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At the beginning of February, we've got a team of developers and trainers coming over to Sydney and Melbourne to run free Office DevCamps, for anybody who wants to develop apps for Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint and the Office Web Apps) to get listed in the new Office Store. As the vast...

Following on from my previous blog posts, ‘ Ten of the best SharePoint School websites ’ and ‘ Ten of the best SharePoint University websites ’, then it’s time to get closer to home with Ten of the best Australian school websites built on SharePoint (or best TAFE websites...

A colleague asked me to recommend some school websites built on SharePoint, that they could share with others. After I’d finished it for him, I thought I’d pop it into a PowerPoint for others - and then go further by popping up a quick blog post too. Here’s my take on 10 School SharePoint...

Not sure what to make of this news this morning, and definitely not sure what comment to add on this . So I'll go for the completely factual presentation of something I've just read on the Google Enterprise Blog . I know this is relevant to education customers and partners, because when we talk about...

One of our teams in Australia is called Developer and Platform Evangelism (or DPE in Microsoft-Acronym-Speak). They work with developers, technical students and software makers, and spend their time getting geeky. They're also the team that wear the coolest T-shirts (or so they think), and like DPE teams...

This morning's Sydney Morning Herald ran an education story " Teaching the Facebook Generation ". The overall piece looks at how social media impacts on the relationship between students and teachers, and is worth a read to understand some of the issues faced in today's school environment,...

I spent a week in January at the BETT show in London - the world's largest Education IT show. I had the luck of presenting with a colleague, Mark Stewart, about some of the websites and products that students use in their social lives, and talking about how they could also be useful for teachers and...

The Microsoft WebMatrix team have been working for quite a while now on making it easier to setup free web servers, so that you can easily implement a new web project - for example, if somebody in your school or uni asks for a platform for blogging - and especially when they come along with a very specific...