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itgroove launches the Gallery

itgroove has just launched the Gallery, a new website dedicated to inspiring you with solutions for your SharePoint portal. These widgets are derived from solving problems that we see “in the field” working as consultants in the SharePoint and Office 365 space everyday. The Gallery showcases what’s possible, and the site provides options for developers …

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Pay It Forward!

Are you sitting around your house wondering what to do with yourself this December? How about logging onto the itgroove Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/itgrooveservices and having a look at our Pay It Forward Advent Calendar?! That’s right, 25 ideas of how to brighten someone’s day. Whenever I think of a good deed that someone has done …

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Festival of Trees

Itgroove and the Royals are teaming up to do their first ever Christmas tree at the Fairmont Empress Hotel’s Festival of Trees! Sean and I went for the first time last year and we enjoyed it so much, we wanted to be a part of it this year. If you’ve never been, for a donation …

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What I learned about buying our new cars

Written by Sean Wallbridge.   We recently bought two new cars.  Well, mostly new. Both were Demo’s (cars used typically by staff at the car lot, typically with 3000 to 8000km on it – more about that below). I won’t comment too much on what we bought (a Mini Cooper Countryman and a Ford Flex …

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Consider Being a Stem Cell Donor or a Blood Donor

  “You need a stem cell (bone marrow)” transplant”.  Those are chilling words that many people suffering from “blood cancers” hear nowadays.  The words are not chilling because of the need for the transplant as they are words that offer hope.  No, they are chilling because it means  a donor has to be found and …

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Pink in the Rink with the Victoria Royals

  The Royals are hosting their annual Pink in the Rink event on Saturday, January 26th.  The players will be wearing pink jerseys in support of breast cancer. It’s a really fun event for a great cause. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in October and we were completely shocked, given that there isn’t …

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Give a little; get a lot back in return

A few days ago my kids and I went to the mall for our yearly Santa’s Anonymous purchase. If you’ve never done this before, it is a great way to give to local children in need. This is a CFAX 1070 event (http://www.cfaxsantas.com) where the children colour a Christmas bear picture and write their age …

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