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Archive for January, 2009

MICROSOFT BI = FREE ?

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

MICROSOFT BI = FREE ? What a day,   Yesterday saw an interesting change in BI. One small part bad, and a HUGE part good. Microsoft has made a very aggressive move against its competition in the BI space. Everyone will put their own spin on this however from my standpoint its pretty simple math [...]

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Remember the Milk

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Task management has always been near and dear to my heart. Basically because I was never any good at it. I found a solution a few years ago to the many issues that I had with work, home, emails, things to look at in the future. This was David Allen’s Getting things done, Known as [...]

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The Calgary Entrepreneurs

Friday, January 9th, 2009

was just at a fantastic event held by

The Calgary Entrepreneurs.

We learned about Maximizing Search Engine
Optimization

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The Southern Alberta Microsoft User Community (SAMUC) will be hosting a very special luncheon with SMB Phones on January 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM. Our feature speaker is Trent Johnsen, Vice-President of SMB Phone. From POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) to SIP; How Microsoft is changing all the rules in small business communications with Response [...]

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  So here is a little gem for those of us with multiple computer, be them desktops plus a laptop, or 2 desktops. You can hide all the boxes these day and you may have one or 2 monitors, but one thing that you can’t hide is the need for multiple keyboards and mice. With [...]

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