Volume 1, Issue , 29 4/30/2008

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Microsoft Office Tip — The Great Communicator

Excerpted from Microsoft.com Get started blogging

Excerpted from Microsoft.com article 10 tips for finding information on the Internet

10 tips for finding information on the Internet

Sometimes looking for quick information on the Web can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. With so many billions of Web pages in cyberspace, finding specific information can be a daunting task.

Often when I use search engines I get so many irrelevant results that I just give up," admits a frustrated Lorraine Adams, mother of two and a disability consultant.

Perhaps Adams isn't aware that there are ways to get more out of your favorite search engine, whether that's Live Search, Google, or Yahoo!. A few searching tips, tricks, tweaks, and techniques can help you find what you are looking for in cyberspace quickly and easily.

Follow these 10 suggestions with your favorite search engine.

Get started blogging

If you've spent time surfing through the millions of spaces already published on MSN Spaces, you'll see a huge range of styles, approaches, topics, and uses. Some people post photos as the main part of their space and add blog entries only occasionally. Others blog every day (or close to it), sharing news about what's happening in their lives, their views on current events, recent musings, or odd or happy occurrences. Whatever interests you, you're sure to find a blog about it: You'll find blogs about families, dating, divorce recovery, single parenting, high-school and college experiences, traveling, farming, day dreaming, and much more.

But no matter what you want to write about, one important two-part question will help define your space: (1) what caught your attention today, (2) and what do you want to say about it?

If you don't have your own MSN Space, sign up today! It's free, it's easy, and with your own MSN Space, you'll have plenty of space to share your favorite photos, stories, and more.

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Do you spend more time talking to voicemail than people? Is sending e-mail like tossing pennies down a black hole? Take a look around—the lights may be on in the cubicle next door but nobody's home. Where is everyone? Chances are they're in a meeting. Or between meetings. Or working from home to avoid meetings. Wherever they are, you need to talk to somebody. And you can't wait three weeks until the stars and the gaps in your calendars align.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, the desktop client for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, integrates real-time presence information into your favorite Microsoft Office system applications. With Communicator, you can tell if a contact is online and available to communicate with you. Just hover over a person's name in the To: line of an Outlook 2007 e-mail message and click the dropdown menu for a list of communication options. You'll also find presence information for contacts in the Office 2007 Document Information Task Pane and on Windows SharePoint Services sites and workspaces.

If your coworker is online and available to work with you, you can use Communicator to send her an instant message, place a PC-to-PC voice and video call using your computer microphone and speakers, or, if Communicator is integrated with your company's phone system, you can use Communicator to place and receive phone calls using your desktop phone. You can even configure Communicator to auto-forward incoming calls to your mobile phone, home phone, or other location where you happen to be online. Throw in the ability to participate in real-time application sharing sessions, conference calls, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting online meetings, and you have one tool that can do the work of many. If only that basket of remote controls next to the recliner was this organized.

For more information on Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, visit http://office.microsoft.com/communicator

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