basics you need to get started using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 for business collaboration and real-time documentation sharing. The course teaches SharePoint site owners and members how to create, edit, and save documents; create and use team sites; navigate permissions; maximize workflows; and fully integrate SharePoint and Office 2013.

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  • SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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    How to design streamlined workflows, from analyzing inefficiencies in manual processes to leveraging automation to avoid performing tedious, repetitive tasks. The course also covers setting up forms and email notifications, collecting and working with user data, performing calculations, and making workflows reusable

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  • Outlook 2010: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks

    lynda.com

    Shows how to use Outlook 2010 to handle both business and personal schedules, from making appointments, to creating and completing tasks, to color-coding calendars and tasks for at-a-glance review.

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  • Word 2010: Mail Merge in Depth

    lynda.com

    Gini Courter demonstrates how to take advantage of Word's Mail Merge feature to save a tremendous amount of time creating customized documents. The course offers tutorials on creating letters, emails, envelopes, and labels. It also shows how to use Mail Merge with Outlook and Excel, creating data sources, inserting fields, using IF and other rules for customized merges, and troubleshooting Mail Merge issues.

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  • Outlook 2010: Effective Email Management

    lynda.com

    Gini Courter demonstrates techniques to streamline the Outlook mailbox workflow. The course covers strategies for customizing views, adding filters, utilizing flags, and creating and organizing folders. The course also shows how to automate tasks as well as make effective use of QuickSteps to process email, and more.

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  • Word 2010 Essential Training

    lynda.com

    Uses real-world examples to teach the core features and tools in Word 2010. The course starts off with an orientation of the Word 2010 interface, and then delves into the functionality at the heart of Word: creating, editing, and formatting documents. It also covers proofing documents, reviewing documents with others, sharing and securing documents, working with tables, and illustrating documents.

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  • SharePoint Workflows

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