Opening office 2007 documents in office 2003

For all of you are still working with Microsoft Office 2003 and who need to open Office 2007 files, there is a solution. Microsoft offers an add-on for Office 2003, which you can find at:

http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=de

By the way ... office 2010 is coming soon and it will come with some very nice new features, especially for Excel. For all of you who want to have a look at Office 2010, have a look at:

http://www.excel-inside.de/joomla/Excel-2010/excel-office-2010-neuerungen.html

Sweet love song

I love this sweet little teddy ...



... dedicated to my wonderful wife Nicole ...

And here is an even nicer version, which cannot be embedded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Dob0pfmLk

Convert pps into ppt files to edit them

Do you also receive some of these great pps screen presentations, which you want to integrate into your powerpoint presentations? In the past I always searched for a way to access these charts of these self running slideshows.

Now I found a very simple way to do this:
Just change the extension of the file from *.pps to *.ppt, by renaming it.
This is all you have to do to convert the file into a regular powerpoint file, which you can edit.

Have fun and keep on sharing ideas!

How to blog without killing yourself - great video from Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferris, the author of the "4h work week" has a great video on blogging on his blog.

You can find it at:
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/06/29/how-to-build-a-high-traffic-blog-without-killing-yourself/

In the above presentation, including detailed screenshots, he covers…
- Why he blogs
- How he blogs and selects best practices
- Frequency and tools — best times and days to post
- Blogging myths and how to harness data for better results
- Testing design and surprising findings that can be copied
- How he addresses comments and community building
- How he writes and researchs for good social media response
- 20 minutes of audience Q&A on Twitter, branding, outsourcing, and much more

All in all a very good video for all of you who are already blogging or thinking of starting it.

Free Ritter Sport Chocolate Testing

And here is something sweet for all my chocolate loving friends:

Ritter Sport is looking for people to test their new chocolate flavours. Just go to:

http://www.rittersport.de/#/de_DE/testerwerden/

and register as a chocolate tester. They will send you free chocolate regularly and will ask you for a feedback.

I might have to increase my triathlon training milage in order to compensate for the additional chocolate, as I have already registered for the program :-)

Still here - Natasha Bedingfield - wonderful romantic song

another one of my all time favourites ...



keep on dreaming ...

Oasis of the seas - incredible cruise ship

Hava a look at this ship. It is really enourmous what our customer Royal Caribbean is putting to the sea:



And what is the best of the ship? Of course the 47 Vitality juice dispensers on board :-)
I think this cruise ship customer has to be taken care of me personally :-)

New book from Thomas Schäfer on working life

I am just returning from a seminar weekend with Thomas Schäfer. Another weekend with very intense insights on systemic structures. Thomas also published a new book on systemic approaches to job related issues. I read the book on my flight back home and it is really great. As in his other books, Thomas has a very clear and empathic writing style.

You can find the book at:

http://www.amazon.de/Wie-Beruf-Berufung-wird-Familien-Stellens/dp/3426874180/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253477720&sr=8-4

You can find Thomas Schäfer on the internet at:

http://www.familienaufstellungenthoschaefer.de/frame.htm

Thank you very much again Dirk for this great recommendation!

Free from Chris Anderson

The long tail was a very controversial book from Chris Anderson. He now event went a step further with his latest book "FREE".

It is developing his long tail thoughts to the next level and let´s you rething the traditional revenue generating streams. Probably not everything can be taken up by you instantly, but this book defenitely opens your mind on how future business models will look like.

As the book is called FREE, you can download it as an audio book for free, too.

You find the free audiobook at:
http://www.loadblog.de/internet/chris-andersons-free-the-future-of-a-radical-price-als-kostenloses-horbuch/

If you want to order the book at amazon, you can find it at:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/140131001X?ie=UTF8&tag=nerdblogabouv-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1638&creative=19454&creativeASIN=140131001X

or in German at:
http://www.amazon.de/Free-Kostenlos-Gesch%C3%A4ftsmodelle-Herausforderungen-Internets/dp/3593390884/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253283706&sr=8-3

You should also have a look on Chris´ Blog at:
http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/

This book really gave me some points to thing about. So keep on rethinking today how you are doing business tomorow!

