MVP Podcasts + NCAA Results

It is Monday morning after the first two rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament. My bracket is destroyed, as I chose Wisconsin to make it to the championship game and they were upset by UNLV yesterday. Still, we have 209 entries in the 2nd annual MrExcel March Madness competition - so check out the latest results to see if you are still in the running. The entire tournament system is running in Excel - even the HTML results are generated from Excel.

Last week, I was in Seattle for the Microsoft MVP Summit. This was my second summit. Last year, I thought that the point of the Summit were the Microsoft meetings during the day. This year, I've learned that the point of the Summit is interacting with other MVP's after the sessions. The daytime sessions were cool; Bill Gates gave the keynote. The Excel team has plenty of cool ideas in store for Excel 14, due out probably in 2009. I had a chance to hang out with MVP's from Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Office and others. I met 3-4 other MVP's who are recording their own DVD training with Total Training. I had my laptop and podcast equipment, and I managed to coerce about 2 week's worth of podcasts out of other MVP's. Be sure to check out the podcasts this week and next, for podcasts from Bob Umlas, Jon Peltier, Zack Barresse, Anne Troy, Tony Jollans, Curt Frye, and more.