Robert Bridge   Social Media Management,...
You can learn a lot from how the industry uses the tools available to all of us. Today I enrolled for a tutorial from Microsoft for a Microsoft 365 tutorial. The event offered a link to add the date to my calendar, I have a Mac and it added the date to Microsoft. There was a glitch, but it did take me into I Cal the software that gives me reminders about events that I should attend. Due to the glitch I just copied and pasted the details into my calendar, unfortunately the date and time were different. This is a global problem which could have easily been checked by either looking online or checking my clock computer that has the world times. There are however tow different types of time zones and how they are described, this always confuses me and can take precious time to figure out or find the correct page to read the time around the world. A good tip is to find a clock that works for you and the two different ways people describe time zones and bookmark them both. The good news is like Microsoft many webinars have a tab where you can look at your time zone. My time zone is Greenwich Mean Time. But it is not always that simple when trying to convert to GMT.
The things Microsoft 365 offer that jumped out are having a place where you can store documents enter cloud based software to broadcast webinars and have Excel documents and other software that I am not 100% accustomed with: Office Professional, Exchange Onine, Share Point online and Lync Online. The reason why I find this interesting is because I am very interested in having my own order of tools available to me,
javascript:nicTemp();use them in an order that is parallel with corporate industries. I hope that makes sense.
Some of these tools I use and have successfully configured on my computer are Microsoft Entourage. I have this configured with Gmail, this means that e-mails from Gmail and the Buzz posts can be accessed through Microsoft Entourage. This might sound very basic but I am very proud that I did this. Granted Microsoft helped me and ran me through the details. 
Did you know as a computer owner you have many hours of advice available to you from Microsoft. I think this might be limited to Microsoft Word as a minimal requirement of this and after initial contact (like you would through Hostgator chat), the information depends on the correspondence within your e-mail. 
So in order to get through the problems you will first be able to describe where you went wrong. 
This is another reason why I got so excited about what MSN Silverlight Expression offered for free. This for all I know maybe limited educational opportunities. I say this from someone who has researched IT education in pursuit of gaining certificates to get employed in corporate technology based companies. 
These certificates cost money, there is funding available for this type of training, well there is in the UK. You get these certificates through reputable educational brokers who are affiliated and recommended by these companies. Some even offer this training for free but you must sign a contract with them and later give about a ten percent commission of what you earn to pay for the work they find for you, once qualified. Most of them on enrolment offer you a free Laptop with the necessary software installed.
I hope this qualifies why I, like yourself are so enthusiastic about Microsoft because there is a world of equally as exciting technology companies. I think Microsoft are also very enthusiastic about what they have to offer, and you can read more about this on things like Yahoo News. I light of the data I have read and the recent websites I have viewed online it seems many people have already took action and implemented the new API codes in the web designs, more plug-ins have been designed and introduced within C Panel so you can instantly implement them yourselves. Being able to design them yourselves through the step by step information gives you more scope and greater security within your website.
Having the option of just pressing a button within your WordPress site again is very good. But when it comes to personal branding, Microsoft Expression and the Silverlight software and special Code maker gives us the opportunity to brand our own video players, deliver our own personal images in a format that is highly pixelated and crisp imaging. The ability to go through each layer step by step and inside the builder create a complicated HTML5 equivalent if not an improvement of XML coding and simply post it into Word Press post and create something very special. 
They even recommend templates that look more static than blog based. The professional alternative is where professional websites, personal shopping sites or even certified and https based websites have reverted back to Mozilla based simple design templates with basic text that is very small, free form PHP and contains all the content a website needs.
But the downside of this is the reliance of SEO benefits and driving traffic. Perhaps this is why people with a broad reputation online do not need anything less. The great news is never have we had more access to design our online space, like expensive corporate companies can. 
This is why I started this group here on APSense and this is why I still believe a small business that is just starting up although knowing the odds are against you in succeeding in such a busy environment, you can go home in the knowledge you have done you best regardless of your budget. 
Like me they are here to help. Have a nice day. 
If you would like me to find you the links to either Microsoft 365 Cloud Control updates, or MSN Microsoft Expression drop me a message here and I will send you the links directly ok. They are available online though so this is nothing special. The things that are happening here on APSense are equally as exciting, so keep tabs of this. If you are processing the new Wiki's and using the link shorteners and enjoying the Micro-site APSense.me, that's good, also the Rev pages I have found very helpful for sharing a post or page comment. So well done Wincer and well done Philippe for all the helpful video's.
Apr 27th 2011 06:43