April 2008 - Posts

Saturday, April 26, 2008 4:44 PM

Twitter - useful or useless?

Body: Ok - so I've heard of twitter, and to be honest, did not get it. I mean what's wrong with email and IM as a means for communication? Then in the lead up to the MVP summit in Seattle a few weeks back, someone suggested we use twitter as a...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:19 AM

Small Business Marketing Unleashed - Day 2

Body: Day 2 of the Small Business Marketing Unleashed event and I'm not supposed to be blogging or twittering about the content as much of it is so deep and personal to many of us - but hey - I can't resist. Naturally - I won't blog about...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:42 AM

Houston IT Professionals Group

Body: On my last night here in Houston, I was privileged to be invited by Anne Stanton , the founder of the Houston IT Professionals group (HIP) to present at their group at Microsoft's Houston offices. I had just finished attending the Small Business...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:10 PM

Hijacked... the Wayne's Revenge on the SBS Guru

Body: Ok - so this SBS Guru guy took my ID some time back, so last week while in Redmond, I thought I would drop by and pay him a visit.... Here's his view of my visit... Hijacked! Published: 23/04/2008 6:10 AM Read More...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:25 AM

Twitter me...

Body: Ok - so I've got to admit that I still don't quite get twitter, but hey - it's in use by ALL the top people here at the Small Business Marketing Unleashed conference here in Houston, so I figure it MUST be good. I'm on twitter now...
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:16 PM

Who's Susan Bradley? - aka Small Business Marketing Unleashed - Day 1

Body: It's funny actually - I'm attending an conference focused on Small Business and IT here in the USA and NO ONE know's who the heck Susan Bradley is. It's certainly a first to me for sure. Susan is well known in the SBS IT Pro community...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:37 PM

Small Business Marketing Conference - The Night before

Body: I arrived today at this conference here in Houston, TX. I found out about it on their website here I wanted to come to this event as I've not seen anything like it in Australia and I really want to learn more about how I can go about marketing...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 11:08 PM

Mark - wish I could be there - but I can't.

Body: Mark Crall - a massive influence on the SMB/SBS community in the Carolinas region of the USA has questioned "Why are there no MVP's at the SMB Summit" Honestly Mark - I was not wanted or needed. When the event was announce, and I found...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 7:25 PM

The last few...for now...

Body: What do Hockey Pants, Manuals and a Spanking have to do with SBS 2008 and EBS 2008? Watch and find out. Dean and I have had some fun with this over the last few days... we plan to do more, but here's the last 3 that we've done for now.....
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Friday, April 18, 2008 10:01 AM

Windows Server 2008 vs SBS2008 & EBS 2008 #1

Body: Ok - Dean and I did some messing around and here's a little fun we thought you might like :-) Enjoy Published: 19/04/2008 1:01 AM Attachments: http://blog.sbsfaq.com/Lists/Posts/Attachments/160/video70c63a4b4dc4.jpg Read More...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:26 PM

The Dalai Lama, MVP Summit and Bishop Desmond Tutu...

Body: I've been here in Seattle since last Friday for the MVP summit which started last night. I'm staying in a hotel in downtown Seattle, and when I walked into the hotel, I walked right into a line of Seattles finest police in full uniform....
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 3:28 AM

What is C:\Windows\Installer and why does it take up so much space?

Body: On one of my servers, I got a low disk space alert today for the C: drive. This server hosts a number of websites including this blog so I was somewhat puzzled as to what would consume so much space. The C: drive on this server is 30GB in size....
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Friday, April 11, 2008 5:23 PM

SMBNation Webinar - Susan Bradley on Vista SP1

Body: I received a note today from the legendary HarryB letting me know about a webinar coming up that is timed to suit the Australia/New Zealand time zones. This webinar is a free event and will focus on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and is being presented...
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Friday, April 11, 2008 5:00 PM

Trend release new engine VSAPI 8.7

Body: Trend have announced that they are releasing a new engine v8.7 which addresses a number of improvements to overcome resource issues that occurred some time back as well as implementing new features. The new engine will automatically download and...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:39 AM

Are you running a business or a hobby?

Body: Interesting question huh. Many of us in the SMB IT Pro sector have more fallen into our business rather than actively planned our business. As such many of us treat it more as a hobby that we make money out of than a business that can sustain itself...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:21 AM

UKSMBGirl lands in the land downunder...

Body: UKSMBGirl - aka Susanne Dansey has moved from the UK and is now resident here in Australia. I got the chance to catch up with her this week and after a week settling in she finally thinks that she's adjusted to our timezones :-) Susanne is well...
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