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Monday, September 29, 2008 6:49 PM

Gartner Magic Quadrant Season

Yeah, I know that the Gartner group publishes magic quadrant reports all around the year, but ‘tis the season for the Enterprise Content Management magic quadrant, and I wanted a season to celebrate in. First of all, get your own hot and handy copy of
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Monday, September 29, 2008 6:00 PM

SharePoint at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008

The SharePoint team will have a presence at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008 .  Are any of you awesome and incredible SharePoint ISVs going to attend?  If you are, let me know, and let’s see if we can get you hooked up with the SharePoint leadership
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 5:53 PM

AvePoint Roadshow for DocAve

Many of you are probably familiar with DocAve , from AvePoint .  They’ve been around for a while, but I’m just starting to get to know them a little bit better.   Their suite of products looks like fun – SharePoint Backup & Recovery
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:00 PM

The First Partner Webcast

Well, this will be interesting… It seems that the invitation has been out for a while, and the Webcast is going to happen on Oct 2.  I’m going to be joining Syntergy and Colligo , two good SharePoint partners, in a joint partner webcast.  I
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Monday, September 22, 2008 2:37 PM

SharePoint VPC for Download

A quick heads up that the SharePoint evaluation VPC that is currently available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/vhd has an expiration date at the end of September 2008.  An renewed version of the VPC with an extended expiration date (March
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Sunday, September 21, 2008 10:51 AM

Portland Great Urban Race

My wife and I had an amazing experience last Saturday.  We ran as a team in the Great Urban Race , in Portland, Oregon .  This is a variant of The Amazing Race that is run within city downtown areas around the country, and where no private transportation
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Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:20 PM

the <head> conference

I was pointed to what appears to be a great web conference coming up the days prior to PDC.  The <head> conference .   (hat tip – Anna Ullrich ) “the global web conference”  All online – no traveling.  Sounds interesting,
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Friday, September 19, 2008 1:32 PM

Sometimes private communication is a better approach than a public one

I’m flying back home this morning from a MSFT-internal training conference that was very good.  Orlando is an interesting place, but the weather wasn’t so muggy this time, and the venue (Gaylord Palms Resort) was great.  Nice job, event organizers!
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:32 PM

Enterprise Mashups on the SharePoint Platform

I had a customer ask me today about what SharePoint had in the way of Mashup support.  He had seen the new and cool IBM Mashup Center, and (had forgotten?) couldn’t remember how SharePoint would fit into this concept of mashup applications. 
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:58 AM

MSFT and RIM, Searching Nicely Together

MSFT and RIM announced a strategic partnership today to use Live Search on RIM blackberry devices.  Interesting that AT&T signed with Yahoo last week for mobile search. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a99FIfUGfQ6U Search
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:29 PM

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

No, I know that the coincidence of this announcement, on Day 4 after I’ve started in the new role of working with SharePoint Partners, has many of you wondering what I could possibly have up my sleeve for the following week.  Well, I’m not in the
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Monday, September 08, 2008 1:18 AM

Inbox Zero

Well, all the excitement about starting a new job and letting ideas  start to sift through areas of my brain that I haven’t used for ten years has caused me to think about what bad habits to throw out and where I can start anew with some good habits.
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Monday, September 01, 2008 12:48 AM

Tending a New Garden

For two years, I experimented with other sites to host my blog. I am now back to this hosting address. I experimented with www.canaltown.net , and wanted to mix some personal and some professional together in my blog. That didn’t seem to work so well.
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