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02 July 2008 01:32

Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy

I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers out of a set of applicants 2-3 times that size. I've run into a couple people since then that have asked for help/ideas on how to make it to the...
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28 April 2008 01:09

Orlando Heroes Launch Event

I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS , and we were joined at the community table along with Shawn Weisfeld of The Orlando .Net Users Group and Ken Tucker of The Space Coast .Net...
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03 March 2008 01:26

SQL 2008 Schedule Slippage and SQL 2005 SP3

I've read with interest some of Steve's editorials about SQL 2005 SP3 and in large part agree with him that it's hard to believe they are contemplating no additional service packs beyond #2. I think it's easy to react - or over react ...
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28 February 2008 08:33

Notes From My Visit with the Charlotte SQL Group

I'm headed back to Orlando after a quick trip to Charlotte. Flew in yesterday and spent some time with my friend Peter Shire and team (including Brooke! ) of SQLSentry talking about all manner of stuff that comes up when you get some techies in a...
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21 February 2008 16:11

Call for Speakers for PASS Summit is Open Through March 28, 2008

The Summit is being held in Seattle, WA, Nov 18-21, 2008. Call for speakers is open through March 28. It's a great venue for SQL Server professionals and if you've been practicing at local events, maybe now is the time to try to move up to a national...
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10 January 2008 01:07

Evaluating Speakers at Events

Speakers tend to live for the evals. Hopefully it's a validation of work done well after a lot of time preparing, but most speakers would gladly pay for meaningful feedback that would help them improve their game. Event organizers use the evals to...
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20 November 2007 01:01

Giving PASS Chapters Access to Summit Content

I've got a request in to PASS asking them to release 2 of the many sessions that were presented at the most recent Summit to the chapters to be made available for download to their members. Chapters are always looking for content and PASS always needs...
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12 November 2007 12:41

Session Eval Results for my PASS 2007 Presentation

One of the things I discuss in my Successful Technical Speaking class (it's a free class, usually once a quarter) is to take the results of the attendee evaluations with at least one grain of salt. I've come to pay less attention to the overall...
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02 November 2007 19:12

Mini Review: Building Technical User Communites by Greg Low

I had the chance to see Greg do a presentation at the PASS Summit in Denver that was based on the book and so decided to grab a copy from Amazon. It's a small book, 118 pages, and fairly inexpensive, about $16 online. I've already learned quite...
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25 October 2007 14:14

SQLSaturday Finally Listed in PASS Connector

If you subscribe to the Connector (the main communication email from PASS.org) you should have gotten one yesterday that finally linked to the event ! Looks like we finally sorted out the lines of communication and every bit of press helps.
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18 October 2007 13:02

Suggestions for PASS Published on SSC

I wrote this article shortly after returning from the PASS 2007 Summit and tried hard to come up with ideas to address what I see as shortcomings within PASS. PASS runs a great conference, but in other areas they just haven't achieved the kind of...
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25 September 2007 02:47

Building a Local User Group

I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While it's definitely a lot about content, formula, and presentation, it's just like running a business, it all comes back to marketing. That...
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23 September 2007 15:23

More & Better News about the PASS Summit from Edgewood

I try not to just post links to other content, but the guys at Edgewood did a pretty good job of capturing what was happening at the conference and I like to promote PASS where I can. Here is what they had to say about Day 1 , Day 2 , and Day 3 .
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23 September 2007 15:19

Wayne Synder Elected President of PASS

Congratulations to Wayne on becoming President! I've known him for years and you couldn't ask for a guy with more passion about PASS to lead the organization. He's just a down to earth nice guy that wants to do a good job and takes the responsibility...
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21 September 2007 17:08

Notes from PASS - Part 3

Today was interesting. I headed for breakfast and after a few stops to chat with friends, wound up sitting with some guys from South Korea, one of whom is actually the chapter leader. We talked a little about the challenges of trying to be a PASS chapter...
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