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  • Blog Post: In the Groove

    Canadian IT Managers
    Microsoft Groove is one of the collaboration tools that come with Office 2007. That is not news but how many of you have taken the time to take it for a test drive or as a minimum looked under the covers. I have been meaning to find out more about Groove for some time and recently John Bristowe, Microsoft...
    on 18 Sep 2006

  • Blog Post: Effective Communication

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    Graham Jones (Surrey, BC, IT Professional) Recently I was having a “serious” conversation with my son and it was progressing as usual, ie. not going much of anywhere. As the frustration level was rising I said to him, “you need to work on your Active Listening skills”. This was met with the familiar...
    on 24 Oct 2007

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] Rising to the "Surface"

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    Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) About 25 years ago I became involved in 3D Computer Aided Design of process plants using a product called PDMS (Plant Design Management System) which is now marketed under the company name Aveva . I was the typical young (well fairly young) “enthusiast...
    on 20 Jun 2007

  • Blog Post: Joint Meeting - .netBC & VANTUG

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    Last Wednesday evening saw John Bristowe from the Microsoft Calgary office present Visual Studio Team System to an appreciative audience of 100 .netBC and VANTUG members. John has a very lively style of presentation and it proved difficult to slow him down even when we had to vacate the meeting room...
    on 24 May 2006

  • Blog Post: Try before you buy.....

    Canadian IT Managers
    As part of the Vista Beta Test program I have been running Vista on an AMD based PC for the last few months. Maybe Vista didn’t always behave perfectly but it always installed without any problems. I was at the point of installing RC1 when my son came to me and said, “Dad I have a really, really old...
    on 28 Sep 2006

  • Blog Post: Connecting the Personal Dots…

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    Graham Jones (Chair 2009-2010 Culminis Global Board) Back in April 2008 I wrote a blog here entitled “ Professionalizing the Profession ”. I was inspired to write this following a presentation made by Stephen Ibaraki [blogger extraordinaire and regular contributor here] on what is happening with respect...
    on 3 Sep 2009

  • Blog Post: JDQ and the Surrey Food Bank

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    In a couple of previous posts I mentioned my involvement with JDQ ,their 3 Spheres of Reciprocity community help program and their latest project with the Surrey Food Bank in BC. A couple of volunteer developers who are VANTUG members are working on the project. I said that I would post here from time...
    on 21 Jun 2006

  • Blog Post: Volunteering - part 2

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    Recently I wrote about an opportunity to work with a company called JDQ and their 3Spheres of Reciprosity program ( www.jdq.com/3spheres ). After being approached by Jon Morris (JDQ President) I was able to help find 2 volunteer developers for an upcoming community IT project for the Surrey Food Bank...
    on 4 Apr 2006

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] JDQ Takes Home the "tia"

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    Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) In a recent blog here I wrote about JDQ’s nomination for the 2007 BCTIA Technology Impact Award for Leadership in Social Responsibility. The awards dinner was on June 6 th and I had the pleasure of being there to see them take home the “tia” in front...
    on 18 Jun 2007

  • Blog Post: What does Professional Status mean to you?

    Canadian IT Managers
    As a User Group Leader I am often asked my opinion about the value of Technical Certification. My answer is always the same, “all things being equal, who would you select for employment?”. Now I fully realize that “all things are rarely equal” and I could stand to be accused of giving something of a...
    on 13 Nov 2006

  • Blog Post: CIM’s Graham Jones – Recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award

    Canadian IT Managers
    Companies and organizations recognize individuals as Fellows for their significant contributions. So Apple has their Fellows; Guy Kawasaki is an Apple Fellow. The ACM and CIPS also have their Fellows; Maria Klawe is one of them. Both have been interviewed here. What about special recognition for service...
    on 6 Jul 2006

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] The Business Value of Social Responsibility

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    Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) I have written here a number of times about JDQ and their 3Spheres community program. One of my blogs was an interview with Jon Morris , JDQ President. In that interview I asked Jon about his reasoning behind starting the 3Spheres program. Part of his answer...
    on 22 May 2007

  • Blog Post: What Value Vista?

