A snapshot of Walt Mossberg’s interview with Steve Ballmer at All Things Digital – Yusuf Mehdi does the demos which draw gasps and cheers from the crowd.
Take note from Steve on how exactly to say BING!
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The Summer starts now! 🙂
Nice idea from the Office 2010 guys!
http://www.office2010themovie.com
33 seconds of fun which give a hint as to what’s to come in the new program.
To be honest I can’t imagine “No Return” “No Undo” and “No Control. Alt. Delete.” So goodness knows what they got in store.
Just been given the heads up on a new tool to make it easy to add a map and directions to a meeting request in Outlook 2007!
The guys at Multimap have built a mapping Add-In to Outlook which, with a few clicks, embeds a map into a calendar meetings, contacts and emails which saves time adding links and generates an “easy to access“ map you can view or print plus find directions and transport links. 
It also let’s you click on the Bird’s Eye view – my favourite feature so you can see exactly where I work!
If you have Office 2007 check it out and let us know what you think!
Oh….and before you ask it works in the US too! 🙂
I’ve just designed a site for the Budleigh Salterton Art Club in Devon!
Me….a web designer?! Who’d have thought?!
I used Office Live to do it and it took about an hour to set up and launch!
You get to register a domain for free for the first year and you get free web hosting, free design tools and templates to create and edit your site and, to cap it all off, you get free support by phone and email – not that I needed it because it was so easy to set up the site!
You can pretty much add in anything you want at a click of a button:
Seeing as it’s an art club I added a photo gallery but you can have a multitude of modules including contact forms, event calendars, stock lists and even a quick fire map & direction section!
The navigation look and feel is very much like Microsoft Office, as you’d expect being called Office Live! But my point is it’s so easy for the web novice to find their way around and get a new half-way decent website up and receiving traffic in just a couple of hours.
Check out the 3 Step Guide on how to get started and see how other companies have got on with the system at their customer gallery!
It may not be as super-pretty as something a professional designer could whack out, but in these cash-strapped times there is a bunch of retired budding Van Gogh’s in deepest, darkest Devon who are very happy with the result!
The Date & Time is Friday 8th May, 2009 at 7.30pm.
The place is HMS President.
The cost is £30, including buffet and welcome drink.
All proceeds go to the NSPCC.
How’s that for an offer you can’t refuse?
Join us for our 1920’s Gangster party all in aid of the NSPCC. There will be eating, there will be drinking, there will be gambling, there will be dancing. And there’ll probably be more than a few people talking like Robert De Niro.
HMS President is moored on the Thames opposite the Oxo Tower. The nearest tube station is Temple, and buses will be provided from Reading to HMS President and back for less than a tenner.
To purchase tickets please email challpar@microsoft.com
For more information please visit www.challengerparty09.spaces.live.com
I’ve not written about this awesome little program on my blog until now.
No reason other than I suppose I forget sometimes that although I write a lot on the adCenter Blog, there are other channels I can talk about the great work our teams at Microsoft do.
In a nutshell the Microsoft adCenter Excel Add In Keyword Research Tool lets you plug in a keyword and assess how many people search using that word in a given time period.
It will also tell you what other searches contained that term.
So not just “camera” but also “digital camera” “SLR Camera” “Camera Stores in Cardiff” or “my camera oh oh, my camera never lies anymore” (assuming people are looking for Bucks Fizz lyrics!)
The killer app for me is the demographic tool which lets you see which demographic – age and gender – is typing in that keyword more than any other?
Why is it important?
Well never before have you had so much rich data to use when marketing online…..or offline for that matter.
Knowing the different keywords that are associated with your products, services and brand and your competitors brands is important when you’re building out web or PPC keywords, content and ad copy.
But if you know what the audience that is most interested in learning more you can tailor your marketing accordingly.
Women aged between 18 and 25 are going to require a very different message than the kind you’d use to target a guy aged 50-65 so having a better understanding of who your customers are helps you come up with marketing that will resonate.
So download the Keyword Research Tool now and give it a whirl – you will NOT be disappointed!
We’re piloting the new version which has UK data at the mo so watch out for that on the adCenter Blog!
5 flights, 4 countries, 3 hotels, 2 hangovers and only 1 life!
The last couple of weeks have been madder than Mad Jack McMad!
1st there was Iceland and www.rimc.com – check out mine and Rand Fishkin’s post and my Facebook Photos for some insight into that incredible few days!
Then there was SES New York – check out our wild and whacky videos here, here & here!
After a pit stop in Boston to visit my mate Dom Doyle who teaches Theology at Harvard, it was onto Toronto where I spent time with the Canada team and participated in a round table with some of Canada’s finest press folk and managed an amusing dinner out with Vanessa, Danny and Andrew & Mona from www.PageZero.com
Now I’m in Seattle meeting with my team, planning the next year’s worth of excitement and doing lots of work during downtime on the wedding!
After two weeks it’s a bit odd being away from Englandshire, but travelling sure makes sure you’re busy.
It amuses me how some people seem to think it’s all glitz and glam, but believe me you yearn for your own bed and a daily dose of Radio 5 Live!
The key is to make long trips comfortable and I have some tips on how to get the most from your mileage…….but I’ll save them for another day!
BTW – If anyone can name the BBC comedy and character who says the words in the title of this post, I’ll send them a surprise!
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