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INX will be hosting a discussion surrounding Desktop Virtualization and VDI. COISUG meeting will take place today, January 14th @ 1:30pm at McMenamins Old St. Francais Rambler Room, drinks and lunch provided. As always, it will be a good time –spread the word.

Here’s something from our friends at O’Reilly; COISUG members can take advantage of this offer by going directly to O’Reilly’s web site.

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Checkout the updated Central Oregon IT Job postings at COISUG Jobs

Have a great week!

IT is well positioned to be a strategic business partner with executve level buyin; however, IT must step up and build meaningful relationships with the core business team. That means listening, collaborating and training  your internal customers. Susan Cram wrote the following article outlining ways to promote this behavior.

Microsoft is stopping by to host a great event this Thursday (April 16 – 1:30pm) to talk Collaboration, Business Intelligence and Server Management. There will be great food, giveaways, and alot of innovative conversations.

Microsoft – Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Server Management April 16 1:30pm – McMenamins Movie Theater

There’s no doubt that the current economic situation presents difficult challenges for businesses of all kinds, in every industry. Thoughtful business leaders must carefully assess how to best utilize their resources to weather the uncertainty that lies ahead.

At Microsoft, we believe these resources include both people and technology. A new generation of technology innovations is enabling forward-looking businesses to build information systems that are more flexible, more cost effective, and that enable people to understand and respond to changing business conditions with greater insight and speed than ever before.

Meeting Topics include:

• Increasing employee productivity and lowering travel costs with Microsoft Collaboration Tools.
• Gaining a competitive advantage in an economic downturn with Business Solutions and Business Intelligence.
• Reducing your company’s carbon footprint with Microsoft Virtualization and Server Management Technologies.

COISUG is two years old and the limited edition shirts turned out
great! The first 29 people will get one free. These shirts are only
available for a limited time, so be early!

The COISUG meeting is today in Bend, 1:00pm McMenamins Old St. Francis
School Rambler Room – sponsored by BendBroadband. BendBroadband is
going to be discussing Metro-Ethernet and a few other cutting edge
broadband technologies, how they are similar, how they differ, and
what to consider when building multiple paths to promote redundancy.
This will be a great event and as always food will be provided!

Hi All,

This is a reminder that the first meeting of the Bend SharePoint User Group will be this Friday, December 12th, from 12:00 – 1:30PM.  Pizza and networking begins at 12PM. Please bring $4 to contribute towards pizza, or feel free to bring your own lunch.

The meeting will be held at the Cinetix Solutions office at 780 NW York Drive, Suite #204.

Directions: Mt. Washington Drive, turn west onto NW Crossing Drive towards Summit High School, left on Charbonneau, left on York.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=cinetix+solutions&ie=UTF8&ll=44.621754,-121.35498&spn=9.460152,23.203125&z=6&iwloc=A

Agenda for our first meeting:

1.    Jason Hamlin (Les Schwab) and Barb Troyer (Cinetix Solutions) will share how they are solving real world business problems with SharePoint 2007. We invite you to take 10 minutes or so to share with the group ways in which you are utilizing or planning to utilize SharePoint through your own company.

2.    We’re envisioning an interactive user group in which we share ideas and training. Let’s brainstorm as a group regarding what we would like to see this group become, topic ideas, etc.

To gauge the number of potential attendees for our first meeting, please let us know if you will be joining us at:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1425482/

To receive future messages from this group, please join:
http://groups.google.com/group/bend-sharepoint-ug

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the user group or the meeting, please contact:

Thanks,

Barb Troyer
Jason Hamlin

Event: Selling your IT/Tech Business

Wednesday November, 12 2008

12:00-1:30pm

McMenamin’s Old St. Francis School 700 N.W. Bond Street Bend, 97701 Father Luke’s Room

FREE for members of SAO, EDCO, COWPU, COISUG, WoTech and BendTech members, $15 for non-members

Not sure why the site was down. No worries, swung an A record, installed wordpress, restored the DB and all is back –kinda, well good enough.

I will have to hand it to Worpress, they have created a seemless CMS platform.