Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Canada's Technical Community (RSS)
www.energizeit.ca This is our “capstone” event for the year (remember, when I say year, I am talking fiscal year – July – June). EnergizeIT is the premier event for Canada’s IT Technology Professionals. This year's
Read More...
It is ironic that we announced a new (amazing) product/service called Live Mesh at the same time, but the MESH conference in Toronto is just around the corner. The agenda looks really solid. I like MARS as a venue, but I hope they have
Read More...
It is time again for the TechNet Canada Innovation Awards. This is a really great program that was started a few years back by our IT Professional Team. The concept is simple -> the community nominates teams and individuals for their
Read More...
Check out this article - it really speaks to what we are seeing in the industry across the country. It is just a coincidence that the "hot" jobs are .NET developers! Wanted: Techies with people skills Hard to find people with leadership
Read More...
There is an really serious problem emerging in Canada - the future of IT as a career. Within our group, we are really focused on this and we are beginning to tailor our activities with the Canadian Technical Communities around the theme of building
Read More...
We had high hopes for MatchIT.ca when we launched a few weeks ago. There are now 600+ technical folks registered and 55 organizations. Amazing. Right now the matching process is taking place and I hope to hear about the great work that gets done over
Read More...
This weekend is EnergizeIT - our extra-special technical community event. It's the 2nd time we have run this event. The team takes a slightly different approach to Energize than some of our other activities and we hope the result is that this really is
Read More...
Mia at High Road Communications (note: our PR firm) keynoted the Tech Week kickoff. They asked me to be a part of a video about Toronto. It also featured super-investor Ken Nickerson (my old boss from MSFT days of old) and Jay Goldman (Toronto web guru,
Read More...
Nearly 200 people and 25 organizations have registered for MATCHIT in 24 hours. I discussed this new volunteering initiative in a previous post . This is an amazing result in such a short period of time!!! Technorati tags: MatchIT , Canada , Volunteering
Read More...
On behalf of the Developer, IT Pro and Community Affairs Teams here at Microsoft Canada I am pleased to announce the launch of MatchIT . This is a new Canadian online initiative designed to help bring together charities and non-profit organizations who
Read More...
John has been hanging out in Halifax and had a few things to say about being credible on the web. Businesses and organizations that hope to survive on the Internet need to do everything possible to keep their reputations pristine, says Microsoft Canada’s
Read More...
As David points out, it is a very busy week in Toronto next week. Hosted by ICT Toronto, it's being billed as: " Toronto Technology Week is a week-long showcase and celebration of this sector’s success and innovation, and as such, techweek.to will be
Read More...
Thanks to Hugh for the inspiration. I think in many ways this is the core of our mission as an evangelism team. Our goal is to help Canada's Technical Communities achieve their goals and unlock their innovation. We work to find heros and tell their stories.
Read More...
From the Canadian Developer Blog : Thank you to everyone who entered our MSDN Code Awards program! We went through the difficult process of picking five nominees for the individual and team categories - we received a lot of really great entries. What
Read More...
The word is out. David Crow is joining our team here at Microsoft Canada. David is well known in Toronto (and elsewhere!) for his UX expertise and his stewardship of the UX community in Toronto. We are very glad lucky happy to have him joining us. He
Read More...