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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:12:29 GMT--><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/cc/"><rss:channel rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/"><rss:title>Latest News</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/</rss:link><rss:description></rss:description><dc:language>en-GB</dc:language><dc:date>2010-02-09T01:12:29Z</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.squarespace.com/">Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/)</admin:generatorAgent><rss:items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/6/23/bicsi-recognise-the-sip-school.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/3/24/mitel-endorse-the-sip-school.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/29/january-29th-2009.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/27/january-27th-2009.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/22/january-22nd-2009.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/13/january-13th-2009.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/2/january-2nd-2009.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/26/november-26th-2008.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/18/november-18th-2008.html"/><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/10/november-10th-2008.html"/></rdf:Seq></rss:items></rss:channel><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/6/23/bicsi-recognise-the-sip-school.html"><rss:title>BICSI recognise The SIP School™</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/6/23/bicsi-recognise-the-sip-school.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-06-23T07:59:14Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BICSI recognise The SIP School<sup>TM</sup></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>The SIPSchool has gained another major endorsement for its SIP training and SSCA<sup>TM</sup> certification service and this time it&rsquo;s from BICSI, the professional association supporting the information transport systems (ITS) industry.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>The statement from BICSI is as follows</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong><em>&ldquo;Effective May 15th, 2009, BICSI recognizes The SIP School training for the following BICSI Continuing Education Credits (CECs).&rdquo;</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;" align="left"><strong>The relevant BICSI courses and the number of credits earned via The SIP School are listed here and more information on these courses can be found on the BICSI website @ <a href="http://www.bicsi.org/">www.bicsi.org</a> </strong></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 77.75pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>&middot;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><strong>RCDD &ndash; 12 Continuing Education Credits (CECs)</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 77.75pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>&middot;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><strong>NTS &ndash; 12 CECs</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 77.75pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>&middot;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><strong>Installer &ndash; 12 CECs</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 77.75pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>&middot;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><strong>Technician &ndash; 12 CECs</strong></p>
<p style="margin-left: 77.75pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;" align="left"><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span>&middot;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><strong>Certified Trainer &ndash; 12 CECs</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Graham Francis, CEO of The SIPSchool said: "</strong><strong>Our SSCA<sup>TM</sup> certification on SIP is a valuable certification for anyone working with SIP to strive for and with more &lsquo;industry giants&rsquo; announcing their support over the coming weeks it&rsquo;s becoming a &lsquo;must have&rsquo; for installation, support and network engineers whatever company they work for&rdquo;.</strong><strong> </strong></p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/3/24/mitel-endorse-the-sip-school.html"><rss:title>Mitel 'endorse' The SIP School™</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/3/24/mitel-endorse-the-sip-school.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-03-24T08:04:24Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is great news for The SIP School&trade; and the SSCA&trade; and check out the full announcement in the <a href="http://blog.thesipschool.com/the-sip-school-blog/">blog</a></p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/29/january-29th-2009.html"><rss:title>JANUARY 29TH 2009</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/29/january-29th-2009.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-01-29T08:26:35Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The SIP School at Olympia</strong></p>
<p>The SIP School is running a seminar at the&nbsp;<strong>Unified Communications</strong>&nbsp;conference in the UK on<strong>12th March</strong>, held at Olympia, London.&nbsp; Start time is&nbsp;<strong>1:50pm</strong>.<br /><br />They'll be telling everyone about&nbsp;<strong>The SIP School</strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>SSCA</strong>&nbsp;Certification track and also the Free SIP community and Directory at the&nbsp;<a href="http://wiki.thesipschool.com/" target="_blank">SIP Wiki</a>&nbsp;site.... &nbsp;</p>
<p>To find out more about the seminar and the rest of the exhibition, please click on the logo below.<br /><br /><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><a href="http://www.ucexpo.co.uk/?WT.mc_id=UC09170SSCEN" target="_blank"><img class="mt-image-none" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-sip-school/NEW_UC_09Event_logos_strapl.jpg" alt="NEW_UC_09Event_logos_strapl.jpg" width="297" height="150" /></a></span></p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/27/january-27th-2009.html"><rss:title>JANUARY 27TH 2009</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/27/january-27th-2009.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-01-27T11:20:46Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">Panasonic 'endorse' The SIP School and SSCA<sup>TM</sup> training program </span></strong></span><span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">&ndash; [<a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-sip-school/2009/01/panasonic_choose_the_sip_school.html">link</a>]</span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/22/january-22nd-2009.html"><rss:title>JANUARY 22ND 2009</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/22/january-22nd-2009.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-01-22T11:19:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="apple-style-span"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">The SIP School<sup>TM</sup> explains it all!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">The IETF has a number of working groups with some weird and wonderful names all contributing to the advancement of SIP. To find out all about them, The SIP School has put together a free &lsquo;flash&rsquo; presentation that reveals all. Click on the link to launch the module - [<a href="http://www.vocale.it/thesipschool/ietf/engage.html">link</a>] </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/13/january-13th-2009.html"><rss:title>JANUARY 13TH 2009</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/13/january-13th-2009.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-01-13T11:18:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="apple-style-span"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">SIP Discussion Groups!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">If you have any technical questions about SIP, need someone else&rsquo;s opinion or just simply want to start off a general discussion on any aspect of SIP then go to the SIP Wiki to get talking &ndash; [<a href="http://thesipschool.wetpaint.com/thread">link</a>] </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/2/january-2nd-2009.html"><rss:title>JANUARY 2ND 2009</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2009/1/2/january-2nd-2009.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-01-02T11:52:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SIP and Unified Communications added into The SIP School program</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: black;">"SIP and Unified Communications shows you how SIP underpins all the elements of Unified Communications to realize efficiencies that a successful implementation promises to business"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: black;">Topics Include</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Todays issues</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>IM Clients</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Presence</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Presence Networks</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Rich Presence</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Conferencing</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>XMPP v SIMPLE</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Federations</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>SIP and Unified Comms</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Articulate; color: #0085b4;">&bull;<span> </span>Relevant RFC's</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/26/november-26th-2008.html"><rss:title>NOVEMBER 26TH 2008</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/26/november-26th-2008.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-11-26T11:17:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="apple-style-span"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">Get your free SIP Google Gadget!</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">If you are learning about SIP, use the Google Gadget from The SIP School<sup>TM</sup> to help you get your SSCA<sup>TM</sup>. Click on the link to get it now &ndash; [<a href="http://thesipschool.wetpaint.com/page/Google+Gadget">link</a>]</span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/18/november-18th-2008.html"><rss:title>NOVEMBER 18TH 2008</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/18/november-18th-2008.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-11-18T11:17:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="apple-style-span"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">30% offer on The SIP School</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"> </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">For a great deal on The SIP School training and SSCA<sup>TM</sup> program just click here to get your discount &ndash; [<a href="http://www.thesipschool.com/">offer closed</a>] </span></span></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded></rss:item><rss:item rdf:about="http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/10/november-10th-2008.html"><rss:title>NOVEMBER 10TH 2008</rss:title><rss:link>http://blog.thesipschool.com/news/2008/11/10/november-10th-2008.html</rss:link><dc:creator>Graham Francis</dc:creator><dc:date>2008-11-10T11:16:00Z</dc:date><dc:subject></dc:subject><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="apple-style-span"><strong><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">If you are into SIP you could win an iPod!</span></strong></span><span class="apple-style-span"><strong><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #115185;"> </span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: #1f497d;">Simply join the SIP Wiki for free and get entered into the draw for an iPod. Find out more here &ndash; [<a href="http://www.thesipschool.com/">competition closed</a>]</span></span></p>
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