Big news today as the wraps were taken off the newly announced Office 365 online apps for everybody!  You can learn more and sign up for the Beta here !

Hopefully this kind of positive press for Windows Phone 7 will become common but it’s nice to see something other than the normal Apple fanboi bashing of Microsoft, especially in a mobile device article. http://yhoo.it/d2qpmW

Very funny video.

Greetings from TechReady11 , Microsoft’s semi-annual geekfest and  technical training extravaganza. I have spent my birthday today in various technical training sessions and chalk talks.  What can I say…I’m living right! I tell you this not to evince sympathy or heckling but because I am really...

So for all of you Dynamics users, partners and especially CRM customers in the Greater Atlanta Area who yearn to learn, mark your calendars for Thursday, November 12th, 2009 for what promises to be a great event.  The Microsoft Dynamics Customer Reference program team is offering a free one-year...

There has been so much information coming out over the past couple of months it seemed like not a day went by that I didn’t say to myself, “I really ought to post something on that!” and yet with my travel schedule and sincere desire to try out this thing they call “work/life balance” and actually take...

So I went into the DC office the other day and checked my mail box. Can you guess the last time I checked my office mailbox? Yup. Beginning of December. (And it is now Almost the first of June...) It also looks like the team over at EntreQuest are doing a killer drip marketing campaign around their Truby...

Hello everybody. Welcome to my inagural blog post. So I will readily admit that I'm pretty new to this whole blogging thing. Please be generous with your praise and constructive with your criticism as I attempt to fill the ginormous shoes of Mr. Ben Vollmer on this blog. I know it won't be easy but I...

In the past couple of months, I have gotten pings from several partners as well as employees who have relocated their blogs or started blogging. (And for those of you asking, mine will be moving to www.BusinessNone.com in the next couple of months as Chris takes more ownership of the blog and my silly...

I got a last minute call to come help out Mid West Area. It was VERY last minute. (Thanks Daniel!) Unfortunately, I didn't think about calling Mike and Jim until after I was on the ground. We came in on a Regional Jet. We flew in lower over the city than I have ever been... Here are some pretty cool...

I just noticed I really haven't posted much in a month or two and then in one day four or five posts popped up. :-) Sorry about that. I have been super busy with getting stuff done and the blog was sorta kicked to the bottom of the to do list. Duly noted. Blog will be updated much more frequently. (And...

This is an awesome blog that after reading one post, it immediately hit my RSS Feed List.... If you have a sense of humor at all, check out what David from our office team is blogging. Here is his cartoon for today.... You may want to subscribe as well..   Office Offline

It looks like Ilana has finally talked the NAV team into Blogging. They have an intro blog post up today. Since she was one of the brain trusts behind the CRM Team Blog, I would expect great things from their blog. If you focus on Dynamics NAV, add their feed to your RSS Reader. Microsoft Dynamics NAV...

Say that about a dozen times fast... :-) This team has three open head count... Should be a fun team. I understand that they may be open to some folks NOT living in the Seattle area. :-) With the job title, they could have made them just a LITTLE harder to find. I have some good friends including Charlie...

It has been a KILLER month off. I actually have some useful information coming VERY shortly. In the meantime, here are some pictures of IASCA Finals from the 15th and 16th of September. If you look closely, you can spot me in the Judge's pictures. :-) www. flick r .com Ben Vollmer's IASCA World Finals...

So as many of you know, we had a son last year. He is now 10 months old. One of the coolest benefits that Microsoft offers is Infant Care Leave, which is for both fathers and mothers. The catch? You have a year to use it. And it is a full month off. So, given that we will be having a launch soon and...

My good friend and co-worker Mike Crigler has started a Dynamics GP Blog. Since they are in the midst of a product launch, he is using it as an excellent way to get data out to partners. :-) Congrats Mike and welcome to the 21st Century! You can read Mike and the GP TS Teams thoughts at: http://blogs...

If so, please look up the rest of the CRM Team. I know that a bunch of the CRM team will be there including Product Marketing, Development and the Field Team. In July we have WPC, MGX and TR5. The last two are internal meetings, but they last every bit as long as WPC. (About a week.) So I would be gone...

Here is my sick sense of humor.... This is way too funny... Read the whole article... I was in tears... Sometimes you can’t make it up any weirder than it actually is. That definitely was the case on June 14, when a pair of environmental pranksters managed to promote themselves as keynote speakers at...

So as many of you know, Chris Regan left Microsoft a couple of weeks ago. From what I understand he returned to his roots back at (the former Siebel) Oracle. So if you want to work with a couple of killer people (Susan and Umang) and one "unique" individual. (Me.) There is a job for you. :-) The job...

So I am at TechEd this week, which is a regular geek fest.... There where some scary looking geeks on the plane on the way down here and it turns out that this is now a major geek week. It also turns out that Disney is having Star Wars Weekend's during June...

Walter from Light Industries sent me this cartoon and man do I feel his pain... :-)

Now normally I don't mind sharing with partners, but this guy stole my whole presentation. All of my jokes and graphs and everything.... Seriously, I need to get some technical articles up around CRM, but i have been busy working on a bunch of Q4 stuff. :-) Real materials will be posted soon.

So it has been a couple of weeks, but here are some pictures of the cars that we took while in Daytona Beach. Enjoy!

I love my Vista Sidebar... Here is a great blog post on some very useful Gadget.... I use almost all of them today and they did indeed do rock. If you are running Vista, I would recommend checking this out. Link to Alpha Geek: Useful Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets - Lifehacker