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Friday, May 16, 2008 7:41 PM

The amazing Worldwide Telescope

Wow! I downloaded the Worldwide Telescope today and I'm totally transfixed. no wonder the press has been raving about it so much. The mission of the WWT is twofold: To aggregate scientific data from major telescopes, observatories and institutions and
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 3:19 PM

Save your Word documents in DAISY format and create your own talking book

I was interested to see this article the other day about a new technology we've announced to help people who can't see too well and would prefer things to be read out using text to speech. This add in allows you to translate Open XML documents into DAISY
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:20 PM

Playing with Live Meeting 2007

I've just been showing Claire and Maxine in the Developer Marketing team how to use Live Meeting 2007 this time as a presenter instead of a participant. I often forget how confusing things may seem when viewed from the other side of the fence so to speak.
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Monday, April 21, 2008 6:34 PM

Things you didn't know you didn't know

There's always something you can learn about in technology - even with tools you've been using for years. so when the It evangelists from around the world got together for a summit day, we had to create a fun video about being an evangelist. So our team
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:26 AM

Thinking about Office Live?

Ben, one of our Student partners was looking for an effective solution to help him share information for a small group of people I love outlook. I've really got into using it for everything - email, calendar, contacts, tasks. I've got to a point where
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:57 AM

Splitting the document window in Word

I've always been baffled by this so it's my turn to ask you for some ideas. I found this tip in the Microsoft at Work newsletter and I have no idea why I'd use it. Quick Tip In Microsoft Word , you can split the document window horizontally into two panes,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:06 AM

Having lunch with the bloggers at Interact 2008

I had a great day today in San Diego at Interact 2008 . My work, if you can call it that :-) was to host the bloggers lunch in the harbour restaurant. down at the marina. Neeti, who works for the Unified Communications team, had done a great job, working
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Monday, April 07, 2008 11:10 AM

More of the Ultimate steal

I know that some of you know about the Ultimate Steal offer (Office 2007 Ultimate for College & University students for £38.95) from www.theultimatesteal.co.uk . And thought you’d like to know about this: Students of colleges and universities have
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:52 PM

Exchange 2003 logs increase dramatically in size

I've had some interesting interactions from 2 seperate sources - one from Facebook and one through email talking ab out the same customer. Jonathan originally contacted me through facebook talking about an Exchange 2003 server where the log files were
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:39 PM

Groove 2007 Templates

Groove templates launched for Office Groove 2007 We've recently launched a range of tool templates for Groove 2007. The tools are built using the Groove forms tool and are set up ready to complete common tasks like time tracking , tracking project status
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:17 PM

From soup to nuts: All you want to know about OneNote

I've been a OneNote enthusiast since I discovered it in January, and I was even more delighted to meet OneNote guru Mike Tholfsen at my Management Excellence session in February. Well Mike has been kind enough to share lots of OneNote resources with me,
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:40 PM

Xobni for Outlook

I've been having a look at Xobni since Viral told us about it a few weeks ago and I'm impressed. I hadn't really thought about it as a social networking tool through email until I saw Bill talking about it. The thing I like best is the Stay in Touch feature:
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:50 PM

The simplicity of Groove

I'm working quite a lot with Groove at the moment as I'm putting together an event for women which involves collaborating with to women who work outside of Microsoft (more about this on Thursday by the way). The project involves a couple of people from
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, March 03, 2008 7:17 PM

Free SharePoint books...

I found some great books about SharePoint on Angus' blog (check out the animation at the top of the blog for some really cool customisation and I thought that they were worth of repeating here: Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Monday, February 25, 2008 4:01 PM

How we deployed OCS 2007 internally

Well I've been wading through my emails and trying to catch up with things since I got back, not daring to hit the delete key in case I need it later. In addition to all the stuff I need to do for my day job, i also need to get myself sorted out for Interact08
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