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The Dance of the Cubes
Posted on July 9, 2022 1 Comment
The way the ice cubes glided, swooned even, around the bottom of the glass made Sam both happy and sad. Those final dance moves were special, sublime even. But when she took the last sip of the magic elixir that suspended the dancers, they began to simply collide at the bottom of her glass. Without […]
Getting a Book Deal Is Like…
Posted on June 14, 2022 1 Comment
…incredibly frustrating. I recently completed one of Kathy Ver Eecke’s GetABookDeal101.com courses. It was five days of instruction on crafting the perfect query letter in order to pitch your book to literary agents. The course was both wildly informative and utterly demoralizing. I learned, among other things, that my first novel is likely a romance!?!?!? […]
All The Men Stayed
Posted on March 22, 2021 Leave a Comment
Advantage XX Everybody has a dream. Without question, a little girls dream involves a Prince Charming; her knight in shining armor. Fast forward, a moment if you will. There have been years of dating and dreaming and searching and finding. Finally the painstaking meeting occurs in which a young man asks a father for his daughters hand […]
Lipstick Sunset
Posted on May 29, 2019 Leave a Comment
Bending down, and resting his chin on Sam’s shoulder, Sid whispered into her ear, “So are you the newest member of Gray Davidson’s band?” Sam reached around his neck and pulled him into her nook even further. She stuck her tongue into his ear, swirled it a bit, and whispered, “Yes, but I’d rather tour […]
Friday 9/29 – We’re doing it all wrong, I’m pretty sure
Posted on September 29, 2017 Leave a Comment
Blake’s Takes…This is the capstone entry for the extravaganza that was Microsoft Ignite 2017. First, top five observations… GRE should have had about a dozen people here. I realize that such mass attendance is not realistic, but the information that I was able to absorb myself (approximately 0.09% of all the information presented at this […]
Thursday 9/28 – Accelerate productivity with search and discovery in SharePoint and Office 365
Posted on September 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Official Description… Effective search and discovery needs to know what information that is relevant to you, your colleagues, the work you do and your context right now. Find out how we have used insights across Microsoft 365 to create such a personalized search experience. A new search UX has been developed focusing on simplicity and […]
Thursday 9/28 – Learn best practices for SharePoint site owners
Posted on September 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Official Description… For SharePoint site owners provisioning a site is only the start. Come learn all the best practices for managing your SharePoint team sites including how to get started, drive and measure engagement, and manage access. Slides: <link> Blake’s Takes… This was a full on demo walking us through the steps of creating a […]
Thursday 9/28 – Manage Office 365 more effectively: What’s new in Office 365 administration
Posted on September 28, 2017 Leave a Comment
Official Description… The last year has been an exciting year for Office 365 admins. Office 365 administration has been evolving at a rapid pace, making more features and functionality available to admins on an almost daily basis. Attend this demo-heavy session to learn about improved capabilities that make it easier, and more efficient for you […]
Wednesday 9/27 – Create beautiful, fast, interactive pages in SharePoint: Deep dive with the product team
Posted on September 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
Official Description… Learn how Modern Pages are reinventing what you can do with SharePoint. Pages in SharePoint have long been a powerful and essential tool for businesses, but now we’ve added an exceptional level of usability, simplicity, and speed to that experience. See the new Pages technology in action as we show you how it […]
Wednesday 9/27 – Tackling Adoption Like A Service With Office 365
Posted on September 27, 2017 Leave a Comment
Official Description… Office 365 provides an incredible amount of value to individual employees, teams, departments, and organizations. Much of this value is not realized immediately upon purchase or deployment of Office 365. The value is realized as more and more users understand, adopt, and embrace the technology. So how do we drive faster, sustainable and […]
Blake Charles Donley 