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Power to the People: Relative Font Sizes

Filed under: Accessibility,Web Standards — spiderwebwoman at 1:35 pm on Sunday, April 11, 2004

Relative font sizes may make websites more accessible — but they’re not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size. Return control to your audience using this simple, drop-in solution.

Pictures from the MVP Summit

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 1:02 pm on Sunday, April 11, 2004

At Julie Lerman’s blog:    Ambrose Little’s MVP Summit pics and WS-Sushi At MouseTrax (Diane and Greg Chapman): 2004 MVP Summit! Albert D. Kallal: MVP 2004 Summit James Avery: MVP Summit 2004

FrontPage MVP has a rough time getting home from the MVP Summit

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 9:02 am on Saturday, April 10, 2004

Owners Have Outrageous Trip to the Blue Grass: Two of the owners of That’s an Outrage had an eventful Thursday on their way to Lexington for Saturday’s Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I)–their plane caught on fire. Denise Moewes and Tim Dores, who race under the nom du course Bull Stick Stables, own half of […]

MVP Summit in the news

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 7:56 pm on Friday, April 9, 2004

At the Microsoft PressPass site: “Executives speaking at the MVP Summit included Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer; Jim Allchin, group vice president of the Platforms Group; Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Servers and Tools; Lori Moore, corporate vice president of Product Support Services (PSS); and Rich Kaplan, corporate vice president of the Content Development […]

What a great way to say “Welcome”

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 6:56 pm on Friday, April 9, 2004

I had read about the Welcome MVP Banners hanging all around the campus on Scoble’s blog but it was great to see them for myself – here’s one of them: This picture was taken with my Sprint Samsung phone. There were also banners for specific product groups – like the Windows Mobile Group.

Monday at the MVP Summit

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 6:28 am on Tuesday, April 6, 2004

This morning we saw a presentation on Watson, the process that Microsoft uses to manage error reporting. Pretty amazing – seems to me more people should turn it on – it can really help. In the afternoon, we saw a bunch of presentations by other Office MVPs, and we got to do one as well, […]

We’ve arrived!

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 9:32 am on Sunday, April 4, 2004

I am at the W – I really don’t think it’s as dark as they say – I have a beautiful room on the 19th floor with a view of downtown Seattle. The W has high-speed internet access in all the guest rooms and wireless access down in the lobby. We (the FP MVPs) all […]

Packing for the MVP Summit – Jeans or shorts?

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 3:05 pm on Friday, April 2, 2004

The weather forecast for Seattle is calling for 60+ degree weather – where I’m from, that’s pretty warm for this time of year. Sandal weather, definitely, but shorts? Ehh, not until I’ve been to the beach a few times  🙂  Shirts are not a problem; I’m taking all the shirts they gave us at previous […]

Microsoft MVPs to Get Office 12 Sneak Peek

Filed under: MVP Summit — spiderwebwoman at 4:54 am on Friday, April 2, 2004

According to Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft execs plan to share information on its next version of Office and other future products with its ‘volunteer army.’  Early next month, Microsoft is set to share its vision for its next-generation Office, Windows, database and other products with hundreds of its Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). Now that will be […]

Redmond braces for thousands of MVPs

Filed under: Uncategorized — spiderwebwoman at 3:24 am on Friday, April 2, 2004

At Robert Scoble’s blog: Wow, the MVP Global Summit is getting huge attention here on campus. All over the place there’s signs welcoming the thousands of Most Valuable Professionals to campus.

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