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OneNote, Office and I’m loving ‘agile’

You know what, I think I love this agile stuff. It’s like Christmas every few days. I’d much rather get incremental improvements, that keep pace with the industry and get to know them one at a time than relearn a product every 4 years and try to figure out what has changed. Exciting times ahead …

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Bye Bye Wallet, Hello Wallet Phone Case

I’ve been on a quest for some time now to reduce all the clutter in my life.  And I’ve just about got it all tricked out.  OneNote and SharePoint up until this point is the central theme in just about anything and everything that has led to my organized happiness, both business and personal. This …

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itgroove welcomes our fifth Microsoft MVP!

Victoria, BC – The Team at itgroove is thrilled to announce that Kelly Marshall has been awarded Microsoft OneNote MVP! Kelly is now a member of a very select group as she is one of ten OneNote MVP’s in the world. Kelly joins itgroove’s other Microsoft MVP’s – Sean Walbridge, Colin Philips and Keith Tuomi, …

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Killing them softly with OneNote…

OneNote rocks my world.  And I rock my wife’s world. Well, er, more to the point, I’m trying to rock Wendy’s world.  Wendy hates technology.  But she’s coming along.  I’ve already got her in OneNote planning our trip to Ontario and she even sends me the odd link to a page that she is working …

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OneNote for IOS gets an update

Nifty. OneNote got a similar “iOS7 Style” update a few weeks ago and today it rolled out to the iPhone, at least for us peeps up here in Canada, eh? A Quick Summary iOS7 Looks reduced app size by 20% Section Tabs are now configurable Office Lens – Scanner in  your pocket Quick Notes with …

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Office 365 – The Basics, Canadian Edition, eh?

I presented the following today at the first (of many monthly) Office 365 User Group meeting in Victoria.  It seemed natural that after talking about Office 365 and Office Online, it made sense to share the slide deck embedded via PowerPoint Online.

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OneNote makes me smile. Today it’s more iOS love and respect

Man I love me some OneNote.  And every time I notice the client in iOS gets updated, I just have to have a look.  This week, Microsoft introduced version 2.2 and pretty much only pointed out that it was “beautifully redesigned for iOS 7”.  I need to agree, as some of the attributes of the …

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7 Reasons I love Windows 8.1 and my Surface Pro 2

I love my Surface Pro 2 and Windows 8.1 Windows XP End of Service/Life is upon us (April 8th specifically) and it got me thinking about what I love most about my current platform (Surface Pro 2 and Windows 8.1).  Windows XP was good, Windows 7 was great, Windows 8 is something I love.  Touch …

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Victoria Office 365 User Group – Coming Soon!

We’re pretty excited here in the office as we are gearing up to announce and support a local Office 365 User Group.  Watch this space: http://www.meetup.com/Victoria-O365-User-Group and sign up.  The more the merrier!

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Office 365 Observations from a grizzled veteran of the SMB Space

As a big SharePoint fan and recently self-diagnosed Bob Ross of SharePoint, I’ve been watching and actively participating in Microsoft’s swift transition of key software and services into the Cloud. While BPOS was great, the name didn’t exactly mean much to customers. But with the words “Cloud” and “Office 365”, interest is increasing rapidly and …

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