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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Johann's Unified Communications : smackdown</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/smackdown/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: smackdown</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Talking Smack!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2008/06/04/smackdown-discussion.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3065818</guid><dc:creator>jkruse</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/comments/3065818.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3065818</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3065818</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;Yesterday I caught up with &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rog42" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rog42"&gt;Roger Lawrence&lt;/A&gt; and Rick Anderson and we recorded a video discussion about &lt;A href="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2008/03/20/windows-mobility-smackdown-at-techready-6.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2008/03/20/windows-mobility-smackdown-at-techready-6.aspx"&gt;Mobility Smackdown!&lt;/A&gt;, one of the most popular sessions at TechEd Australia.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Hear about the history of Smackdown! as well as what's planned for this year.&amp;nbsp; It's going to be massive - demo-offs, competitions, prizes, and best of all &lt;STRONG&gt;no Death-by-PowerPoint&lt;/STRONG&gt;!!!!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;EMBED pluginspage=http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer src=http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf width=432 height=364 type=application/x-shockwave-flash mce_src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" flashvars="c=v&amp;amp;v=73eba999-44ed-4b21-a957-456b6de48813&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-AU&amp;amp;brand=ninemsn" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" base="http://images.video.msn.com" quality="high"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;A title="TechEd 2008: Smackdown! discussion" href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=73eba999-44ed-4b21-a957-456b6de48813" target=_new mce_href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=73eba999-44ed-4b21-a957-456b6de48813"&gt;Video: TechEd 2008: Smackdown! discussion&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Smackdown always fills up, and although this year we've secured one of the largest theatres we still expect it to be full.&amp;nbsp; In the lead-up to TechEd keep an eye out &lt;A href="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse" mce_href="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse"&gt;here&lt;/A&gt; and at &lt;A href="http://blogs.msdn.com/Rog42" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/Rog42"&gt;Roger's blog&lt;/A&gt; for information on how to secure preferred seating!&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;And of course stay tuned for more information on UC and Mobility at TechEd in Australia &amp;amp; New Zealand.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sbmLink&gt;
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It's an amazing convergence of people from all over the world coming together to learn about our technologies directly from the product teams as well as to give feedback about what customers are saying.&amp;nbsp; In fact, it is not uncommon to see a product manager and a technology specialist getting into a heated debate about what's working, what's not, and where things should go in the future.  &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/3768/"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="166" alt="image" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/jkruse/WindowsLiveWriter/WindowsMobilitySmackdownatTechReady6_7DB6/image_3.png" width="244" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well Channel 8 has recorded this madness and put the video online at &lt;a title="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/3768/" href="http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/3768/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://channel8.msdn.com/Posts/3768/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2346447250_f570329c47.jpg?v=0"&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Mobility Pirates - Mobility Smackdown, TechEd 2007 at the Gold Coast&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Those of you have come to the last few Australian TechEds know that we also run a Mobility Smackdown session which is of course very popular - in fact last year it was the highest rated session of the whole event!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Mobility Smackdown will of course be back at TechEd this year - in fact I am meeting with Rick Anderson and &lt;a href="http://blog.rog42.net/"&gt;Rog42&lt;/a&gt; later today to begin planning!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Make sure you arrive early - it always fills up.&amp;nbsp; Aaaaarrrrrrrr!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span class="sbmLink"&gt; &lt;table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td class="sbmText"&gt;Share this post : &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td class="sbmDim" onmouseover="mOvr(this)" onmouseout="mOut(this)"&gt;&lt;a class="sbmDim" onmouseover="mOvr(this)" title="Post it to backflip" onmouseout="mOut(this)" href="http://www.backflip.com/add_page_pop.ihtml?url=http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2008/03/20/windows-mobility-smackdown-at-techready-6.aspx&amp;amp;title=Windows Mobility Smackdown at TechReady 6" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rahulso/WindowsLiveWriter/IconsfordifferentSocialBookmarkingSites_B387/backflip4.png" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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