Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - New Enterprise Product Manager and Expression Media 2 have arrived!

Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog - New Enterprise Product Manager and Expression Media 2 have arrived! http://www.officeformac.com/ms/blog As the newest member of the MacBU Marketing Team, I wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. I’m Mike Tedesco, and I joined the Mac BU almost 3 weeks ago as a Sr. Product Manager. My primary role is to be the voice of the customer to the MacBU for the Enterprise and Education segments. As an 8+ year Microsoftie working in the Enterprise space, and as someone who is also a weekend photographer for a wire service, I’m so excited to be working with a team that is super creative and works hard/plays hard! As a photographer, I have been a longtime user of Expression Media (formerly iView Media Pro) and have come to depend on it not only for my photos, but for all of my digital assets. In fact (shameless plug warning), if you purchased our Mac Office 2008 Special Media Edition and have taken a look at the Expression Media Quick Start Guide, you have seen a number of my images from my trip to South Georgia Island. If you’re interested in seeing more, have a look at my galleries at <a href="http://www.tedescophotography.com/">www.tedescophotography.com</a>. My foray into using Expression Media came when some clients wanted to purchase a few prints, and I couldn’t find the photo shoot! I organized everything on my internal drives by year, month, and date but I could not find them. After some searching, I remembered that the files were stored on an offline drive. Had I been using Expression Media, I would have known where those files were in minutes rather than hours because Expression catalogs not only know what’s on your internal drives, but they keep track of assets that are stored offline as well. As a heavy user of this product, I’m happy to announce that today we are announcing Expression Media 2. A number of valuable new features are available, including: <ul>     <li> The ability to create and view hierarchies of keywords for your files. I use this feature now to sub-categorize my sports photography into the specific sports, then by team, and finally by player so that I can find specific images even faster than before.      </li>     <li>Quick Look support on Leopard which means you can now preview items that are in a catalog without having to open the catalog itself. This is great if you have a large number of catalogs and you aren’t sure which one(s) you need to open.      </li>     <li>Multi-monitor Light Table support which allows you to have the Light Table open on one monitor while your catalog and tools are open on another. Any photographer who uses dual monitors will appreciate this addition!      </li>     <li>Full support for the Microsoft Office 2007/2008 file formats (DOCX, DOTX, PPTX, POTX, XLSX and XLT). With this addition, I am able to fully use Expression catalogs not only for my photography, but also for work and personal projects as I can manage my fonts, Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, etc.</li> </ul> Good news for those of you who purchased the Special Media Edition, you can get this upgrade for free. Visit <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/macoffice">www.microsoft.com/expression/macoffice</a> in Mid-May. In the meantime, for those who aren’t yet using Expression Media, you should check it out by downloading the trial today. See ya around! Mike Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:06:55 GMT Web Crossing(r) Unix-v6.4 built Jan 14 2010 18:50:13 (source:1372 2010-01-14 15:39:31 -0800)/Unix-6.4 (http://webcrossing.com/) http://backend.userland.com/rss