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  • Getting Involved

    Posted on September 11th, 2007 AndyParkes 3 comments

    What a day!

    I’ve been doing an SBS install up in Doncaster this week which meant i had a bit of travelling to do to get to Birmingham on time. The closure of the M1 and my sat-nav asking me to do right turn on the motorway all transpired against me but i managed to get there in the end

    I’m pleased that i made the effort now as i found it very useful and i’m looking forward to some of the speakers that have been lined up. Since this was i my first meeting i tried to just figure out how it all “works” and i’m looking forward to making as much of a contribution as i can

    I managed to put faces to some of the names i’ve seen in the various online resources and also got to meet Jennifer Brinton from Microsoft

    One of the amazing things i’ve found is the detail you get just by chatting to people.

     I left with a couple of pages of notes and plenty to think about

    There is a business decision i’m about to make that i’ve been mulling over for a while and if it’s the wrong decision it would probably give us tons of grief and annoy our customers. Just a couple of throw-away comments from one or two people tonight have already given me some fresh insight and made me realise that i need to think about this some more…Theres your “pounds on the table”!

     

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