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Volunteer! It’s good for your soul!
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill I volunteer with a couple of organizations, one of which I write about regularly on this blog, Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, and the other which is not tech oriented, the Salvation Army Stan …
Read onThanks for making me look good, Matt!
I am the first to admit I don’t have an “eye”. I take a lousy photograph (poor composition), I’m probably colour blind (or at least colour agnostic), I can’t work a graphics editor to save my soul, and I’m so text-oriented that younger colleagues “pity” me. Let’s face it, I’m an old white guy with …
Read onWelcoming Alec McCauley to the fold!
My friend and colleague, Alec McCauley (we are the “bookends” at itgroove – he is the youngest and I’m waaaaay over the hill) has fired up his blog, http://mccalec.itgroove.net/ and will be blogging about all sorts of interesting things. Alec is “wicked smart” and I’m looking forward to learning lots from him. Cruise on over …
Read on50% of itgroove staff are MVP’s! A paen to Sean and itgroove.
Our own Kelly Marshall was awarded OneNote MVP on October 1st. That brought the MVP count in the company to 5 which is precisely one-half (50%) of our staff count. It strikes me that is pretty unique. I know there are one or two consulting shops in the US that are staffed 100% with MVP’s …
Read onAnother MVP in the itgroove stable! Congrats Kelly!!
Kelly Marshall, our intrepid OneNote evangelist, has been awarded Microsoft OneNote MVP! My sincerest and warmest congratulations to Kelly on this achievement. There aren’t a lot of OneNote MVP’s so Microsoft has made one hell of a choice in this girl as she is the OneNote Goddess. Kelly will certainly spread the OneNote gospel and …
Read onGood “digital” neighbours
I was in the grocery store the other day and ended up in the checkout line behind my next door neighbour, Steve. We got to yakking and as his order was going through the checkout I realized that I had left my wallet at home. I was going to take all the items in my …
Read onWe’re 10 years old! Thanks, Sean, for making it all happen!
Yup, itgroove is 10 years old! You’ll see lots on our various blogs as well as our website about the anniversary so I won’t drone on about it here. But I do want to single out and commend Sean for having the stamina to sweat it out over the years in order for us to …
Read onOMG! They hired a girl!!!!
It’s true! The ramparts have been breached and the once all-male bastion that was itgroove has fallen. We now have a permanent female presence in our office in the person of Kelly Marshall. We are probably similar to many other tech firms in the “maleness” of the place, geek-girls just don’t seem to populate our …
Read onRock stars! Go Team!
Two more of my itgroove colleagues and fellow Team members have been awarded SharePoint MVP’s! Colin Phillips and Keith Tuomi both received notification today (Canada Day!) that they had each been awarded MVP status. This brings itgroove to a total of 3 MVP’s which is pretty unreal when you consider the company is less than …
Read onAll roads lead to SharePoint!
I have talked about the market changes that face all of us that are involved in supplying IT services in previous posts. The Cloud (all of it , but particularly the Microsoft Cloud offerings like Office 365) is changing the market landscape in ways no one would have imagined just a few years ago. And …
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