doncampbell's weblog https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/feed.xml Don Campbell's Blog about Office 2007, Office Live, Web Office and Office 2.0 trends Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:20:44 GMT en-US hourly 1 Onward and Upward https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/onward-and-upward Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:25:12 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/07/06/onward-and-upward/ doncampbell.net This is my last post on my Microsoft blog.  I've had a great 4.5 years here at Microsoft.  Met some amazing people, and played with some cool technology.  Now I'm moving on to do my own thing. 

I'll be blogging about Office 2.0, Web 2.0, and all kinds of technology in general over at my personal blog - https://doncampbell.net/blog.  And my new feed is here.

So please come on over, check it out, and stay in touch!

-Don

]]> Whirlwind Tour of Maui https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/whirlwind-tour-of-maui Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:50:38 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/06/22/whirlwind-tour-of-maui/ image I know this isn't related to the tech industry, but a few weeks ago I visited my sister in Maui for her graduation.  This was my first time to Maui, and it was such a fantastic trip I had to write up a little travelogue about it. 

My sister lives there and gave me a tour that I don't think many visitors get.  If you are thinking of going to Maui sometime take a look over at my personal blog and you might find some new ideas of things to do there!

]]> New Look for Office Live Developer Portal https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/new-look-for-office-live-developer-portal Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:51:10 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/06/21/new-look-for-office-live-developer-portal/ The entire Office Developer Portal on MSDN has been redesigned, including the Office Live section.  The result is a nice clean look, with less navigation required to get were you're going. 

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The excellent MSDN team is constantly coming up with improvements to the content and the site.

]]> Popfly and SharePoint Integration https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/popfly-and-sharepoint-integration Fri, 25 May 2007 16:48:41 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/25/popfly-and-sharepoint-integration/ Here is a great post by Mike Gannotti - how to integrate Popfly mashups with SharePoint.  He also published a screen cast.  What I think is compelling about this - he was able to create a mashup with Popfly that can be published to any web page, SharePoint site, or as a Gadget on your Vista desktop.  Easily done with no code.

]]> PopFly, Silverlight and Office Live https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/popfly-silverlight-and-office-live Fri, 18 May 2007 18:26:35 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/18/popfly-silverlight-and-office-live/ image Microsoft disclosed  Popfly today, as the "fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications."  We will be showing it off at Maker Faire this weekend.  Mary Jo Foley and TechCrunch have some nice coverage of Popfly as well.

Popfly - which is based on Silverlight - consists of two parts:

1) Popfly Creator - a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups.

2) Popfly Space - an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and remix creations from other Popfly users.

Here's an interesting piece of behind the scenes info - the Web page creator is based on the Office Live code for Site Designer and Page Editor.  Not many people know about them yet, but these tools make it easy for non-technical folks to easily create Web pages, style and theme them for their public facing web site.  It's exciting to see that technology being used now in the Web 2.0 mashup context in Popfly!

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]]> The Small Business Marketplace https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/the-small-business-marketplace Thu, 17 May 2007 20:35:57 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/17/the-small-business-marketplace/ Do you know who employs 98% of the entire workforce worldwide? Do you know which market has 3 million businesses in the US alone which drives $14 Billion?  Did you also know that only 49% of these businesses had a web site in 2005, even though two-thirds of them in the US have high-speed Internet connectivity?  If you guessed the small business market, you’re right!

Microsoft Office Live provides Internet-based services for small businesses who lack the technology expertise, budget, or time to create a Web site and other online business tools. For developers who specialize in Web design, business process consulting, or creating industry-specific solutions,  Microsoft Office Live offers an opportunity to help small businesses develop a Web presence, attract new customers, and manage their organization more effectively.

In our continued effort to expand the opportunities for our developer community, I’m happy to announce the release of the Microsoft Office Live Innovate On. This site provides partners with a full range of technical and business resources to develop Office Live solutions which can be accessed by the myriad of small-business customers of the Microsoft Office Live Marketplace.  Over the coming weeks we will continue to add more training content and materials that show how to develop for Office Live, including topics like:

  • Incorporating existing client-side or hosted applications into the Microsoft Office Live environment
  • Leverage your existing skills in Windows SharePoint Services & Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
  • Using Industry Standards like XML, HTML, and Web design tools

I hope you'll take a look!

]]> Learn How To Develop for Office Live https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/learn-how-to-develop-for-office-live Thu, 17 May 2007 20:25:26 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/17/learn-how-to-develop-for-office-live/ OfficeLiveLogo

Learn about the opportunity that Office Live represents for developers at one of our upcoming Office Live reviews. 

