Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

While my attitudes and approaches to things sometimes change, here are a few things that I believe lead to a happy consultant, business and customer. Keep your inbox tidy (and your work life less cluttered and stressful). Emails should get one of the following actions: Acted on immediately, if it takes less than 5 minutes …

I’m often left more than a little surprised when I meet with a company implementing SharePoint 2010 Standard and the folks there will be under the impression that they don’t need or want the Enterprise CAL (Client Access License).  Not only that, but they seem hung up on an apparent ‘huge cost’ to it. I …

Where do you first look for an outsourced IT/SharePoint provider? That’s a question a lot of business owners and managers don’t know how to answer, and it’s not their fault. After all, if you don’t know a great deal about technology – and why should you, when you have a company to run? – Then …

As IT professionals, we love our plaques and certifications. In fact, if you’ve been by the office of an outsourced IT team, you have probably noticed. In fact, when you meet with a potential IT provider for the first time, or visit their website, you’re confronted with an enormous array of certifications: plaques and bullet …

What can I say… I just think this is neat/fun. All about QR Codes (they’ve been around much longer than you think!) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code Make your own… http://www.qrstuff.com This is my favourite iPhone app for them – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/qrafter-the-ultimate-qr-code/id416098700 The one on the left directs folks to our website at the URL https://www.itgroove.net/qrcode Here’s a couple …

Please join the itgroove ‘Stache Team and play along with Movember and support Men’s Health.   What It Is Movember is about raising funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer. Close to 4,400 men die of prostate cancer in Canada each year and one in six men will be diagnosed during his lifetime.  …

  itgroove is pleased to announce a new service…   The “We know your business requirements before you do” Solution   itgroove has partnered with Internationally renowned singer and Psychic to the Stars, Dionne Warwick. This has given our team of consultants the “Missing Link” so that on top of: Having to know and support …

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

Stumbled across this today via Google Images and I couldn’t resist posting it on here. One frustration I have (like many others) is the insistence with many customers (particularly in SMB) who buy technology before mapping out what they are trying to accomplish. Often, we, as an IT service company are left trying to piece …

Considering Rogers is going to start charging me (us) for SMS Text messages inbound, and considering they do a really lousy job of reducing the amount of text spam I get, I took it upon myself to find a reference of Rogers text commands that can be used to block incoming garbage, so here’s the …