Yearly Archives: 2012

ROI Case for Investment In Community

Awesome, IT Culture
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I’d like to clear up an apparent logical conflict I have made on Vladville about blogging. In past I have told many of you that consider blogging for business honestly is a terrible idea. Meanwhile, I continue to write three … Continue reading

Squirrel

GTD
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One of the more memorable lines from the Steve Jobs biography is “I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.” I don’t think this is as apparent to those of you that don’t … Continue reading

Angry Birds: The Microsoft Partner Edition

Microsoft
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I’ve been in this business for roughly 15 years. Throughout that time I have been a Microsoft Partner (various levels), Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (various levels and specialties) and overall based a large chunk of my … Continue reading

Results Are NOT Typical

IT Business
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Have you ever been up late at night and turned on the TV just to break up the silence a bit? There they are, newfound millionaires who bought houses for no money down, made it big at car or government … Continue reading

Stress Relief for IT Staff

Boss
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I don’t think that anyone working outside of IT can ever understand the amount of stress your average technology employee deals with. Some roles – such as working in support or network operations can at times make you feel like … Continue reading

How to build the next great IT business

Boss, IT Business, IT Culture
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I was recently asked by my friends on Facebook (www.facebook.com/vladmmd) and Twitter (@vladmazek) about how to build a great technology business. As I was told, I spend a lot of time explaining how the doors to opportunity are being closed … Continue reading

In Defense of Arnie

IT Business
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Note: Prior to writing this blog post I actually did some research because I’m extremely biased towards money and as everyone in this business, privy to some rumors and grapewine complaints. This is something that has been on my mind … Continue reading

Implementing LTBPCS to solve VAR challenge

ExchangeDefender, IT Business
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I’m creating acronyms now – LTBPCS – Long Term Business Process Cloud Sales. I base the following argument (and well.. a multimillion dollar business behind it) on talking to some of my successful partners that are really at the top … Continue reading

Kateless

Boss, Pimpin, Rant, Work Ethic
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I don’t often write about my personal life on Facebook, I don’t think anyone cares and quite honestly it’s not that exciting at all. I am making an exception today because I do not want anyone to have to go … Continue reading

Designing Consumerization

IT Business
on Designing Consumerization

Sidenote: If you’re curious what I’m actually working on, tune in to the ExchangeDefender Executive Podcast series. It’s me and my upper management talking about the projects we’re working on this day/week/month/year. Vladville articles are for the most part my … Continue reading