SBS Show #20 – Web 2.0 for an IT Pro

Can you believe we’ve banged out 20 of these so far? I’m impressed. The little SBS Show has grown from “Man, how do I stop these illiterate people from shooting themselves in the face with SP2” to one of the only places in SMB where you can get the whole story. Even though its an expensive and time consuming process I have to admit its totally worth it. I get so much mail thanking us for putting this together, telling us how successful they have been with the info they got from the SBS Show, how much they enjoy listening, how they listened to all the episodes back-to-back during their drive to Vegas, how they had to buy an MP3 player because of the SBS Show. So thanks guys, thanks for the support and well over a million listeners that tuned in to the SBS Show. Thanks to all the awesome guests and cohosts that put their time into making the SBS Show such a success.

So go and get #20. Joining us this week is Bob Rebholz from Microsoft to discuss the Web 2.0. You know, we in the “dev” roles know what Web 2.0 means because we’ve been dealing with it for such a long time. But if you’re over 19 and in IT odds are you don’t know what Web 2.0 or Ajax or DOM/DHTML or any of these things mean. Digg what? Bob is the guy behind theworkingnetwork.com blog and recently transitioned over to microsoft.com to make information discovery easier for IT Pro’s digging around microsoft.com for solutions.

Sarah Perez (www.sarahintampa.com) is cohosting this week because she is my web 2.0 go-to person. I’m not sure how the heck I found her but she has been a constant inspiration as she constantly lives on the bleeding edge of web services. Plus she’s an SBSer! Little known detail is that she inspired the SBS Show with her own podcast. I thought about the podcast for a while before doing it but without her help and all the advice I never would have pulled it off. So thanks for the inspiration Sarah and thanks for the help with #20.

I’m just incredibly proud of our little SBS Show. Honestly, I hope this inspires you. I can’t tell you how many people have told me “I was thinking about doing that but you beat me to it!” – beat you to what? It’s not like we’re the 8PM show on NBC that you need to bump to get the attention, if you’ve got something to say and think you can contribute then go for it. This is not a competition guys, this is sharing and collaboration. Just do it.