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What you get when you conduct an interview via email for a blog. See http://notgartner.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/my-teched-2006-bloggerview/ for more info.

The Importance of Community

Microsoft is trying so hard to be cool. It really isn't fair, why is Apple considered cool just because they have pretty white cases? How has Apple managed to break the nerd image that Microsoft is so desperately trying to shake with the mainstream audience? Read More
posted Saturday, 16 September 2006 3:16 PM by ScottSavage | 1 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #10 - Nathan Mercer

Yes - I've finally reached double figures in this series! Today we meet Nathan Mercer, an IT Pro DPE from Kiwiland. Who are you, and what do you do when you aren't doing things for TechEd?I am Nathan Mercer - a Wellington, Microsoft New Zealand based Read More
posted Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:11 AM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #9 - Anna Liu

For this Behind the Scenes, I'm talking to Anna Liu. Anna is organising the Ask The Experts dinner. Who are you, and what do you do when you aren't doing things for TechEd?I’m Anna Liu, Architect Advisor at Microsoft Australia, based in Sydney. I’m Read More
posted Tuesday, 15 August 2006 10:50 AM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #8 - Bernard Oh

While I wait for teh other two track owners to get back to me with their interview answers, it's time to have a look at Student Day. Student Day is a free event put on the day before TechEd starts, to give all those poor students out there a taste of Read More
posted Friday, 4 August 2006 8:16 AM by geoffa | 2 Comments
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More Shuttle Hounding

I'm still trying to track down what the go is with these shuttles. Dave recently has let us see a picture - twice. Not much information about what the picture is of, but he leaked it nonetheless. So I put mmy MudHound hat on and fired off some questions, Read More
posted Friday, 28 July 2006 9:23 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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TechEd Retrospective #5 - Michael McMullen

Michael went to TechEd in 2003. He didn't go to the whole event, just the free student day that they had. Name rank and serial number.Michael McMullen, I'm a Microelectronic Engineering and Information Technology double degree student at Griffith University Read More
posted Thursday, 27 July 2006 2:12 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #7 - Jeff Alexander

If you check his answers, Jeff says he's been with MS for 19 years. That's amazing - given that he looks about 30 years old, that means he started there when he was 11. Impressive! Just how old are you Jeff? This is our third last Behind the Scenes with Read More
posted Thursday, 27 July 2006 1:33 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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My First MudHounding Attempt

For my first attempt at MudHounding I thought I'd start off small. To make it easy on myself, I decided to contact myself to see if I had any gossip to share. It was an interesting conversation (well, I kept myself amused, anyway) so I thought I'd repeat Read More
posted Wednesday, 26 July 2006 1:26 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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TechEd Retrospective #4 - Mitch Denny

I'd thought I'd break away from the norm here, and bring in someone the like of which has never been seen here before at the TTB: Mitch is a Canberra based MVP who works for Readify...oh, hang on...maybe we have (ok, so Glav isn't Canberra based, Read More
posted Monday, 24 July 2006 2:40 PM by geoffa | 1 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #6 - Penelope Lewin and Angus Logan

For this Behind the Scenes, we're going to do things in tandem. Angus and Pen are both organising their track, so I managed to get both of them to talk about what they're doing. So that you can tell the answers apart, Angus' answers look like normal text, Read More
posted Monday, 24 July 2006 2:08 PM by geoffa | 2 Comments
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TechEd Retrospective #3 - Rael Dusheiko

The last two Retorspective's have been people who went to TechEd in 2005. This time around - we're still sticking with 2005, but I thought I'd keep with the international flavour for the moment. Rael went to TechEd last year in Florida. Name rank Read More
posted Saturday, 22 July 2006 8:56 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #5 - Nigel Parker

Issue #5 of Behind the Scenes at TechEd takes us on  an international trip. All the way accross the globe...to New Zealand. Nigel surprised me big time with his answers - while I'm used to a few things being secret about TechEd, I never expected Read More
posted Saturday, 22 July 2006 8:36 PM by geoffa | 1 Comments
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Behind The Scenes At TechEd #4 - Andrew Coates

No set of interviews would be complete with Andrew Coates. Of all the DPEs that I've seen present in some way, Andy and Chuck Sterling would have to be my favourites. It's up to you to decide why though - presentation skills, knowledge, or (most likely) Read More
posted Wednesday, 19 July 2006 2:07 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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TechEd Retrospective #2 - William Bartholomew

Retrospective #2 comes from William Bartholomew, and active participant on the aus-dotnet list and a TechEd attendee. Let's see what he has to say about TechEd 2005. Name rank and serial number.William Bartholomew, Senior Consultant, Dialog Information Read More
posted Wednesday, 19 July 2006 1:01 PM by geoffa | 0 Comments
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TechEd Retrospective #1 - Rob Farley

As well as running my series on Behind the Scenes at TechEd, I thought it might be interesting to have a few reflections on some of the previous TechEds that have happened over the years. The difference with these, however, is that instead of talking Read More
posted Monday, 17 July 2006 8:29 PM by geoffa | 1 Comments
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