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Floor One of the Microsoft Dubai office offers a veritable tour of the Middle East. Wander among the rows of employees you will undoubtedly hear every language of the Middle East – Urdu, French, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Turkish, English, Hindi… (and that’s not even mentioning the 500+ catalogued languages of a single country Nigeria) – 79 countries covered overall – 59 of those in WECA alone (West & Central Africa).

We are looking for 2 developer evangelists to cover one of our fastest growing markets in West & Central Africa. 

Come represent Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist. The Developer Evangelist (DE) is a member of the world wide team of Developer Platform Evangelists (DPE) within a subsidiary or district. The overall mission of the DPE is to secure platform adoption and revenue growth through evangelism, community engagement, relationship marketing and a vibrant solutions ecosystem.

As a DE, you are Microsoft’s representative to the developer community helping to win the hearts and minds regarding the Microsoft platform. The DE is a technical role with the mission of engaging with the broad community of developers and driving excitement around developer related technologies. This position is a great opportunity to help improve perception of Microsoft and to increase usage of Microsoft’s technologies through breadth marketing programs as well as depth engagement with key accounts.

You should be able to to engage and build relationship with developers & deliver articulate, effective, and audience-appropriate presentations/ demonstrations with technically oriented content at various events to both small and large audiences. You should be experienced with participating in the online and offline developer community.

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When triaging your email, you want to fly through an inbox of 1000 very quickly. With the triaging technique, you can process 300 emails an hour. You can enhance that speed with a few more power accelerators. 

First, you can minimize extra clicks of the Delete key by auto-deleting meeting responses. Why bother saving anything that doesn’t have comments?

Secondly, in order to triage, most likely you are skimming and reading the email. This means the email is open in full screen. After reading an email in full screen, do you really want to return back to your inbox to only find that you need to open another email?  If you find that you are needing to skim emails during your triage, then choose the option to Open the Next Item after moving or deleting.

All these options can be found in Outlook 2010 under File, Options, under the Mail tab.

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Smart Outlooking: Triage your Email

After spending time on the road, you can come back to find your Outlook Inbox overgrown and a weedy mess.  Although some people have professed allegiance to the “Inbox2” technique (which means dumping the mail into a folder that you never really check again), this could mean you may miss important emails. The color coding technique does help mitigate that risk; however there’s nothing like a healthy Outlook triage session. This will have you happy again to receive fresh emails. You too can son have an inbox as fresh as the first day of school.

The technique is an adaptation of the infamous Sean Seibel triage, which was explained to me in an in depth 90 minute serious discussion.  And of the many Outlooking techniques I have learned over the years, this one lasted a year, so definitely worthy to evangelize.

1. First, you have to have an insanely messy inbox – minimum of 500 emails, no more than 3000 (otherwise you need to consider the Inbox2 technique, created by someone who shall remain nameless in case you are wondering why he hasn’t responded to an email you sent him).
2. Most importantly, you need to select the option to Work Offline. Otherwise you’ll feel like you are digging a hole in the sand at high tide.
3. Next, you’ll need to create at 4 folders on your server (vs. local PST file). Keeping on the server ensures you have access to them when you are on the road.  Create the folders Action, Reference, Review, & Review (Internet) as a subdirectory of yourInbox:
   
• The Action folder is for items requiring a response from you.
• The Review folder is things you should read but don’t need to comment on.
• Likewise with the Review (Internet), except these mails contain information from the web. The separation is to create a separate sync category for offline & online documents. This way, you keep all offline content in one place for reviewing the folder from your cell phone or when you are on the plane. If you are always connected, you can combine the two Review folders.
• The Reference folder is for those FWs that people send you (don’t you love forwards). At first glance, it looks like TMI and meaningless but what if you need it one day? So save it as Reference until you can digest or file it properly .
4. Now you begin triaging. Write down the number of mails you are starting with.  Look at the clock and give yourself either 30 minutes or 60 minutes of uninterrupted time.  Be sure to have a beverage handy and turn off your cell phone. Open up your Inbox and start filing the email. Do not read the email, do not take any action unless it will take you less than 15 seconds.   When the time block has ended, check your rate. You’ll want to improve this over time.
5. Now most importantly, you’ll need to schedule a meeting with yourself to review those action items. Take time at the end or start of a day to clear out any actions. 
6. Set up your cell phone to sync with the Review folder.
7. Set up weekly meeting with yourself to read the online content in the Review (Internet) folder.

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