oPASS & Livemeeting

One of our goals for oPASS in 2010 is to host 12 meetings instead of our usual 6. That doubles the pressure to find speakers of course, so we’re going to try to use Livemeeting to compensate and see what happens. We would still prefer to have all our speakers in person, but at least […]

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Picking a Blog Platform

For the past couple years I’ve been using Community Server for blogging, only because that’s the platform that’s been part of SQLServerCentral.com. It works, but it’s not fancy. The only other platform I’ve used is Blogger. It’s functional, easy to set up, let’s you use your own domain name, and of course the price is […]

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Goals for 2010

Posting goals online is great as long as you meet your goals, can be something less than great if you don’t. It’s all in the point of view that your next client/employer has, do they like someone that sets goals even if there is some risk, or do they see someone that doesn’t follow through […]

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Almost Back from Vacation

I’ve been ‘on vacation’ for two weeks and it’s been nice to relax. I wasn’t able to unplug entirely, but did keep the work to a minimum. I checked email each day to delete junk and reply only if it seemed urgent, then closed Outlook and returned to vacation. Only visited the office once for […]

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