  • Do you build software solutions and/or provide services to small business? 
  • Do you want to create an additional stream of income with a low technical barrier of entry? 
  • Are you interested in knowing how to take advantage of the shifting software plus services paradigm?
  • Then the Office Live Review for Micro ISVs is the event you should attend!

In June we are conducting two Office Live Review events:

· Tuesday, June 5th at the Microsoft Technical Center in Boston, Mass.

· Monday, June 11th at the Microsoft Technical Center in Silicon Valley, CA.

These one-day workshop focus on helping custom solution developers, web partners, and ISVs understand Microsoft’s Office Live strategy, how to customize and extend the Microsoft Office Live environment, and identify with Microsoft Office Live offerings – Office Live Basic, Office Live Collaboration, and Office Live Essentials, and what types of scenarios each of these apply to. 

Update: As Michael Lehman posted in his blog, attendees will receive a free copy of Office 2007 Professional and Windows Vista Business! The first 20 people to create an Office Live solution and post it to the Office Live Marketplace will also receive a Zune!

Update #2: Use registration code: GENATT when you register for the events.

Update #3: The Windows Vista we are giving away to attendees is the Vista Business rather than Ultimate.

Agenda:

Start Stop Description
08:30 09:00 Arrival and registration
09:00 09:15 Welcome and logistics
09:15 10:00 Understanding the Office Live Architecture
10:00 11:00 Understanding the Office Live Data and Storage Architecture
11:00 12:00 Using Workflows to Define Business Rules in Office Live Apps
12:00 13:00 Lunch
13:00 14:00 Programming with the Office Live Web Service API
14:00 15:00 Integrating with Office Live Authentication using Windows Live ID
15:00 15:15 Break
15:15 16:15 Build Office Live Integration using VS with Project GlidePath
16:15 17:15 Creating Mash-Ups in Office Live
     

 

My colleague Rohit Puri and I will be leading these events, and I hope to see you there!

]]> These are cool - Silverlight screen wallpapers and backgrounds https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/these-are-cool-silverlight-screen-wallpapers-and-backgrounds Wed, 16 May 2007 16:23:24 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/16/these-are-cool-silverlight-screen-wallpapers-and-backgrounds/

Check these out - Silverlight wallpapers and Dreamscene backgrounds for download.

]]> Presentation to Mountain View Chamber of Commerce - Vista, Office and Office Live https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/presentation-to-mountain-view-chamber-of-commerce-vista-office-and-office-live Mon, 07 May 2007 16:57:14 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/07/presentation-to-mountain-view-chamber-of-commerce-vista-office-and-office-live/ On Wednesday May 9 at 4:00 my colleague Ben Riga and I will be doing a keynote presentation to the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce called Microsoft for Small Business: Ready to Grow When You Are.

We will demo Windows Vista, the new Office 2007 user interface, and Office Live.  No PowerPoints here, only demos.

Mountain View is the first place my wife and I landed when we moved to the Bay Area; we lived there for 18 months and it is a nice little town, with a lot of Silicon Valley startup history like Netscape, Yahoo, Google, etc.  The downtown is beautiful and you can tell the town benefited from all those tax dollars during the .com boom.

]]> Office Live @ Mix07 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/doncampbell/office-live-mix07 Fri, 04 May 2007 20:01:50 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/doncampbell/2007/05/04/office-live-mix07/

mixbling Well Mix07 was a blast.  My colleague Rohit Puri and I did a session on Office Live for Designers and Developers.  We had 70-80 people in the audience and got a lot of questions.  We did our Northwind Inn demo, which shows many of the ways you can customize and extend Office Live like:

 

  • Customizing the Public site
  • Customizing the Business Applications
  • Building Web 2.0 Mash Ups, and
  • Writing rich client WPF applications that connect to Office Live via Web services.

Thanks to everyone who came to our session.  If you want to see some of the ways that web designers and developers can customize and build on Office Live, check out our session recording is available online - and you can even view it using Silverlight!

Session Abstract:

Come find out how to build and deliver your solutions to Small Businesses via Microsoft Office Live. Learn how Office Live uses a combination of software and services to provide the Web presence, business task automation, and collaboration capabilities that until now, only large enterprises could take advantage of. Find out how building on top of Office Live makes your solution more accessible to small businesses, and more profitable to you!

 

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p.s. The Venetian was nice too!

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