The World According to Mitch

One of the great advantages to MVP Summit is the information that is made available to us; speak to any MVP and chances are they were in no fewer than a dozen sessions over the course of four days, not to mention all of the break-out sessions, the Open Space sessions on the first day, and a plethora...

On Wednesday I got together with five thousand of my closest friends at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto for the launch of, among other products, Windows Server 2008.  It was one of those events that you had to be at to believe! Most of you know that I wear many hats wherever I go, and this event...

This past Monday I had the opportunity to present what I call a 'Let's Get Excited' presentation to an architect audience at Microsoft Canada.  I was asked to showcase several new features of Windows Server 2008, due to launch on February 27th. While preparing for the presentation I...

I have known Richard Campbell for some time now and every time we meet up we have the same discussion that I should do a segment for RunAs Radio (Once upon a time it was for .NET Rocks Radio) but we just never seemed to follow up. This week-end we caught up on line and decided that he and his co-host...

Some time ago I was asked to submit an on-line profile for a web site. I did, and adding a small touch of humour at the end, after listing some of my accomplishments and whatnot, I added the line ‘Mitch is not married, has no kids, and has never been to Cleveland.’ Since then I have used a variance of...

One of the great supporters of the IT Pro community in Canada is Rick Claus of Microsoft Canada. Rick has been a great inspiration to me and to my career over the past few years. If I had to point to a single moment in time that has most positively altered the course of my professional life it would...

So this past week it was confirmed that I will be presenting at the SMB Nation 2007 Conference in Redmond, Washington at the end of this month. My presentation will be on Sunday September 30 from 3:30 to 5:00, the entire three day session is definitely worth attending. This annual conference has been...