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Flipping radio stations while stuck in traffic yesterday I came across an interview with a high school football coach. Coach Kevin Kelley of the Pulaski Academy Bruins in Arkansas does things differently: the Bruins do not punt the Bruins always onside
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A prominent member of the PowerPoint and presentation community, Tony Ramos, wrote a provocative blog post about creating content in general. Quoting a colleague, Tony mentions how paralyzing it is to attempt perfection on the first try and how liberating
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One of the many challenges my group poses to our tireless manager is our collective creativity . You might think all Microsofties are computer geeks, but not so. For example, our muli-faceted team of ten employees includes two actors, two poets, a sculptor,
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Someone who blogs on this site has a really snazzy electronic business card for Outlook. Truly, it is a business card to be envious of. So, following some instructions , I decided to create some electronic business cards on my own. (I’ll admit, though,
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Every day when I open my mailbox, I mostly see two sorts of things: bills and newsletters. And honestly, I like newsletters. (They’re certainly better reading than the other kind of mail.) I want to know about on-going sales and events at the local co-op,
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Logos. You see them everywhere and on just about everything. Companies spend a lot of money to create, promote, and protect their own logo. (And just to be clear, sometimes we might call something a “logo” that is more properly a “mark” or a “lettermark.”)
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( Office Hours columns are conceived and written by Microsoft employees -- for the times when only insider information will do.) It's impossible not to notice the fact that the Web is changing how we function, write, and think; to even talk about it is
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Women changing career paths
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This is one of the most extraordinary presentations I've ever heard. I've written before about Office's commitment to helping you be as creative as possible with the tools we produce whether or nor your endeavors have anything to do with the arts. Well,
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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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One of the wonderful things about February is TED : the meeting of world's leading minds in Technology, Enterntainment, and Design. (You've probably heard about Bill Gates' presentation with mosquito accompaniment at this year's conference.) Take a look
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If you're paying attention to the economic news these days you might be a little (a little? ) freaked out. If you have a good job, there's more pressure to keep it. And if you have any savings they're probably smaller than they once were. A lot smaller.
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In my recent post about creative competence , I promised I'd follow up with more posts about creativity, broadly defined. Here's one of the videos I wanted to pass along. Sir Ken Robinson's presentation at TED.com describes how our educational system--still
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I'm on a creativity kick, and I found this post on Scott Berkun's blog about the role of constraints in spurring creativity. The "creativity competencies test" developed by Dr. Robert Epstein, featured in my recent post here , surfaced ways to make sure
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