Happened to notice in my weekly LinkedIn update today that Todd McDermid had signed up for the 2010 Summit event on LinkedIn. Easy to forget LinkedIn, but it’s a really good way to see who else will be there that you know…and that you don’t know. Here is the link, or just search LI events […]
Read more "PASS 2010 Summit on LinkedIn Event Calendar – Have You RSVP’d?"For the past couple years we’ve had a few different documents that covered how to run a SQLSaturday, but as you all know building and maintaining documentation is hard, and we just didn’t have a good process for capturing new lessons and folding them in. A couple months back I set up the wiki and […]
Read more "PASS Update #38 (SQLSaturday Wiki)"Kendal posted the announcement yesterday that we opened the design content on 99designs. I’ve used the site before and it’s a decent system, typically get a logo for around $200 – and you get to pick from a lot of options. I know most of us are data people, but probably more than a few […]
Read more "SQLRally Logo Contest"I saw this post (please do read it) about introducing speakers and it reminded me that I wanted to write about it too. At the July oPASS meeting I did the introduction for Kendal Van Dyke, and it just felt like the right thing to do. We’ve been a little lax about it, and in […]
Read more "Introducing Speakers"We’ve got 6 days left before the call for nominations for the 2010 PASS election closes and I want to make a last push to try to encourage more of you to participate. Jeremiah and Joe both have some great points about the benefits and I probably can’t top them, so I’ll just ask you […]
Read more "PASS Update #37 (Elections and Re-Election)"We’re pleased to announce that Louis Davidson will be our pre-con speaker this year at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando. Louis will be presenting a one day seminar on database design, a worthy topic and one about which Louis is both knowledgeable and passionate, looking forward to attending it myself! The competition was definitely fierce, all […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #49 Pre-Con Announced"We had our monthly Board of Directors call on July 8th and as is fairly common, the call went smooth. Unusually though, I had two items on the agenda, the budget for the ‘spring event’ and the SQL Server Standard. The budget went through a number of revisions, starting with a super minimalist version in […]
Read more "PASS Update #36"Excited to get the email yesterday that two of my sessions were accepted, Introduction to SQL Server Statistics and Building a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan. I’ve done both presentations before, but definitely still some practice to do prior to November. Looking forward to seeing the full and final schedule. Also saw my friend Don Gabor […]
Read more "PASS Summit 2010 Sessions Accepted"It’s been a busy month for me for PASS activities. I spent almost the entire week last week on PASS related items and probably 60+ hours for the month: Reviewing the annual budget A call on SQLSaturday to work on plans for 2011 Tons of time on the Spring Event I won’t share much in […]
Read more "PASS Update #35"If you’re a blogger or a twitterer or a SQL speaker or PASS volunteer, you do it because you have found it to be fun, worthwhile, even challenging perhaps. I bet you remember doubting the value before you started and hesitating to take the leap, and maybe you tried it because you had someone inspire […]
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