July 2007 - Posts

Tech.Ed less than a week away

 Tech.Ed is less than a week away..EEK!  Well our slide deck is submitted thanks to a long plane flight to the UK 2 weeks ago allowing us to give it our full attention. We have another LONG flight back to Brisbane to inflict our Read More
posted Tuesday, 31 July 2007 7:46 PM by Bronwen | 0 Comments
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Six days until sunshine

Only 6 days until Tech.Ed and I'm getting excited! I am so looking forward to 6 days in the sunshine enjoying walks along the beach, shopping trips at Pacific Fair, partying it up at the Tech.Ed Movie World party, and now I hear that Readify Read More
posted Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:20 PM by Lorraine | 1 Comments

Can you beat 10 Tech.Ed's in 5 years?

So I did an interview with Greg Low last week about his Tech.Ed experience and he told me he has been to 10 Tech.Ed events across Aust, NZ and USA in the last 5 years. I think that's pretty good going for a non-Microsoft employee. Any higher bids? Read More
posted Friday, 20 July 2007 3:15 PM by Lorraine | 1 Comments

Going... Going... Gone!

Twenty days to go and Tech.Ed is already sold out! Wow - now that's popular! Read More
posted Tuesday, 17 July 2007 2:00 PM by Lorraine | 1 Comments

Buy your Tech.Ed ticket now

Frank Arrigo reported a couple of days ago here that tickets are almost sold out. So if you don't have your ticket yet, you need to buy it right now. In fact stop reading this post and buy it or else it could already be too late ! The Read More
posted Sunday, 15 July 2007 8:21 PM by Elaine | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 to launch Feb 27th

At the worldwide partner conference Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will be launched in in LA on Feb 27th . Even though the launch is in LA other countries won't be forgotton, with subsequent launch Read More
posted Sunday, 15 July 2007 8:08 PM by Elaine | 0 Comments

Tech.Ed sessions updated with more detail

I posted yesterday about the tech.ed sessions being up and my name being missing from the speakers list.  Well they've been updated.  You can now find our session, complete with time and blurb here :) WEB302 - Mastering Virtual Earth Read More
posted Friday, 13 July 2007 2:50 PM by Bronwen | 1 Comments
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Tech.Ed pics from last year

 Lorraine posted a few pics the other day..so I thought I'd do mine.  I've only got 1 really..it's of me and John with Frank.  I'm the one on the right :) Read More
posted Friday, 13 July 2007 2:45 PM by Bronwen | 1 Comments
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Tech.Ed sessions are up!

Tech.Ed sessions are up! Check them out HERE Looking at the list, looks like I don't get to speak :(  John's the only one down for the session WEB302 - Mastering Virtual Earth.  Oh well..less work for me now. Read More
posted Thursday, 12 July 2007 11:11 AM by Bronwen | 2 Comments
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Tech Talk Guest Editors stars?

I was chatting to Brian Madsen today and apparantly being a guest editor makes you famous and people want your autograph...well I think he was mainly just having a go at me. At first I didn't think much of it and then I looked back at the people who Read More
posted Wednesday, 11 July 2007 5:33 PM by Bronwen | 3 Comments

Some photos from the last Brisbane Tech.Ed

So if you thought I was exaggerating when I said I spend my time lurking around Tech.Ed without ever making a session - here's some of my networking accomplishments from Tech.Ed 2005. Left to Right: Andrew Coates and me (Andrew was the only Microsoft Read More
posted Wednesday, 11 July 2007 5:14 PM by Lorraine | 1 Comments

Tech.Ed ...less than 4 weeks to go

The counter over at the Tech.Ed site says 26 days to go!  That's less than 4 weeks! So I'm going to be busy with our presentation preparation in the next few weeks.  It's going to be my first Tech.Ed where I'm involved in a presentation (other Read More
posted Wednesday, 11 July 2007 4:51 PM by Bronwen | 1 Comments
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Tech.Ed flair...come on .. it must be out there

