A quick hit podcast from April 15, 2010 spotlighting some of the pre-MMS activities on Sunday along with a teaser about the extra interactivity available to attendees this year.
What: MMS 2010Tweetup
Where: Flavors the Buffet, Harrahs Las Vegas
When: 7am 4/19/2010
Who: All welcome, but please RSVP so i can make reservations.
Why: I need to eat!
Cost: $16
(Further details below)
- Are you new to this whole Internet thingy?
- Don’t know a Twitter from fritter?
- Quit doing Hashtags 20 years ago?
- Did the last thing ‘social’ you got result a trip to the medic and a painful penicillin shot?
- Still think a Facebook is probably what we used to call a Yearbook?
- Wondering how it is that the President of the USA is younger than you?
- In Las Vegas for MMS2010?
- Up at 6 am 4/19/2010 and just figured out there is no free breakfast?
If so, you are in luck! Meet me at the Flavors Buffet for one of Las Vegas’ better Breakfast Buffets Monday April 19th @ 7am and I’ll answer your questions about Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, blogs, and that Internet thingy. If you have any.
All ages welcome and please RSVP via comment here, Twitter @reedracer, email Reedracer [at] gmail.com, telephone (707) 7 3 3-3 4 7 6, telegraph. Sorry no smoke signal RSVP’s will be accepted for this event.
Breakfast runs $16 but I will be looking into senior discounts and coupons.
Here is the second of 7 MyOTSpecials leading up to the 2010 Microsoft Management Summit April 19-23 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. I’m a little winded as I walk up the hill towards the Missouri State Capital Building. I talked about the possibility of grabbing our swarm badge on Foursquare.com and other relevant news about #MMS2010
There are a ton of incredibly cool things in store for us out in the atomic city, so be prepared to be blown away! Hopefully only figuratively blown away as those nukes ain’t too fun.
Forgot to mention it on the podcast, but the 2nd ‘M’ is for Mingle. Get out there and meet people, make friends, renew old friendships, and connect to companies!
With just 7 days to go until Microsoft Management 
Summit 2010 at The Venetian in Las Vegas, NV I decided to do a MyOTRadio special podcast each day. This first one was recorded Monday, April, 12, 2010. Today is brought to you by the letter ‘M’ which stands for Microsoft. Microsoft makes System Center which has kept me and my family fed since the 1990’s.
In this drivecast I discuss ways to maximize your time on the first day of MMS2010, why I am not yet won over by Hyundai cars, my transmission, and the System Center Influencer program. Just click play on the embedded video below.
Everyone is getting excited about the upcoming conference, and it promises to be extra special this year with it being sold out, v.next information disseminated, and the expo hall sold out too!
The Podcast went 15 minutes or so and I had to split it in twain to fit YouTube.com’s 10 minute maximum. Part I
And here is part II.
With that, I’ll see you tomorrow…..
Just a quick note to let everyone know the Birds of a Feather session proposed by Michael Mott and Submitted by me has been approved! Here are the details if you want to sign-up.
OJ01 System Center in Health Care
Wednesday 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM, Marco Polo 701
Speaker(s): Reed Racer
Track(s): Client Management Technologies, Operations Management, Systems Management
Session Type: Birds-of-a-Feather
Products(s): Community, Configuration Manager 2007, Data Protection Manager, Essentials, Operations Manager 2007, Service Manager, Virtual Machine Manager
Let’s get together and talk about common issues and different approaches to solutions using System Center products in a Health Care setting.
That’s Mister Racer to you! 
Natural mistake, and I really do not mind. Grabbed a picture for posterity in case they correct it.
Hope to see you there!
Episode 8 Do not be late!
Episode 8 of MyOTRadio goes live tonight at 6pm CST over on my channel on Ustream.tv 
Hopefully it will be an enjoyable multimedia extravaganza! Even if it isn’t, I plan to ‘go on with the show; and ‘fight the good fight’ and ‘fight to the finish.’ If I am lucky, Mr. Rod Trent of MyITForum.com will stop by and tell us all about Viewfinity, MyITForum, and the #MMS2010 party he is hosting. Don’t worry, I’ll ask him the tough questions of him so you don’t have to! I’ll get to the bottom of this no newsletter controversy and find out why I have not seen him at the same parties as Rachel Maddow.
