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Community consultation - your views on SharePoint in Higher Education
I’m posting this on behalf of the Northumbria University and hope you can help: IT Directors and Project Managers of many customers have taken part in a survey for this Eduserv/Northumbria University project. The final phase is a wider online community Read More...
Free SharePoint Event – thanks to Eduserv and Northumbria
Many customers have been invovled in the process so far and this project is moving towards its final phase.  Please come along and participate in this event. FREE EVENT Time: 11-3.30pm, 25 November 2009 Place: Aeonian Training Centre, Shropshire Read More...
Enterprise Search – from Microsoft
We’ve all witnessed performing a search and getting something like 1,034,461 results back in 0.16 seconds with lots of blue and green lines on the screen.  However, no matter how many and how quick, can we really say we’re getting the right answer Read More...
The Saïd Business School website in SharePoint
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 Read More...
Integrating Moodle with Microsoft Live services
Who’d have thought it, not only would I be looking for the Moodle logo for the blog, but other strange things have been happening this week: We’ve released two projects under the open source GPL v2 licence for the first time ever Following on from the Read More...
Business Intelligence for universities - how Northumbria University turned data into information
With increasing governances and fiscal demands, Northumbria University needed a way for their managers to quickly and easily track critical financial and student data. After implementing its Microsoft Business Intelligence solution, their stakeholders Read More...
Using SharePoint for Social Networking in universities
The SharePoint team have created the Social Computing with SharePoint website. Although it is primarily designed to examine the use of social computing within a business context, it is relevant to universities in the UK, and there is an excellent video Read More...
SharePoint in Welsh – SharePoint ar gael in Gymraeg
During half-term week, we joined the Welsh Assembly Government at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Cardiff Bay, to launch Welsh language support for SharePoint. Steve Beswick, of Microsoft, and Meri Huws, of the Welsh Language Board, officially launched the pack Read More...
TechNet June Virtual Conference – useful technical content at your desk
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 Read More...
Ever wondered about MOSS licensing?
As Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) deployment is increasing in UK Higher Education I’m getting more questions about different licensing scenarios.  Thankfully, Microsoft’s ladylicensing has posted an excellent guide which is already helping Read More...
SharePoint in Education – putting students at the centre of learning
My colleague Mark A’Bear and Microsoft’s DPE* group have put together a brochure which goes someway to explore how SharePoint can be used to expand opportunities for learning beyond the classroom.  Now that we’re well into the 21st century, it’s Read More...
TechNet goes on tour
  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.  Read More...
Using Sharepoint as a VLE
Have you considered Sharepoint in the role of a VLE? I know that some universities are already doing this either with bespoke development, using the SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) from www.codeplex.com/slk or just out of the box functionality. I've been Read More...
Event: The future of technology in education
One of Microsoft's education partners in the UK, Waterstons , is hosting an event with Durham Business School and Microsoft in Durham on the 6 August 2008 at 12:00. The Agenda will be based on the following: Registration and refreshments - 12:00pm Seminar Read More...
EduCoMS launches
One of the programmes I've worked on this year is the creation of EduCoMS .  This is a new community site focused on the needs of IT professionals in both higher and further education using Microsoft technologies.  It's going to be the site Read More...
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