Posted the other week about the Tech.Ed flair Seems Frank has been busy making Hamlet.ed and Macbeth.Ed Who else has got some...come on...I know it's out there... Read More
posted Wednesday, 11 July 2007 4:40 PM by Bronwen | 0 Comments
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It's Content, It's Community, It's Collaboration

So I got my first ever Royalty Statement today for a DotNetNuke For Dummies book I wrote in April this year. Woo-hoo!! Despite being firmly entrenched it the IT world, there was a time (long long ago) when becoming a beret wearing beatnik writer was an Read More
posted Wednesday, 11 July 2007 4:38 PM by Lorraine | 0 Comments

OzMOSS.com website goes live

I have been using SharePoint 2007 for a few months now and think I have mastered the basics. But of course there's always lot of room for improvement and so I think I will sign up to the new OzMOSS.com website that I found on Aaron Saikovski's blog Read More
posted Wednesday, 11 July 2007 4:31 PM by Lorraine | 0 Comments

If you don't have a pet - then go get Mark.ed

Well you've probably all heard about the old "Kick the cat" scenario that people use when doing a bit of venting. Essentially it doesn't work at all - it just makes you more frustrated and then the 'cat' goes and passes on the vibes to the next person. Read More
posted Tuesday, 10 July 2007 10:59 AM by Lorraine | 2 Comments

Tech.Ed - it's about the bag

 Now we all know that an important part of Tech.Ed (other than the sessions) is the Tech.Ed bag. Andrew posted a pici awhile back of this years bag: I must say that I was pretty impressed by last year's bag and hope this one lives up to Read More
posted Sunday, 8 July 2007 8:45 PM by Bronwen | 1 Comments
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What's bringing you to TechEd

For me last year the SharePoint 2007 sessions were on the top of my list.There were some great ones with lot of guys out from the states including Mike Fitz and Arpan Shah as well and some great locals. This year SharePoint is much further down my list , I've Read More
posted Sunday, 8 July 2007 8:05 PM by Elaine | 1 Comments

Slaps...Teched Making your mark with Mark.ed!

Was checking out the Tech.Ed site today and stumbled upon the Mark.ed! Competition.  It's game of slaps to see who can make the biggest "mark".  Had a few goes and i'm just over a minute which i thought wasn't too back till i checked out the Read More
posted Friday, 6 July 2007 8:30 PM by Bronwen | 3 Comments
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PowerPuff girl? How bout X-men?

Frank has suggested the latest editors should be the Powerpuff Girls...eek!  I don't think I fit in with any of them... Bubbles - not blonde, definatly not playful and gentle. Blossom - not a red hed, you'll NEVER see me in pink. Buttercup - don't Read More
posted Wednesday, 4 July 2007 10:53 PM by Bronwen | 3 Comments

A skirt on the outskirts - have you seen this girl?

Hello everyone, my name is Lorraine Young and I am the third and final of Frank's guest bloggers. I represent the many thousands of women who are widowed by the Tech.Ed event for nearly one week each year, not to mention the many nights of preparation Read More
posted Wednesday, 4 July 2007 11:06 AM by Lorraine | 2 Comments

Australian Architecture Forum Wrap-Up

While we are counting down to Tech.Ed I thought I'd mention the Australian Architecture Forum that just wrapped up in Sydney and Melbourne. I was lucky enough to be involved in presenting at the conference this year holding two round tables one on Enterprise Read More
posted Sunday, 1 July 2007 8:26 PM by Elaine | 13 Comments

Hi From Another Guest Editor

As announced by Frank I'm one of the new guest editors here so thought I better jump in front of the keyboard and say Hi.One of the reasons this group of editors was chosen is because the count down to Tech Ed is on.  I'm a big fan of the yearly Read More
posted Sunday, 1 July 2007 8:01 PM by Elaine | 2 Comments