I can finally tell you about Community Clips
If I wrote code, I would go work at Office Labs, a new group at Microsoft that finally let the cat out of the page and went public this month with their site. This lively group makes and tests prototypes; aka features and tools. I've worked with a few things they created for a few months, and now you can too. Community Clips is a nifty screen capture program that at the touch of a button starts recording your screen and your voice. You know when someone comes over to your computer and looks over your shoulder to see how you [insert task here like how to do a pivot table or enter your vacation time in the Intranet, or how to cheat at Scrabbulous]. Now you can make a quick video and, voilà, you can show every new employee the task without doing it over and over again.
I made a clip about killing those "curly quote marks," something I had to tell freelancers time and time again when I worked at another job. It took about 20 minutes to get online. I did a couple of takes uploaded it to the site. Pretty neat. A few months back, I had my daughter tells us why she likes PowerPoint. I've just made a little tour of Office Online and a page I need your input on, Office at home. Easy peasy.
Try Community Clips and a few other tools at Office Labs. And if you write code, get a job there so I can bug you about some other ideas I have. --Doug
