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When Dominic 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
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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 also 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
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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 we know that universities are continually developing improved strategies to recruit the "right" sort of student. SRM (Student Relationship Management) combined with the correct CRM technology
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This year, all across education, people are finding it more difficult to justify a day off campus to attend events. So this year, we’re going to come to you. Right to your desk. Via the wonders of virtual conferencing. On the 19th June. Although all of
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This Friday, my colleague Ian McKenzie, is hosting a Live Meeting on “Information Governance and Assurance in the Public Sector”. It’s one of a series that he’s been running, and I thought it would be worth telling you about this one because it has relevance
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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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“Explore how to make IT more cost-effective in uncertain times. Microsoft and partners invite you to this invitation-only event.” Dan sent me details of our “Virtualisation and Management Conference” on 10th March. Overall it makes good agenda, but I
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Carla, from our Virtual Earth team tells me that they have another free seminar coming up in March, where there’s a chance to get an overview of our web-based mapping solutions. I think this is probably going to be more useful for developers within your
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Once again, based on customer feedback TechNet is hitting the road/rails and web again to deliver hi quality content and updates to a UK audience. Space is limited so please book up to make sure UK Higher Education gets the most seats.
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The people that run our internal IT systems – Microsoft IT – regularly run workshops (both virtual and face-to-face events) when they share how Microsoft implements aspects of our IT systems, and especially the things we have learnt along the way. Next
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Between November and January, we’re running a free “Virtualisation Unplugged” roadshow – 9 events, 7 cities, 420 PowerPoint slides ( only joking…I think) There’s a lot of interest in virtualisation from universities at the moment, because of both the
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Virtualisation is all the rage, and as a result it is gaining attention across the whole public sector, including education. Originally focused on consolidating resources in the data centre, virtualisation now has applications across the spectrum: driving
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