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It's been an exciting past few weeks as I attended Microsoft's World Partner Conference for the award winners activities, going on stage in front of over 16000 world wide partners was surprisingly stress free. For those of you who likes Where's Waldo or Where's Wally if you're from the UK. You can find a photo of me here. After selecting ...

In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and more social results, but more importantly to weed out and drop the spam and poor content that ...

2011 ended pretty much as it began, and at the same lightening speed... seems to be true what your parents and grand parents tell you, that the older you get the quicker the time passes, and this year seemed to go particularly fast, well in this bloggers opinion at least! 2011 saw a number of key events, and one of those was the inevitable ...

** UPDATE - While writing this post RIM & BlackBerry were in the midst of a 3 day blackout due to some connectivity errors at the mothership & users are about to fall off the party wagon (at last!!) ***I’ll be totally honest, I have NEVER liked BlackBerry. I hated their devices, hated their OS and just generally watching some of the ...

Global Site Mapping exercise from World Reserve Financial client

This is an example of a scalable Site Map for SharePoint 2010 with MS Governance and SharePoint architecture models illustrated for reference

Please Contact Me for More Information on Enterprise Architecture Model for SharePoint 2010 Corporate Intranets with Social Media enabled

Crikey, it really has been 2 months since the Silverlight UK User Group (SLUGUK) last got together for an evening of Silverlight. I’ve always tried to get presenters and sessions lined up so that we can have a SLUGUK every 6-8 weeks… but they are proving a bit elusive at the moment. Coupled with the fact that we are undergoing flooring repairs at ...

What is great about running a blog for almost 5 years, is you can look back and see if you were accurate in your thinking and future strategy planning, or not. Back in August 2008, I wrote a couple of pieces around the emerging Cloud trend. Fast forward to 2011, you can't go anywhere without hearing anyone's thoughts, views or own service in the ...

Hello,  Well, this is a tricky blog post to write, but let's cut straight to it. After May 31st 2011, I will no longer be at EMC Consulting. I've decided that after 18 years of working, and 12 years at EMC Consulting (Conchango and OS Integration) that it's time for a bit of a rest! This company, its people and clients, have been a ...