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Training is the gift that keeps on giving! It's true.
Knowledge provides value that never expires and never goes out of fashion. The value of knowledge compounds and grows over time like nothing else can.
Empower those you care about with something they can put to use daily. What other gift offers more?
I've always said that a little bit of training goes a long way. It unlocks ideas and…
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Outlook 2007 Productivity - 3-day online class - July 29th, 30th, and 31st 2008
Limited to 15 participants
Dig in and discover more about using Outlook 2007
You already know the basics. You have been working in Outlook for a while now, but you have heard that Outlook can do a lot. This course is what you have been waiting for. Learn and explore the best features in Outlook…
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Happy Holidays to everyone!
This is a great time to announce the launch of my new E-Learning Center. There you will find on-demand training courses for Outlook and SharePoint Services. I'll be adding new courses on a regular basis. Go to www.virtualassist.net/elearning
Right now, here's what is available:
- SharePoint Services 3.0 User Training – online version $24.95 – over 10 hours of narrated video tutorials
- SharePoint Services 3.0 User Training – download
My favorite company for Outlook Add-ins, Sperry Software, is offering a BOGO (Buy One Get One) holiday special until December 31, 2007.
Now is a great time to add some bling to your Outlook!
http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outlook/default.asp
The list of add-ins they create is below:
Add Email Address
Always BCC
Appointments By Email
Attachment Forget-Me-Not
Attachment Save
Auto Print
Business Bundle
Contacts Sort Order
Distribution List Manager
Duplicate Appointments Eliminator
Duplicate Contacts Eliminator
Duplicate Email Eliminator
Duplicate Email Eliminator Across Folders
Duplicate Journals Eliminator
Duplicate Notes Eliminator
Duplicate Posts Eliminator
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Looking to find more about how to work with Outlook and SharePoint? Here's a great article (with screenshots) about how these two provide online and offline functionality for sharing documents.
Check out this blog post from the link below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/09/28/sharepoint-outlook-the-perfect-link.aspx
Great information!
Andrea Kalli
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I'm very excited to see this available! Now that I have my first smartphone (I know, WAY behind the times!), and that I use Business Contact Manager 2007 for my small business, this is a very cool tool to increase my productivity while away from the office.
BONUS: Interesting features include the ability to view the History (such as related emails and appts) and the Notes (which I use heavily) for my Business Contacts…
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Attachment Preview was one of the those features I didn't think much about when I upgraded to Outlook 2007. I was mostly interested in the new SharePoint integration features. I really do like Attachment Preview a lot. Up until now you could not preview .pdf attachments. Check out Ryan Gregg's site and download his free PDF Preview Handler...
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Incorporating Podcasts into your SharePoint Site
These days, my life is filled with SharePoint, Outlook, and podcasts. Podcasting is such a wonderful medium for content delivery, so I thought I would see just how I could pull these three technologies together.
Here are the THREE different ways I came up with to incorporate podcasts into your SharePoint site.
ONE:
If you are lucky enough to have a SharePoint hosting company that provides a RSS…
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As I'm preparing for the next set of SharePoint Services workshops in March, I thought I would share with you tidbits of information that may peak your interest in learning about and working with the new version of SharePoint.
Article information is from a Microsoft Whitepaper:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0D05DF2E-52FD-4DA5-B9CC-B84D2ED573F5&displaylang=en
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Collaboration on the Go: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the Mobile Workplace
Now, your mobile workforce can remain productive, informed, and on-task away from…
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SharePoint v3 / OL2007 has a two way sync with calendars in Outlook, whereas before it only had a one way sync in the WSSv2 / OL2003 version.
So you create a Calendar in a SharePoint site, then go under Actions, select Connect to Outlook. Outlook will then ask you if it is OK to link to the site. Once you have added the site to your Outlook, you can drag/drop…
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I love technology. I love books on technology. I'm a huge Microsoft Office fan, primarily Outlook. Always have been, always will be. The upcoming arrival of Office 2007 to the general public has got me giddy. What with all the new features of Outlook and SharePoint Services....well, I don't know about you but when new software is on the horizon I can't wait to get my hands on some new…
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Sometimes it's the little things in life that bring the greatest joy. I recently came upon this article written by someone who was just starting to experience the new way Outlook 2007 brings together email flags, tasks, categories, and color coding into a more cohesive way to help her stay on top of things.
Read the article here:
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/devlife/archive/2006/11/20/44276.aspx
Personally, I believe that this type of experience-sharing is so beneficial. All of us can…
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Microsoft took the first steps in IE7 and now you'll see RSS reading integrated into Outlook 2007. We provide an overview of the bare-bones reader.
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Andrea Kalli
Your resource for Outlook training and SharePoint training
http://www.virtualassist.net/
Andrea Kalli Virtual Trainer and Assistant, LLC is announcing a new partnership with BXMedia to start distributing our training videos to the public. Currently being offered is:
- SharePoint Services v2 - Basic through Intermediate - $75 / 6 hours video tutorials
- SharePoint Services v2 Power User - $40 / 4 hours video tutorials
- SharePoint Services v2 Complete Bundle - $99 / 10 hours video tutorials
- PowerPoint 2003 Tips and Techniques - $28 / 2.5 hours
Here's a little something I recently discovered....there are two different versions of Outlook 2007 that are available within the 8 different versions of the Microsoft Office 2007 suites that you have to choose from. I'm including a link to a very helpful document Microsoft offers detailing what you need to know. The purpose of this paper is to describe the primary differences between two editions of Outlook 2007—Office Outlook 2007…
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