Small Business Symposium

Ok, so I got guilted into this post. Here is some interesting stuff in a few pictures. Needless to say SBS R2 is everywhere but nobody is saying anything about it, at all. So its even less of a non-event than even the biggest cynics presented.

But screw SBS, this event has been awesome for a 1.0. The symposium has all the SMB leaders you’re used to and I’m in the middle of a four-way Schragging of the MSP panel.

The UK crew (headed by Susanne) did an incredible job promoting SMB ITPRO collaboration and business relationships – we video taped it and got approval from Robbie The Man to post it on Vladfire. If you're in Cambridge and have a 4pin-to-4pin firewire cable I'll post it tonight.

Let's see, who is here. Eric Ligman, virtually all of TS2 (Ron, Charles V.H., Fred Pullen, Stephen Cracknell, Indy, Mike Marshall, Mark Moore of mspartnerevents.com), Jessica Emmons, our new PCM in the Gulf, lots and lots of big Microsoft folks.

Two spotlights: Charles Van Heusen offered to kick my ass and I nearly dropped my laptop on Karl Palachuk. I was doing a demo for Karl, surrounded by geeks and someone came over with, and I quote: "Vlad, there is a pretty girl that wants to meet you." Poor Karl didn't even know what hit him.     

Vlog.. bad idea. I'm not used to having complete strangers knowing who I am… 

Here are a few shots for your enjoyment.

Microsoft really did a great job with this event. I like the bar, I really, really do. The atmosphere is relaxed, content is professional, they aren't flooding us with food, everything seems to be remarkably well organized, on time… Just remarkably well done, to the point of shock. 

The false sense of security check is bright and green and nobody seems to care except one. Greetings from Boston Susan, are we even now?

P.S. So many questions about comments… The comments are now closed. Will likely remain so indefinitely. The comments via trackbacks (ie, if you create a comment about my post it will show up on comments) are still enabled. I'm OOF so I don't have the time to filter the obscene comments from all of Susannes fans and I sort of feel that if you think you have a valuable opinion that is strong enough to prompt you to comment on my blog perhaps you need to start a blog of your own. Give it a shot, www.blogger.com, it's far easier than it sounds.

Update: Can't believe I forgot this. Big thanks to Eric Ligman for hooking us up with the SBSC blue badge. More flare, now I'm a complete Microsoft certification xmas tree.. 🙂  

Update 2: Thanks to Schrag for hooking me up with Wifi access this morning. Schrag is here for the whole week btw, $2k+ dropped on an event by a guy that won't drop $10 for professional business cards. Think there is value in professional conventions now?