One of the ways to make the most of a conference (and to help justify the spend) is to go through the schedule and think about what sessions you want to attend. It’s never easy, there are always lots of good choices and it’s hard to settle on just one per time slot. I try […]
Read more "SQLRally 2011–The Sessions I Plan to Attend"We’re less than 45 days from the first SQLRally in Orlando on May 11-13 and I bet you haven’t registered yet (though a lot of you have!). Maybe you’re waiting to see if the boss is going to pay, or trying to decide if it’s worth spending your own money (it is!), or waiting for […]
Read more "Register for SQLRally by April 12th!"Just posted yesterday, you can download a very nice looking badge to show that you’re attending or speaking at the first SQLRally. As I get a lot more traffic via my RSS feed than direct visits to the web page I use an plugin called RSS Footer which lets you add HTML to either the […]
Read more "Got Your SQLRally Badge?"I’m off to Dallas for the weekend, flying out early this morning to catch up with Sri Sridharan (LinkedIn, Blog) who is graciously picking me up at the airport. That will give me some time in the afternoon to catch up on some writing and talk shop with whoever arrives early before attending the speaker […]
Read more "Heading to Dallas for SQLSaturday #63"I’m little late posting this, but wanted to log some notes about the first ever ITCampSaturday that ran in in Tampa back on March 19th. The formula for the event was basically the same as SQLSaturday (both a minor compliment and a practical decision), with four tracks, lunch, and a few sponsors on site at […]
Read more "Notes from the Tampa ITCampSaturday (#1)"Another small thing I didn’t know, Reporting Services automatically does PDF compression in at least the case of data driven subscriptions. Found this after writing a replacement for the data driven subscriptions that we could use on Standard edition and noticing a substantial difference in file sizes (15k vs 65k). Turns out the compression is […]
Read more "PDF Compression in Reporting Services"SQLSaturday IT Refresh This is a draft of ideas for the upcoming IT refresh of SQLSaturday. Right now we’re trying to capture ideas and try to understand how they should be prioritized. We’re going to try to make an investment in each of three areas; public facing SQLSaturday web site, the site used by event […]
Read more "PASS Update #54-SQLSaturday Wish List"With SQLSaturday #49 we tried something I call micro-sponsors, charging $5 for a blogger to sponsor the event. It’s a way to do brand building and to contribute in a fun way. It’s not a huge amount of money, about $4.50 after the merchant fees, and I think for Orlando we netted $50$60. At least […]
Read more "SQLSaturday National Blog Sponsors"I found Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand on the Business Battlefield by David D’Alessandro ($12@ Amazon) in the audio section at the library, one of those happy occurrences when I’m looking with no particular item in mind, just something interesting to listen to while I drive. I’m fan of personal […]
Read more "Book Review: Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand on the Business Battlefield"I started blogging about 2-1/2 years ago on SQLServerCentral.com and at the time it was the logical place for hosting. Fast forward and I’ve been chafing under the limited capabilities available there for bloggers, not even able to adjust the look and feel. I’m at a point where moving is something I want to do. […]
Read more "Moving My Blog and Rebranding Too"
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