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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
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At Australian Tech.Ed 2009 last week on the Gold Coast, I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Kristian Kalsing (@kalsing) from Extend Technologies to talk about Office Business Applications (OBAs). We recorded the 13 minute video, and
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The Productivity Hub is now live ! What is the Productivity Hub? The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection. It comes packed with over 300* pieces of content, including videos, documents and PowerPoint slides. This gives you a great
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In my role as an Enterprise Productivity Specialist, I spend a lot of my time talking to customers about Office System, and how the Office Server (SharePoint) enables people and teams to work better together. I usually talk to CIO’s and Senior IT
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SharePoint consultant Jeremy Thake from Readify is conducting some research into SharePoint Content and Application Lifecycle Management. His effort is to create a whitepaper on this topic, and use as much real life experience from SharePoint implementations
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I’ve been travelling overseas this week to a global Microsoft conference in the US. I sit here in the Airport departure lounge (offline) reflecting on my week. A couple of events happened – and both are real life stories of the value of Microsoft’s
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If you were looking for one more good reason to get to 2009 Australian Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast this year, we’ve just announced that attendees will receive a complimentary HP Mini 2140 NetBook PC. Full details including Terms and Conditions around this
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I see on the SharePoint Team blog that they have announced some changes to the SharePoint home page on Microsoft.com. While there is many SharePoint sites I can show you, plus some that Microsoft runs publicly, it good to see such a mainstream site using
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Last year we had over 50 unsolicited requests to be a speaker with 142 session ideas for the Office System track at Tech.Ed Australia. This year we have a new tool to manage submissions and provide transparency of the progress and status of your submissions
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For those of you who have heard me talk about the reasons Microsoft continues to innovate and build evolutions of the Microsoft Office Suite is about providing capabilities to organisations for the workplace that is still emerging. One of the tenets that
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I’ve spent the last few working days briefing Government Agencies about how Microsoft approaches a new release of Office and decide on the investments in new features to give our customers new capabilities to support the emerging world of work. I highlight
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Alistair Speirs has written a great entry on his view of Electronic forms. His description of the spectrum of approaches and calling out lots of overlap in possible solutions/technologies is right on. Check out the full detail at http://blogs.msdn.com/alspeirs/archive/2009/03/09/should-i-use-infopath-for-my-electronic-forms.asp
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I’ve been spending some time lately talking with customers around the use of SharePoint to support the Learning and Development activities for the organisation – including User Readiness for Office 2007 deployments. The 40,000 employee National Australia
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As I mentioned in my email approach PIFEM one of the rules I have turned on in Outlook is to delay sending email by 1 minute. This allows me to catch any emails I didn’t mean to send just yet, or more commonly, I remember to add something else just after
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A colleague of mine, Ketan, mentioned these free Screen-cast videos for SharePoint – provided by the crew at SharePoint e-Learning.com . Asif and Wendy have put together a great set of audio narrated videos showing how to leverage a bunch of capabilities
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