Steve here. Time to take a second to help out Harry over at SMB Nation with a quick commercial service announcement for his conference, and to help you by recommending some great training and association. Check out the agenda for the inaugural MVP Nation, to be held March 3rd and 4th, 2011, up here in Seattle, and seriously consider signing up and attending, and do it today. Harry has great technical content and speakers lined up, and the cost is low. If you are in the Seattle area, you could skip the hotel, stay at home, and get a great conference in without traveling out of the area. For those flying in, you could make a 4-day weekend out of it, or extend your stay if you are already in town for Microsoft’s MVP Summit, and enjoy some of the sites around Seattle and the Puget Sound. Or drop in for Thursday & Friday, and be back home ready to work by Monday. Whatever you decide, you should decide to attend. This is the first conference of its type. Be part of the history being made by getting yourself there, and not wishing you had after it is over.
http://www.smbnationevents.com/Agenda.aspx
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Thursday March 3, 2011 |
7:00AM – 8:00AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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8:00AM – 9:00AM |
Keynote Presentation |
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9:15AM – 10:15AM |
HOLHP: Virtual SAN Appliance for Hyper-V |
Christopher Viamonte |
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9:15AM – 10:15AM |
HT4: How To Start A Thriving User Group/Peer Group |
Andy Goodman, Dave Sanders, Robert Crane, Robert Nitrio, Steven Banks |
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9:15AM – 10:15AM |
HT5: How To Start A Successful Business |
Amy Babinchak, Dana Epp, Jeff Middleton |
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9:15AM – 10:15AM |
SB1: A New Pragmatic Approach To Following Product Roadmaps |
Microsoft Directors, Others |
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9:15AM – 10:15AM |
SB2: Small Business Server 2011 DEEP Dive! |
Small Business Server MVPs |
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10:15AM – 11:30AM |
Exibit Hall and AM Break |
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10:20AM – 10:50AM |
CS1: Methodologies & Tools to Help You Sell Your Managed Services |
Mike Byrne |
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11:00AM – 11:30AM |
CS2: A simple and reliable approach to disaster recovery, data protection and system migration in the cloud. |
Lee Bender |
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11:30AM – 12:30PM |
CSG1: Evolving Threats, Strategies, and Solutions |
Matt Allen |
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11:30AM – 12:30PM |
HOLHP: Virtual SAN Appliance for Hyper-V |
Christopher Viamonte |
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11:30AM – 12:30PM |
HT2: How To Be A Speaker/Trainer Who Excites Audiences And Exceeds Expectations |
Kevin Royalty, Matt Makowicz, Wayne Small |
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11:30AM – 12:30PM |
SB5: Service Pack 1 Under the Hood! Hyper-V, Remote FX and much more! |
Dave Sobel |
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12:30PM – 2:00PM |
Lunch and Exhibit Hall |
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12:40PM – 1:10PM |
CS3: It’s All About Recovery |
Austin McChord |
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1:20PM – 1:50PM |
CS4: The New SMB Back-Office Infrastructure Simplified with Kerio |
Karen Miller |
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2:00PM – 3:00PM |
HOLHP: Virtual SAN Appliance for Hyper-V |
Christopher Viamonte |
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2:00PM – 3:00PM |
HT7: How to Blog and SEO |
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2:00PM – 3:00PM |
SB6: Hydra Monster: Multi-Point Server |
Dean Paron, Steven Banks |
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3:15PM – 4:15PM |
HT6: How To Work With Vendors, OEMs, ISVs! |
Amy Babinchak, Andy Goodman, Greg Starks, Julian Waits, Wayne Small |
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3:15PM – 4:15PM |
HT8: How To Start A Community Site |
Tom Poole |
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3:15PM – 4:15PM |
SB8: The 8 Rules of Information Security |
Dana Epp |
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3:15PM – 4:15PM |
SB9: What’s So Cool About CRM 2011? |
Julie Yack, Larry Lentz |
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4:15PM – 6:30PM |
Exhibit Hall Pub Crawl |
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5:00PM – 5:30PM |
CS5: Providing a Solution that Recovers a Terabyte Sized Server in Five Minutes! |
Joseph Hand, Peter Opere |
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5:45PM – 6:15PM |
CS6: Hyper-V Virtualization to the Max from the Punk Rock CTO |
Dominic Foster |
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7:00PM – 9:00PM |
MVP Nation Party Sponsored by cBeyond |
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Friday March 4, 2011 |
9:00AM – 11:00AM |
Continental Breakfast and Exhibit Hall |
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11:00AM – 12:00PM |
HT9: How to Work With Other MVP Product Groups |
Wayne Small |
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11:00AM – 12:00PM |
SB4: Introducing Azure – Microsoft’s Cloud Platform |
Nuno Filipe Godinho |
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12:15PM – 1:15PM |
Keynote Lunch |
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1:20PM – 2:20PM |
HT3: How To Write & Publish A Book People Want To Read! |
Eriq Neale, Harry Brelsford, Rolly Perreaux |
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1:20PM – 2:20PM |
HT6: How to Work With Vendors, OEMs, ISVs! |
Amy Babinchak, Andy Goodman, Greg Starks, Julian Waits, Wayne Small |
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1:20PM – 2:20PM |
SB9: What’s So Cool About CRM 2011? |
Larry Lentz |
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2:30PM – 3:30PM |
HT5: How to Start a Successful Business |
Amy Babinchak, Dana Epp, Jeff Middleton |
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2:30PM – 3:30PM |
SB2: Small Business Server 2011 DEEP Dive! |
Small Business Server MVPs |
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3:30PM – 3:45PM |
PM Break |
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3:45PM – 4:45PM |
HT1: How To Volunteer at a School And Make A Difference |
Roger Otterson |
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3:45PM – 4:45PM |
SB7: Office 365 – a Technical Primer! |
Chad Mosman |
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4:45PM – 5:45PM |
Town Hall Meeting |
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well scheduled.