Ian Palangio's Business Productivity
Business and individual productivity topics with Microsoft Office System.
Use OneNote for Taking Meeting Notes
Thanks to my colleague Ewan D for this content below… OneNote is a great audit tool When you’re in...
Date: 09/23/2011
SharePoint Business User Adoption Kit
Microsoft just launched iusesharepoint.com today, and I think can be an important resource for you...
Date: 06/21/2011
Office 2010 Tips and Tricks Screensaver
If you are an organisation thinking about options and ways to get training and daily tips to your...
Date: 06/20/2011
Wow–Ribbon Hero 2 is Amazing for Office 2010 Training
I’ve used Ribbon Hero 1 in the past, and thought it was pretty cool and clever. The team recently...
Date: 05/05/2011
Spending too Much on Internal Audio Conferencing?
Perhaps follow an approach like Nextel Sprint – who were spending over $1Million per month on Audio...
Date: 04/17/2011
Microsoft Lync End User Training and Adoption
For those organisations that are about to deploy Microsoft Lync for their corporate Presence,...
Date: 03/06/2011
How Did Microsoft IT Upgrade to SharePoint 2010?
With its SharePoint 2010 deployment nearly complete, Microsoft IT has developed helpful perspective...
Date: 02/03/2011
PIFEM 2010–The Best Way to Manage Lots of Email in Outlook 2010
[Updated Feb 2013, to included corrected/new URL to PIFEM Folder in my SkyDrive*] In 2008 I...
Date: 12/29/2010
Share your Interesting SharePoint Story and Win!
The SharePoint team has launched an online video contest called SharePoint journeys, which allows...
Date: 12/16/2010
Visio 2010–The Ultimate Fairy Tale
Interesting use of Visio – is there anything Visio can’t do to effectively tell a story with...
Date: 10/20/2010
How a 100,000 Person Organisation Deployed Office 2010
Ok… it’s Microsoft that’s the Organisation. But, our IT team does a great job of sharing the...
Date: 10/18/2010
Office 2010 Training–Just tell me “what’s new!”
Ok, you are an Office 2003 (or earlier) power user, and you want to just learn what is new in Office...
Date: 10/13/2010
Embed Tags now supported by Office Web Applications
It allows you to reuse your Excel or PowerPoint Web Applications in other web pages – such as this...
Date: 09/23/2010
Guides for Users Migrating to Office 2010 from Office 2003
Over on the The Microsoft Office Blog there is a post that links to some migration and quick...
Date: 09/07/2010
Office 2010 Deployment coming? Learn the Excel Migration Considerations
I’ve been working with many customers lately who are planning to update their version of Office to...
Date: 07/14/2010
Going to Tech.Ed Australia? Early Bird Registration to save $300 ends tomorrow
EARLY BIRD TICKET SALE ENDS MIDNIGHT 16 JULY. BOOK TODAY AND SAVE $300 Browse to...
Date: 07/14/2010
Productivity Hub 2010 Released
The Productivity Hub, a SharePoint 2007 site template, was a sleeper of the end user readiness and...
Date: 06/30/2010
In Sydney Next Week? – Foursquare Mayor Meeting at Martin Place
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Calling all Foursquare Mayors Take Part in the world’s first office mayor...
Date: 06/09/2010
Interactive Command Reference for Office 2010
One of the most useful tools to help learn the updated interface in Office 2007 is the Interactive...
Date: 04/28/2010
Co-authoring Demonstrations in Office 2010
One of the Top Ten benefits of Office 2010 is the ability to have co-authoring allowing multiple...
Date: 03/17/2010
A Closer Look at Windows Live
I was just reading a post by David Pogue from the NY Times. He has given a summary of Windows...
Date: 03/13/2010
I Wonder What These Microsoft Interns Are Up To?
I’ll be watching their YouTube channel coming up to March 15th to find out...
Date: 03/01/2010
Using OBAs to get More Value from Your ERP
At Australian Tech.Ed 2009 last week on the Gold Coast, I had the opportunity to have a discussion...
