Dennis Liu, creator of our “Id3a01ogy” video series
In keeping with all of the Office 2011 excitement, we wanted to share a little background on our new “Id3a01ogy” web series that kicked off earlier this week. Here’s what the man behind the ideas, Dennis Liu, had to say…
Id3a01ogy is a short documentary series about these people. The thinkers. The iconoclasts. The dreamers. The leaders. The idea of the series, is to have a discussion about ideas. Our participants tell us how what an idea is. How to come by an idea? How you know you have one?
A common thread quickly tied the films together among our respondents– an idea is nothing without successful execution. Tools to help ideas grow, are essential. And, as a diehard Mac user, I know that users will find this new version of Office 2011 for Mac helpful to get their ideas written down, presented and shared.
As a film director, my livelihood depends on the quality, speed, and originality of my ideas. I have to think. A lot. There are scores of people who are always clawing for my job, and I have to constantly prove my ideas can break through the clutter over anyone else’s.
Directing is not just pointing around, looking like a boss. Actors, cinematographers, art directors – are all looking to a director for more ideas to help generate their own. It is an intensely competitive field, and if you don’t have the ideas and answers, someone out there will.
Every edge is critical for me. For me, I can appreciate this Office for Mac’s 2011 more communal approach to word processing with co-authoring. I use Office for Mac to write my treatment drafts and Excel to read my producers’ budgets. With my team, I can share ideas back and forth instantly, to figure out a way to stay on budget and improve scripts.
But even with all these advancements, these new brushes and scalpels in our arsenal, it is the originality of the work that we produce, which will ultimately yield the most fruitful results. The quality of our work must still stand on its own merits, no matter what program or platform it is created. This is the only way to stay relevant, in our re-invented world where the internet as the ultimate equalizer, as it continually ignores the mediocre, and warmly embraces the radical and unique.
Dear Mr. Liu,
I appreciated your comments about Office:Mac 2011. I have already used Office:Mac 2004. Now, I am using Office:Mac 2008, a great partner. However, I already bought Office:Mac 2011. It will be installed next week. I wait for the news, especially those offered by Outlook.
Have a good night.
Otamar de Carvalho
Office for Mac 2011??
Office for Mac 20011:
I installed Office for Mac 2011 November 10, 2010 My computer has been in the Apple store ever senses yesterday at noon. I had Office for 2008 on my Mac Mini and I installed Office for Mac 2011 and now I have mutiple databases, all messed up. All my Contracts and Calendar is all messed up with mutiple entries in my contact and calendar. From 2008 to 2011 the export really export terribly. Call Microsoft and nobody new what happened. The Genius Bar at Apple told me my cache got all messed up.
Plus some of the features in Entourage are NOT in Outlook 2011.
• CAN’T have 2 signatures and email accounts with automatic selection. The right signature for the right email. Have to do it manually.
• Entourage will follow the incoming email and will respond to the email it was sent to with the correct signature. Office 2011 only has ONE default signature with your replies.
• Also NO ONE knows Office 2001 at the Apple stores. You have to call Microsoft for all your problems.
• Can schedule an Office 2011 class at the Apple store.
Why have a new produce with less features and no support.
If Apple wants to get into the business world with their produces and software they should be train on the business software.
I just called my local Apple store my laptop will be ready tomorrow. They had to blow away my database and reinstall Office 2011.