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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:40 PM

IT Skills In Canada – Part 4 (Final)

(This is part 4 of a 4 part series, you can read the first post here ) Here is the final part of my discussion with Shane Schick on the Myths & Realities of the IT Skills & Talent landscape in Canada.  This part is titled “Myth 4 – Certifications
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Monday, March 30, 2009 12:36 PM

IT Skills & Talent In Canada – Myths and Realities – Part 2

(This is part 2 of a 4 part series, you can read the first post here ) Here is the second part of my discussion with Shane Schick on the Myths & Realities of the IT Skills & Talent landscape in Canada.  This part is titled “Myth 2 - There
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 12:13 PM

IT Skills & Talent In Canada – Myths and Realities - Part 1

Working in today’s IT industry comes with a variety of challenges, especially in these tough economic times.  Jobs are becoming more complex, employers expectations are high and employees need more than just technical skills to grow their careers. 
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:28 PM

Techdays – A Revolution In Supporting Your Career & Developing Your Skills.

Techdays 2008 - our premier event for Canada’s Developers & IT Professionals – will soon be here.  Today I wrote this to be included in a newsletter we are sending out to the IT Professional audience.  I thought I would share it here on
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Monday, September 22, 2008 1:09 PM

TechDays – Some Q&A

John Oxley has received a lot of email on Techdays and he responds to some of it here . “Hello Everyone!  Your feedback on TechDays has been great and I really want to thank you so much for taking the time to share your comments with me.  I
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:11 PM

EnergizeIT 2008 – Are you going?

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
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Monday, February 04, 2008 10:30 PM

From The ITPRO Connection Blog: Heroes Happen {Here} Events In Canada

  As everyone knows, we are on the eve of a major launch event for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.  These are not just product launches, but our largest Technology Community outreach this year.  Here is a great
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Monday, February 04, 2008 10:07 PM

Heroes Happen {Here} - Community Connection Events

http://blogs.technet.com/canitpro/archive/2008/02/04/community-connection-events-diamond-in-the-rough.aspx We've been getting a number of inquiries as to "What the heck is this event?", "Why should I bother going?" and "What's
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Monday, May 14, 2007 4:42 PM

MSDN Canada Code Awards - Vote!

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
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Friday, May 04, 2007 1:13 AM

Awesome Event Watch: EnergizeIT 2007

Jean-Luc has all the news on the Canadian Developer Blog . EnergizeIT 2007 is coming on June 16th and it's shaping up to be a very exciting free Summer event! It's going to happen on a Saturday in downtown Toronto and it's a perfect opportunity for Developers
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Friday, April 27, 2007 4:04 PM

Community Connection: Are User Groups Dead?

An interesting post from Rodney on the future of User Groups on the IT Pro Community Blog. "You probably think I am crazy. You are probably thinking about the 30+ IT pro user groups in Canada with 10,000+ members with monthly attendance at meetings surpassing
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Friday, April 27, 2007 3:48 PM

Our Events Go Green(ish)

Anyone who attended our recent Unify Tour event in Toronto may have noticed that we had our friends from Bullfrog Power onsite during the event. I have talked in a past post that I switched the power I use at home to Bullfrog (something I feel great about).
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:17 PM

News For Launch Attendees & Our Commitment To You.

The launch of Office 2007 and Windows Vista was a major event for us here at Microsoft. As our fiscal year began, we set out to bring you, Canada's Technical Community, the best experience we could as we worked to show you how these new products could
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Monday, March 19, 2007 3:41 PM

Feedback On The Code Awards

So, my friend Rick Segal has posted some comments about the Code Awards on his blog here . He posted a challenge to find the "strange" things about the Awards page. He may have exaggerated the Popiel Pasta Maker , but what the heck, maybe I will also
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Monday, March 19, 2007 3:12 PM

MSDN Code Awards - Nominate Now!

The team here at MSDN Canada is running a very cool contest called the Code Awards. We've never done anything like this before and I think it is a great idea for the Canadian Developer Community. Check out the details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/codeawards/
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