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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:27 PM

Free-as-in-Beer Snacks from TechNet

TechNet recently launched free-as-in-beer "learning" snacks . Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology
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Friday, November 14, 2008 1:03 PM

I Want My Hyper-V TV

Back in the day, we use to sing "I Want My MTV". Hyper-V TV is here: Video: All Hyper-V Video This search brings you all the video tagged Hyper-V across: MSN, AOL, MTV, Hulu, ESPN, YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe. To search other video use http://search.live.com/video
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:22 AM

I'm Warning You, I Have a Smartphone and I Am Not Afraid to Use It, Part Deux

I'm reading Super Crunchers , and one of the cases quoted therein is that when you install a lojack in your car, you are benefiting me , even though I haven't installed one. Because the car thieves don't know which cars are 'jacked and which are not,
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:53 PM

I'm Warning You, I Have a Smartphone and I Am Not Afraid to Use It

Think of it as fire-and-forget ammo for those afflicted with "I am my brother's keeper" syndrome. Splogbane: If you are reading this on a blog other than http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso , why not stop patronizing a splog and come over to the original?
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:39 AM

Springboard Blog

The Springboard content series on TechNet has a blog . AFAIK this is the first time a content series has started a blog, as opposed to a product group. Check it out and keep an eye on it around the PDC timeframe for announcements and information about
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:41 PM

GTD: Take a Penny Applied to Outlook

You know those little dishes beside cash registers marked " Give a penny, take a penny "? It is one manifestation of the " pay-it-forward' meme. I give an extra penny from my transaction change now when I don't need it, and I take one later when I do.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:48 AM

Word 2007 Redaction Tool

Writers rejoice,  Word 2007 version of the Word 2003 Redaction Add In has been posted. Read all about it http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2008/09/22/a-word-2007-redaction-tool.aspx
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:22 AM

New Virtualization RSS Feed

Free (as in beer) blog and Twitter aggregator (independent bloggers and 14 Microsoft bloggers on either TechNet or MSDN) for virtualization: VirtualizationFeed at http://www.virtualizationfeed.com/ . Most handy if you are a lover of aggregators.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:57 AM

Measuring Content Effectiveness (ROCI)

How do you measure the return on investment (ROI) on content? Let's call this concept Return on Content Investment (ROCI). Wikipedia provides a close approximation as relates to marketing: return on marketing investment (ROMI) . Senior Marketing Manager
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:46 PM

Score 1 For the Customer

As reported on the Microsoft Education US Specialist Team Blog , user demand has resurrected Microsoft Producer . You can try out the prerelease version and give your feedback on http://connect.microsoft.com . For a clue about why the education market
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:34 PM

TechNet/MSDN Facelift

I recently had a chance to chat with the manager of the design/edit team for TN/MSDN/Expression - Geoff Wheelwright. You can listen to the 8.5 minute podcast on the TechNet/MSDN Facelift . John Martin’s blog has some great behind-the-scenes info as well.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:43 PM

A (FREE) New Way to Find IT Pro Content

The UA team over at Operations Manager have just published a FREE System Center Content Search gadget for Vista. Built on Live Search macros , this gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:31 PM

A Day in the Life of a Technical Writer

Well, this technical writer at Microsoft I mean. This post started with a colleague’s request: We want to capture some information for applicants to tech writing jobs at Microsoft about what the job really entails. In 300 words or less, tell us: What
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Monday, May 05, 2008 2:16 PM

Six Sigma for Content: Bugs in Writing

One of my favorite weekend pastimes is sailing. Garage sale-ing that is. (Note to self: that pun works better out loud than on screen…). Gslar.com has a nifty mapping app that allows me to chart a route to local garage sales , local estate sales, and
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Friday, April 25, 2008 11:49 AM

N Heads are Better Than One

If I were part of the response team for a Day 0 or other IT security response team, or doing training to prepare for that, or a parent who wanted to help a student research a project for school, I’d want to know about the SearchTogether beta (requires
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