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If PASS Closed Its Doors…

February 22, 2011 • Categories: Community, PASS, User Group • by

One measure I have heard used to measure the effectiveness of a church goes along the lines of “If your church closed its doors tomorrow, would anyone notice?” I think that works for any civic organization, individual life where you want service to others to be a part of that and also membership organizations like [...]

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SQL Saturday 71 – Now with BAM!!

February 17, 2011 • Categories: Community, SQL Saturday, Syndicate, User Group • by

I am happy excited to be helping MVPs and fellow User Group Leaders Adam Machanic, Grant Fritchey and Tom LaRock plan a Saturday of free (unless you want to donate a totally optional $10 to help offset costs) learning for the Boston (and greater New England) SQL Server community.
The four of us have been actively [...]

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SQL Saturday 60 Says Keep Speaking

February 15, 2011 • Categories: Community, speaking, User Group • by

So last week I told you to start speaking and presenting what you know. I may even have a taker in John Sansom who blogs about SQL Server and chats on twitter. Looking forward to seeing John (and you!) on a speaker list someday.
Well after having that series go up last week, I got a [...]

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Vendors Doing It Right

February 11, 2011 • Categories: Community • by

This is my contribution to the Un-SQL Friday series that the Midnight DBAs do. This week they’ve asked us to talk about vendors that are doing it right in some way. I bumped into the post and hemmed and hawed awhile about submitting a post but I decided to go for it.
I’ll be honest [...]

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How Should I Present?

February 9, 2011 • Categories: Community, metablogging, Syndicate • by

While still borrowing from the titles for my series on why you should blog and some tips on how you could get started blogging I want to follow up to my earlier post on why should be speaking with some tips on how you can get started.
Hopefully you read the first post and have [...]

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Why Should I Present?

February 7, 2011 • Categories: Community, Professional Development • by

I really enjoyed writing my “Why Blog?” Series last year. It was great to see a few bloggers start blogging after the couple posts and the video interviews I had with Brent Ozar.
Well now I have a new call for you – Present. Speak. Stand in front of strangers and teach them what you know.
I [...]

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Where I’ve Been – 2010 Wrap Up

December 27, 2010 • Categories: Community, metablogging, Personal • by

This was a good year in a lot of ways both personally, professionally and with spiritual growth. I still have far to go and plenty of goals to whip together for 2011 but a quick rundown of where I’ve been. These thoughts are my own, and don’t speak for my employer. the next post will [...]

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