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January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:04 PM

Yet another audio conference - but different

This video made me giggle for 2 reasons: The music is real - this is our audio conference software - with Muzak The people are real - I checked on our Global address list and they both work in pre-sales in the Windows Client team - that's their real names
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:39 PM

Blogging for web 3.0

I'm in Leicester today on the 2nd part of my blogging for business tour. I was fascinated by the questions from the small business community about blogging - questions that major corporates wouldn't think of. The long tail aspect of how blogging (great
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:50 PM

Blogging for ebusiness

Aren't conference hotels the same all over the world? You drive to a fabulous old house that once was owned by someone with a serious amount of money, sweep up the treelined drive to an amazing and beautiful entrance that must have seen its fair share
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Monday, January 28, 2008 7:33 PM

Seeing the light about OneNote

I've been quiet for a week - blog wise. I've been in Paris (well at Charles de Gaulle airport really) on a Management Excellence course. There's been lots of time for self reflection, navel gazing and finding out all about my strengths and weaknesses.
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Friday, January 18, 2008 7:44 PM

System Center webcasts: Feb 2008

TechNet Webcast: System Center Essentials 2007 Technical Overview (Level 300) Monday, February 04, 2008 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time John Baker, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032366178&Culture=en-US
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Friday, January 18, 2008 7:36 PM

Exchange Webcasts for Feb 2008

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 in Depth (Part 7 of 8): Key Scenarios, Examples, Demos, and How-to's (Level 300) Friday, February 01, 2008 - 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific Time John Weston, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032363579&Culture=en-US
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Friday, January 18, 2008 10:08 AM

Blogging from Tafiti

***edited images*** Ever since I attended the BETT show last week , I've been amazed by how few people know how to blog from Tafiti. Every parent should know how to do this and teach their kids this demo. Then all that research that your children do can
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 5:10 PM

Who is your ChampionIT Guy (or Girl)?

I've been meaning to blog about this for some time now but other techy things have got in the way recently. George has just send out the TechNet newsletter talking about ChampionIT. These are the unsung heroes of the IT world, working away on some amazing
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:22 PM

Machinima in the mainstream

One of my graduates last year, Steve , spent some time on machinima projects and put some of his videos onto YouTube. Here's one about staying patched... Well it's nice to see other teams following the lead of the IT pro team :-). The visual studio team
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Monday, January 14, 2008 6:54 PM

The last Windows 2003 Server of all

The last Windows Server 2003 machine at Microsoft.com has a following and has been blogged about by the Windows Server team on their blog . Video: The Lone Server - extended version This reminds me of a video of the decommissioning of the last 5.5 Exchange
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Friday, January 11, 2008 11:08 PM

Getting your geek guys

After spending all this week amongst teacher geeks at the BETT show (see Andrew and Virals photos of the show). The BETT show is the biggest education show on this planet, and it's amazing to see the variety of attendees. IT's so different from a technical
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:56 PM

BETT day 2: Popfly rules

So what's a mashup then? It's a question that most techies would be able to answer, but ask the same question to a bunch of teachers and you get a few puzzled looks. However, Matthew came up with a storming explanation during his session today on the
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:08 PM

Photosynth at BETT

We're at the BETT show all week and watching some stunning demos about what's going on in the world of Education and I've been blown away with the Photosynth demo We're zooming in and out of the spaceship Endeavour from the NASA photos, going from the
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:40 AM

SharePoint - across the extranet

It's about time we released details of how to effectively collaborate with people across different companies. Groove is great as a peer to peer file sharing application for point in time projects, but some companies don't want this functionality. Well,
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Monday, January 07, 2008 5:02 PM

Spoof video of Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft

I loved the video that has been clipped out of the CES keynote on Sunday showing Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. Watch the whole keynote here , or jump directly to the spoof video on Soapbox. Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip Nice to see him poking
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Monday, January 07, 2008 11:42 AM

Girl Geeks meet in Nottingham

Emmeline has sent me details of the next Girly geek dinner in Nottingham. I had a really nice evening there when I stopped by in October, and was looking forward to their next evening (shame I'll be in Seattle though). They're going to have one of Rare's
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Friday, January 04, 2008 10:53 AM

Social Bookmarks for Live Writer

I've been meaning to install this plugin to Live Writer for a while since Frank emailed the bloggers at Microsoft to tell them how to add social bookmarks. I'd been messing around with HTML, getting Technorati tags included for a while (till the automated
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:36 PM

Chopsticks and OCS

Ilse, who won the Speaker Idol competition at IT Forum in November, pointed me to a couple of little videos on the TechNet Chopsticks site. Communication , Collaboration and Mobility which made me smile. All of the videos are streamed using Silverlight
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:43 AM

First footing into 2008

Well the New Year has started and I've purposely not made any New Year resolutions as I'll be disappointed when I fall by the wayside and fail to do all of those good things I've promised myself in the wine haze of midnight, although having some time
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