On Sunday, I was invited to speak at Troy White's - Wild West Wealth Summit in Calgary which was held at the Quality Inn on Edmonton Trail. This is the second time in the past week that I have spoken in the same room. On Thursday I spoke on "IT Security in the Workplace" for ...
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Inspiration from Teri Rivard
I was scrolling through my friend's status updates on Facebook today when I came across Teri Rivard's status update. Teri's status was "when someone asks you if you can do something, even if you can't, say YES and then go back and figure out how" I have had a couple of situations where I have run across ...
July is going to be a rockin month!!!
And I can't wait for it to happen. I will be in Houston for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, it is an annual event for Microsoft partners. Burton Cumming from the Guess Who is playing our Canadian Party so that will be awesome, then in a few short days I will be in San Antonio ...
Being Outworked
On Friday night I attended my son's ball hockey game, it is game one of their playoffs and it is a new season when the playoffs come along. Everything you do in the regular season doesn't count anymore, the regular season is past history once the ball drops during the playoffs. This is the time for ...
Is Microsoft really to blame?
I have had some interesting conversations with clients that are refusing to look at Vista as an operating system for their new systems, pretty soon they will have no choice as the June 30th date for the taps to be shut off on XP on OEM systems rapidly approaches. What are you going to do? ...
Breast Cancer
I was touched this morning by an email that I received quite sometime ago however just got around to opening it and really reading it and then understanding the story behind. One of my staff is battle through something that a number of us will never experience. It is available on the net to read ...
An Inconvenient Truth
On Tuesday evening I watched the Al Gore movie "An Inconvenient Truth" about the Global Warning Crisis that our world is going through, for the longest time I was one of those people that thought that the Global Warning Crisis was a fraud or a hoax, maybe it was something that a bunch of scientist dreamed ...
Coaching our team
IT Matters is embarking on a wonderful training initiative to bring up our service levels, in our business service and how you take care of clients is the overall deal breaker. Taking care of our clients is our number one priority because without clients we don't have a business. During our online training from
IT Matters Scores A Hat Trick With Microsoft
IT Matters has once again scored on the world wide stage with Microsoft. For the third year in a row IT Matters has been recognized as a leader in the Canadian networking market within the Microsoft Partner Worldwide Partner Awards, an annual recognition of the best partners across the world. Annually for the past three years, ...
A great Father’s Day
What an awesome Father's Day, I couldn't asked for anything better. My boys and I had an awesome day. No we didn't do much, we watched the US Open, I attended church with Janet in the morning and the rest of the day was nice and quiet. It was an awesome Father's Day. The one thing ...
IT Matters achieves our 6th Microsoft Competency
Today is an awesome day with some great news to share with everyone. Microsoft has recognized IT Matters, where I am the VP, Business Development with our sixth Microsoft Competency. These are very important to our company and the services that we offer to businesses in Calgary. What does this mean? We have certified professionals ...