Just a guy – talking about technology … in an uncomplicated way.
On a recent countdown show, we talked about the general format of the Live Stream. I thought it deserved a little more detail and highlights on the schedule. Since I’m not presenting at Microsoft Ignite this year – my way of contributing during the event centers around this livestream. I’ve been working overtime with my team…
If you follow me on twitter, you might have seen me talk about a couple of guys called Patch and Switch. It’s a little thing that Joey Snow and I started up almost 2 years ago as an experiment. Could two guys talkin’ tech pull off an entertaining AND informative show where people can get…
Those of you who know me from my previous job as a Technology Evangelist in Canada know that there is one thing I STONGLY believe in… User Communities of all shapes and sizes. I remember when I first started my job – one of the things we tried to do was gather people of similar…
Part of this new gig at Microsoft at Corp is helping out drum up information and excitement around big scale events like TechEd. My partner in crime Joey Snow and I record these TechEd Countdown shows and publish them once a week. It’s a hoot! This time we have Melissa Bathum from Microsoft Learning (MCT…
Part of my role as a Technology Evangelist has me out at events and connecting with the attendees and interviewing speakers, partners and community members. I’m here at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 (MMS) in Las Vegas and the Edge team decided we should have some fun with the traditional “montage” of stuff leading up…
There are no formal presentations. It’s not death by PowerPoint. It’s NOT marketing / Sales It’s for Technical Professionals / Geeks / Pro-Sumers / SysAdmins / LanAdmins / Security Experts / basically anyone that works in IT or has a passion / interest in IT. It’s not your traditional “event” from Microsoft – or at…
On the continuing Eastern leg of the Virtual Reality community tour – I drove from Sydney to Halifax yesterday morning in order to make an up time, avoid the fog (which closed the airport) in order to talk with professors and IT staff at Nova Scotia Community College. The meeting was setup by my friend…
One of the challenges we face as IT folk is taking the time to work on our professional networking skills at in-person events. I mean seriously – we’ve worked all day, solved peoples problems and kept servers and systems running. At the end of the day – we mostly just want to go home. IT…