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• Extend your networking reach with social apps for Office

  15 Apr 2013

  Social apps can make working with Office 2013 more engaging, efficient, and fun. They combine the networking and outreach capabilities of social media sites with the mobile productivity power of Office. Together, Office and social apps give you more insight into your contacts, allow you to monitor your...
• Corporate "Facebook"? My Sites in SharePoint 2010

  3 Jun 2011

  Post #3 in our Ten Days of Office anniversary series is about how My Sites in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 helps colleagues work together. Read SharePoint team Director Christian Finn's 5 tips for implementing My Sites in your organization. Here's an excerpt from his post on the SharePoint Team Blog : ...
• Small Business: Top 10 productivity tips in the office and on the go

  17 May 2011

  If you're a small business owner, you're probably always on the lookout for resources to help you run your business more easily. Whether you're a Windows fan or a Mac lover, the following 10 tips and tricks from the Office team will help you get more done whether you're in the office or on the go. Top...
• First birthday and growing fast: Us! The Office Blog

  4 Jan 2011

  One year ago this week, we launched the Microsoft Office Blog, using CES 2010 for our shakedown cruise. Back then it was 5 blogs in one, with the shared goal of becoming your go-to blog for discovering how to work smarter, faster, and better when you use Office products. We were all about productivity...
• How my OneNote habit keeps me sane

  26 Jul 2010

  Warning : Microsoft OneNote can be addictive. As a compulsive note taker who's not nearly as good at organizing information as I am at collecting it, I rely on OneNote for every project at work and for most projects at home. And I've got company: "OneNote makes it easy for me to collect notes for my...
• Connect your Inbox to Facebook and Windows Live with the Outlook Social Connector

  13 Jul 2010

  Starting today, you can plug Facebook and Windows Live right into Microsoft Outlook through the Outlook Social Connector. You can view your social network as you look through your email to stay connected with your friends, family, and colleagues. Here are the key links of what Outlook users can do starting...
• Is the Web messing up your mind? Take the test

  29 Jun 2010

  Do you remember "This is your brain on drugs"? A 12-second video of an egg in a hot skillet swept the airwaves in the late 1980s, courtesy of the Partnership For a Drug-Free America. Debates raged over whether TV rots the brain. Update that to the 21st century and the question shifts to our newest habit...
• Your stories are what make Office 2010 great

  24 Jun 2010

  When we launched Office 2010 last week, we knew that the biggest story we wanted to tell was not our story -- it was yours . The stories of people who use Office every day, to accomplish great things in ways we haven't even imagined. Office is very much about staying true to our aspiration to serve as...
• Counting down: Office 2010 hits the streets tomorrow

  14 Jun 2010

  It took radio 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million people. TV? 13 years. The Internet? 4 years. Facebook? 4 months , according to the latest factoids on Did you Know . Many of us have been in chat rooms and online discussion groups for many years, and more recently Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter...
• The workplace is changing rapidly, and Office is ready

  10 May 2010

  Guest blogger Kelby Johnson is updating us today on Office's Did You Know program. One week in and the reception to the Did You Know (DYK) conversation has been great. We're very pleased to see so many of you engaged. As Takeshi Numoto pointed out last Monday, the idea of the program is to engage you...
• Try MySpace for Outlook with the Outlook Social Connector, starting today

  10 Mar 2010

  Now you can connect to MySpace from the Outlook 2010 Beta using MySpace for Outlook , the latest addition to the Outlook Social Connector that we announced a few weeks ago, when the LinkedIn component went live. The MySpace add-in lets you see MySpace activity and contact info from right within Outlook...
• Productivity + social media = goodness for the workplace

  25 Feb 2010

  Over the last few weeks we've heard loads of "buzz" about infusing social media services into productivity apps. From Google's Buzz to Salesforce.com's Chatter to our own Outlook Social Connector , user demand for connecting the productivity tools they know and love with social networking apps they increasingly...
• Returning veterans: jobs, education, and community with social networking

  23 Sep 2009

  Dear veterans, job-seekers, and veteran students, The people returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan are looking for opportunities for jobs and education. They're also seeking to re-integrate into mainstream society. With social networking, there are many ways to feel understood, appreciated, and...
• So this avatar walks into a bar...

  8 Dec 2008

  Sooner than you think, virtual worlds like Second Life will be where we do most of our learning, creating, socializing, and earning. At least that's where Second Life founder Philip Rosedale thinks we're headed, like it or not. Consider the fact that although the global economy has stalled, Second Life...
• 1000 resumes? One extreme job-hunting strategy that worked.

  17 Nov 2008

  My colleague David Salaguinto recently shared the bizarre story of how he got here— here being Microsoft's caffeinated halls. He took an extreme approach to job hunting after the start-up he was working for downsized overnight, back when startups everywhere were shedding payroll fast. He had a new mortgage...
• Too much to juggle, not enough hands? "How Outlook can save your social life."

  13 Nov 2008

  With the mixed bag of brilliant innovations and petty annoyances that come with modern life, getting organized is a perennial challenge. Some folks are naturally brilliant at it but I suspect they're all either engineers or parents with multiple kids and kindly pharmacists. Juggling work, family, and...
• How should we collaborate with you?

  15 May 2008

  “Community” and “social networking” are popular buzzwords among Web site owners these days. Everyone’s talking about Web 2.0 , which simply means people communicating directly with each other, using the Web as their interface – either through a social networking site, such as Facebook , responding to...
• Facebook for friends

  21 Feb 2008

  Are you on Facebook ? We are. I first heard about Facebook from a friend who shared a house with Zuckerberg while at Harvard. I found the social networking site bewildering at first, but as more and more friends started joining, it became a fun way to get quick updates on what they were doing. And it...