Slow week ahead

This should be a relatively slow week coming up considering most of us will be attending the SMB Nation conference in Redmond, WA. I’ll make it a point to bring a ton of “stuff” back for the group and we will reserve about 15-20 minutes to go over everything that was discussed.

I will also have meetings with several important Microsoft staffers that have expressed interest in working with our IT Professional communities in Florida and will do my best to represent all our interests and concerns. If you’ve ever attended an IT Pro or SBS group meeting you already know what the issues are and I hope a lot of positive momentum comes from my discussion with the interested parties in Microsoft. Whether as employees or IT business workers we all have a vested interest in working with Microsoft as partners and I think they are starting to realize it as such. To this day, however, our support comes overwhelmingly from the local Microsoft employees who believe in the development of their community as much as we do and go out of their way to help us when it really is not their job. Those guys are Greg Boyd, Rene Alamo, Blain Barton and Orlando’s own J.J. Antequino. I hope this trip adds more support to our efforts as it is really a net benefit to everyone involved.

Have a wonderful week and we’ll get back to business on Monday.

-Vlad