April 2007 - Posts

When's TS2 coming to town?
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:51 PM

For events in your local area visit http://www.ts2seminars.com/allEvents.aspx

 

I'll be in the following cities throughout the rest of the year. Look forward to seeing all you wondeful folk at one of these events!

 

CALIFORNIA

05/01/2007
Burbank

05/03/2007
Irvine

05/15/2007
La Jolla (San Diego)

05/17/2007
Santa Barbara

06/12/2007
Ontario

06/14/2007
Los Angeles

 

NEVADA

06/28/2007
Las Vegas

 

OREGON

04/24/2007
Eugene

04/26/2007
Portland

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Bay Area Partners: MSPP 101 Live!
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:44 PM

If the thousands of tools and program MSPP offers you has you a wee bit confused, learn from Microsoft employees and other partners on the tools that deliver the most impact and revenue for Partners. Lunch's included =D

 

You are cordially invited to the IAMCP Microsoft Partner Portal Training Event!

International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners, Northern California Chapter

DATE: Tuesday April 17th, 2007

TIME: 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM

LOCATION:

Learn iT! –SF Office
33 New Montgomery Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, CA  94105
Tel: (415) 946.6483

Learn How to Leverage the Microsoft Partner Portal to Enhance Your Business ROI.

Lunch Included

RSVP: Click to Attend

Click Here for Directions

Topic: Learn How to Leverage the Microsoft Partner Portal to Enhance Your Business ROI.

Overview:

The power of the Partner Portal is there and ready to enhance your Microsoft Sales. Microsoft has invested Time and Money to give you a tool to grow your Microsoft Business. Most partners are not utilizing all of the great benefits the Portal can give. This is your opportunity to see what can be done via the Portal to bring more client satisfaction and overall ROI to your organization (includes Lunch).

Speaker Bio: Suzanne Lavine, Partner Community Manager on the Northern California SMS&P team, has been with Microsoft for 12 years in a variety of roles including Partner Account Manager and 5 years as a Microsoft Sales Manager. Prior to working at Microsoft, Suzanne held sales & management positions at Honeywell Information Systems, DataPoint; and worked as a Marketing Manager and Product Manager at 800-SOFTWARE and BaronData, respectively. In her spare time she teaches horseback riding, volunteers for a large dog rescue organization and sits on the advisory board for the East Bay Small Business Development Center.

Types of companies that will be present include: Application Development, ASPs, Compliance Solutions, CTEC, Infrastructure, ISVs, LARs, MBS (Great Plains, Navision, Axpta, CRM), Business Intelligence, MSAs, etc

Cost

IAMCP Members: Free

Microsoft Employees: Free

Non Members: $15 (can be applied to membership fee)

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Bay Area Small Business and Technology Conference, May 7-10, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:35 PM

 

Bay Area Partners!!

 

Do you feel that your customers need more information about the Microsoft products and technologies that you sell? Do you know for a fact that if they knew more about technologies like Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Small Business Server R2, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft Licensing etc, they would be more likely to buy software from you? Here's something you can do for your customers....

 Suzanne Lavine, Partner Community Manager for Northern California and Nevada is hosting a one day workshop in different locations across the Bay Area to promote and educate small business users about Microsoft software.

What a great opportunity for them to learn and come back to you to purchase software and services.

Include this information in your newsletters or emails to customers and ask them to register. Space is limited and it's a great way to learn about Small Business best practices and technology.

 

Register at: www.inventyourfuture.com/SmallBizRegister

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Citrix Access Essentials Webcast Series - Win a fully copy of Office 2007 Professional
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:22 PM

My peer JJ Antequino has put together a fantastic set of webcasts for Partners interested in terminal services revenue. It takes you from a 100-level overview all the way to 300-400 level deployment and maintainence basics. More info below. Oh, oh, oh.... He gives way Office 2007 Professional too.

 

You are probably familiar with Remote Web Workplace, and have used or heard about Terminal Services, but if you want to learn more about hosting applications or offering your users the ability to work remotely, you’ll definitely want to check out these TS2 hosted webcasts.  Along with a TS2 Presenter, you will hear directly from Augie Gonzalez who is the Senior Manager for Product Marketing at Citrix!

Citrix Access Essentials can enhance Terminal Services experience in many ways that your customers will find beneficial.

If you are a Microsoft Partner interested in learning how to position and sell Citrix Access Essentials with a Microsoft Solution, you’ll definitely want to check out the events entitled: Web-enable  Line of Business Applications Automatically with Small Business Server and Citrix Access Essentials

After you’ve learned all the benefits and features of Citrix Access Essentials, I’m sure you’ll want to know all of the technical details of putting together a Citrix Access Essentials and Small Business Server solution.  You’ll learn all you want to know in the events entitled: Citrix Access Essentials and Small Business Server – Behind the Scenes

When you attend, you will be entered in a raffle for a copy of a full copy Office 2007 Professional!

Follow this link and register now!

http://www.ts2seminars.com/main.aspx?cat=events&p=webSeminars

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Attn: Southern California SBSCs
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:12 PM

Art Pettigrue, Partner Community Manager, Southern California
Page Boesen, Senior Marketing Manager, Small Business Specialist Community
and yours truly...

are hosting a webcast lunch and learn to highlight all things "new" for our SoCal SBSC partners. Art will also talk about SoCal specific SBSC initiatives he's heading up and I'll give you a sneak peek into what's coming your way from Microsoft to help you find new customers.

Registration info below. Dont miss out!!!

 

 SoCal Small Business Specialist Update

Event Date:
5/18/2007

Presenter:
Sharjeel Noor, Art Pettigrue, & Paige Boesen

Event Time:
12:00 PM Pacific, USA & Canada (DST) = GMT - 08:00

Duration:
60 minutes

Course Level:
200

Description:
Exclusively for Southern California SBSC Partners and aspiring SBSCs, attend this lunch webinar to be current on SBSC updates and program changes in the coming year. You will also hear about SoCal specific incentives and programs being provided to SBSCs.
 
Having trouble finding new customers? A Microsoft Across America speaker will provide you a sneak peek into a new event format coming your way to help you network and find new customers over a Microsoft hosted luncheon.

So what are you waiting for? Register for this event today!

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Viva Live Writer
Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:01 PM

It took a while for me to decide if I should continue using BlogJet or move over to LiveWriter. I picked the latter. And I love it. For all those folks who are looking for a client side blogging application, dont forget to check out LiveWriter, it wont disappoint.

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