Microsoft Subnet hosts a monthly giveaway sponsored by book distributor Pearson Education. In September, we are giving away 15 copies of the book Project Management for Mere Mortals - The Tools, Techniques, Teaming, and Politics of Project Management by Claudia M. Baca, published by Addison-Wesley Professional (a $44.99 value). Just answer an easy trivia question below and e-mail your answer per the instructions below. (Hint: the answer can be found in the "Giveaways" section of the Microsoft Subnet page on Network World). Deadline for entries: September 30, 2008.

How to enter to win: E-mail the correct answer to the trivia question by September 30, 2008, to Microsoft Subnet editor Julie Bort at jbort@nww.com. Please enter these words in the e-mail subject field: "Project Management for Mere Mortals book giveaway." The e-mail should contain the answer to the question, your name, title, a U.S. mailing address (we can't send you the book without your address) and your daytime telephone number. Your entry will be submitted into a drawing for the 15 winners. 

Question to win: On page 3 of the chapter excerpt of Project Management for Mere Mortals, author Claudia Baca describes two types of executives. One is the Mad Hatter. What is the other one? (Hint: You can find the name in the third sentence on page 3: "The _____________ has his or her head in the sand and won't pay any attention to bad news.") Answer can also be found on the main Microsoft Subnet page.) 

Extras: 

• Read a free chapter from this book: Project Management for Mere Mortals
• Read the guest blog by author by Claudia M. Baca.
• Read about more Microsoft technologies (WS2008, SQL Server, SharePoint, etc.) written exclusively for Microsoft Subnet.
• Read chapters from an entire library of best selling books on Microsoft technologies. 

About the book: 

Long-time project manager and trainer, Claudia Baca, walks you through all five process groups of project management: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing. Baca examines each process group from the perspectives of the working project manager and team member, highlighting the organizational issues most likely to arise and offering proven solutions. For each process group, she presents tools you can start using right now–and demonstrates those tools at work in a realistic running case study. This guide takes you from the absolute basics through advanced techniques, such as measures of performance and change control.

Competition rules:

1. No purchase necessary.

2. Network World, Inc., will begin accepting e-mail entries on the day each Author Expert book giveaway question is described on Microsoft Subnet. One entry per individual, per book.

3. To enter by e-mail, participants must respond to the Author Expert book giveaway question by midnight, September 30, 2008 (PT), along with their name, e-mail address, daytime telephone number and a U.S. mailing address to Julie Bort, Network World Microsoft subnet editor (jbort@nww.com). No entries will be acknowledged or returned, and all entries become the property of Network World. Network World is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete or misdirected entries. All such entries will be disqualified.

4. The Author Expert book giveaway competition closes at midnight, September 30, 2008 (PT). Fifteen winners of "Project Management for Mere Mortals" will be picked at random from the entries with the correct answer. Winners will be notified after the close of the competition at a date determined by Network World. All winners notified must RSVP by the date indicated in the e-mail sent by Network World. Failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the Prize(s). Answers to the trivia questions will be published on Microsoft Subnet, along with the names of the winners.

5. The odds of winning are determined by the number of eligible entries received.

6. PRIZE 1: Fifteen (15) readers per "Project Management for Mere Mortals" by Claudia M. Baca, published by Addison-Wesley Professional with a suggested retail price of $44.99.

7. No substitution, transfer or assignment of the Prize is allowed, except that Network World reserves the right to award a prize of equal or greater value in the event of unavailability. The Prize is not transferable for cash.

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