I attended the UK & Ireland MVP Open Day today which was really interesting. To sit in a room amongst a group of passionate people from lots of different backgrounds and professions was pretty impressive and quietly I felt very overwhelmed. What inspired me the most was a presentation on security which was taken by […]
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The Mr. Busy Campaign will be bidding SBSCers in UK and Ireland a hurried goodbye as he gets replaced by three new campaigns.
Here’s what the Mr. Busy campaign achieved:
101 Partners took part in the campaign within five weeks
24,000 end users were reached
98% of Partners told Microsoft that they would like to see more of these […]
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Great news! Microsoft Corp. have finally allowed one of the greatest tools that bridges the gap between the techies and the sales teams.
Vijay announced it on his blog after the much anticipated Worldwide SBSC PALs meeting.
Thank you to Nigel Postings and Chris Parkes for taking the feedback the Community has been generating over the last few months […]
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I’m in Glasgow airport after another good day with Partners and Microsoft and I’ve just popped into the book shop to browse the shelves. I have a bad habit of buying books and not reading them until some months later. Reminds me of those delegates who go home from events with their heads full of […]
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I had a chat with a new friend of mine within Microsoft at the weekend and we got onto the topic of blogging. We were deciding whether blogging was always appropriate and what motivates someone to start one.
Within my presentation of ‘Daring to be different’ I talk about how blogging has benefited various Partners in our […]
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On the whole, another good day today for Microsoft’s ‘On the Road’ events. I would say that the Thames Valley audience was far more animated despite London’s question about downgrade rights (hot topic!) cropping up again. Good to see that the SBSC meeting prior to the main event was well attended and good to hear […]
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If you caught any of the World Cup rugby over the last week and sat through the ad breaks, you may have been treated to Cadbury’s new advertising campaign.
It’s not what you would typically associate with the company and is aimed cleverly at who they perceive will be watching the TV at the time. There […]
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I’ve decided, ‘thank you’ and ’sorry’ are expensive words…
During my run today, I spent time thinking about the week ahead and what I needed to do. Taking time out on my own to run or simply sit by the river gives me my space to focus and clear down a few things that build up […]
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So hopefully those who attended the LiveMeeting session found it beneficial. Thank you to all of those who have emailed me as a result of it and I’ll be following up on them all later this week.
If you missed it and want to catch a recording of it (it’s about 40 minutes long) then you […]
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Hi Guys,
A thread has already started up regarding an event a Small Business Community event that we (as in me and the guys at Westcoast) will be hosting. So I thought I would talk briefly about it here just to give you the heads up.
Although the finer details can’t be released to you just yet, […]
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