Back in January 2002, 8 intrepid geeks had coffee in a Lindfield Cafe at the inaugural meeting of what was then the Sydney PocketPC Usergroup. Tuesday night saw almost 50 people celebrating the continued success of the group from those humble beginnings. The evening began with a group Christmas Dinner...

A session asking people “in the know,”about the future of communities. Those who meet in exotic locations, at late nights, and speak arcane languages; those who tweet, and blog, and (well some) Facebook! Do we need to gather together in the same place and time? Or should we just share pictures, and videos...

Those interested in entering the Demos Happen {Here} Competition all know that a condition of entry is to post your video to http://sliverlight.live.com Our original intent was to enable everyone to stream their video on their own blog, and feature it on the Heroes Happen {Here} Community Website . Since...

Our National Demo Competition is starting to hot up, despite the seeming lack of activity on the Community Website, and I've been fielding a number of questions across the board. I thought it may be high time to post the most frequent, and attempt at least to answer these as best I can. As ever if you...

What a great meeting of minds last night at SWMUG. Er, that's the Sydney Windows Mobile Usergroup to the uninitiated. We kicked off with a segment on Microsoft and Mobile News from April. I seriously thought that this would be a 5 min segment summarising perhaps 4 or 5 happenings over the last month...

Boy do we have some offers for Usergroups right now!!! You've already read about the Demo's Happen {Here} Competition , but there's so much more... Firstly, we're running a special offer on MSPress Books. Once the new MSPress site goes live, all Usergroup Members will receive 30% discount on MSPress...

Loving all the work that Daniel Brown and his compadre's are doing around Sharepoint in Adelaide. This month, apart from taking part in the Heroes Happen Launch (shameless plug), they're hosting a Networking Event at the Pasta Palace. If you are in Adelaide on the 18th March, and have anything at all...

I went to a session today entitled "True Evangelism." Rather than a breakout, this was a "chalk-talk." Which is to say interactive, with everyone able to give their perspective and ask their questions. We covered a lot of ground, from initiatives that various teams around the world...

Most of you reading my blog will be familiar with the concept of a usergroup. Perhaps you are a member, a leader, or perhaps you don't feel there's any particular value for you.... Simply put, a usergroup is a collection of people whom have a similar interest (in this case) in a technology. These people...

I Love our generation. I Love the technology we work with, and I especially Love the Internet. One of the things I love is enabling people, connecting people. The implications of that over my career, has been to work with a heap of technologies: JCL, COBOL, Novell, WordPerfect, Windows for Workgroups...

Late breaking news: I’ve managed to secure some places for UG Leads and MVPs at the Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) Summit Welcome Reception to be held on Tuesday 29 th January . The Summit presents an opportunity for you to meet and connect with our MCTs as well as other key influencers in...

So on Tuesday night we had a true Geekfest. No agenda, no presentations, no plan, simply a bunch of enthusiasts with their favourite toys. In this case mobile gadgets. The theme was "Nostalgia Swap Meet." As ever in these types of meetings, I'm blown away by just how outdated, clunky, and big...

The "2008 Wave Launch" aka Heroes Happen Here 2008, is almost upon us. There'll be Customer and Partner events at all of the major cities, beginning with Sydney at the end of February. However, I want to direct you to a greater happening, with a larger reach. The Heroes {Community} Launch....

This evening I had the opportunity to meet the members of the Sydney .NET Usergroup , and the Brisbane Infrastructure Group . The first was through a happy misunderstanding, and I stepped in at the last minute to host the .NET Usergroup. This group has been run by Adam Cogan for (much) more than the...