2007-09-04 01:15 Microsoft Company Meeting Ahoy!
Just some random events happening before the Company Meeting this Thursday ( BEWARE Seattle drivers! Stay away from Safeco field! ). Are you, like, LisaB's BFF Well, no. I think LisaB is losing momentum and getting caught up in a cult-of-personality not of her making ( what will we have this year Orange berets ). But she certainly is poised to flip the momentum she has built up and have big impact - as far as she can as the HR head - to the everyday Microsoftie. Some of the items not shared in t …
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2007-09-01 17:13 Links for Saturday, September 1, 2007
Business Week: Q&A with Microsoft's Lisa Brummel - " It all starts in the Workplace Lab, a kind of parade of homes for offices where "Microserfs" can pick and choose their new digs. The lab also functions as a kind of workplace Freud; employees are divided into four worker types: providers (the godfathers of work groups), travelers (the types who work anywhere but work), concentrators (head-down, always-at-work types), and orchestrators (the company's natural diplomats). " Steve Barr: Announcing …
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2007-08-31 04:11 Brummel! Brummel! Brummel!
Wow, just in time to go into next week's Company Meeting with blushingly good PR. Much better than two years ago! From the upcoming BusinessWeek magazine: (1) How To Make A Microserf Smile - profile on Ms. Brummel with some background about her contributions to HR since being appointed. Interesting snippet: Nothing got people buzzing more than Brummel's overhaul of the performance review. Employees dreaded Microsoft's ranking system for all the usual reasons: It pitted co-workers against one ano …
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2007-08-30 19:26 Think Yiddish, Dress British
A long-time sufferer from Anglophilia, Izzy is in the midst of reading Ian Buruma's tribute to that passion, Anglomania. The book contains this fascinating description of Theodore Herzl, the Austro-Hungarian founder of Zionism: Herzl had always loved dressing up. He was a dandy, with the politics of a dandy. Here he is in a photograph of his Viennese student fraternity, looking more immaculate than his gentile friends: cap at a rakish tilt, coat buttoned up just so, ivory-topped cane clasped und …
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2007-08-17 07:01 Alive and well, but more grown up
So I was watching that video about the demolition of building 100 at Microsoft. You may have seen it if you work for Microsoft.... Anyway, they talked about all of the new buildings that were coming, and they showed all of the graffiti and damage that employees were inflicting on the building since it was going to be destroyed. Good clean family fun. There was this one part with Lisa Brummel, and her quote was something like this (in part): When groups can come and do crazy, zany things to celeb …
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2007-08-10 19:30 Day Out
Busy this week so poor old Random has been abandoned for a few days, but now I have time and am sitting at my trusty laptop, cup of tea to hand and writing about a super day out on Tuesday this week. I am sure you can guess where I went by the pic below. That's right, city of wonderful colleges, the Backs, King's College Chapel and hundreds of student on their bikes - where else, but Cambridge. Gorgeous day and I was meeting up with Jan Jones (author of Stage by Stage, do read, not just saying …
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2007-08-08 22:05 Indie Doesn't Mean Noble. Neither does Victory
Of course we know the major labels are evil, right They screw musicians out of their money. They're the evil corporate Goliaths. Yea yea, we've heard that before. Common knowledge, right That's why the cool kids always side with the indie labels. Because they fight the good fight. They'll stick their neck out for the little bands. We can trust them. Well actually... maybe not. I'm not writing this to put down all indie labels. I've always been a fan of supporting the little guy. It's when a corr …
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2007-08-08 12:55 Martin Brummel
(self proclaimed horrible fan-boy of the Beagle Project) has been suffering for his science in Northern Canada. He's back in civilization now, and his blog posts are worth a read.
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2007-08-07 00:00 Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog - now available on CodePlex
Quite a few SharePoint customers have asked about how to implement blogs internally within their companies as an open, direct, and efficient communication channel for executives to get feedback from employees. One often requested feature that SharePoint does not provide out-of-the-box is support for anonymous comments when a SharePoint blog site uses Integrated Windows Authentication and hence automatically signs the visitor in, which is the typical configuration within an intranet environment. …
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2007-08-06 15:08 Microsoft Internships not just to build your resume!
By: Anne Cheng Our internships are known as great places to get œreal work. Whether you are coding/testing/designing, the opportunity to make an impact is there. But what do our interns do after they log off I m going to share with you a couple of great intern events that have been organized by our Intern Program Manager and Coordinator this summer that allows our interns to explore the different groups and network across our company. Intern Product Fair/Steve Ballmer event: Last week, I …
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2007-07-31 15:26 Former VP Reveals Dark Side Of Victory Records
A detailed missive chronicling the excesses and dark side of Victory Records and its controversial founder Tony Brummel complete with email documentation allegedly by industry veteran and former Victory VP was posted on MySpace by Epitaph employee Sue Luke. Here's...
