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30 Oct 2009 3:22 AM
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01:00 After our amazing trip through the tunnel, we arrive at a hotel (hurray, real beds, showers, the comforts of civilization), we catch a few hours of sleep and (8:30) we’re off to MS Employ. Although we arrive early, there is a group of people waiting for us when we arrive. One man walks up to us, it is Bob Simms, who won a seat on the bus and he will tour to Berlin with us. You will see him blog on Born to Learn, Bob is an MCT and I look forward to his perspective on our tour, I also expect he will bring us many smiles J.

9:10 I am SO proud of our team! There was some misunderstanding at the event location and we started without a presentation room. We quickly changed our agenda and Liberty kicks off, in a very nice room at the university, and she delivers a great presentation without slides and without a microphone. Liberty Unplugged was great J. In the meantime we arrange and set up a classroom upstairs, get people coffee and –right on schedule – we kick off with Windows 7. Then David Elfassy takes over and presents with his never ending enthusiasm. The attendees were specifically interested the new e-mail compliance features in Exchange Server 2010: integration with RMS, retention policies, e-mail archival.

11.00 Liberty and I dash out as we are doing an extra session in York, where we will meet approx. 40 educators from various IT Academies. The bus will soon follow and we’ll meet for the ‘main event’ tonight at the University of York.

12:00 We had a great event, many questions, the only person who does not look happy is our driver, we are running late... Thank you MS Employ, off to York!

 

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  • tonysimms
    30 Oct 2009 6:22 AM
    As an attendee I have to echo the above. I arrived at 7:30 and a crowd were already gathered in the yard, all very keen, at 8:10, with no update from the sponsor, I put my head into the bus and was treated to a glimpse of frantic activity;

    Melissa was on the phone frantically calling all and sundry, some one shouted "Bob I need the details of 5 hotels in the direct vicinity now!" Some one else was demanding where they could find a projector, everyone seemed very focused. I withdrew to a safe distance.

    Some five or so minutes latter we were hustled into a large open room, seated and treated to a surprisingly un-boring, well structured and enlightening talk about certification and some of the hidden mysteries that create such devilish torments as exam questions and scaled pass points.

    We were then quickly reassembled in a room a little smaller than my lounge at home and treated to an up close and personal set of presentations. The team delivered the whole thing with poise and grace. There was general good humour about the situation, and given the inevitability of the reduced time, the presentations were very well focused, skipping some of the less important matters, but not stinting on the other bits.

    I feel cheated that I did not get to one of the other events as if the team could produce such quality presentations, under such adverse conditions I can only imagine what they do when they have room to walk as well as talk.

    Guys thank you so much.


    Tony
  • Tony Simms
    30 Oct 2009 1:22 PM
    As an attendee I have to echo the above. I arrived at 7:30 and a crowd were already gathered in the yard, all very keen, at 8:10, with no update from the sponsor, I put my head into the bus and was treated to a glimpse of frantic activity;

    Melissa was on the phoneurgently calling all and sundry, Liberty shouted "Bob I need the details of 5 hotels in the direct vicinity now!" Chris was demanding where they could find a projector, everyone seemed very focused. I withdrew to a safe distance.

    Some five or so minutes latter we were hustled into a large open room, seated and treated to a surprisingly un-boring, well structured and enlightening talk about certification and some of the hidden mysteries that create such devilish torments as exam questions and scaled pass points.

    We were then quickly reassembled in a room a little smaller than my lounge at home and treated to an up close and personal set of presentations. The team delivered the whole thing with poise and grace. There was general good humour about the situation, and given the inevitability of the reduced time, the presentations were very well focused, skipping some of the less important matters, but not stinting on the other bits.

    I feel cheated that I did not get to one of the other events as if the team could produce such quality presentations, under such adverse conditions I can only imagine what they do when they have room to walk as well as talk.

    Guys thank you so much.


    Tony
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