Interesting book about Angela Merkel

I just read an interesting book about how Angela Merkel from Margaret Heckel. Some nice insights into the political system in Germany.

You can find it at:
http://www.amazon.de/So-regiert-die-Kanzlerin-Reportage/dp/3492053319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253281757&sr=8-1
Not a really deep analysis, but some nice views behind the scenes on how the financial crisis was handled by the German government and some nice anecdotes about male behaviours in politics :-) especially on Sarkozy.

Lissi und der Wilde Kaiser - Part II

and another favourite piece of this great movie ...



I think this is one of the best starts of a movie I have ever seen :-)

Blue sailing tour Turkey

This will be Nina´s and my program for the upcoming vacation in 4 weeks:



Some more interesting links:
http://blauereise.com/blaue-reise-tuerkei/
http://blauereise.com/gulets/
http://blauereise.com/blaue-reise-tuerkei/route-antalya/

I will let you know how it was. Thank you very much Andrea Fehring for the infos.

My new pet

Have a look at this wonderful video:



Thank you Roman for sharing this video.
Check out his great blog on laughing, loving and learning at:
http://www.trinergy.at/roman_braun_blog/

Bully Herbig - making of Lissi und der wilde Kaiser & Wickie

This week they showed Lissi und der wilde Kaiser on TV. I have seen it before, but it is just great, like the other films from Bully Herbig. For all of you who are also a fan of Bully, have fun with:

Making of Lissi und der wilde Kaiser:



Space Taxi from Traumschiff surprise:



And this is what Nina and me will be watching tonight: Wickie - his new film:

Great blog on the German out of home market

This is one of the blogs on the German out of home market, I am following regularly:
http://ausserhausmarkt.wordpress.com/

Check it out and let me know the out-of-home blogs you are following.

New Whitney Houston album to listen 100% online and free

And now something to get started for the weekend ....

http://www.whitneyhouston.com/de/de-splash

... at least I am now having some nice music while still working.
I think I still have to work on the 4h work week :-)

Have a great weekend!

And for all of you who love romantic love songs, like me: This is my all time favourite from Whitney:



.... and I thing you all know that this was from the movie "the bodyguard" .... one of my all time favourite romantic movies ...

Virtual assistant at www.getfriday.com

After I read the 4h-workweek from Timothy Ferriss, I started to use the virtual assistant services from getfriday. When you deliver good briefings (which is really essential), they are delivering great support.

They already did a lot of internet research jobs for me. Currently they are transferring our web-page into a content management system. You can nearly delegate everything which can be done via internet, e-mail or phone.

Just recently they introduced also a German speaking service.

You can find more details at:
http://www.getfriday.com/

Austria 3 live - I am from Austria

One of my favourite songs from this wonderful trio - unfortunately now only 2 of the guys still alive:



By the way ... I am from Austria also says something about my family. The family of my mother is from Austria and I love to visit my large and wonderful Austrian Familiy in Handenberg in the Innviertel.
Last christmas I came back with 2 kg more of weight :-)
A warm hello to all my Austrian family and friends, reading this.

Bushido Song for Horst Schlämmer

Have a look at the cool HSP election song from Bushido:



Unfortunately this was the best part of the "Isch Kandidiere" Movie.
A short version of 30 minutes would have been great, but nearly 2h are definitely too much.

Great video on the social media revolution

If you still think, that social media is only a toy for the boys, have a look at this video;



It gives a very good impression about how the communication habits have already changed - today!
Thank you very much Alex for sharing this great link on twitter. Another great example for sharing knowledge via social media.

By the way, when you browser cuts off the right part of the video (like mine), just double click on the video and it will open the full view in youtube. In youtube, you even have a button below the videos, to watch them in full screen mode.