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This morning, the coffee server at my favorite drive-through coffee stand was distracted by a call on her cell. In a rush of emotion, she told me that her little sister had found a P painted on her car windshield, and later a pineapple (“Prickly
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The sixth design principle for “bringing cool stuff to life” is to live life at the intersection. According to Diego Rodriguez, a design expert and author of the 21 principles, that’s where the magic of innovation happens. I’ve been following Rodriguez’s
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What? You haven’t heard about Office Podcasts ? Then you probably don’t know that we published our 100th amazing podcast episode . Neither did my boss, so I’m sharing my hot top 10 Office podcasts with you and him. If you haven’t experienced the growing
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I was writing on the bus this morning, and I almost missed my stop. As I walked over to the office, I realized how good it can feel to feel creative. As Holly mentioned in a recent post on Office Hours , creativity doesn't have to mean penning the Great
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I am very excited to announce we have created a new Office Online Career Center and partnered with Monster.com to make the entire job hunting process - from planning your strategy to polishing your resume and submitting it for a position - as painless
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A recent blog post at U.S. News & World Report asks this question: When Will Microsoft Word Stop Making Obama into Osama? When this writer runs his spellchecker, Word is suggesting that he change the word “Obama” to “Osama.” Fortunately, this problem
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Do you love movies? Is the Internet Movie Database bookmarked in your browser? Are you secretly giddy in anticipation of the Academy Awards this Sunday? Well, then I’ll bet it’s also true that you have an excellent idea for a screenplay that you’ve been
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My colleague David Salaguinto recently shared the bizarre story of how he got here— here being Microsoft's caffeinated halls. He took an extreme approach to job hunting after the start-up he was working for downsized overnight, back when startups everywhere
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Okay, say it's Friday. Have you ever found yourself decompressing in true TGIF spirit one minute and scrambling to meet some deadline-from-Hell the next? (Maybe even today?) If that deadline happens to involve a presentation, this tongue-in-cheek video
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The October employment news was not good. Another 240,000 people lost their jobs. The unemployment rate reached a 14-year high of 6.5 percent, with 2.8 million more people unemployed than at this time last year. The double whammy of mortgage woes and
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With the mixed bag of brilliant innovations and petty annoyances that come with modern life, getting organized is a perennial challenge. Some folks are naturally brilliant at it but I suspect they're all either engineers or parents with multiple kids
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You may have heard about "cloud computing" as the future - where you will be able to access all of your information from any connected device. This week Microsoft unveiled some of what the future holds for Office users. Watch this review and tell us what
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Welcome to the new kid on the block! Office Podcasts : A podcast directory with podcasts about everything from Office products to office politics. I like to think of the new Office Podcasts as a cross between The Office (read: Steve Carell) and my office
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