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    On March 23 I wrote an entry entitled " What Price Vista ". Let's face it nothing new or better comes without a price. I always intended to try and balance the scales by starting to look at what we are getting. It is unfortunate that the first thing that you notice about Vista is the "jazzy" Aero Glass...
    on 10 Apr 2006

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] My MVP Summit Experience

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    Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) As usual Stephen has beaten me to it but then of course he barely sleeps! I too was at the MVP Summit for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the whole affair. Canada was very well represented and very visible (and very loud at Bill G...
    on 26 Mar 2007

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] Helping, Learning, Profiting...

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    Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) Over the past few months Stephen Ibaraki and I have written several times about the Neil Squire Society (NSS) and the great work that they do in adapting computers for use by the handicapped and their very successful job training programs. I have also...
    on 13 Apr 2007

  • Blog Post: Make Ready, Do, Put Away....

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    Problem solving seems to have been a fairly regular theme lately. Let's face it life in general is about problem solving of one kind or another, whether it be personal or professional. The concept of problem solving and quality are synonymous. Why else would be trying to solve a problem if it weren't...
    on 29 May 2006

  • Blog Post: What price Vista?

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    By now you can't have failed to have heard of Vista, the desktop portion of the Longhorn project and the next generation of Windows desktop. How much thought have you given to or how much knowledge do you have about the implications as an IT Manager? Well, 3D here we come! It may not be apparent but...
    on 23 Mar 2006

  • Blog Post: Learning Vista and Office 2007

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    Learning any new product always takes time and effort and, as someone who teaches Windows desktop and Office, I am, of course, very interested in what it might be like to eventually teach Vista and Office 2007. As the Office suite has evolved over the years, and steadily increased in features and complexity...
    on 9 Jun 2006

  • Blog Post: The Nature and Challenges of Change

    Canadian IT Managers
    There must be enough quotes about "change", many of them great one-liners, written over time to fill several books. Here are just a few of my personal favourites: "It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it." "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like...
    on 15 May 2006

  • Blog Post: Interview with Jon Morris, President of JDQ, about operating as a Virtual Company and their 3Spheres Program

    Canadian IT Managers
    I have written about JDQ and their 3Spheres Community Program a number of times here in the CIM blog. When I set out on a recent visit to what I thought was JDQ’s offices I discovered that I was only visiting Jon Morris’s office. I had been intrigued by the address before I left because it seemed to...
    on 5 Oct 2006

  • Blog Post: JDQ Chooses their next 3Spheres Project

    Canadian IT Managers
    I have written several times here about JDQ as a company and also about their excellent 3Spheres of Reciprocity ™ community program. Stephen and I have also written a number of times about the equally worthy Neil Squire Society . Recently when JDQ were asking for applications for their next community...
    on 7 Nov 2006

  • Blog Post: SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, sausage, eggs and SPAM

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    Little did the Monty Python “gang” realize how famous, or infamous might be a better description, that the word “spam” would become! I am sure that if you mentioned the word in conversation today most people would immediately think of its use in the context of email and not the original meat product...
    on 27 Nov 2006

  • Blog Post: What's a Versatilist

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    The term "versatilist" was first mentioned to me by Stephen Ibaraki and we had a very interesting discussion over coffee one day about what it means. For some reason, perhaps peculiar to me, I have difficulty in getting the word to roll of my tongue. Every time I try and think of "versatilist", "virtualist...
    on 30 Mar 2006

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] Legalized Communication

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    Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) I noted Celso's comment about language being a barrier in one of his projects . It reminded me of one of my own experiences. Inevitably when dealing with contract language, the legal profession usually gets involved somewhere. I found myself having to...
    on 6 Mar 2007

  • Blog Post: Navigating Windows 8 on a desktop PC

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    Graham Jones , as a top engineer created many innovations and more recently led the Canadian user group VANTUG to a No.1 work ranking. In addition, Graham was a founder and long time Chairman of the largest international user group federation, GITCA, which is HQed in Canada. We met recently where he...
    on 19 Nov 2012