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Announcement: Microsoft webcasts on DST changes in Russia: Oct 3rd & 6th

We’re doing another series of webcasts next week to help customers and organizations preparing for daylight saving time, particularly the new changes in Russia this year. This is part of our “step-by-step” program on making the DST transition. Geared toward IT Professionals, we’ll walk through a general overview of DST and the impacts and solutions for Windows, Outlook and Exchange.

Understanding and preparing for 2011 Russian Daylight Savings Time Change (VIR71CAL)

October 3rd at 4:00PM PDT
Click here to register for the webcast. You can login with existing Academy Live username and password or click “Register Now” to join for the first time.

Presented By:
M3 Sweatt, Partner, Program Management, Microsoft
Matthew Brown, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Mike DeGooyer, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Bala Sivakumar, Program Manager, Microsoft
Ron Ragsdale, Program Manager, Microsoft
Jenny Liu, Program Manager, Microsoft

Session Overview: In 2011, the Russian government adopted a law to cancel Daylight Saving Time (DST). As a result, Russia will not “fall back” to Winter time. This webcast will discuss the implications of that decision and what Microsoft is doing to mitigate those implications for our Customers and Partners.

Level: 200

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Before the Webcast: Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. For an overview of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 platform and features, please view the Getting Started guide here.

You’ll find a list of these upcoming webcasts on our DST & TZ site at http://www.microsoft.com/time.  We also include a few archived, on-demand webcasts available here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_webcasts.

We’ll also host a second webcast next week to accomodate customers and partners in earlier time zones on October 6th at 7:00AM PDT. We’ll be providing login information for this Live Webcast shortly on the DST Webcasts Page of http://www.microsoft.com/time.

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Announcement: Microsoft webcast on daylight saving time changes in Russia

MP900433094[1][Update 9/19/2010: The materials from our webcast, along with a recording of the webcast itself, are now available here.]

Here’s an interesting webcast we have coming up this week…

We’re also offering a series of new webcasts to help customers and organizations preparing for daylight saving time, particularly the new changes in Russia this year. This is part of our “step-by-step” program on making the DST transition. Geared toward IT Professionals, we’ll walk through a general overview of DST and the impacts and solutions for Windows, Outlook and Exchange.

You’ll find a list of these upcoming webcasts on our DST & TZ site at http://www.microsoft.com/time.  We also include a few archived, on-demand webcasts available here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_webcasts.

Understanding and preparing for 2011 Russian Daylight Savings Time Change (VIR66CAL)

September 15, 2011, 10:00 am to 11:30 am Pacific Daylight Time (Click here to calculate your local time)

Presented By:
M3 Sweatt, Partner, Program Management & CPE, Microsoft
Matthew Brown, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Mike DeGooyer, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Bala Sivakumar, Program Manager, Microsoft
Ron Ragsdale, Program Manager, Microsoft
Jenny Liu, Program Manager, Microsoft

Session Overview: In 2011, the Russian government adopted a law to cancel Daylight Saving Time (DST). As a result, Russia will not “fall back” to Winter time. This webcast will discuss the implications of that decision and what Microsoft is doing to mitigate those implications for our Customers and Partners.

Level: 200

Microsoft Customer Information

Register for the Conference: https://www.eventbuilder.com/event_desc.asp?p_event=u48c3q60

Technical Support: Having trouble with the conference on the day of the session? Click here for Live Meeting support or call: 866-493-2825

Before the Webcast: Please ensure you have downloaded the latest version of Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. For an overview of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 platform and features, please view the Getting Started guide here.

 

Tags: Microsoft, Daylight Saving Time, Daylight Savings Time, RSS, DST, Russia

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Coming this Thursday, 6/18: June Chat with the Internet Explorer team at 10AM Pacific

Of interest is the upcoming June Chat with the Internet Explorer team this Thursday, as Allison from the product team notes here…

Join members of the Internet Explorer team for an Expert Zone chat this Thursday, June 18th at 10.00 PST/17.00 UTC. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered by members of the IE product team. Thank you to all who have attended our previous chats! 

If you can’t join us live, the transcript for all chats are available here.

Thanks!  See you Thursday.

Tags: articles, what I read, Windows 7.

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Want to know more about Bing? Live webcast on June 1, 2009 @10:00AM Pacific Daylight Time

Want to know more about Microsoft’s new Bing? Then take a look at the new Bing Interactive Product Guide, the Virtual Press kit (filled with screen shots, fact sheets and more)

Microsoft Unveils Bing – A New Search Decision EngineOn Monday, you’ll have a chance to learn even more in a live, interactive webcast where you will see examples of Bing and can ask the Bing team questions. This courtesy of Stefan Weitz over at Bing:

Want more Bing?  How about an interactive Webcast where we’ll walk you through all the cool features in our new decision engine.  Sure you could read the Product Guide (located here) but that would require, you know, reading.  Better just to watch. 

