February Meeting

Even though it was Valentines’ day the meeting was well attended. We had a interesting presentation from FinLease about how to utilize financing options to improve flexibility and profitability for our businesses. Our second session was a round table discussion on server run ups and covered issues like ordering, running up, commissioning and more.

Everyone who attended certainly took away something of value from the night and congratulations to our visitor from Brisbane, Tony Albans, who took away the luck door prize of champagne and chocolates.

The full meeting recording is available for members but a summary can be found here:

January Meeting

Our January meeting was focused on planning for 2012. Attendees were provided with a tutorial on how to utilise the members SharePoint site and what resources that it contains. All members are encouraged to access the site and create a profile for their business to help other members know what specialties they may possess.

We then moved into planning for 2012 with the announcement of three twilight workshops in March, July and October. Agreement was also reached on offering two prizes for members who create a technical white paper or do a presentation before August. The prize will allow two members to attend with Microsoft TechEd Australia or the Australian Partner Conference on the Gold Coast in September.

The meeting rounded out with a review of the results of a recent planning survey and developed a course of action for what will be presented to members over the coming 12 months.

The committee takes this opportunity to thank those that attended and contributed. We looks forward to an exciting 2012 for members.