Have you heard of this terminology in the IT space yet? If you haven't where have you been, you see it pays to get out of your office from time to time and attend conferences, be part of a peer group and communicate with those in your industry. Even if it is attending a group like ...
Monthly Archives: December 2008
The Purpose of Christmas
I am going to shift gears a little today from what I have been blogging about over the past couple of days - Yes, Microsoft, you get a day off. However, not a long day off, I will be talking about the value of my TPAM over the next few days. The Purpose of Christmas
Am I picking on Microsoft
For all my Microsoft friends, honestly I am not picking on you guys. Even though I posted on how I am trying out Google Apps for my stuartcrawford.com domain email and calendar I still love Microsoft. Now with stating this, I am also using Firefox for my web browser and I have fallen in love ...
Will Google Apps Work? – Paula, Fraser made me!
Many of my colleagues have been pressuring me to try out Google Apps, especially mail and calendaring. For the past several weeks, I have been wrestling with calendar syncing since I am no longer on a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) and I have to admit that I am very frustrated ...
Mental Health in the Workplace
On Monday I was blessed to share some time with my friends at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce as they hosted a great event with the Canadian Mental Health Commission. It was a great luncheon held at the Delta ...
You see you need to spend time with clients
On Sunday we had some friends of ours over for dinner who work in the retail space and they were sharing with us that things are slowing down in the retail community. My friend works as a delivery person for a major retail outlet here in Calgary and yes, business is slowing down where he ...
Connecting in the community
One of the things that I did well a few years back was become very connected in the local Calgary community. However, over the past few years I spread my wings and really worked hard to get to know people in our industry from all over the world. It is great to have a network ...
What is the most important part of life?
Yesterday was an awesome day for me. I was blessed to share some time with my good friends Rick Bahl, Arlin Sorensen, Brad Schow and Jeff Wood as we discussed Marketplace Ministry on Small Business IT Radio. I love doing this radio show on blogtalkradio.com because it allows me time to ...
Marketplace Ministry
Did you have a chance to check out our webcast on Friday about Marketplace Ministry? If not, it is not to late. Arlin, Brad, Rick, Jeff and myself had a wonderful and fulfilling conversation about how God and our faith impact what we do everyday in business. It is remarkable how many people we ...
Head and Heart Tug
Have you ever been in a situation where you are chasing your dream and also trying to use logic to rationalize a decision? Well don't fret about it, we are all there at different times of our life and it is totally cool to spend a lot of time trying to decide what to follow. So ...
It is a small world
The world is very small! Besides running into my buddy Fraser yet again at the Calgary airport, it seems that him and I can't link up like traditional people we just seem to link up at the airport. It is a weird small world. Dana Epp from Scorpion Software is coming into town for the Microsoft ...