So for tonight:
- Intro song
- Unveiling of the new logo
- Weekly Golden Breadstick Award Winner (I should probably make a blog badge for former winners to proudly display)
- Pleas:
- The Las Vegas Reedracer Twitter discount
- $500 for Airfare and room
- Other ongoing sponsors
- MMS
- Challenge
- MyOTRadio Live
- Parties
- Brian Leary’s Mom, Betty needs prayers as she is having open heart surgery today.
- Question of the Week
- Goodnight Forest Moon
- Outro Song.
Plus more inanities by yours truly. Please stop by and set a spell.
Live Broadcast and Replays can be foung at this address: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/myotradio
Not sure about Itunes, yet.
Episode 7 – The Lost Episode
Episode 7 which was broadcast on March 25, 2010 was my first experience with
Ustream.tv and it did not go well. I could not get the song I wanted to start with to play and I had many other issues as well. I’ve done mucho research since then and I believe I can get some sort of show to go this week. It will broadcast on April 1st, 2010 at 6PM CST. I promise nor April Fool’s pranks, so I hope you can make it
The 3rd week of April I am heading to Las Vegas to attend the Microsoft Management Summit 2010. I’ve been in the Microsoft Management space since the mid 90′s and a part of the community since 2000. I owe quite a bit to Microsoft Management products and the communities that have grown up around them.
Thanks to the kindness of Rod Trent and MyITForum I have a gate pass to the Summit this year. I can’t wait! It will be the first time since 2005. System Center Configuration Manager was still Systems Management Server and the 2003 version had been out for just over a year. The exhibit hall had many vendors, but not near as many as there will be this year. Of the ones there in 2005 several have been absorbed into larger companies, others have folded, while some have become very powerful in their own right.
The things that have remained constant all these years has been the dedication of the System Center people at Microsoft to create the best product possible and the wonderful community with MyITForum as the cornerstone.
I want to give back. I will be coming around with my cub reporter kit and offering to do interviews. You could be an Admin, a Microsoft engineer, a Vendor, or a retired CEO; if you have something to say, I’ll either record it and broadcast it through my little radio show.
If this appeals to you, let me know and we can set up a time. I plan to spend Wednesday afternoon around the MyITForum booth, plus I am available any other time that week. Below is my Google calendar for MMS. Check it out.
MYOTRadio is Moving
I’m having such a blast doing this show I want to make it the best product possible. As such, I am just unhappy with the results of the current host. The audio quality is very low, as the sound of the music attests, and the delay between the audio and the chatroom is over a minute. Very counter-interactive. BTR has a function, it’s just not meeting my needs.
This week’s show will move to Ustream.tv on the MyOTRadio Channel at the regular time of Thursday 6:00 PM. There are numerous features at Ustream.tv that can only enhance the show.
Now I need to create a Facebook Fan Page, design a logo, find my co-host, and get sponsors. Stay tuned.
Resume Class a Hit!
Last year I signed up to teach a class at UMCK’s Communiversity. I proposed a class about how to intensify a résumé and even came up with a web site idea to support it. My proposal was accepted and the class was scheduled for March 18th, 2010. (This is why last week’s MyOTRadio was cancelled).
I spend some quality time designing the web site and putting together the presentation. I’m just a guy, but felt I had some good insight into what works and what definitely does not work when it comes to résumés.
Last Thursday finally arrives and I drive the 2.5 hours to UMKC in Kansas City. I find the class location in the Student Center (which looks suspiciously like a student union). The classroom is a conference room wit seating for 12 around four tables pushed together. The next thing I notice is that there is no projector. Immediately the part of in Alice’s Restaurant where Officer Obie notices the the judge has a seeing eye dog:
Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, ’cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn’t going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.
It was beginning to look like nobody was going to see my 28 PowerPoint slides all formatted with animated fly-ins and pictures and speaker notes on nearly every single one.
Once I was finally able to catch my breath and think a minute, I decided my slides would be just as good on a 15.4 inch laptop screen as a the 10 foot projected screen I had envisioned. So I set up my laptop. turned it around and had the 9 attendees sit at the other 3 tables and I sat next to the laptop. I used the entire 2 hours with a short break in the middle. The students were all interest and thanked me so over all, I’d say it was a smashing success.
