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If you live in Victoria, BC and are into SharePoint, you should join us

It’s been a while since I’ve reminded the local community so thought I’d take a second and provide a refresher… Every month in Victoria you have an opportunity to learn (for free, with pizza included!) something new about SharePoint.  We are the Victoria SharePoint Users Group – www.meetup.com/vsharepoint – please consider signing up.  Our next …

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A simple approach to writing a helpful technical blog post

I like to help out where I can. And I’m not going to pretend I invented the following method, though I did borrow it from a course I took about 8 years ago that had nothing to do with blogging or technical writing/sharing.  I actually spent a minute trying to google, er, bing where the …

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Thanks Summer. An outsider looking in

Thanks to our friend Summer.  She summarized a conversation we had a little while back and it was worthy of sharing I think. Combining mastery in Microsoft technologies and a consistent focus on customer services, itgroove professionals deliver straightforward advice and IT solutions to small and mid-sized businesses since 2006. Every new client relationship begins …

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10 SharePoint MVP’s reflect on 2011

Dan Holme asked for a bunch of us to reflect on last year and make some predictions for next year.  The results of his questionnaire can be found here. Responses to the Year in Review include comments from: Radi Atanassov Rob Bogue Geoff Evelyn Jason Himmelstein Debbie Ireland Asif Rehmani Chris Riley Jeremy Thake Sean …

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What Makes an IT Provider Great?

What Makes an IT Provider Great? That’s a question we ask ourselves at itgroove pretty frequently, so that we can live up to those standards and even exceed them. Based on what our clients tell us, here are a few of the traits of a really wonderful outsourced IT partner: They’re always accessible. You probably …

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Happy Holidays Everyone

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Pleasant Sunday everyone. And wishing all of you a terrific 2012. Picture below is the start of the kids scavenger hunt where they discovered they are going to Disney World.

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4 Things to Look for in a SharePoint Consultant

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 …

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