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I know that sometimes I’m not too good at answering my emails immediately, and then the pile up and overwhelm me. My phone number is on my blog but people only usually use it when they’re totally desperate and angry – or it’s Christmas day and they...
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There's always something you can learn about in technology - even with tools you've been using for years. so when the It evangelists from around the world got together for a summit day, we had to create a fun video about being an evangelist. So...
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IT Professional Community Days The 3 rd in a series of user led IT Professional Community Days is happening at Microsoft Campus in Reading on Tuesday 8 th and Wednesday 9 th April. Whilst Microsoft is hosting the event all the content and sessions are...
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Steve, who reads my blog mailed me with a problem he's got with Outlook Voice Access. It made me giggle... We’re delighted with our in house Outlook Voice Access, but it’s caused great amounts of laughter in the office all at my expense! Sometimes we...
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I've been quiet for a week - blog wise. I've been in Paris (well at Charles de Gaulle airport really) on a Management Excellence course. There's been lots of time for self reflection, navel gazing and finding out all about my strengths and weaknesses...
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This made me smile last night. I'd asked a colleague in the Exchange team for the name of one of the program managers in corp. I'd had to resort to email as his presence indicator showed that he was online and working, but all of my attempts to contact...
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I love coffee, And I love talking about technology. Usually I'm to be found in one of the 5 coffee shops we have around campus in the UK having various coffee meetings and chatting about technology. Well we've decided to expand on this a bit and chat...
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This mail was caught by my junk mail folder. I'm copying it here because it made me smile: Good day, my friend This letter is of great importance. I am here in order to build my own Planet which will be called a Planet of Love. My future family will live...
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I don’t t think I’m an email ostrich – I currently have about 220 mails in my inbox at the moment which I’m trying to get down below 100. I clear my server folder once a year and archive off old stuff to a .pst file which I delete when it’s 2 years old...
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I just had to share these as they made me smile - and I'm a big fan of Star Trek too. Here's their version of RoundTable from long ago... I reckon that our version of RoundTable is actually an homage to star Trek as it looks like the Enterprise although...
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We're in Manchester today at the Science museum with another packed house for this part of the Exchange unplugged tour . It was really great to meet up with Guy yesterday who is a regular contributor to my blog, it's always great to put faces to names...
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Wow, we have some really inventive people who work here. We encourage everyone to think differently and The email I got today showed me yet another great example of this. Andrew, one of this years interns who works in our Marketing Communications team...
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I was at a really interesting meeting last night. The BCS invited me to their strategy debate around why young people aren't choosing Technology as a career and what could we do to change this perception. It's interesting to know that clinical pathology...
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I know I mentioned the Outlook connector the other month and I finally got round to installing it onto my mate Hil's machine. Wow. total simplicity. On starting Outlook, the wizard politely told her that it had found her Hotmail account and did she want...
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Aah, this is sweet. Kittens could be used to solve the spam problem. This is a much better idea than Captcha and much more user friendly. If you like kittens of course. This is Felix, who would be easy to recognise... Brett and Ewan (also cat lovers)...
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Well my Women in Technology dinner session seems to have really struck a chord with the audience at TechEd Auckland. I've had loads and loads of feedback about how valuable the evening was, and the scores for the session have totally blown me away. Thank...
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As evangelists, we work a lot with customers who don't have the luxury of full account management, technical support or sales guys. These smaller customers, some who don't even get to use a set of our partners from the partner community, still manage...
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So how do I get my team to read my emails? Threats? The word "bonus" in the title? Sally has a few interesting ideas, some of which I don't actually agree with, namely item 3: 3. Provide the Proper Data and Documents Make sure you give recipients all...
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I’ve been dipping my toe in the waters of Powershell and feeling quite good about how my knowledge is growing. But now I’ve found this little game , I’ve realised just how little I know about PowerShell, and just how powerful this is. And there’s big...
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I've been running in between two places today, half my time was spent at today's user groups day , and the other running around sorting out pink t-shirts for tomorrows Digigirlz event. I'm actually terrified about tomorrow, put me in front of an audience...
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Hmm, Day two of our technical conference and I'm irritated. The sessions so far have been really good, the opportunity to chat to the people in the product team is always great. I get to hear what's going on at the moment and what we're doing in the future...
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Jason has got himself onto IT's showtime again talking about large scale roll our of mobile devices (i.e. how we did it internally). So if you never actually made it to ITForum this year as we sold out so quickly, and you wanted to catch the best bits...
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