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2007-07-25 13:13 Beau Brummel now
CNN : Edwards said he liked Clinton's service to the country, as well as her husband's. But Edwards looked at the salmon-colored jacket Clinton wore and said jokingly, "But I don't know about that jacket." What accounts for this new fashion sense
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2007-07-24 14:01 Every Day Chores of Laundry and Scullery Maids, and Washer Women
In reading Undressing Mr. Darcy, this phrase leaped off my computer screen: Another of Beau Brummel s innovations was the semi-starched cravat: a neck cloth folded and arranged exquisitely carefully beneath chin and shirt front. It is reported washerwoman fainted when he introduced this. And no wonder, on top of everything they had to wash, iron, and mend they now had this semi-starched neck cloth: not full starch so it could be done with all the others, no, it had to be semi starched. Until rec …
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2007-07-21 12:30 cathepsut @ 2007-07-21T15:29:00
37) Passion by Jude Morgan From Amazon: "The attempted suicide of Mary Wollstonecraft opens this carefully researched, deeply imagined and gorgeously written novel about the Romantic poets, as seen by the women who loved them: Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter, Mary Shelley, who fell scandalously in love with then-married Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote Frankenstein at age 19; the passionate but untethered Lady Caroline Lamb, who never got over her love for Lord Byron; charming Fanny Brawne, devoted …
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2007-07-19 16:35 Back Again
Finally, agilemanagement.net is back on line. Whew! It was bad being down - especially during the Agile 2006 conference. I'd like to thank everyone who emailed or called me personally on my cell phone to advise me that the site was down. Don't worry I haven't given up. Tonight is the last night of the conference in Minneapolis and I will be posting new material here in the next few days. I'm running behind of writing my Lisa Brummel interview but it should be ready next week.
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2007-07-11 16:53 Microsoft bosses disclosing stock holdings
Execs are filing their end of fiscal year stock holding reports. The reports to the SEC disclose how much Microsoft stock they hold. Today's batch: Kevin Johnson : 622,612 shares Brad Smith : 255,299 shares Lisa Brummel : 159,382 shares plus 614 in a 401(k) Frank Brod : 55,184 shares
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2007-07-03 20:01 THE EFFECT OF BEATLEIZATION
Okay ... we already know the effects of the Beatles' first appearance in America, right (hey ... if not, how long were you under that rock) And, natch, there were thousands of stateside boys who began puttin' together groups in hopes that, somehow, some of JPG&R's success would rub off on them. The first group that successfully copied the British Beat was The Beau Brummels. These guys had all the elements: harmony, strong rhythm, good backbeat, and cool stage presence. To this day, Sal Valen …
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2007-05-30 01:35 End of May Conversations
Checking in on some recent conversations here... break-out the Welcome Mat for AQNT : okay, Mini-Microsoft is probably not your first preferred Microsoft-focused blog to read :Thanks for making us feel so welcome! (An aQuantive employee) You could drop by MSFTExtremeMakeover and, ah, see if that helps. And helping to provide some perspective comes this comment :To the poor aQuantive employee feeling unwelcome after reading posts here: Don't take it too seriously. This is a blog devoted to making …
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2007-05-17 05:37 Town Hall Transparency
It can be difficult to see things right in front of you if they are transparent or designed to show you some other object. Case in point, yesterday's Microsoft Town Hall with Chris "Let me buy you breakfast to explain why the market isn't giving us a better P/E ratio " Liddel, Steve "Windows Mobile is on a rocket sled of growth and the iPhone is irrelevant " Ballmer and Lisa " Not earning enough I guess we're not doing a good job of telling you how much you really earn." Brummel. Watching those …
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2006-09-17 21:28 Our Mutual Friend | Beau Brummell | Hornblower | Muse | Fashion | LotR
A bit of an icon dump. Galadriel LotR for the elegantgrace | Arwen LotR for arwen_stills | Fashion/Vogue Marie Antoinette shoot | Hornblower | Beau Brummel: This Charming Man | Our Mutual Friend | Muse LotR/Fashion 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 *I went kinda mad on the last few fashion icons - urk. Hornblower 1 2 3 4 5 6 Beau Brummell:This Charming Man 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Our Mutual Friend 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Muse 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 …
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