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Normally I’m pretty contactable my phone gets mail, we have company wide mobile to mobile plans where we get 10 Minute calls free and during a business day I am practically glued to my tablet. So this makes me pretty accessible. Today my Business Manager (also Wife) sent a number of emails, and called me a few times but since I was in meetings that I had a significant facilitating role in I didn’t return any of the calls or respond to email (often I will send a quick status update and return calls...
Yesterday I linked to a Backup article and book to give some background into Virtual Machine Backup and said I’d explore further today. I’m not really ready to detail the whole design, and I have a Offering Brochure to prepare so here is the basic idea of the possible parts. I’m almost certain to change some of it and it will only be offered by region where we have an office or agent. So have a think about some requirements you might have for backup and let me know if you would be interested in collaborating...
After the Microsoft Partner briefing last night I arranged to have Lunch with another MS Partner and talk about the things we normally do when we get together. Oh the economy it must be to blame for all my troubles I can’t believe you deploy that technology for actual customers What did you get out of that presentation? So apart from vmWare VDI vs a traditional Citrix environment which I will cover in the next day or so what else did we talk about … During the Presentation last night Inese tried...
You might notice that on the Partner Program Re-Enrolment page there is an option to go back a level in the program. Hmm not sure that I’d give that option, if I were designing the site I’d not want folk thinking about that button but now that we have seen it we really do need to perform some due diligence around what it might mean to drop back to Registered Member, retaining our SBSC Status of course. There are a number of Certified Partner Membership Benefits I’m sure we don’t use and perhaps are...
Since I have been making the trip up to the SMBIT Professionals Sydney (where I have just been elected to the committee, yes be very afraid!!) monthly meetings I have a revitalised interest in the “Energy Drink” market particularly on the return leg home. I used to be a big fan of V Berry flavour but yesterday found it to be harder to find as they seem to be phasing in the Lemon version, not good if you ask me. Having said that it is still WAY Better than the original Mother (the one in the glass...
I blogged a long time ago about what I thought "Could" be done to make the SCE removal palatable . Gwen Zierdt left a comment saying "Good analysis on pricing. Stay tuned for some potential licensing promos later this year. " and of course I am waiting patiently. Now I wonder if I even care. Here is what folk said to me Last Tuesday night after the Sydney IT Pro Group "I'm glad SCE 2007 is out! I've got Kaseya Licences to pay for" and this might well be the thing...
OK now that every group I care about here in Canberra has pretty much folded or changed leadership, I thought I'd refocus on my roots and look at what is happening in the Old Sydney Town SBS Group. Yes the group has re-branded but more of that in other posts. Grace Kerrison, Director of Mobility & Embedded Devices, Microsoft Australia spoke to the group about Windows Mobile and the SMB opportunity. How Telcos are developing strategies around Small Business mobility, her presentation was short...
I own a small company that does Infrastructure Consulting, we sell time and expertise to various customers. When we are in long term engagements we do not quote product for any reason, this would be a huge conflict of interest, particularly when we often define the requirement and evaluate responses. We are trying to grow our Corporate / Small Government deployment and support business, which is a much slower area of growth for us because it is really quite hard not to pull back from developing this...
Firstly thanks Susan for the link and if folk want to know lots about SCE 2007 there is lots out there and when I finish letting my business run my life I'll do some more on http://SMEManaged.com too. Plus some other pretty cool tools I have been finding of late. I'm talking about here and not over on SMEManaged well because I am about to give my opinion and NOT a how and why we do things with what tools. Susan said "Price tag is a concern for me though." and in the top ten list...
Earlier today I wrote .... So today I feel like a bit of a Partner Group Fan-boy but I am hoping to eradicate any negativity this year and this really has helped with the positivity today. So how am I going to eradicate negativity?? With one of these Bracelets!! OK more explanation required. I was told by someone who's opinion I respect that I can always be relied on to be negative. Bloody Hell what the ...... So I filed that away as an unthinking comment and to not get too negative about it...
Over time I have been a little more than a bit critical of the commitment to events in Canberra that the Softies in Sydney have shown. Well in the last three days I have been invited to the Hero's Launch Event three times!!! and I am not complaining in fact it has made me feel like maybe we have turned the corner and the ACT Partner Community might just need to put up or shut up now. Why? Well one of the issues has been that events are poorly attended so not really economical to run here, but...
This afternoon we went out for some frozen custard at GOODBERRY'S now this is a great store and has been around for quite some time, and as far as a treat for the kids pretty damn good. Today I noticed an "all about GoodBerry's" sign, I only took a picture of part of it. I'm sure you will get the message. I wonder at what percentage 100% air in Ice cream allows us to just call it air, Hmmmmm?? Of course it got me thinking about what we say about our competition to make our products...
Here is a mistake that I hope to avoid next year. I kind of liked the template that was downloadable by Microsoft Partners. We really did want to thank all the people who have helped us or we have helped over the year, and to let people know we really do value the friendships. What could be worse than the 6 people who got to see that I didn't care enough to have the <firstname> field in my outlook contacts populated correctly. Turns out Susan got two so it even stands out more. While mail...
So as I mentioned previously Microsoft had a luncheon to recognise members of the Partner Community for various achievements over the last year. Both Synergistic Network Solutions and DotNet Solutions were recognised for our involvement in the Canberra User Group Community, now Athena and I had lunch together with some other partners and a couple of Microsofties and had quite a talk about the Partner Community and IT Community issues in general. One thing we noticed was how many of the attendees...
David Koch the finance dude and co-presenter of Sevens Sunrise programe has a weekend show called " My Business " while he can be a zoober head sometimes I quite like him generally. So I watch the show even though Mel and Nat are not there to moderate him. This week there was a bit about Red Baron a scenic and aerobatic joy flight business. The one thing that really stayed with me was how to keep contractors with you when they could work for almost anyone. I wonder what we can do with local...