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5 days ago
A shout out to Andy Parkes of iBIT Solutions and Guy Gregory of Peak Support who a couple of months ago took over from the departing Steve Wright of BMS (who is devoting his attention to his new Microsoft Partner Area Lead role) as the new Group Leads for AMITPRO – the Midlands Association of IT Professionals. Andy and Guy are simply two of the nicest and well thought of people you’ll meet in the Small Business Specialist Community within the UK – regularly contributing their time and effort to community events both on-line and both in person. In the short-time they’ve been joint group lead, they’ve already made a positive impact on AMITPRO – putting on a couple of great and well attended meetings, re-vamping the organisation web-site at www.amitpro.org, and taking surveys from their fellow members to help form a fresh direction for the group going forwards. If you’ve not already checked it out, take a look at Andy’s blog over at ...
12 days ago
(I thought twice before posting this article as my fear is it might offend someone I’ve interacted with recently. If you read this and have a sudden feeling of “Oh! He’s writing about me!” then please believe me – I’m not writing about you! If this blog post *was* aimed at you, I’d have approached you directly to talk about it before now. OK? :-) It’s well documented that British actor Stephen Fry is a big user of the Social Networking site Twitter. Fry (aka @StephenFry) has almost 1 million followers on the site, and is the first name that the British Press and Media use when they are talking about Twitter. With so many followers and members of the general public to interact with, Mr. Fry must get all manner of feedback – positive and negative. As a high profile figure, I’m sure he generally shrugs off the negative comments, but do they ever get to him? Fry is a sufferer of Bi-Polar Disorder, also known as Manic Depression, a condition where his mood can ...
13 days ago
In an attempt to curb the multiple scare stories around AVG withdrawing their popular Free Anti-Virus software that usually emerge around the time of these upgrades, here’s a heads-up that version 8.5 of the popular free AVG Anti-Virus will be expiring on December 1st only to be replaced with a free edition of the latest version, v9 . After December 1st, v8.5 or below of the software will still run, but will not update it’s virus definitions leaving you at risk of infection by new viruses, and you’ll be “nagged” by a pop-up asking you to upgrade to AVG version 9. Clicking the nag pop-up will take you to a web-page where you’re encouraged to buy the full version of AVG Anti-Virus (which may not be a bad thing, as the full version includes a ton of features the free version does not) – but if you’re happy with the free version, then good news – a free edition of version 9 is also available. Look at the smaller print at the bottom of the page to find a link to upgrade (see ...
14 days ago
A quick shout-out for my friend and fellow HTG member - “Mr. Virtualization” (with a “z”) Dave Sobel of Evolvetech, who is running a must-see Webinar on Virtualisation next Wednesday 18th November 2009. When I call Dave “Mr. Virtualization”, it’s with good reason – he’s the author of the excellent “Virtualization: Defined. A Primer for the SMB Consultant” book, and delivered one of the best break-out sessions at WPC 09 recently, focused around SMB Virtualisation. Dave *is* the Subject Matter Expert on Virtualisation in the SMB Space, and Evolvetech are making a great deal of money in that area thanks to his knowledge of the field! You can find more details at http://www.smbvirtualization.net/drupal-6.4/node/90, or here’s an overview:- “I'm presenting a newly updated version of my presentation from WPC as a 5W25 webinar, and wanted to let everyone know about it. This is going to be a good one, and contain new material! Go visit ...
21 days ago
I’m pleased to say I’ve been fortunate enough to be nominated for the Computer Weekly Blog Awards 2009 as a nominee in the IT Consultant and Analyst Category! From the web-site:- IT Blog Awards 2009: IT Consultant and Analyst Consultants and analysts provide useful insight from their vantage point of working with numerous companies. If they share that insight online in a blog, this is the category for them, whether they are part of a big set-up such as Gartner or Forrester, or a sole trader. *** If you’re a reader of this blog and would like to vote for me, then you can visit http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/03/238190/vote-in-the-computer-weekly-it-blog-awards-2009.htm and select my name from Category 2 – IT Consultant and Analyst. Thanks for the nomination, and the huge amount of support I’ve already received from friends and colleagues on Facebook and Twitter – win or not, I’m touched and I really appreciate it. :-)
