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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
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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
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A few days ago, the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint was released on CodePlex (our open source project hosting web site). And, for universities, it’s an opportunity to move into a multimedia, web 2.0 world in a more controlled way. Up until now, many of
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Yesterday, I visited a leading research university in the North of England ( there will soon be a case study and then I can name them) to learn more about their requirements for a research extranet. Before I go much further, they have already got this
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You're probably already familiar with SharePoint, and some of its capabilities to support communication and collaboration for both students and staff. But what never ceases to amaze me are the other uses that people find for it in education. Coventry
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There's a phrase - "Enterprise Search" - which summarises the next step in effective use of technologies for collaboration, data sharing and making your institutional memory more accessible. By this I mean, when anybody in your institutions publishes
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Thanks to my colleague Bradley Tipp for sending me an email pointing this out to me. Below is access to instructions and code to use student's Windows Live IDs to authenticate with SharePoint. http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/10/15/announcing-community-kit-for-sharepoint-windows-live-authentication.aspx
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TechNet is pleased to announce the second series of technical events “TechNet on the Road” We will again be stepping away from PPT and concentrating on a demo-packed full day. We will be visiting 5 locations (Reading, London, Manchester, Newcastle and
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If you have developers within your university, busily coding applications and systems for your intranet, then you may want to let them know about the free MSDN events coming up over the next few months. They're aimed at mainstream development engineers,
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Recently, I've had a few conversations with Universities looking to use MOSS as their main Internet site Content Management System and in particular around the area of accessibility. In general, sites needing to meet AA standards require some development
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There's already quite a lot that you can do with Learning Gateway, and explicitly the SharePoint components, to increase accessibility to users, across devices. And this news item I read promises more : Shared-source software kit will advance the accessibility
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The more observant reader will perhaps notice that I posted this once before on another blog but recent conversations with UCISA made me realise that there is still very little known about how SharePoint is being used in the UK's universities. Durham
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My colleague, Phil Allen, who's our resident educational-techie, has provided me with a document of links to really good SharePoint resources. Bless him, he wants to help you all find good stuff, but 7 pages of document, with each page containing long
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When I last wrote about the Moodle integration with SharePoint, it was only with SharePoint 2003. The new web parts developed to help you to integrate Moodle into a Learning Gateway based on SharePoint 2007 have been released, and are now fully available
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Winvision, one of our partners in Higher Education, wrote to let me know about a free event that they are hosting in June, focusing on helping you to get more from SharePoint, and provide e-portfolio services for your students. Winvision Event: New Digital
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