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All the slides from the Microsoft Further Education Briefing 2010

Today was the date for our Further Education Briefing 2010, and around 90 colleges came to our London headquarters to get an update on latest news from us, as well as hearing from other UK colleges on their projects and plans. I’ve put a brief note on...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 07:54 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, presentations, Live @ Edu, download, Virtualisation, Office 2010

Microsoft Further Education Briefing 2010 – London 19th March

The booking deadline is approaching for our Further Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 19th March in London. If you haven’t registered yet, then it’s worth taking a look at the agenda, as we’ve built it to make sure that you can get lots...

Published Wed, Mar 10 2010 12:39 PM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, Saving Money, free events, IT Academy, Office 2010

Guidelines on web usability – useful for university web projects

When I wrote the Good Blogging Guide last year, I concentrated on audience, purpose, search and writing like a real person. What I spent little time on was the technical side of blogging and the web – navigation, usability, content such as images, and...

Published Mon, Feb 22 2010 01:23 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, Good Blogging Guide

Creating school websites – guidelines on usability

When I wrote the Good Blogging Guide last year, I concentrated on audience, purpose, search and writing like a real person ( I hear voices saying “Look at yourself Ray, you’ve forgotten it all already!”) . What I spent little time on was the technical...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 02:04 AM by Microsoft UK Schools

Filed under: sharepoint, blogs, Good Blogging Guide, blogging, Websites

Guidelines on web usability – useful for college websites

When I wrote the Good Blogging Guide last year, I concentrated on audience, purpose, search and writing like a real person ( I hear voices saying “Look at yourself Ray, you’ve forgotten it all already!”) . What I spent little time on was the technical...

Published Tue, Feb 16 2010 06:21 AM by FE blog

Filed under: sharepoint, Good Blogging Guide, free downloads

Microsoft Further Education Briefing 2010

Bookings are now open for our Further Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 19th March in London. Microsoft will be holding our annual Further Education Briefing on 19th March 2010 at our London offices in Victoria. The agenda for the event...

Published Wed, Feb 3 2010 09:22 AM by FE blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, free events, moodle, Virtualisation, Office 2010

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 7 – Stop printing so much

Part seven of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. Late last year, I was chatting with a group of senior leaders in schools about the amount of paper that is used in a typical school (it had been...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 06:44 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, learning platforms, SharePoint in education, learning gateway, Money Saving Tips, carbon emissions

Eduserv’s report into the use of SharePoint by Higher Education Institutions

The final report from the University of Northumbria, completed through the Eduserv-funded ‘ Investigation into the uptake and use of Microsoft SharePoint by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) ’ is now available for download. I’ve taken the key findings...

Published Thu, Jan 21 2010 03:10 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, free stuff, downloads, research

Planning your days at BETT 2010 – the Microsoft Theatre schedule

Nothing like taking things right up to the wire – and this year we’ve excelled ourselves in making last minute changes to our BETT stand, in order to find a way to fit in all of the latest news onto our stand and into our theatre. But as the fitters start...

Published Mon, Jan 11 2010 05:30 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, Live@EDU, Windows 7, Monkseaton, learning gateway, BETT, Office 2010, Twynham School

How to make a beautiful school SharePoint site

On Monday I shared some UK Education SharePoint websites that I described as beautiful, and which had been created by UK education establishments. And the opinion around the office was that the Twynham School Sixth Form website was the most astonishing...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 01:27 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, SharePoint in education, developers, Twynham School

Making a beautiful SharePoint site for a school

I know that lots of people are using SharePoint in their school – or have it provided to them by their local authority. When you install SharePoint “out of the box”, it is fair to say that it isn’t something that whacks you between the eyes shouting out...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 01:20 AM by Microsoft UK Schools News Blog

Filed under: sharepoint, SharePoint in education, communications, design

Microsoft Higher Education Briefing 2009

Bookings are now open for our Higher Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 10th December in London. Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10 th December 2009 at our London offices in Victoria. The agenda for the...

Published Mon, Nov 16 2009 08:00 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint, Windows 7, free events, Live @ Edu, Office 2010

Community consultation - your views on SharePoint in Higher Education

I’m posting this on behalf of the Northumbria University and hope you can help: IT Directors and Project Managers of many customers have taken part in a survey for this Eduserv/Northumbria University project. The final phase is a wider online community...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 03:55 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: sharepoint

Free SharePoint Event – thanks to Eduserv and Northumbria

Many customers have been invovled in the process so far and this project is moving towards its final phase. Please come along and participate in this event. FREE EVENT Time: 11-3.30pm, 25 November 2009 Place: Aeonian Training Centre, Shropshire...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 09:36 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog

Filed under: Events, sharepoint

Enterprise Search – from Microsoft

We’ve all witnessed performing a search and getting something like 1,034,461 results back in 0.16 seconds with lots of blue and green lines on the screen. However, no matter how many and how quick, can we really say we’re getting the right answer...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2009 04:51 AM by The UK Higher Education Blog