It’s all about Groove and SharePoint Workspace

While “Office for students” operation is starting, Hommes & Process just published an article (in french) related to Groove usage in Education and Reseach sector.

Learn more there : http://weblog.hommesetprocess.com/fr/2008/10/succs-story-hom.html

“Office Ultimate 2007 for Student” operation allows students to get Office 2007 for 52€.The great news is that Groove is included in Office Ultimate !

But, this operation is also an opportunity to provide students with complementary resources, useful for studies.

For example, students benefit from Groove workspace templates they can reuse and adapt to fit their daily needs: project management, group management, former students network… Made of specific tools, these templates provide students with a quick start.

>> Download available shortly <<

Students can also benefit from a specific offer on the GrooveIT! products line. This range contains products that offer integration between Office components and is more precisely focused on Groove. For example, GrooveIT! for Outlook provides a link between Outlook and Groove to easily transfer emails, tasks, contacts, RSS feeds and events from Outlook to Groove workspaces. Sharing information with friends or colleagues, archiving, synchronizing several computers… there are several use cases…

With the same idea, GrooveIT! For My Documents enables documents to be stored in a Groove workspace directly from within Word, Excel or PowerPoint. It also provides search and SharePoint integration capabilities. As a summary, a full set of features to work more effectively with Office products.

>> Learn more about GrooveIT! for students operation (FR) <<

Then, because life is not only made of work, a funny application to integrate your WIFI Rabbit Nabaztag with Groove is available. Define some alerts on incoming messages or on workspaces updates, you will bo notified by your rabbit !

It’s NabazGroove !

>> Learn more about NabazGroove <<

Finally, game is also available. It’s developed using SilverLight – the new Microsoft technology to create rich and dynamic content – and integrated into Groove workspaces. Staying with Nabaztag, this interactive game can be played with several users. The goal: Align the rabbits!

It’s NabazGame !

>> Learn more and download NabazGame <<

To learn more:

- NabazGame presentation : http://blog.fbarbin.com/nabazgame

- NabazGroove presentation : http://blog.fbarbin/nabazgroove

- GrooveIT presentation: http://www.grooveit.biz

- “Office for students” operation  : Office for students (FR)

- Hommes & Process : http://www.hommesetprocess.com

- Nabaztag : http://www.nabaztag.com