Hello, Andrew Bettany here on the Bus Tour. 

Our second event in Milan took us to Pipeline IT. The attendees at this event spent the morning hearing technical presentations on Windows Server and Exchange. We arrived shortly after lunch, and Tjeerd opened with his presentation on the cool new features of Win7 followed by Patrick’s (from our field office in Holland) presentation on MDOP. Ken and Liberty went through our lineup of presentations, and rather than talk about the presentations, let me share some cool stories from this event.

One of the attendees told how he was very excited about coming to this event and learning about Microsoft’s newest technologies. His company wouldn’t give him the day off, so rather than missing the event, he took a “holiday” (or vacation day for us Americans) to attend. Wow, that showed exceptional initiative on the part of the attendee especially in this recession.

During the event, Pipeline IT was constantly blogging and tweeting on the event. Within 5 minutes of Liberty starting her presentation, her picture was on Pipeline IT’s FaceBook. They also posted some videos on YouTube within minutes of the presentation and plan to post video from the entire event after the bus tour concludes. Interested in seeing some of this? Go to their twitter page at Twitter.com/pipelineit where they have links to everything. They were a social media machine!