Everday CIO » SharePoint http://www.everydaycio.com How do you take this ever changing world of technology and apply it pratically to your everyday life to truly improve it and empower yourself and others? Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:56:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Video: Bharat Shah on Microsoft Online Services Overview http://www.everydaycio.com/bharat-shah-microsoft-online-services-overview/ http://www.everydaycio.com/bharat-shah-microsoft-online-services-overview/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:50:14 +0000 ianrudy http://www.everydaycio.com/?p=138 Had a brief hiatus from the blog due to changing jobs and family related things but I’m back in action and focused pretty heavily on the upcoming SharePoint 2010 release and Windows 7 and Media Center related things.  Cloud applications and online service offerings are continuing to be big in the market and this is the first of a series of posts aimed at analyzing the online offering as it relates to the Microsoft offerings and specifically SharePoint 2010.  This is a video of Bharat Shah a long time Microsoft veteran talking about the direction of Microsoft Online Services division.

You can check the video out from Channel 9 here

]]> http://www.everydaycio.com/bharat-shah-microsoft-online-services-overview/feed/ 0 Add Mind Mapping to your Technology Tool Kit http://www.everydaycio.com/add-mind-mapping-to-your-technology-tool-kit/ http://www.everydaycio.com/add-mind-mapping-to-your-technology-tool-kit/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:25:35 +0000 ianrudy http://www.everydaycio.com/?p=128 I was catching up the Twittersphere while watching my Tour de France DVR recordings and I picked up a great link to a website called Hypershifters which discusses visualization mapping for business and specifically technology.

Mind Mapping is a tool I added to my arsenal a few years ago and I can’t live without it now. For organizing concepts and ideas quickly in a visual way goes a long way at being able to organize and dissect a complex idea or to spur creative thought. I’ve used it to organize the hierarchy of SharePoint installations by breaking down farm configurations, site collection architecture, and demonstrate content publishing paths, and for figuring out the site hierarchy of a web site for a client. I started years ago using a product from MindJet called Mind Manager, but have recently messed around with MindMeister and Xmind because of the on-line collaborative component. The next best thing to mind mapping is collaborating with someone else on the mind map! MindJet also has an on-line offering, but they didn’t offer one at the time. I have settled on Xmind because of the functionality of being able to incorporate multiple ideas in one map, the ability to have a desktop version, and the collaboration aspect.

Have you given mind mapping a try? What was your experience? If you’ve tried it what tool do you recommend?

]]> http://www.everydaycio.com/add-mind-mapping-to-your-technology-tool-kit/feed/ 2 UNESCO-Microsoft Task Force on Higher Education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) http://www.everydaycio.com/unesco-microsoft-task-force-on-higher-education-and-information-and-communication-technology-ict/ http://www.everydaycio.com/unesco-microsoft-task-force-on-higher-education-and-information-and-communication-technology-ict/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:39:42 +0000 ianrudy http://www.everydaycio.com/?p=87 Keeping with the education focused theme of the latest feature article I wanted to do a quick post on the announcement I found here about Microsoft and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization teaming up to focus on technology training programs.  Microsoft is contributing $50 million to support the ICT task force focused on training, resources, and certifications.  I know many of us in the technology field have all done some Microsoft bashing over the years, but they are a pretty strong economic force in the education sector.  I worked with a local Intermediate Unit here in Pittsburgh and saw the deep discounts they provided to educational organizations for products and services.  I was just recently discussing the SCORM capabilities within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server with a client and how they could leverage part of that platform to solve some of the internal and external training needs they have.  Microsoft DreamSpark was mentioned in the release as well and was the first time I’ve heard about the program.  Does anybody have any more information on this program?

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