User Groups

Still time to register

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

There’s still time to register for my lecture at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference.

The session I am presenting is entitiled: eStorming with Live Meeting 2007. 3rd April 2007, 13:45 - 15:00 GMT.

This is a new session topic for me and one that covers lots of basics for working effectively with Live Meeting 2007. View the complete session abstract here.

Don’t worry, if you can’t make the event, you can always catch us over the internet in the Live Meeting.

Click here to register for the Live Meeting event at IMTC

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Irish Microsoft Technology Conference 2008

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I am presenting a session about Live Meeting at IMTC that is happening next week in Dublin:

2 Super Action Packed Days (and 1 evening) for Developers & IT-Pros - April 02 / 03 / 04 - Dublin City

The session I am presenting is entitiled: eStorming with Live Meeting 2007. 3rd April 2007, 13:45 - 15:00 GMT.

This is a new session topic for me and one that covers lots of basics for working effectively with Live Meeting 2007. View the complete session abstract here.

Don’t worry, if you can’t make the event, you can always catch us over the internet in the Live Meeting.

Click here to register for the Live Meeting event at IMTC.

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Steve Lamb talking on security at Heroes Launch

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Last week I attended the Heroes launch in Birmingham. As with all Microsoft product launches, it is rare for a single product to launch nowadays. In keeping with this tradion, we saw the launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Server 2008 and Sql Server 2008.

I was lucky enough to be able to stream Steve Lamb’s session on security in Windows Server 2008. Great content, if not slightly dodgy camera work!

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The 2008 Community Launch Event

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

We’re putting together a community event at Microsoft in Reading and I’ll be there with the Live Meeting User Group.

On Tuesday and Wednesday 8^th/9^th of April we will be holding the 3^rd Combined IT Pro User Group events in Reading at the Microsoft office in TVP.

This event will involve all of the UK IT Pro User Groups and will have a massive range of breakout sessions so there will certainly be something to appeal to everyone.

For loads of information including the full agenda and registration form see the link below:

http://www.ukusergroups.co.uk

Finally, on each evening of the event (8^th and 9^th April) we will be holding a small event in Reading at a local restaurant. There will be food, networking and a tech quiz with some prizes! This event is limited to 40 places and the sign up form will be live on the same site above over the weekend.

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London Social Media Cafe

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I’m going to the London Social Media Cafe this Friday at the Coach and Horses in Greek Street, Soho, London.

I went to one of these last week and vowed to try and make each one. Packed full of interesting peole and a chance to geek out, meet great people and all in the confis of a local hostelry!

Huge big up to Lloyd Davies, these are great events.

[update] here’s a video of Lloyd playing the seesmix theme tune that he created.

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The Seesmic .NET Time Drain

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I have created the Seesmic .NET Time Drain using ASP.NET Ajax. I’m not making it public at the moment, because in true seesmic style, it is pre-alpha. But if you find it, then great.

This project has been developed with the intention of creating a .NET class and library allowing other .NET developers to easily build on the Seesmic API and platform.

I have not been paid to create Time Drain. So there are bugs. I offer no warranty or guarantee regarding the suitability of the code or usability of Time Drain. There are no warranties, and no special offers or cuddly toys.

What I hope this does do, is go some way to opening up seesmic to the .NET developer community allowing us all to benefit from new and usefull apps. Ping me if you want to get involved.

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Next LMUG event on 26th February at 4pm GMT

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The next LMUG webcast is on 26th February at 4pm GMT. Thanks to everyone that attended the first meeting. We voted on content ideas for the next webcast, and the comunity decided! So keep the ideas coming.

If you would like to come to this event, please post a message in the webcast forum until I setup the registration for this event.

Virtual BreakOut rooms for Live Meeting 2007

Date: Tuesday February 26th 2008, 4pm GMT
Speakers: Chris Dalby: Live Meeting User Group
Where: Online - Live Meeting webcast
Product: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
Audience(s): Users, presenters, developers and resellers of Live Meeting
Duration: 60 Minutes ish
Language: English.

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Still time to Register for the Round Table webcast

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Event organising with Live Meeting 2007 and Round Table

Date: Wednesday January 24th 2007, 4pm GMT
Speakers: Chris Dalby: Live Meeting User Group and Mark Deakin, Microsoft UK
Where: Online - Live Meeting webcast
Product: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007
Audience(s): Users, presenters, developers and resellers of Live Meeting
Duration: 60 Minutes ish
Language: English.

What’s new in 2007?
Different types of meetings and events
Viewing and creating events
Creating custom registration pages and surveys
Using content to engage participants
An introduction to Round Table

Click here to register for the event

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Arthur Pounder Diamond Geezer

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

I finally met Arthur Pounder today, a great guy that heads the Unified Communications & RTC User Group. I say finally met, becasue I had a great conversation with Arthur last March and we never got around to meeting because he was in the United States.

I really enjoyed the OCS launch. You can read the post I made about it over on my other blog on Microsoft Subnet.

Here’s a photo of Arthur, taken at the Anchor on Clink Street, London Bridge. Arthur has a big smile on his face, because he picked up the bag with the Jabra IP phone rather than the bag I picked up with the equally lovely but far cheaper Jabra headset. Who knows, maybe one will magically arrive in the post