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Office Live Small Business downtime planned to complete a server upgrade
Downtime is a rarity with Office Live, but an announcement has just gone out that on Saturday September 12th 2009 and Saturday September 19th 2009, there will be some periods of planned outage. All customers will be sent an email to this effect later Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:43 PM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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‘Staycation’ in a Yurt in Devon on Office Live
This year we decided to take a summer break at home in England; the Blackdown Hills of Devon in the south-west of the country, to be precise. As fairly keen walkers, we have a great love of the open countryside and a growing interest in all things eco. Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:57 AM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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The Harley Slack Fund website – built on Office Live
This is quite a well-designed Office Live website, put together for a very sad reason. Harley is unfortunately critically ill with meningitus B and the site talks about the disease, a fund-raising charity bike ride from John O’Groats to Lands End, and Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:48 PM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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Microsoft seeks a name for its new Office Web Apps suite
According to this blog entry by respected writer Mary-Jo Foley, there’s a survey doing the rounds soliciting feedback on some proposed names for the new Office Web Applications – that’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote delivered in the browser. I can’t Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:22 PM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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An Office Live tribute to Michael Jackson
With the sad news that Michael Jackson passed away yesterday, I can confess to having searched online for a few video clips of the genius at work. Whilst doing this, it occurred to me that this might be a good time to test the new video embedding module Read More...
Posted: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:52 PM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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Which social media are you ?
I’ve recently finished a book on social media (available for pre-order from Amazon , thanks for asking) and one of the things I’ve come across quite a bit is that people think they ought to ‘do’ social media without thinking about which media is right Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 22, 2009 4:41 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Domain name reshuffle
OK, it's like this. The Internet is about to have its most substantial overhaul ever - in 2010, if current plans come to fruition, domain name registration is going to change. ICANN, the authority that polices domain names, is about to make substantial Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 15, 2009 9:20 AM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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Help, Support and Resources for Office Live
With the number of Office Live users now into many millions around the world, I thought it a good time to document the many ways to get help, support and other resources relating to Office Live . 1. There’s the Office Live email support service, which Read More...
Posted: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:24 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Mind your underpinnings
It’s only a week since my last entry on this blog where I stressed the benefits of home working. Now it’s becoming apparent that for this sort of networked technology to truly fly the infrastructure that underpins it is going to need some sort of overhaul Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:37 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Britains Got Talent – Stavros Flatley better than Susan Boyle ?
This blog posting is a somewhat experimental way of checking if highly topical subjects increase traffic to your blog site and Twitter account. Admittedly, it’s got precious little to do with Office Live . Personally I’m a bit bored with the whole Susan Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:40 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Office Live and Social Media
Here’s an email I sent internally today. Some fellow Twits thought I should blog and Tweet this, so here goes… “Now that OfficeLiveGuy has been established for a couple of months, I thought it might be a good time to provide a short update on progress. Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:25 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Office Live meets Virgin Galactic
Last Friday, I had the privilege to listen to a presentation by Will Whitehorn, President of Virgin Galactic . I was particularly interested to hear how Virgin could be planning to develop a space travel business, whilst simultaneously building on it’s Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:18 AM by tkimber | 0 Comments
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Student interns help grow Office Live
I frequently speak to small business owners who feel overworked but can’t afford to hire additional full-time employees to share the burden. One option many have overlooked is the possibility of hiring a student intern. Internships or placements are a Read More...
Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:44 AM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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Working from home: some thoughts you need to consider
So, did everybody work from home on 18 May? What? You didn’t know it was Work From Home Day? OK, a little secret – these things are usually a gimmick thought up by someone with a marketing budget for a home working widget, you know it and I know it. Father’s Read More...
Posted: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:55 AM by tkimber | 2 Comments
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Is Google falling behind Twitter ?
There’s been a lot of speculation about Google and Twitter recently – acquisition rumours, partnerships and so on. It does appear now that Google has recognised that Twitter is a serious player in Search, and even has some key advantages so far as real-time Read More...
Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:31 PM by tkimber | 1 Comments
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