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Tweet and Post on the move!
27 October 09 11:22 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   

For the 6 months or so, I have been training to run the New York Marathon for Yorkshire Cancer Research and tomorrow I fly out to NYC. My friends have raised over £1650 and I wanted to use some technology in order to involve them in the race as much as Read More...

One way to use your free texts
27 October 09 11:19 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   

As you would expect, I look out for Vodafone related stuff on the web and one of my friends on twitter (@russelljfkirk) pointed me in the direction of this video - http://www.mobilebehavior.com/2009/10/26/vodafone-demonstrates-innovation-using-1000-mobile-phones/ Read More...

Farewell? Maybe not!
29 September 09 04:31 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   

Yes, its been a while since I have posted. I have moved onto Twitter as my means to communicate out and it seems to work for most things. However my intention is too keep posting when the thoughts come to me ... and some changes in my life mean I might Read More...

Small organisations can have save money now!
27 April 09 04:58 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   

One of the reasons why smaller organisation don't have access to the latest and greatest cost saving technologies (like their bigger cousins) is because they simply don't have the time or money to invest in it in the first place … enter Business Productivity Read More...

RichCopy – Is it the new sliced bread?
24 March 09 09:11 AM | markdea | 1 Comments   

I would like to announce the best thing since sliced bread …. RichCopy ! This tool has been available internally at Microsoft for as long as I can remember and over the years I have used it to copy virtual PCs and installations files over from Redmond Read More...

OCS R2 Tips of The Day by Brett
23 March 09 11:46 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   

This has been working its way round the ‘Twittersphere’ so I thought I would post it on my blog too. Brett Johnson has put together some brilliant ‘tips’ on OCS R2.  Something there for everyone me thinks :-) ‘Share the love’ with Communicator Desktop Read More...

IE8 and the history of the internet
19 March 09 05:56 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   

IE8 is available from today,  I have been running it for quite sometime in both Vista and Windows 7 and loving it.  Enough of that for now though,  when you have 10 mins free,  pop along to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/nethistory/#fbid:cdOi6BnV9bB Read More...

30 days of Twitter
09 March 09 06:29 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   

It’s been about a month since my blog post on ‘To Tweet or Not to Tweet’ . I have done over 100+ ’tweets’ and have a modest following (as well as following approx 50 people) and the question I asked myself this weekend was “Has it been worth it and is Read More...

Microsoft Vision 2019
03 March 09 09:30 AM | markdea | 3 Comments   

Once every so often,  Microsoft has a think about what the company will be doing in the future rather than having to focus on the revenue targets and metrics for the next 12 months.  It’s during these times in particular that I remember why Read More...

You don't know what you’ve got ‘til its ‘gone’
27 February 09 11:57 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   

Just had a meeting today with a number of people around Microsoft using OCS R2.  We have three people in the room using LiveMeeting (in R2) and Roundtable,  another person joining remotely using their PC and one person dialling in on an ‘old Read More...

Spending Microsoft’s money
18 February 09 07:58 AM | markdea | 0 Comments   

One of the great things about blogs,  Twitter,  Facebook and other similar networks is if there is something your want to share with colleagues, friends and ‘followers’ then it only takes a few minutes.  This is ok if used appropriately,  Read More...

Microsoft’s Guide to Valentines Day
12 February 09 09:41 AM | markdea | 1 Comments   

It’s almost Feb 14th,  the card shops are getting ready for an onslaught of customers and the florist are busily increasing the prices of roses ;-) Just ‘ tweeted’ about this but thought I would do a quick post as well.  Follow this link for Read More...

To tweet or not to tweet … that is the question
10 February 09 12:13 PM | markdea | 1 Comments   

I like to think I am still able to keep up to date with what the ‘tech cool’ are up to and Twitter is the latest thing I needed to get my head around. For the same reason it took me years to buy an iPod,  I didn't want to just follow the crowd and Read More...

Nothings going to stop us launching OCS 2007 R2
03 February 09 08:49 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   

With snow falling in Reading as well as the rest of the UK on Monday (2nd Feb),  the country virtually shut down with 1 in 5 people in Berkshire not managing to get into work. Britain experienced the worst case of snow in the UK in at least 18 years Read More...

Technology playing its part in history – Part 2
29 January 09 04:17 PM | markdea | 0 Comments   

I made a post recently on how technology was playing a part in the Inauguration in a way that I expect it had not before.  One of the technologies I mentioned was Photosynth and not that people have uploaded their photos there are a number of new Read More...