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A blog about Microsoft Office, Groove, SharePoint, Software Development, Business Productivity, Social Computing, Cognitive Science and anything else that comes to mind.

This stream of conciousness brought to you by Alistair Speirs, Office Technology Specialist @ Microsoft Australia.

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Tech.Ed Office System track by the numbers
Tech.Ed is inching closer and closer. The amount of unsolicited session nominations has been huge, and we have been wrestling with how best to condense the ecosystem of software that is the Office System into 3 days of technical education. So, to feed Read More...
Presentations without clipart or bullet points
I mentioned in an earlier post, Beyond Bullet Points . Here is a recent presentation I delivered, using the BPP process.  Originally I intended to replace these with nice glossy clip art images. However, I ended up sticking with the stick men, because Read More...
Delivering Presentations that don't suck
Last week was almost a perfect storm of presentations this week: A Deep dive on Excel 2007 and Access 2007 for hardcore banking users A whole of Office System walkthrough "Collaboration Anywhere with Groove and SharePoint" at the SharePoint Read More...
Tech.Ed Australia 2008
The conference site is live - full of silverlightiness and early bird discounts.   Microsoft - Tech.Ed Australia 2008 - Learn - Agenda Here is an insiders tip: All the cool kids go to the Office System track. Read More...
Office Devcon 2007 has left the building
  Well, the Office Dev Con 2007 has drawn to a close after 2 full days and 100 pizzas. I was impressed at the turnout, considering it was a miserable weekend (stormy one day, scorching the next - the weather in Sydney is about as stable as the lane Read More...
Upcoming Office Conferences
I guess it is that time of the year to start begging for travel budget! Here's what is coming up in the next six months: Australian Office DevCon – Sydney, 3-4 November, 2007. This conference is being organised by our local MVPs. I'll be delivering a Read More...
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