March 24, 2008
So I was tuning in to Microsoft’s Small Business Summit this morning, catching up on a few things and…
Ouchie.
Big step backwards over last year’s Small Business Summit event, which was flawlessly delivered.
And the tech support line?
Flooded, as you might imagine.
Hope they get this resolved before tomorrow. Definitely hoping to catch a couple of specific sessions.
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January 6, 2008
Only 3 Cardinal Rules by which you must abide…
- Get In
- Get Out
- Make Sure The Check Cashes
Slash put on a textbook-perfect example this evening.
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April 4, 2007
i’m gonna be doing quite a bit of moving around the next couple of months. here’s a quick rundown on how the schedule is shaping up.
here’s april…
- 18: in-person presentation to kysbsug in louisville, ky
- 19: in-person presentation to cinpa in cincinnati, oh
here’s may…
and here’s june…
not to mention various customer-facing events.
so if you happen to be at any of these events, be sure to say hey.
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May 10, 2006
sorry it took so long, but posting the q&a stream from a webcast is a lot of fracking work…
besides the little matter of the surgery yours truly recently underwent, which obviously added a good bit of delay…
ron had to first check with ms corporate to make sure it was kosher to post the q&a logs at all…
and then your friendly neighborhood happyfunboy had the joyous task of cleaning the q&a logs.
you see, there are a couple of misconceptions about q&a logs, i think…
if what i saw during the webcasts is any indication.
first…
yours truly answered, at best, only 1 or 2 questions the entire crown jewels series.
this is very common, particularly in webcasts with live demos.
think about it…
with a 1 hour webcast, there is a very limited amount of time to present anything.
if, as a presenter, i stopped to answer even 1 question in the middle…
i wouldn’t have been close to getting through all the content.
and doing a live demo is like entering a time warp….
where the clock runs at about 3x its normal speed.
second…
everybody wanted to know if the q&a would be posted after the webcast.
for some reason, i guess it’s too difficult to expect people to click in the q&a pane at the end, hit ctl+a, and the paste the q&a log into notepad.
honestly…
that is the fastest and best way to get a copy of any q&a log.
not only that…
it’s an uncensored copy.
remember, the ones i’ve posted have been cleaned.
now, said cleaning involved:
- removing any names or other identifiable info about attendees
- removing the redundancy of questions naturally appearing twice in the log
- cleaning up certain areas for clarity…like bundling followup questions together
- removing any privately answered questions that were simply “shoutouts” to friends, etc.
and, worst of all…
- removing all the lovely comments from a certain attendee i dubbed “the audio nazi”
nothing like doing a bunch of extra work after an event that forces you to read, all over again, the ravings of a nimrod.
if i wanted to do that, i’d go read a book by al franken or jon stewart.
anyway…the q&a logs are up, finally, on the crown jewels + post here at the funcave.
will be working on a couple of clarifications of some content in the webcasts, and gathering some answers for some questions that are still open.
i appreciate everybody’s patience with the time it’s taken for me to get this stuff done.
better late than never, right?
enjoy!
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May 9, 2006
this is kind of a followup to a request that came in on the q&a for crown jewels webcast #3.
someone asked if there was a screencast of how to enable the push-mail capability in windows mobile 5.0 with msfp.
yours truly jotted that down as something to do while recuperating over the next several weeks…
but lo and behold…
the good folks at the exchange team blog already beat me to it!
so if you’re looking for a good demo on enabling push-mail, check out this short, 10 minute screencast on that very subject. it even includes a demo of remote wipe, too.
hmmmm…
now i’m just wondering what i should do with the mountains of free time i have, what with that little project off my plate…
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