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Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:53 PM

Top travel tip. Use the calendar. Properly

One of the things that we noticed on the roadshow was the *much* better system for getting us feedback (see here and here oh and here ) and - always looking for ways to improve our processes - a couple of us noted that there's a big document mailed out
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:59 PM

The joy of feedback [again]

I make a point of saying at the roadshows that we read all the comments and take note of them I wanted to share one particular comment but first off I want to give you a flavour of what people said they liked at one of last weeks events; here they are,
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:20 PM

Powershell in Birmingham

For those in the audience, the files needed for this demo are in my skydrive folder (link on the left of this blog in the "NEWS" box or use this link ).  Unfortunately having run through the demo for the last time I moved 3 files from my
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 2:20 PM

One thing I didn't want for Christmas...

...was any kind of branded clothing. Since our cleaner decided to get out of the business, my shirts are ironed on a "Just in time" basis. Tidying up ahead of Christmas visitors meant moving a large pile of ironing: which reminded me just how many Microsoft
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Friday, July 13, 2007 12:01 PM

What's your job title ?

I hate it when a web site demands you register and asks you for everything from your date of birth to your shoe size. And I'm painfully aware that some Microsoft sites are part of this tendency. We do try group people in some broad buckets either to send
Posted by jamesone | 11 Comments
Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:38 PM

Presentation skills

I'm back from in Athens, we had a 2 day evangelism summit (a synod ??) followed by after 3 days of Longhorn training, and those of us who will be out talking about Windows Server "Longhorn" got to spend time with a top presentation skills coach who works
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 7:08 PM

The "people ready" journey

I'm off to Belgium tomorrow and, fortunately, I've just printed my boarding pass. Despite plans to the contrary I've ended up on British Airways. And I've had to do work with the our new travel tool. Although it is a external web site, you can only authenticate
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 5:44 PM

Microsoft at CES

The Consumer electronics show starts in Las Vegas on Monday. The internal rumor mill has been going crazy and we've been told not to blog about .... well I can't tell you what obviously. Bill Gates is delivering a keynote speech on Sunday night - 6:30PM
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Friday, August 25, 2006 3:32 PM

In lieu of a cartoon of my own ...

I'm prone to "writer's block" -or as I call it the "tyranny of the blank sheet of paper". Starting a document or presentation, creating a photograph (as opposed to recording an event) or drawing a cartoon can impossible (I blogged about mind mapping which
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