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I’ve been so busy the last few weeks that I just realised i haven’t blogged for two weeks!<\/p>\n

So next in\u00a0an infinite number of SBSC related is the latest AMITPRO meeting<\/p>\n

This was our first meeting of 2008 and Vijay had quite a line up for us!<\/p>\n

Here was the evening panned out<\/p>\n

Dominic Gill<\/strong>\u00a0(edit:Thanks Rich<\/a>!) from Microsoft introducing a new business link pilot scheme aimed at getting local small businesses in touch with IT suppliers to help make better use of IT. Obviously Microsoft would like these suppliers to be small business specialists!<\/p>\n

The details of the programme were then covered by Derek Lote<\/strong> from business link.<\/p>\n

Next up was Ian Charles of Bull Terrier Systems<\/a>\u00a0who gave an interesting presentation on selling managed services<\/p>\n

This was followed by David Salzburg, fresh over from the US who is here to get the Autotask<\/a> business up and running in the UK<\/p>\n

After this we had Emily Lambert and Emma Cockburn from Microsoft to talk about Windows Mobile and SBSC marketing and communications<\/p>\n

The evening was then rounded off by Eric Witham from acclarologic who very patiently waited all night to make us aware of an upcoming quality standard for network installation<\/p>\n

PHEW! It was a bit of a marathon session but i took away some interesting ideas.<\/p>\n

The business link programme shows some promise so i’ll be looking to get involved in that!<\/p>\n

I’m glad we’re getting an official Autotask release in this country as this type of product is sorely missing for the UK specific market. The only downside is that AutoTask Go! isn’t quite ready to be launched here but we were assured thats it’s on the way<\/p>\n

Also business link had drummed up some of their own support for their presentation so we had a lot of new faces in the room. Hopefully some of them will be tempted to come along next time<\/p>\n

If your the guy who had the blackberry and you happen to be reading this get in touch!<\/p>\n

Once again a lot of business value and some personal value<\/p>\n

If you didn’t hang around after with Richard,Vijay and myself to hear some of the Paul’s stories you missed out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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