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Friday, October 19, 2012

Always connected, always ready: Welcome to the cloud, Danish Red Cross! (Video)

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When it comes to disaster response, concepts like "collaboration" and "efficiency" are more than corporate buzzwords-they can be matters of life and death.  Fast and reliable communications mean more help for those who need it most in the wake of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, fire or other calamities.  That's why we're thrilled the Danish Red Cross has deployed Office 365 as centerpiece of its initiative to prepare for and respond to disasters even faster.

The Danish Red Cross' CIO, Claus Olsen, puts it this way: "For us, response time is everything. If we can't communicate, we can't respond.  With Office 365, we can share and act on information in just seconds - at half the cost of our previous solution."

As part of the world's largest humanitarian organization, the Danish Red Cross is a non-profit.  They greatly appreciate Office 365's predictable monthly cost.  Most importantly, their switch from on-premises software to the cloud means money saved on IT can be applied to disaster aid, instead.

It will be fascinating to see how the Danish Red Cross benefits from using Office 365 over time and how these lessons could help similar organizations around the world. Read the full story here and watch the video below.

 

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--Stephen Bury

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Stay Connected at Summit

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Below are the social media channels, hashtags and other information that will help you stay connected on all things Summit.

Summit on Twitter

@AdobeSummit
Follow the official Summit account to keep tabs on important conference news, highlights and updates.

To join the Summit conversation on Twitter, make sure you include the correct hashtags in your tweets. A hashtag is denoted with a “#” in front of the keyword. You can enter the hashtag in Twitter Search to view the conversation in real time.

#AdobeSummit
Follow the official Summit hashtag to view the community chatter about the conference. Make sure you use it whenever you tweet about the event to join the conversation and connect with other delegates.

#SummitHelp
Use this hashtag to notify us about any logistical issues, before and during Summit. We’ll do our best to assist you as soon as possible.

Breakout sessions

Look out for the topic-specific hashtags we’ve identified on the slides in each breakout session. Use these when you’re tweeting about the session and contribute to the wider discussions taking place in the community.

Customer Community Zone

We want to hear from you in person too, so make sure you swing by the Customer Community Zone (located near the entrance of the Community Pavilion) and say hello. We’re keen to learn more about your experiences with Adobe and how we can work together to provide value and support to our digital marketing community. Please stop by to take our quick survey and be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad!

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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Weather or Not? Stay connected with Office snow or shine

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Extreme Weather Infographic (Poster)Each year, extreme winter weather brings life to a grinding halt for millions of people. Most likely your home is stocked with winter essentials and snow tires are on your car, but are you prepared with the right technology to keep up with life and work when Old Man Winter strikes? In today's always-on world, people expect you to. Gone are the days when "snow day" equals "free day." 

According to a 2010 study, extreme weather conditions resulted in a loss of approximately 50 million total man hours of productivity in five states alone (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia/D.C., and Maryland).

(To see more winter weather fun facts, click the infographic to the left.)

How do you keep your productivity from landing in the deep freeze?  If you're worrying about getting stuck in Cleveland and missing that important planning session in Boston...you can breathe deeply.

 The Office Team has ten tips (see slideshow below ) to help you stay connected even when Mother Nature has a different agenda. Here are the first three:

Be a packrat. Store important documents for free on the Web so you can access them over the Internet from a computer, iOS device, or Windows Phone.Let Office be with you. Create, view, and edit documents from any Mac or PC connected to the internet, with the free Office Web Apps. Be as good as there. Use PowerPoint Broadcast on the Mac or PC to present ideas to people in different locations. Participants can even view on their mobile phone. 

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Monday, April 18, 2011

Revised - Adobe Flex and Connected devices for Customer Experience Management (TC)

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Thursday, April 7, 2011

2 New Videos on the Connected and Entertainment Experience with Microsoft Products

Back in December, I posted about a really neat video directed by Keith Rivers that highlighted how up and coming indie artist Andrew Belle used Windows 7 and Windows Live to create a song. If you liked that video, you won’t want to miss these two new videos that were also directed by Keith that go beyond Windows 7 and Windows Live to highlight the entire breadth of Microsoft products being used together to create some amazing experiences. These videos, along with the Andrew Belle video, were showcased at the Microsoft booth at CES with all the PCs and devices that were used.

Video 1: Making of a Flash Mob

Have you ever wondered what kind of work goes in to coordinating and planning a flash mob (click here if you don’t know what a flash mob is)? Using PCs such as the Dell Inspiron Duo (read Ben’s review) and the Samsung QX410, as well as their Windows Phones - local choreographers and dancers here in Seattle use Windows Live (Messenger, Mesh) and Kinect to plan and coordinate a flash mob at Pioneer Square. Pretty impressive.

Video 2: Road Trip to Mt. Hood

In this video, skiers and snowboarders head off on a road trip from Seattle to Mt. Hood to hit the slopes. While on the road, and then even on the slopes and from the lodge at an elevation of 6,000 feet, they use their Windows Phones, Kinect and Xbox, and the ASUS Eee Slate (read Ben’s review) to stay entertained with music, movies, and games.

I got on the phone last week with Keith to talk about these videos and get some backstory. For these two videos, Keith told me his initial approach was to do something similar to what they had done with the Andrew Belle video but with 2 new musicians. However as he began to concept the videos with Microsoft, they decided they wanted to focus on other real stories that branched beyond the music industry: one about coordinating a flash mob and another following a group of skiers on a road trip to Mt. Hood. Keith not only directed the videos but wrote both of them as well and he did so in just a matter of a few days. He had about a month to do these videos which included the writing all the way to finishing post-production and handing off the final videos to us (Microsoft) for CES.

Keith used resources around him for these videos. Keith happened to be good friends with Bobby Bonsey and Egan Orion who are flash mob choreographers and producers in Seattle. He had been fascinated by the idea of a flash mob and thought following the design and production of a flash mob could be really interesting for people to see. And Keith also grew up skiing in the Pacific Northwest and had done some really great videos early in his career on freestyle skiing. He also knew of some local skiers and snowboarders who participated in competitions in the area. So deciding to do a video on a flash mob and another on skiing came as easy choices. For the skiing video, he chose the location of Mt. Hood because of the weather and because it had a beautiful lodge that gave an antique, historic look he was looking for.

Each video shoot had its challenges. The shoot for the flash mob video was done pretty fast and because of that, Keith called it “one of the most insane productions we’ve ever done”. For the Mt. Hood shoot, getting the live-action shots of the skiers and snowboarders was pretty challenging and the lift shots proved to be really challenging with the person holding the camera literally hanging off the back to film. His team was also shooting live products in use, which sometimes took extra time to light correctly to adjust for the brightness and contrast of the screen. But on the other hand, Keith also recalls how much fun it was for his crew and the people in the videos to get to use some of the newest products like the Dell Inspiron Duo and Windows Phone 7, and how addicting Kinect Sports was and easy to pick up.

In making these videos, Keith worked with producer Rebecca Davis, TJ Williams Jr. who was their Director of Photography, Nick Pezzillo who was the editor for the flash mob video and Daniel Soderberg who was the editor for the Mt. Hood video.

Keith says he was gratified that Microsoft gave him the opportunity to go out and do some really creative stories with these videos. I certainly enjoyed them and am often fascinated by the backstory behind videos like these. I hope you enjoyed hearing the backstory for these videos!


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