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My buddy Chris Johnson shot me a link to recorded sessions from the Microsoft Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) for Partners.
Download the movies and check it out - this is one of the best ways to skill up on the 2007 Office System.
BTW I'm at the SharePoint conference in Bellevue (outside Seattle) and it is rocking!!!
I'm about to make the journey to Seattle (and Bellevue and Redmond) to attend the SharePoint Conference.
If you want to catch up with me there email me at alogan@microsoft.com and we'll catch up.
There will be lots of Microsoft partners from Australia going (they are the ones with the sun tans).
I was at a customer's office today dropping off the Microsoft Cookies from a 3 way bake off with MOSS (another story).
The customer was laughing at a print out of my blog - I thought - Yeah sure I write funny content about SharePoint?
The thing he was laughing at was the unfortunate combination of two posts:
The first post was a picture of me at Wagga Wagga Airport after presenting at Code Camp. Then down the bottom of the print out it had the header of the next blog post "Crashes Make me Happy" which was about Office 2007 Beta 1 crashes being fixed in Beta 2.
The first post was a picture of me at Wagga Wagga Airport after presenting at Code Camp.
Then down the bottom of the print out it had the header of the next blog post "Crashes Make me Happy" which was about Office 2007 Beta 1 crashes being fixed in Beta 2.
So it kinda looked like this:
"Crashes Make Me Happy"
Bad if taken out of context :)
An old school friend of mine, Alistair Speirs from Data#3 (where I worked before MS) wrote a great blog entry about his thoughts on email.
Strangely he didn't mention anything about Realtime Communicators (Live Communication Server / MSN Messenger).
Anyway check it out here.
A few of the cool take aways are:
The "LinkedIn" toolbar - "it did some fancy pattern recognition and told me that "I should follow up these 3 people" that had not got back to me. It was information I had forgotten, and now I find myself using the toolbar every day. Before, I would try to match up my inbox with my sent folder to try and work out which ball is in what court. It is not so much the time that was wasted, but the stress and agitation that bothers me, digging through old emails. I have decided that I hate email, in a philosophical sense. "
I've downloaded the LinkedIn toolbar and I'll give it a whirl with Outlook 2007 Beta 1 Technical Refresh.
One thing in Alistair's post that I'm not sure about is "No Email Week" - see below.
"No email week". If you want an answer quickly, ask me. If you want an answer slowly, put it on the portal and I will check my "Fancy aggregating personalised site" 3 times a day for updates
No Email Week makes me feel sick - I live on email!
If I wake up in the middle of the night I check my email, when I wake up (before anything) I check my email, I "triage" emails whilst driving (or getting a coffee) on my smartphone; The only time my doesn't get read is when I'm presenting infront of customers or on a plane (and then I get separation anxiety).