Next Up: The Week of The Monkey

Close to 7 months after the official launch of Shockey Monkey, I have caught up with all the deployments. There are just a few dozen people left that I’ll be working on through the weekend (and god help you if you email me to ask if that includes you – I will delete you on the spot) and I’m writing some data transformation functions to port over the people that originally signed up for the beta and actually used it in production. I love you folks. I really do. But, as with any large data-driven project the db schema changes so I’m doing all I can to get your data migrated into it with the minimal amount of pain. The project design, platform, interface and even the underlying codebase have all changed since the original beta was published all thanks to the feedback of people that took the chance to use SM.

I’ve been forced to crawl into a little hole in terms of talking about Shockey Monkey for months now as I felt the onslaught of new signups every time I said those magic words out loud. But now that nearly everyone is turned up – and EVERYONE will be turned up by Tuesday – I can actually publish the knowledge base, videos, guides, best practices and the updated roadmap.

So next week will be all about Shockey Monkey and perhaps the first project build 100% by the SBS community and over 2,000 SMB consultants around the world. Stay tuned, you will get a chance to pick the new name of Shockey Monkey along with some announcements next week that are about as anti-Vlad as possible.

Picture courtesy of my good friend Steve Mesina.