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Introducing Docs for Facebook: Making Your Documents Social

April 21, 10 //
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Microsoft FUSE Labs has created (and released to the web today) a new social experiment that aims to add some “friendliness” to your documents: Docs - a way for you to discover, create and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook provides the best possible document service for the Facebook environment. Seamless integration with Facebook means that the service is all about sharing your documents. Finally docs can be friendly too!

From Lili Cheng’s blog post: The fact that we’ve been able to adapt the Office 2010 “Web Apps” technology to work directly with Facebook truly speaks to the flexibility and power not just of the Facebook platform, but also of the Office system’s rich “contextual collaboration” capabilities.  And we’d never have been able to achieve our critical ‘simplicity’ goals had it not been for our ability to use a new test feature from Facebook that allows us to build an instantly personalized and seamless document authorization & sharing experience directly from our site.

Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event)

March 19, 10 //
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Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event)
Google Tech Talk February 24, 2010 ABSTRACT Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event) Social Media has revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate with friends and gather information from the web. The revolution is now making its way into the workplace. The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers. Collaborative technologies liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Collaboration allows the collective intelligence of many to bubble up to the surface, translating to a competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation and productivity. In this panel we chat with industry experts and vendors to explore topics such as: *Who is driving the adoption of collaborative tools? *What are the biggest barriers to adoption and how does one prove the business value/ROI around social computing? *How does one be a better evangelist with their organization? Panelists: Anshu Sharma – Vice President, Product Management, Salesforce Greg D'Alesandre – Product Manager (Google Wave), Google Oliver Marks – Founding Partner, Sovos Group Raju Vegesna <b>…</b>
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Lili Cheng: Designing Experiences for Social Computing

March 3, 10 //
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March is Women in Technology Month. We kick off the festivities on Channel 9 with a great conversation with an industry thought leader in interactive user experience design and architecture. 
 
Meet Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which focuses on software and services that are centered on social connectivity, real-time experiences, and rich media. Lili’s a big fan of and active participant in social communication and the interactive design of social computing on the web.

Lili talks to @ritzy and @Carmine007 about her tenure at Microsoft which started in 1995.  Lili is another shining example of a successful woman in technology, but more importantly her full time job consists of both pushing the envelope of social interaction and the inventing new experiences for social computing.  Push on, Lili and team!