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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 6:59 PM

So glad its over...

As Steve said, lots of servers (3 actually Steve - we had a backup) 650Gb of Virtual images, quad proc servers, 8Gb ram, 7 Virtual machines spun up at the same time (thanks to the Unified Communications demo!), 14 demo gurus, and me.... And the logistics
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 10 Comments
Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:54 PM

Girly Geeks at ITForum

I've been chatting to the Organisers of ITForum and whinging about why they were planning to hold a Woman in Technology event, and a Girly Geek dinner for TechEd Developers, but not for TechEdITForum. Why not ITForum. Surely there are women in Infrastructure
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
Monday, October 16, 2006 3:15 PM

Messaging and mobility User Group

There's another meeting of the Messaging and mobility User group this week. It's held in our London Offices at 10 Great Pultenay Street on Thursday 19th October . Here's the agenda: 18:00-18:30 Arrival 18:30-18:35 Introduction to speakers and the aims
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:50 PM

Meeting the Messaging user group

So the first two meetings of the messaging and mobility User group went really well. We held one sessionyesterday, on campus at Reading and the other session tonight at our London office in Soho. It's really intersting to meet people who attend user groups
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 7 Comments
Monday, July 10, 2006 4:29 PM

Unified Communications. Come to a User group meeting

The Unified Communications User group is having 2 meetings in the UK in July. Register for the event in Reading on the 18th July here and the event in London on 20th July here ..The pub (after the Meeting - not during!) will probably be the Sun and 18
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Friday, June 02, 2006 3:08 PM

User groups leaders for user groups

We're hosting a community leaders day today on campus, where we invite all of the people in the UK who run User groups, either online or offline. They come from all technology areas, but in the IT Pto space, there are a number of gaps. In the UK there
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 5:18 PM

New UK based Sharepoint User group

The Sharepoint User group had it's first meeting in the UK last night at the Microsoft campus in Reading. Nick managed to secure an amazing turnout for a first meeting with over 60 people attending. There's obviously a need for people to get together
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:47 PM

Women in Technology - and food

(Sounds better than the term girly geek dinner doesn't it). Sarah did a fantastic job mobilising women to mix, network and interact with each other the other night . Almost all of the women I chatted to were energised and motivated. There were some amazing
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 6 Comments
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Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:34 PM

Will the Real Rob Marshall please stand up?

<pinched from an Eminem song I think...> This is a plea for Rob to get in contact with me. I've tried to leave a comment on his blog, and also use the contact me field, but I think the guys in myItforum have some challenges with receiving comments
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:02 AM

Insiders forums

Steve Lamb blogged about creating a Security Insiders forum and so far has received very positive feedback about the need for this type of community. I'm thinking about following his lead and creating 3 different types of Insiders forums: Messaging Insiders
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Friday, November 05, 2004 2:58 PM

User Forums - is online really better than face to face ?

I spent the whole of yesterday, with the UK based MVP community who were at campus in Reading, and I was keen to know their views on how they feel about how Microsoft interacts with the IT Pro's, and to capture some of their thoughts. Most of the MVP's
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments