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Here’s the recording from our second Cloud Business Blueprint weekly ‘Ask Us’ webinar.
Remember it is free to attend so please register for the upcoming webinars at:
http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/ask-weekly-webinar
and let others know who maybe interested.
Also, if you can’t make it along then email your question to info@cloudbusinessblueprint.com and we’ll do our best to answer it and get it into the next recording so you can view it at your leisure.
Coles is a major supermarket chain here in Australia and they have developed a portal called MyColes to allow employees to access all sorts of information about their business and their benefits.
You can find these videos here:
How Coles Transformed Team Member Engagement
We’ve broken into double figures with the 10th episode of the Cloud Business podcast now available for your listening pleasure on iTunes and at:
http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/business/episode-010-profitability-business-growth/
In this episode we talk about the bigger picture and setting specific long term goals and achieving them. We’ll give you some tips on how to set these as well as some great tool for managing them as well. There’s the usual Rob’s Rant and Questions and Answers as well so don’t miss this episode.
Remember as always, keen to hear you feedback on the above page or via an iTunes review or directly if you are shy. If you have any suggestions for topics you’d like to hear us cover, or maybe some guest you’d like to hear from then please let us know.
Stay tunes for upcoming episodes real soon.
Hopefully by now you have heard of TED talks. They are basically a huge library of speakers on a broad range of topics from business to technology and from medical science to philosophy that you can view online for free. I’d be really surprised if you haven’t seen at least one.
TED was recent released a list of its top 20 most popular talks (measure by the number of views). You will find these over at a recent blog post:
The 20 most popular TED Talks, as of this moment
I am now working through this list myself and would commend the same thing to you as well, because if they are so popular there is probably something in there work learning.
We have posted the highlights reel of our first Ask Us webinar to Youtube and you can find it here:
Ask Use Webinar 1 – Highlights
In the video we cover some information on creating a SharePoint Online demo site as well as comparisons of SharePoint Online to Office 365. Unfortunately, it is limited to 10 minutes because our Cloud Business Blueprint YouTube account is yet to be verified. We’ll take care of that for our next Ask Us Webinar on the Thursday the 13th of February at 12.30pm. Cloud Business Blueprint members can view the complete highlight reel in the members forum (since we are using a different technology there with video).
You can sign up for the next Ask Us Webinar and actually any Ask Us Webinar at:
http://www.cloudbusinessblueprint.com/ask-weekly-webinar
Remember, there is no cost for these webinars. Also, if you have a topic you like to see covered then by all means shoot me an email or leave a comment on this blog about the topic or question you have and we’ll do our best to answer it in the upcoming webinar.
We hope to see you there.
I’ve been working with Microsoft and Express Data here in Australia to present a number of breakfast session around the new options available in Office 365 from the 2nd of April.
These events will be held in most major capital cities initially (and maybe roll out to other regional areas later on). To register for these breakfast sessions visit:
http://www.ed-marketing.com/microsoft/get-smart/365.html
I’ll be presenting along with Microsoft and Express Data. I have worked hard to ensure that the content is relevant and engaging for attendees and not just a stack of slides. We’ll have interactive discussions, questions and answers, ask the experts, migration scenarios and a whole stack more.
Also, as part of these events I’ll be running an informal get together somewhere in the city the night before. Very much like the Cloud Business Blueprint meetups these will be totally informal get togethers over some dinner and a drink to discuss business, technology or whatever. If you are interested in attending please email me directly via director@ciaops.com and let me know what city you’ll be attending so I can send you the arrangements.
I hope to see you there.
Our first meetup in January was a blast and exceptionally well attended. Now it’s time to do it again for February.
We have therefore arranged our next Sydney meet up to be held:
Date: Monday 17th February, 2014
Time: from 6.30pm
Location: The Oaks Hotel, Military Road, Neutral Bay in the “Bar & Grill” area
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/Flaaz
This is a completely informal get together with the goal of allowing attendees to network with each other and share interests, contacts, strategies and general information.
We are also happy to welcome anyone along who thinks they get value from attending even if they are not currently a member of the Cloud Business Blueprint yet. Feel free to come along and join in the conversation, no obligation.
If you planning on attending we would ask that you let us know via an email to info@cloudbusinessblueprint.com so we can ensure we have enough seats reserved for you at the table.
Come along and chat to other IT Professionals about how they are successfully running a business focused on the cloud.
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Some sharp eyed contacts alerted me today to this post on the Official Australian Partner blog yesterday:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2014/02/05/introducing-more-ways-for-partners-to-resell-office-365-amp-windows-intune-to-smbs.aspx
I knew that Office 365 via Open Licensing was coming but I didn’t know about this:
Microsoft Online Portal
In this scenario, Office 365 is purchased online via the Microsoft Online Portal. This option is subscription based, with the choice of monthly or annual billing. Microsoft resellers will be able to sell via this option by attaching a ‘Partner of Record’ to a customer account.
So, that seems to mean that you can now also buy Office 365 direct from a Microsoft via an online portal! Thus your purchasing options are now:
1. Open licensing
2. Telstra T-Suite portal
3. Microsoft Online Portal
4. Via Retail for Small Business Plans
Personally, this means that the upcoming changes to Office 365 (which will happen on April 2nd, which was announced in the same blog post) are going to have a much GREATER impact for customers and more so resellers I believe here in Australia. A much greater impact.
I’ll try and ferret out some more details and report back when I have some more facts.
CIAOPS 