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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:46 PM

Score 1 For the Customer

As reported on the Microsoft Education US Specialist Team Blog , user demand has resurrected Microsoft Producer . You can try out the prerelease version and give your feedback on http://connect.microsoft.com . For a clue about why the education market
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:34 PM

TechNet/MSDN Facelift

I recently had a chance to chat with the manager of the design/edit team for TN/MSDN/Expression - Geoff Wheelwright. You can listen to the 8.5 minute podcast on the TechNet/MSDN Facelift . John Martin’s blog has some great behind-the-scenes info as well.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:43 PM

A (FREE) New Way to Find IT Pro Content

The UA team over at Operations Manager have just published a FREE System Center Content Search gadget for Vista. Built on Live Search macros , this gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:31 PM

A Day in the Life of a Technical Writer

Well, this technical writer at Microsoft I mean. This post started with a colleague’s request: We want to capture some information for applicants to tech writing jobs at Microsoft about what the job really entails. In 300 words or less, tell us: What
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Monday, May 05, 2008 2:16 PM

Six Sigma for Content: Bugs in Writing

One of my favorite weekend pastimes is sailing. Garage sale-ing that is. (Note to self: that pun works better out loud than on screen…). Gslar.com has a nifty mapping app that allows me to chart a route to local garage sales , local estate sales, and
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Friday, April 25, 2008 2:01 PM

How to Write Better

One of the key performance indicators (KPI) for good technical writing is conciseness. This is one reason why geeks (and the military) love TLA s so much, “Lookee, it only takes three keystrokes instead of twenty!” Sidebar: my first year at Microsoft,
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Friday, April 25, 2008 11:49 AM

N Heads are Better Than One

If I were part of the response team for a Day 0 or other IT security response team, or doing training to prepare for that, or a parent who wanted to help a student research a project for school, I’d want to know about the SearchTogether beta (requires
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:24 PM

Why Google Can’t Win

Last week Glenn Derene declared in How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It “the next generation of Web users may find what they want by using their social network rather than a search algorithm".” Now, this article is really positing
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:43 AM

How to Write a User Manual

Back in the day, the folks who brought us PONG got it right. Here is the user manual: Insert quarter Ball will serve automatically Avoid missing ball for high score When is the last time you were given such succinct, yet usable instructions? Leave a comment
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:53 AM

Reducing My Carbon Footprint

Yesterday Microsoft opened 150 “touch down” work spaces for temporary use by Microsoft employees as part of a broad company strategy to help Seattle-based employees deal with the ever-worsening commute. Today, I took it for a test drive. I
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:21 PM

The Secret of the LinkID

Craig let the cat out of the bag and reveals a handy tip on navigating TechNet and MSDN in his blog post today.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:52 AM

Tweeting Habits of the IT Pro

Following on the earlier post asking you all what you thought about Twitter , I find this interesting TechCrunch post that indicates the tweetosphere is another attack surface you've got to monitor in the sense that it is serving some as an early-warning
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:11 PM

How Hard is to Catch and IT Pro Tweeting?

Scott Hanselman's blog post on the the Usefulness of Micro-blogging stirs a couple thoughts. Aside from corp-to-consumer marcom aspects -how do IT Pros use twitter-like apps? Security incident response? Networking at events?  Hanselman warns: "One
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:07 PM

He's Dead Dave

It has been a few weeks, but I wanted to mark the passing of an inspirational writer - Sir Arthur Charles Clarke , CBE . Once, during part of his 60+ year writing career, for a Wired Magazine challenge to write a six-word story - Clarke "embraced
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 4:20 PM

Attack of the Superflow

Listen to the short (7.5 min) podcast about an innovative new way to deliver content to IT Pros: the Superflow . The first Superflow is the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Updates Synchronization SuperFlow . Splogbane: If you are reading
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