Date: 09/13/2009
The Productivity Hub is now Available
The Productivity Hub is now live! What is the Productivity Hub? The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint...
Date: 09/03/2009
SharePoint in Plain English
In my role as an Enterprise Productivity Specialist, I spend a lot of my time talking to customers...
Date: 08/17/2009
Research into SharePoint Content and Application Lifecycle Management
SharePoint consultant Jeremy Thake from Readify is conducting some research into SharePoint Content...
Date: 08/10/2009
Real Life Value of Software + Services
I’ve been travelling overseas this week to a global Microsoft conference in the US. I sit here...
Date: 08/07/2009
Complimentary HP Netbook for 2009 Australian Tech.Ed Attendees
If you were looking for one more good reason to get to 2009 Australian Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast...
Date: 06/29/2009
Microsoft SharePoint Site now on SharePoint
I see on the SharePoint Team blog that they have announced some changes to the SharePoint home page...
Date: 05/21/2009
Want To Be a Speaker at Tech.Ed Australia 2009?
Last year we had over 50 unsolicited requests to be a speaker with 142 session ideas for the Office...
Date: 05/17/2009
Dynamic Business – Are you Prepared for Things you Can’t Control?
For those of you who have heard me talk about the reasons Microsoft continues to innovate and build...
Date: 04/29/2009
Building a Workplace for a Wide Spectrum of Generations
I’ve spent the last few working days briefing Government Agencies about how Microsoft approaches a...
Date: 04/26/2009
Why Use InfoPath for Electronic Forms?
Alistair Speirs has written a great entry on his view of Electronic forms. His description of...
Date: 04/19/2009
Australian National Bank Boosts Staff Training with Online Collaboration Solution
I’ve been spending some time lately talking with customers around the use of SharePoint to support...
Date: 04/15/2009
Email Delay Rules
As I mentioned in my email approach PIFEM one of the rules I have turned on in Outlook is to delay...
Date: 03/23/2009
Free Screen-cast Video Demonstrations and Training for SharePoint
A colleague of mine, Ketan, mentioned these free Screen-cast videos for SharePoint – provided by the...
Date: 03/19/2009
Microsoft Software Assurance E-Learning Courses Hosted in SharePoint
I’m in the middle of working with a customer who is planning their Office 2007 deployment to their...
Date: 03/11/2009
Use SharePoint Tasks to Manage Meeting Actions
My manager Peter was asking my advice for how to help organise a weekly meeting that he...
Date: 03/02/2009
SharePoint 2007 Enterprise versus Standard Edition
I was talking to a Technical Decision Maker at a customer of mine, and we were talking about the...
Date: 03/01/2009
Reducing Paper Use – Saves Big Money
I was talking to a customer of mine in Sydney yesterday, and the discussion of forms came up as a...
Date: 02/12/2009
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Office Deployment Video
In Australia, the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has been quite visible about their experience and benefits...
Date: 02/10/2009
More Ways Office can Save You Money
Gray Knowlton, Office Group Product Manager, just posted a nice blog entry Bits on Boxes about the...
Date: 01/21/2009
10 Ways Microsoft Office 2007 Can Save Companies Money
In economic times like these, organisations look everywhere in efforts to evaluate the value and...
Date: 01/15/2009
Impact of New Microsoft Office Interface (circa 1990)
I was reading the content of an article published in April 1990 of Software Magazine. ...
Date: 01/06/2009
Office 2007 Application Use Tracking
A really good way to prove the value and usefulness of Office 2007 in your business is to run a...
Date: 01/04/2009
Create and Manage Newsletters with SharePoint
UPDATE – Jan 22, 2008: I realise now that the site template linked to in my original post only...
Date: 12/30/2008
RecordPoint for Office SharePoint Server achieves full VERS Compliance
I notice on the Victorian Electronic Records Strategy (VERS) Compliant Products page that...
Date: 12/21/2008