A graphic illustration of the graft that goes into the EMEA Hosting Club. Takes me a week to recover.

Microsoft EMEA Hosting Club Feedback

Got back (eventually- I won't bore you with delayed flight stories) from Nice and the 10th EMEA Hosting Club Executive Roundtable. It was, as always, an extremely useful trip. My colleague, Mike Williams, and I managed to hook up with a number of old friends and industry peers and had a good catch up. Highlights were:

• Intelecom. Nice Unified Comms solution. Shame the mike (microphone, rather than my colleague) kept falling off during the session
• Genesis. Our competitors, but a good presentation which was pleasantly frank
• Martha Béjar, Corporate Vice President, Communications Sector. Good to have some senior people telling us like it is
• Workshops. I was in David Ednie's session. He's a clever guy, very knowledgeable and a great facilitator. Swears like a true aussie ;-)
• Serge's attention to detail. Serge Khayat is the Senior Marketing Manager for the hosting team and has superb attention to detail
• The violinists. Enough said.

A great event, nicely put together.

We're off to Nice

Off to Nice next week for the 10th Microsoft EMEA Hosting Club Executive Roundtable. Looks like a good lineup and some interesting content. Just have to dodge my collegues' ire about being in the south of France. If I hear one more 'holiday' gag. They're hard work!

Events, dear boy, events (caidence)

Just come back from the last of our events with Qgate, held in Microsoft's Cardinal Place London offices. Another great presentation from Jason Nash (as usual) and some blinding ones from the Qgate boys. Very good indeed. A good audience, some bloody hard questions, and some excellent conversations. A day well spent.

Been very busy so some slack blogging I know. Will get my mojo back when I get my breath back. :-)

CRM Event

Have just done our CRM event with QGate at Thames Valley Park. A ood intimate conversation although I'm sure it could be polished a lot more, and sure it will be by the 15th. Always tough these events, but I think we got the message across. We'll see!

We're hiring!

7global is looking for new business sales people. Good package, good company to work for, good atmosphere and a great team. What's not to like!

If you'd like to know more just drop me a line (pdoherty@7global.com).

Worldwide Partner Awards

Just finished 7global's entry for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Awards. Strewth these are hard work. They are like writing a small thesis!

We were Finalists last year which was just brilliant. Not sure we're going to do as well this year though. The competition is just so tough. We do have a fantastic story to tell which gives me some hope. I'm entering our Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM HMC Platform. I've managed to get some great testimonials (thanks everyone) and describe some of the things we've been doing with our partners who rock.

Still, there are a lot of guys out there doing fantastic stuff so I'm less confident than last year. Still, fingers crossed.