Yearly Archives: 2011

The Importance of Vendor Relationships

Posted: 1:17 am
January 18, 2011
IT Business, OwnWebNow
3 Comments

It’s important to work closely with the people to deliver a solution end to end. Most people only show initiative in a destructive way: posting negative feedback to Twitter, groups and anyone that will listen to their hardships. Few people … Continue reading →

Ironman Update

Posted: 11:32 pm
January 16, 2011
GTD
on Ironman Update

The other day someone asked how the Ironman Challenge was going. Well, you tell me: putting together test servers on a Sunday evening. So what’s the Ironman deal? Working for 90 days straight – no weekends, no days off, no … Continue reading →

The Weather Report Podcast

Posted: 2:00 pm
January 12, 2011
Cloud, IT Business, Podcast
on The Weather Report Podcast

Yesterday I mentioned the latest episode of The Weather Report covered the discussion about how VARs can survive in the cloud and the controversy over cloud billing. Well, you’ve flooded my inbox: What is The Weather Report? Well, a few … Continue reading →

When will Microsoft hand over account control in the cloud?

Posted: 9:24 pm
January 10, 2011
Microsoft
8 Comments

I have written many stories on the Microsoft cloud control, dating back to the big WPC announcement and the infamous “coownership” tag Microsoft originally put on the idea of working without a VAR in the middle. Few talking points in … Continue reading →

Are you the best?

Posted: 9:59 pm
January 6, 2011
GTD, IT Business, IT Culture
on Are you the best?

Continued as a part of the New Year review blog posts. Out with the old, in with the new? Well, a year is a loooong time and there is a lot of old stuff that needs to be cleared off … Continue reading →

What does this have to do with anything?

Posted: 2:07 am
January 5, 2011
GTD, IT Business
on What does this have to do with anything?

Can you tell the difference between a detail and the big picture? It depends on perspective. I’ve gotten a lot of email over the past few days thanking me about writing the GTD stuff that’s helped transform my own performance … Continue reading →

Maintenance (Continued)

Posted: 1:05 am
January 4, 2011
GTD, IT Business
3 Comments

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about Start of Year Maintenance cycle most successful businesses people go through. Fact is, unless you’re remarkably organized and suffer absolutely 0 external interference, you’ve got to dedicate some time to straightening things out. … Continue reading →

New Year Maintenance

Posted: 8:28 pm
January 2, 2011
GTD, IT Business
on New Year Maintenance

If you’ve got any work ethic, it shouldn’t matter what day/date it is, you should be ready to kick ass any day of the week. But even if the calendar doesn’t matter to you, it does to the government, state … Continue reading →

Ironman Comeback 1.1.11

Posted: 2:11 am
January 1, 2011
ExchangeDefender, OwnWebNow, Vladville
on Ironman Comeback 1.1.11

As some of you may know, I have been out of day-to-day operations of OWN during the last two months welcoming a beautiful new baby boy, Sam Mazek, to our family. Today, I officially come back full time (and then … Continue reading →