I have been training for many years and never does it fail to impress me how much people want to learn and understand about the subject being taught. Well most people… sometime my students are dragged into class by their managers and have a week of learning when all they can think about is the work sitting on their desks when they get back 
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Was incredibly impressed with my daughters 3D Nintendo this afternoon… yes I have now let her play with it after testing it to make sure it is safe 
The 3D is very good and works without Glasses but you do need to be a set distance away from the small screen to get the full effect which is pretty impressive (Full size TV’s using similar technology are being developed).
Now as much as the 3D is great, the games that use the camera to place the action on your kitchen table are way better… you place a card on the table and focus the game onto the card at which point a dragon appears sitting on the table with targets front, rear and side which have to be shot by walking around the table… the Dragon launches itself at you in 3D and when shot disappears down a hole in the table…. pure magic and again very impressive.
I have to keep telling myself that this is a game and I have seen similar I-Phone games using the accelerators to turn you into a gun touting monster.
The thing is that before playing this game I was impressed with the graphical capability of my Microsoft Office 2010 PowerPoint slides and their ability to deliver a message… how much cooler would that message be if it was delivered by a dragon that steps out of the audience… walks onto the stage and delivers the Key statements of the presentation to thunderous applause….
This is a great application that I can use in my classroom or standing in front of a conference… the only problem that seems to stop it is…. its a Toy… not for adult use.
Boy has PowerPoint got a long way to go!!!
Sei-IS always pride itself on supporting the customer and this is a key consideration as the project goes live. Recently we completed a project which is essence is a single site built on the SharePoint 2010 platform that in effect is a ‘Super’ meeting workspace. The idea is that it will manage the key elements of a meeting (dah!) which are all based on documents, different kinds of documents but documents none the less.
So such a simple site requires some simple governance… who do I speak to when I need help, who takes responsibility when it goes wrong, what availability is the business looking for and 20 other questions…. 20 why 20 you are asking… well I don’t know but there must be 20 so what are they…. Continue reading ‘Governance… Big Project or Small Project but always important’
First day yesterday and I did have to twitter everyone to say that Microsoft does have a winner in SharePoint 2010 although they do seem to have forgotten a few things.
Missing things tend to be small things that annoy when building sites and lists rather than large things that stops a coder delivering functionality… a typical example is the failure to provide a cascading Look-up field… which if you are not familiar would allow you to include a field in a SharePoint form that provides a drop down choice from another list within the same site. Continue reading ’100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.’
I mentioned in a previous blog how we are able to understand the integration of Office desktop products and SharePoint 2010 from the Office 2010 information, whilst most of the really cool SharePoint stuff is embargoed until after the SharePoint conference in LA.
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I am sure you have all read them as your twitter account draws you to an interesting site of someones personal interests or role in life…. they are of course
Welcome to my Blog site
Now don’t get me wrong, you are all more than Welcome to read through some of the items I will be adding and maybe get to follow me around Europe as I travel and do what I hope are interesting things and share odd pictures, but…
I want to entertain, indulge in some strange ideas and collect your comments as we enter the sometimes rather obtuse world of SharePoint and it’s rather cool ways of ensuring knowledge is collected and make relevant to the reader just when they needed it.
Pure Knowledge, Nothing more-Nothing Less..
After all this is what your company paid out the money for… now to make it happen.