Congratulations to the winners of the recent Office Live video contest on the Zooppa.com network! If you're not familiar with Zooppa , it's a social network for the creatively inclined — graphic designers, video producers, writers, and so on. Brands can task the Zooppa talent pool to spin up their own ad executions and see what unfolds. In that spirit, we threw down the gauntlet to the...
No doubt, finding design inspiration for a website can be a tough job. Combine running a website with your normal business operations, and it can be even more difficult for you to fire up the creative side of your brain when you need to. In honor of the holiday season, I'd like to give a gift to everyone in the Office Live Small Business community: a design tip. Let's unwrap it together, shall...
The social media landscape is ever-evolving, and strategies you heard about as recently as a year ago may now be out-of-date. But what isn't out-of-date is the popularity of social media itself — blogging, Facebook, Twitter, and others continue to grow rapidly, and more and more small businesses are using these tools to market themselves. So we've teamed up once again with marketing expert...
Hi everyone. I wanted to provide you with advance notice that we are planning for a brief downtime on the Office Live Small Business and Office Live Workspace Community sites on Sunday, Nov. 15. The downtime will last only 30 minutes, and is scheduled to happen between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. Pacific time. The downtime is occurring in order to perform hardware upgrades to the servers for our Community sites...
Editor's note: This post continues a series of blog posts spotlighting Office Live Small Business Web sites for their design quality. These posts are written by design expert Sara Richardson-McCreery, creative director and founder of Spikes Like LLC near Washington, D.C., and a frequent contributor to Office Live Small Business. Richardson-McCreery will post regularly here about Office Live sites...
Hey Office Live fans: Do you blog? Do you use Microsoft Office? Last but not least, do you want to see the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C.? If so, then we have a contest for you. To show what people can do with Office 2010, Microsoft has launched a new contest that will give two bloggers the chance to showcase their talents, and to demonstrate the power of Office 2010 to help you get your...
If you run a small business, you know that social media marketing and online services are all the rage, but do you really know how to get started? Well, we're here to help! This month, we've launched a series of informal events in 20 cities across the United States and Canada called "Hands-On Small Business." These are gatherings of small-business owners who really want to get down...
Members of the Support team at Microsoft Office Live Small Business spend lots of time talking to you, the customer, to get a sense of the most common technical issues facing Office Live customers. These most common issues — and the solutions to resolve them — are now being captured in article form and published on the Office Live Small Business Community site . Their goal here is to share...
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