Thanks to my colleague Ewan D for this content below… OneNote is a great audit tool When you’re in meetings with customers and partners why not offer to take the notes on your tablet, slate or laptop and then when the meeting is done simply save the notes...

Microsoft just launched iusesharepoint.com today, and I think can be an important resource for you to help drive adoption of your SharePoint 2010 Service! The site is dedicated to help you drive SharePoint adoption by delivering a rich set of experiences...

If you are an organisation thinking about options and ways to get training and daily tips to your users, you could consider applying the Office 2010 Getting Started Screensaver. It’s a new type of Help, and a new way to deliver it. The screensaver shows...

A fantastic 3:30 video case study from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has just been released outlining their Microsoft Lync 2010 experience for Instant Messaging, Presence, Audio, Video, and Web Conferencing. A couple of stand out stats and points...

I’ve used Ribbon Hero 1 in the past, and thought it was pretty cool and clever. The team recently announced that Ribbon Hero 2 is available for download.  Ribbon Hero 2 is a game, yes a game, that embeds into Office 2010 and Office 2007 for learning...

I work with many customers on their Internal Office 2010 User Readiness activities. These activities normally are to: help the Internal Communications team build a communications plan prior to, during, and after Office deployment. help the Learning and...

Perhaps follow an approach like Nextel Sprint – who were spending over $1Million per month on Audio Conferencing – and unify Communications and Collaboration into a single platform with Microsoft Unified Communications. Sprint saves over $9.3Million annually...

For those organisations that are about to deploy Microsoft Lync for their corporate Presence, Instant Messaging, Audio, Video and Web Conferencing interface we have released a packaged kit to assist you with Lync End User Training and Adoption. This material...

With its SharePoint 2010 deployment nearly complete, Microsoft IT has developed helpful perspective on what worked and what steps could have been performed better. The Microsoft IT SharePoint engineering team is sharing its experiences with you to help...

[***Updated Feb 2013, to included corrected/new URL to PIFEM Folder in my SkyDrive****] In 2008 I released guidance on how to use Outlook 2007 features to prioritise and categorise a large number of emails. The details were shared in my blog here:...

The SharePoint team has launched an online video contest called SharePoint journeys, which allows you to upload videos and describe where on the SharePoint you are and share the unique ways you have improved your Business Outcomes.  Winners get a...

Interesting use of Visio – is there anything Visio can’t do to effectively tell a story with diagrams?  It seems not!  See it.  Get it. Rumpelstilskin   Rumpelstilskin - Visio 2010 - Watch more Funny Videos   Little Red Riding...

Ok… it’s Microsoft that’s the Organisation.  But, our IT team does a great job of sharing the details of how we run technology, the lessons learned from our early adopters. This is shared through Microsoft’s IT Showcase , and an example is the Whitepaper...

Ok, you are an Office 2003 (or earlier) power user, and you want to just learn what is new in Office 2010.  You are in luck, Microsoft has published a series of free PowerPoint format training courses to help you learn What’s new in Office 2010. ...

It allows you to reuse your Excel or PowerPoint Web Applications in other web pages – such as this blog. When the original file gets updated, the other location is updated too.  So, I could publish my SharePoint 2010 Overview presentation in SkyDrive...

Over on the The Microsoft Office Blog there is a post that links to some migration and quick reference guides for Microsoft Office 2010 specifically for Office 2003 users: “Whether you're coming from an older version of Office and just want to find the...

I’ve been working with many customers lately who are planning to update their version of Office to Office 2010.  One of the biggest considerations is all of the business critical Excel Spreadsheets that.   We have recently published a 22...

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The Productivity Hub, a SharePoint 2007 site template, was a sleeper of the end user readiness and training strategies for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007.  I blogged about it in the past here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ianpal/archive/2009/09/04/the...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!  Calling all Foursquare Mayors Take Part in the world’s first office mayor meetup in celebration of the launch of Microsoft Office 2010    http://officemayormeetup.eventbrite.com Huh?    Microsoft is arranging...

One of the most useful tools to help learn the updated interface in Office 2007 is the Interactive Command Reference.  It provides a useful mapping between features and commands in Office 2003, and then shows you where those commands are found in...

One of the Top Ten benefits of Office 2010 is the ability to have co-authoring allowing multiple people to edit and view Office documents simultaneously. This capability is going to turn ordinary file sharing and authoring on it’s head – the implications...

I was just reading a post by David Pogue from the NY Times .  He has given a summary of Windows Live (application software + services) available and seemed to be impressed with the capabilities – even if he wasn’t aware of all them before his research...

I’ll be watching their YouTube channel coming up to March 15th to find out http://www.youtube.com/user/msftozinterns   Wow - it's coming March 15th...

Free Curling Team Expense Excel Template! This is one of the few topics that I can post to both my curling blog and my Business Productivity blog. For the past couple of years the Aussie men’s curling team has been using a spreadsheet to keep track of...