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geek in question: David Salaguinto title: Senior Writer for Workplace On-line know you create for Workplace On the net — but you also have a comic strip called Workplace OFFline. How did that get started? It was almost a dare. In 2007, one of my coworkers sent out an article about using comics for instructional material. I thought it was kind of cool, and decided to make a little comic just for fun, and emailed it to a few folks. People laughed, so I made another one. Within a week I had like 30 people on the little distribution list who wanted to see the comic. At that point, I realized that maybe people besides Microsofties might find it humorous, so I started posting the comics on MSDN. When I first started doing it, we had these goals that we thought were outrageous — I was hoping to maybe get maybe a thousand views in a month. Nowadays I'm getting like a thousand a day, so it's way exceeded the expectations. is Office OFFline your job? No,buy microsoft windows 7 x86 key, no. It's a total side project. I think I worked it into my job commitments as a way to “experiment with alternative forms of communication, find ways to build engagement with readers,” those kind of business-y things. bit then about your real job then. I create content for Office On the net — that used to mean articles, but now we’re finding that templates, training, clipart, and video especially are more popular. About half the content I’m doing these days is video. I’m writing and reviewing scripts for videos that haven't been published yet. a screenwriter now? A wannabe, maybe. you learned from Workplace OFFline that you're bringing into your real job with Workplace Web based? Well, I’ve learned that humor is a great way to engage the reader. I’ve also learned from watching my web stats that the comic generates pretty strong loyalty. Something like 40 percent of my visitors are repeat visits. And then at least half the comics generate some sort of comment, which is another thing we're trying to do. comic has become your sandbox? Right. It's also a great way to learn about humor and what people find funny and what resonates,office Professional Plus 2010 x64 key, and how to say certain things without sounding like a corporate PR person. ever gotten feedback that you've pushed your humor too far? A lot of my comics are about jokes about bosses or about Microsoft or about our products, and you could maybe say it's pushing the edge,buy office 2007 Enterprise, but I've never had any feedback that I was going too far. There are a couple comics that if in hindsight I had to do over again I probably would, but I've never gotten in trouble. It's kind of a testament to our management — they sort of trust me. you about Office OFFline? The fact that people thought it was funny was sort of surprising. The favorite comment I get is, “I can't believe Microsoft is letting you do this.” The people I work with are hilarious. I forget that the outside world thinks of us as the evil empire or the evil Borg. always want to work at Microsoft? Oh, no. I never wanted to work at Microsoft. I was one of those Mac fans — I was about anything but Microsoft. I was a diehard WordPerfect user. I wasn't going to use Word. Lotus 1-2-3 was my spreadsheet. I remember when Windows 95 came out. I was offended by the idea that Microsoft would try to make Windows pretty. But after I started working here,discount microsoft office 2010 Home And Business, I started realizing how great the culture is. When I started doing my comic, I looked around to see if there was an Apple employee doing a comic, or an IBM employee, or somebody else in the industry. And there just wasn’t. I think it's awesome that at Microsoft, we can do stuff like this. The comic could have crashed and burned — all my old Mac friends could have come to my blog just to trash it. It hasn't happened, and people seem to sort of get a kick that it's from Microsoft. your response to the Google Chrome comic? I had a chance to meet Scott McCloud, the creator of that comic, which is a huge thing for me, because I've been a fan ever since I read his books,genuine office 2010 pro plus, Making Comics and Understanding Comics. We were at a conference and he was the keynote speaker, and somebody actually asked Scott if he’d seen Workplace OFFline … and he hadn't. So, I took the opportunity to introduce myself afterwards. I actually wish I had done the Microsoft equivalent of the Chrome Comic — I sort of missed out by not pushing the edge farther. the edge with some links! office.microsoft.com blogs.msdn.com/officeoffline on Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Office-OFFline/24533016984 on making a comic strip with Visio