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• Confessions of a news addict (who reads better now)

  11 Aug 2011

  My wife is a bit worried I’ve become a news addict. True, I do spend time on news sites online, even occasionally reading out of town papers to keep up with baseball players that used to be on the home team. However, I have a magic bullet, something that makes reading easier: Readability . If you...
• Real Good: Imagine Cup solves real life problem

  4 Aug 2011

  One thing I am constantly impressed by here at Microsoft is the amount of invention (or the good ol' 99% perspiration) that goes on here, be it folks of Office Labs , Microsoft Research , or those we sponsor. This year's Imagine Cup announced their winners from a immense pool of talent: 350,000 global...
• The guy behind the Office Screensaver (video)

  28 Jul 2011

  David Salaguinto is the renaissance man of my floor. He has dreamed up the Office Comic , was the first “guest” of Office Casual , and a future project I’ll be telling you about soon. For now, he has Getting Started Office 2010 Screensaver . Pretty good for a guy hired to write about...
• Office tips from a screensaver? (video)

  14 Jul 2011

  Yesterday we launched the Office 2010 Getting Started screensaver . It’s not your father’s typical screensaver. Watch how you can learn a few tips on using Office 2010: The screensaver is the brainchild of a writer here, David Salaguinto ( watch an interview ). He writes about the genesis...
• For your next idea, steal like an artist

  9 Jun 2011

  In a rut? Need some inspiration for your next idea? You will spend no better 5 minutes than reading Austin Kleon’s post Steal Like an Artist. The self-proclaimed “writer who draws” has the seeds for his next book in a presentation of “10 things I wish I’d heard when I was...
• How I blog: Using Windows Live Writer on the road (video)

  12 May 2011

  Visiting New Orleans for the Mom 2.0 Summit, I created a few “Office Casually” videos about the tools we use on the road. Those videos appeared in the main Office Blog, but if you missed it, here is my take on the free Windows Live Writer for blogs. I love how it handles multiple blogs and...
• Video backgrounds help tell new stories in PowerPoint presentations (video)

  28 Apr 2011

  Seeing something unexpected is a great way to hook your audience. When I showed this slide at a conference earlier this month, there were murmurs of “What’s that?” Granted, this is not ground-breaking, but it’s different enough for folks to take notice. The cool thing is what...
• Coming to a job interview near you: The job presentation

  11 Apr 2011

  You just had a great interview. You think you have the job, now all you have to do is…make a presentation. That’s what Chris Cunningham , co-founder and CEO of Appssavvy , does with his applicants. As he states in the New York Times' great Corner Office column : Every job candidate must...
• What’s NUI? What's next?

  7 Apr 2011

  My daughter is passionate about drawing and animation. For the holidays, I happily bought a highly rated animation program and a Bamboo drawing board for our computer. She played with them for less than an hour and gave up frustrated. There was too much to learn to just animate objects. Meanwhile, she...
• How to generate ideas: The Office Casual way (video)

  5 Apr 2011

  Folks have asked me how I come up with my ideas for these videos. Hence, a video on the topic (with lots of links below). Can you share how you come up with your ideas? Add a comment below. Read more about the things I talked about in the video: Scene 1: My Office The best way to learn about dragging...
• Information fatigue: One survivor’s tale at the dinner table

  29 Mar 2011

  "The capital of Maine is Concord," says daughter #1. "You're wrong, it's Augusta," counters daughter #2. And here we are at the family dinner table. The kids have found something else to argue over. Of course, my next thought should be how a thoughtful parent would handle this potential brouhaha. But...