Plus, while you can talk to the Product Guide it likely won’t respond (and if it does let us know – I thought we fixed that bug).   Our webcast will let you interact with the presenter by asking questions throughout the session!

How do you join in the fun?  Three easy steps:

1) Set your alarm clocks for 10AM Pacific Daylight Time, Monday, June 1. 

2) Point your browser to  http://ms.istreamplanet.com/search (I’d do this before 10AM just to make sure you’ve got what you need to watch the stream)

3) Sit quietly and watch the ‘cast OR engage by typing questions in the player.

That’s it!  Tell your friends.  Tell your neighbors.  Tell people you don’t even know.  Post it on Facebook. The Bing Webcast– no prompters, no scripts, 100% danger.

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The Microsoft 2019 video, good presentation skills, and NASA junkie Kevin Schofield speaks at Convergence

Today I saw that NASA junkie Kevin Schofield, GM at Microsoft Research, spoke at Convergence 2009 this week and showed the now infamous view from MSR of the future in 2019 video…

“So let me bring this close to home because, you know, this is kind of ethereal a little bit. And we talked about exploration, we talked about science, a lot about science. Talked a little bit about how this applies to how we live and work.

“I actually look at this and say this has a lot of application to how we live and work. And, you know, we really need to think harder about that. In fact, within Microsoft, the Microsoft Business Division, Dynamics is part of that, has really been thinking about what the next generation of business productivity looks like. Not just Office productivity, but business productivity as a whole.

“And in fact, they asked us at Microsoft Research to work with them to put together some scenarios about what this would look like ten years from now, in the year 2019. And we worked with them and put together a video, just a few minutes long, really sort of exploring what those scenarios would look like.”.

To view the video, you can view it from Stephen Elop’s speech and fast forward to the 15:00 mark and available here (tip of the hat to Steve Clayton):

<a href=”http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=msnvideo” target=”_new” title=”Future Vision Montage”>Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

 

As Steve Clayton noted in his post…

Predicting the future of technology is notoriously hard – but it didn’t stop our Business Division from coming up with a montage of how technology could be playing an even greater part in our lives in 2019. It was shown today for the first time when Stephen Elop presented at the Wharton Business Technology Conference.

You can also check out Stephen’s PowerPoint slides which are a welcome departure from the bullet point riddled slides you often see from Microsoft. Bravo Stephen.

I love these types of videos – all very Minority Report. When I look at some of the technology on display at Microsoft Research’s TechFest this week it makes me feel that this stuff is much closer than many of us expect and it’s great to see Microsoft continuing to invest in this type of research to build the future of technology.

 

Agree with Steve whole heartedly: good to see more human presentations and demos rather than the standard, boring PowerPoint presentation.  Microsoft UK has a helpful article on successful presentation skills.

As Seth Godin notes in his provocative post on really bad PowerPoint presentations, the hope was that with improved education and the effort to call out horrific presentations, we would see a dramatic reduction in dull presentations. (This post was the origin of Seth’s famous line, “Bullets Are For the NRA”.)  But they’re still a challenge, and I’m aware of the hours I’ll never get back sitting through these boring PowerPoint presentations, slides filled with bullet after bullet, each painfully read aloud by the presenter…

“I wrote this [post] about four years ago, originally as an ebook. I figured the idea might spread and then the problem would go away–we’d no longer see thousands of hours wasted, every single day, by boring PowerPoint presentations filled with bullets.

“Not only has it not gone away, it’s gotten a lot worse. Last week I got a template from a conference organizer. It seems they want every single presenter to not only use bullets for their presentations, but for all of us to use the same format! Shudder.

“So, for posterity, and in the vain hope it might work, here we go again…”

Note the following, and visit Seth’s post for his Four Components To A Great Presentation:

    1. Make yourself cue cards.
    2. Make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them.
    3. Create a written document.
    4. Create a feedback cycle.

“If your presentation is for a project approval, hand people a project approval form and get them to approve it, so there’s no ambiguity at all about what you’ve all agreed to. 

At Microsoft, we use RACI and OARPi (the ‘i’ stands for ‘inform’) to clearly define accountabilities.

And if you can get a kicker video like the one above, more power to you. 😉

 

 

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