Information Worker The new Office user experience (Presenter: Jensen Harris) Office 12 introduces a substantially redesigned user interface designed to make the core Office programs easier to work with. This session will review the design principles behind the new user interface and explore in depth how it will make it...
Enterprise Content Management Document Management in Office System (Presenter: Rhae-Christie Shaw) Most companies are suffering from information overload including challenges finding or sharing corporate knowledge. This session will include topics aimed at helping you understand how Office can assist in meeting your corporate content management needs. Applying Office workflow solutions...
Developer What’s new in Office 12 and WSS v3 for developers (Presenters: Joe Andreshak/Mike Fitzmaurice) This will be a detail-oriented “what’s new” assuming that the attendee knows something about developing in Office 11 and WSS v2. Creating Office application customizations with Visual Studio Tools for Office v3 (Presenters: Drew Lytle/Andrew...
Data & Business Intelligence Office 12 Business Intelligence overview (Eran Megiddo) This session will introduce the Business Intelligence investments we have made in Excel, Visio, and SharePoint and explain how they integrate with the overall Microsoft BI platform and strategy. Analyzing and visualizing data using Excel 12 (Presenter: Allan Folting) Learn how...
Client Deployment Understanding a language-neutral/multi-MSI design & multilanguage deployments (Presenters: Brad Corob/Amanda Hartin) This session will cover:· Benefits of a language-neutral architecture· The multi-MSI design· Using the Office 12 setup controller and admin drag-and-drop· World-wide deployment of multiple products and multiple languages Tools and strategies for getting through Office 12...
A number of people within CSC who read my public blog have started to ask me how we go about improving communication around emerging technologies and concepts within CSC. At the moment too much knowledge is locked up in peoples heads, and where it is briefed it is to a...
I have made three major changes to my working practice today: I have setup a StreamLoad account which provides me with UNLIMITED storage and 1GB a month of download capacity for $4.95. I am in the process of uploading my entire software library and music library, my photo’s have already...
In some recent discussions I have been introduced to the concept of “productive friction”, which is an effect that’s created when team members with a diverse background get together. It happens for example when people from different cultures or academic disciplines or companies work together to solve a problem and it increases the level of innovation. John Hagel describes it in his book The Only Sustainable Edge and in his Article in the Harvard Business Review.
This recent article in Newsweek describes the effect, and gives some practical and simple advice on how to take advantage of it in your projects:
What they found was that the most successful teams did two things right. First, they attracted a mixture of experienced people and those who were newcomers to whichever field they were in. That’s not surprising–the need for fresh blood has long been recognized as an important ingredient in success. The second criterion, though, was far less obvious. What successful teams had in common was at least a few experienced members who had never collaborated with each other. “People have a tendency to want to work with their friends–people they’ve worked with before,” says Luis Amaral, a physicist at Northwestern …
Only a few minutes ago I posted about developments in VOIP and Sametime integration, then we get the Microsoft Live Meeting 2005 add-in:
Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook
With the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook, you can:
- Schedule a Live Meeting from Outlook
- Identify individual meeting participants as attendees or presenters
- Send separate invitations for attendees and for presenters
- Specify default meeting options and override those defaults for specific meetings
Live Meeting Add-in for Office Collaboration
With the Office Collaboration Add-in, you can start a Meet Now meeting directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, or Project. The document appears in an application sharing session.Live Meeting Add-in for Instant Messaging
If the recipient also has the Live Meeting Add-in Pack installed, you can start a Live Meeting from Windows Messenger or from MSN Messenger.
I just started my downloads of Longhorn beta 1, or Windows Vista: