Thanks for making me a HCL Master

On the 16th December I received the news that I am an HCL Master – which pleased me greatly. HCL Masters help the community and HCL to respond quickly to partners and customers demands and deliver a higher level of support and service to everyone. For those of you that don’t know being a HCL […]

This week I am at #ESPC19

This week I am in a chilly Prague at #ESPC19. This is one of the biggest Microsoft user group events in Europe and is definately a favourite of mine. It is the first big event post Ignite and is a great oportunity to catch up with all the news and progress since then. As usual […]

Nominate a HCL Master – time is running out

Time is running out … you have just 2 days left to nominate someone to be an HCL Master. If you know someone who goes beyond their day job to help others, share knowledge, give feedback and champions the HCL digital solutions products then please nominate them …  You can do so by checking out […]

European Collaboration Summit was a blast

The European Collaboration Summit was last week in Germany. I am still fairly new to the world of Microsoft Conferences and user groups / community events, but the collabsummit was fantastic. Will about 2,000 attendees it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest community run events in the world. Jam packed with lots […]

We had an excellent time at Engage

Slightly delayed due to many conferences and travelling,  here is my round up of Engage 2019. This year’s Engage was bigger than ever. In the amazing location of AutoWorld in Brussels – I have no idea how Theo finds these great venues year after year. With over 400 attendees, 1500 tweets, 88 speakers, 85 sessions, […]

May will be a busy month

I have been a bit quiet of late .. I have been a little busy – working hard at BCC, spending time with the family and the horses and booking my place at the Magic Run Weekend at Disneyland Paris (more about that in a later post) but May will be a busy month .. […]

Social connections round up

So a quick round up of #soccnx Connections isn’t dead.. Long live Connections. And although the emphasis recently has been on the Domino 10 there is lots of work in the Connections space happening. IBM are planning on releasing CRs instead of big releases. The plan is twice a year for on prem and up […]

It’s IBM Connections Adoption Month woo hoo

I have been a little quiet on the blog as I have been working on a number of Connections related projects and today I see that IBM have designated July as IBM Connections Adoptions month. You can read a brief post about it here. IBM have produced a fantastic info graphic – (the link to […]

Engage is next week!

It has come around really quickly – it feels like only a few days ago that we were at Think or Social Connections 13, but It is that time of year again and Engage is almost upon us. On Tuesday & Wednesday 22-23 May approx 400 people will be setting sail on the SS Rotterdam […]

Think! – Back to the Future

Think is over and man that was full on. To say this conference was massive doesn’t actually do it justice. The show floor and think park took most of the ground floor of the Mandalay Bay conference centre. A wander around the show floor could easily take an hour without stopping by any booths. It […]