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One of the other neat things about SkyDrive is it lets you share with people outside of your school network as well. So let’s say I wanted to

Ryan Hoge at laptop

have my grandfather, who was in world war II, take a look at the stuff that I’m doing with this project, and get his feedback and opinion.

Windows Live Skydrive screen – clicks class project, clicks folder options, clicks change permissions

I can choose to put in his email address down here. And Let’s say it’s grandpajoe@hotmail.com,

Windows Live SkyDrive permissions screen – types email address

and he’ll actually get a notification. He’ll authenticate himself using the email address I have,

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and be able to share the exact same workspace that I use with my fellow students. One of the other

Windows Live SkyDrive – clicks Ryan

cool features that we’ve recently added to the SkyDrive service is for any public folder you can actually subscribe to an RSS feed on it so every folder has an RSS feed generated so you can be notified of new updates, new files, new photos added to that folder in your favorite reader. So you don’t necessarily even have to go back to the site to get updates.

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