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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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Confluence 2.9 - now with extra Office Support
Those cool (well, for java guys) dudes at Atlassian have beefed up their Office support in Confluence, their enterprise wiki system. From their press release: Confluence users can now edit wiki pages directly from Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint, Read More...
Why Outlook 2007 rocks for RSS
Rules! I like to have any case studies or blog posts that interest me on hand to fwd to other people. However, Some RSS feeds (and some bloggers) post way too frequently for me to follow everything. The problem can be solved by rules! Read More...
3 Office System Whitepapers you need to know
For all you collabronauts out there, whether you are architecting, developing, maintaining or consuming information - it these three whitepapers should be a required text and on hand for any snappy business cases you need to put together. Collaborative Read More...
What is an Office Business Application?
Is it a macro? A sharepoint customisation? A mashup? What is important, in my mind, is that the user is shielded from the complexity (or lack of it) in the process and the application can just stay out of their way so they can do their job and keep using Read More...
He Should be using a Tablet PC...
  EXTRALIFE - Web comic Read More...
braindump...
I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are Read More...
The Web 2.0 Office Suite?
Interesting article on microsoft watch regarding usage of web based office suites. Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser - R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite While, who knows what would happen if that sizable chunk of uninformed people heard of the Read More...
Email abuse
An actual conversation overheard on the local Exchange Server (only the names have been changed to protect the innocent):   From: Smart-a$$ Australian  Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2008 12:58 PM To: PIFEM Practitioners Subject: RE: STOP REPLY Read More...
Better Email Management with Outlook 2007
Losing to Information Overload? Thinking about declaring email bankruptcy? Ian Palangio, Business Productivity Specialist @ Microsoft Australia, has prepared a OneNote 2007 notebook about email management - Pay it Forward Email Management This book outlines Read More...
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