VanishingPoint

etting ready for the beginning of another school year is both a daunting and overwhelming task.  There are a thousand things to get done, keep track of, anticipate, plan for, and just outright shoot from the hip on.  This year for us is no different.  In the past, we have used Microsoft [...]

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Liberation… It is easier than you think…

 
Ok, it is easier for the first day at least.  I’ll let you know when I hit day 30 or 60… I wil say that there is nothing better to help you succeed at something than forcing yourself to do it…
 
Today I ran exclusively on Zoho applications (except [...]

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 Continuing Adventures in the Cloud

Well it is a new day, and we have “Sprung Forward” (Day Light Savings Time, US) so I am continuing my adventures in the cloud… I almost feel like I am renewing a new year’s resolution.  Interesting feeling…
Im my press forward to continue my adventures, I recently needed to do a [...]

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This is a test post from Zoho Writer
Well if I am going to live in the cloud, I can’t really use my favorite publishing tool Windows Live Writer can I?  So, in keeping with my “cloud initiative” I am looking to potentially use Zoho Writer to directly post to this blog.  Additionally, this is a [...]

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Well, it has been an interesting week.  We got back from a three-day weekend, President Obama took office, and Google actually began stepping back from  providing applications… I learned about this from an eWeek article, but then confirmed the information released on January 14, 2009 at the Google Notebook Blog as well.
While I have not [...]

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I want to thank everyone who attended and stayed for an additional 30 minutes AFTER the conference was actually over to participate in and work with me to get through the way to much information I prepared.  I could have rushed through the six topics, but we got to move through them at a pretty [...]

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So we are off!  Today was the first day I was going to be interacting with my Office residing in the ether, and actually it was a good day for that as I was in my office the ENTIRE day.  Probably the first time in months… Here were my initial experiences:
We are approaching our [...]

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Coming out of the IETC Conference in Springfield, IL. I have been doing some thinking about my personal practices and how I use the Microsoft Office suite.  I have to say that I LOVE Office 2007.  There are some truly amazing things that you can do so easily in 2007 some of which cannot even [...]

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Hey all,  I just wanted to put out a plug for a seminar session I am going to be doing on Monday night . (7pm CST I believe) at the Mount Prospect Public Library, Mt. Prospect, IL.  As you can see from the title, the sessions will be about upgrading to Windows Vista (through [...]

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Greg Noack just posted his first blog post and he relates a great story of efficiency and the utilization and experimentation of new tools specifically Google Docs and Zoho Writer. 
I left a long comment and it got me thinking about my use of Zoho’s myriad of applications and how they might be better [...]

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