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From the mouth of Chichester
I’m now going to ignore Ray’s comments on good blogging guide because all this post is intended to do is link directly to the words of the University of Chichester and what they have to say about their...
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Integrating Moodle with Microsoft Live services
Who’d have thought it, not only would I be looking for the Moodle logo for the blog, but other strange things have been happening this week:We’ve released two projects under the open source GPL v2...
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Microsoft Develops Plug-in for Moodle to Aid Teachers, Students
This is a very exciting announcement and one that I’ve certain will be welcome from many in the education sector and also an important step in Microsoft’s Education Product Group strategy as we release...
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Middlesex University speaks about live@edu
Situated in the North East of London as well as Dubai, Middlesex University provides outstanding service to its 33,000 students. It recently adopted live@edu to help enhance the student experience as...
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Microsoft Higher Education Briefing 2009
Bookings are now open for our Higher Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 10th December in London.Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10th December 2009 at our...
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Running the cloud
A few years ago, when we first started the Live@edu email service, it was running on the same system as Hotmail. Since then we’ve moved it onto a completely Exchange-based system, which has actually...
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Mergers and Acquisitions – What happens when universities collide
One of the themes from the UCISA conference this year, from the first keynote on, was the possibility of massive upheaval in the higher education sector in the UK. Tough spending reviews, new ways of...
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Microsoft and the Cloud – what it means for universities
There’s recently been a lot of discussion within education about different models of ICT services. Individual universities have tended to use a mix of services provided on-premise and cloud-based...
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Microsoft Scotland 2010 Higher Education Briefing
Bookings are now open for our Scotland Higher Education Briefing day, on 9th June in Edinburgh.Microsoft will be holding our Scottish 2010 Higher Education Briefing on 9th June 2010 at our Edinburgh...
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Have you booked for the Scotland 2010 Higher Education Briefing on 9th June?
The line up of speakers for the Microsoft Scotland 2010 Higher Education Briefing on 9th June includes some great speakers.Of course, Steven Grier, our Scottish Education Business Manager will be...
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Live@edu Implementation Guide
Ben Nunney, who writes the UK Live@edu blog, has just finished updating the Live@edu Implementation Guide. It covers a wide range of advice and guidance that is helpful as you plan to move your email...
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Windows 7 and Live@edu takes off
Two numeric examples of how fast things are moving forward in education ICT these days:Windows 7 is being rapidly adopted in universitiesThe chart below shows the visitors to this blog this month....
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Do cloud-based datacentres run as fast as your onsite ones
The Bits blog from the New York Times ran an interesting article a couple of weeks ago called ‘How Fast Can a Cloud Run?’ (you’re right, I’m still catching up with my reading!). It talks about a...
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Microsoft Office 365 for Education appears on the horizon
Last night we officially announced Office 365, which is the next generation of cloud services – bringing together Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Lync (previously known as Office...
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Microsoft Education White Paper - Baby steps into the Cloud
Gerald Haigh, an education writer and journalist, has close contacts within many education establishments. It was because of this that we asked him to interview a wide group of people about the use of...
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Salford Software Cloud Event for HE - 19th January at Microsoft Reading
Salford Software would like to invite you to an event for colleges and Universities at the Microsoft office, Reading on the 19th January. The purpose of this event is to share the experiences of...
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Partner Event: Microsoft Office 365 prep for Education Providers
At Microsoft in general, but especially in the UK we have a fantastically rich partner ecosystem, and within the education space alone there is a huge number of partner companies out there who can help...
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Saving money and improve support to students and staff with Microsoft Biz Talk
For all new students, starting their first term at college or semester at university, can be both an exiting and daunting time. Moving out of home for the first time, getting to grips with new...
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Smartphone access to the Intranet–another step forward for Birmingham City...
Last week, I posted a blog on how Biz Talk at Birmingham City University had been integrated to support both staff and students as well as cost save. Along with Biz Talk, the university is now using...
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Brockenhurst College, staying lean and efficient
One area that we, here,in the Education team like to report on is cost saving and how looking at different area’s in education, this can be achieved. Brokenhurst College, in the New Forest in...
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