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When I wrote about the Brighstarr “How to build rich and interactive websites for education ” event being held on 4th November, it was in advance of the new Saïd Business School website actually going live. Which meant he couldn’t point to what had been
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Trinity Expert Systems, one of our Gold Certified Partners, is running a free Windows 7 Preview Workshop next Thursday, 15th October. Some colleges have already started deploying Windows 7 widely, and I’m sure that many of you will be evaluating it even
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The University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School recently asked BrightStarr, one of our education partners, to create a website that would help it promote its courses and research. The Business School wanted a rich and engaging website that would capture
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Mike Herrity, at Twynham School, is hosting a meeting for schools and colleges who have adopted Windows 7, to allow early adopters to share their experiences, and the lessons that have been learnt over the last 5 weeks since it was released for Volume
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UPDATE - FRIDAY 11:30 - THE EVENT IS NOW CURRENTLY FULL - BUT YOU CAN ADD YOURSELF TO THE WAIT LIST. Apparently we've had well over 1,000 registrations since we announced it. I'd recommend putting yourself on the wait list. Sorry. I'll work on a list
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I’ve just heard that the first ever Microsoft SQL Server Data Management Conference is being held in London on Tuesday September 29 th . Although it is not an education-specific event, there is a good agenda with excellent presenters that could
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Although it’s a little bit last minute, I’ve grabbed at the chance to get some of our Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 brains together on Friday 21st August, in our Thames Valley Campus in Reading. It’s August, and I know that it is one of the busiest
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Jonathan Noble has let me know that there are still plenty of spare spaces at the free event at Newcastle University next Wednesday (the 8th), which will be looking at Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 for education. And the agenda includes DirectAccess,
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A last week I wrote “ Windows 7 is getting closer ”, and one of the readers posed the question about Application Compatibility – their point was that they used over 450 applications, so couldn’t we test them all to check they work on Windows 7. Hopefully
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Because of the competitive nature of student recruitment these days it seems that a lot of colleges are developing vastly improved strategies to recruit the "right" sort of student. SRM (Student Relationship Management) combined with the correct
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This week we hosted 35 College Principals, Vice Principals and Senior Managers at the Microsoft Campus in Reading for a day showing both our technology and solutions and that of our partners. From our perspective, it was a successful day – demonstrating
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I’ve just been at the Capita Further and Higher Education National Conference , in the lovely (if wet) county of Warwickshire. I read recently that many people can’t put Warwickshire on a map, because it is one of those ‘in-between’ kind of counties,
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Tuesday 24th March 2009, 15:00 - 16:00 Overview This session will be presented by Microsoft, Oxford Computer Group and Alistair Sandford from the University of the West of England and will explain how education providers can: Manage secure access to applications
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Last year I was surprised and pleased to learn that I’d somehow made it to become the Computer Weekly 2008 Public Sector blogger of the year (for my Schools blog ). And it led to me running a few internal training sessions for Microsoft people, talking
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We’ve got another free event coming up at the end of April – this time it’s about solutions for identity and access management in education, with a smattering of Live@edu thrown in for extra value. It’s with one of our partners, Oxford Computer Group,
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