The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional and Community Leader
Dear friends, colleagues, and loyal followers. I want to thank you for visiting The World According to Mitch. It is because of you that I have been able to achieve the incredible successes I have over the past year. Since returning from vacation last January I have posted over 250 articles in this space. Granted,... Continue Reading →
People may find it weird, but every time one person reads my blog I am thrilled. It is why (when I have the time) I follow the hit counts on both The World According to Mitch and the Canadian IT Pro Connection religiously. It isn’t about ego (although I do suppose it is a bit... Continue Reading →
A year ago I was in Phoenix, Arizona when I found out that my blog, The World According To Mitch, was selected by BizTech Magazine as one of their 50 IT blogs you must read. It was quite an honor to be recognized by my peers. I was in Montréal, Quebec this year when I... Continue Reading →
In 2007 I was asked to write a guest blog post for the Canadian IT Pro Connection. Over the course of the next few years I wrote several articles for them, many of which were cross-posted to or from this site. However it was last month when I joined the team I went on a... Continue Reading →
Over the past few months I have been astounded to see the growth in this site’s readership. One of my goals over the past year has been to make this site as relevant as possible to as many IT Pros as possible, and I can tell that it has worked. The site has received a... Continue Reading →
As I mentioned last week I am now spending a lot of my time as a Virtual Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Canada. Part of my duties in that role include blogging, which is what brought you here. However for the time being I am going to post most of my articles on the Canadian IT... Continue Reading →
It is amazing what we as IT Professionals come across sometimes. My colleague Sharon Bennett recently posted an article about what (to me) seems like a combination of laziness on behalf of a technician and secrecy (for secrecy’s sake) on behalf of the Internet Service Provider. http://bennettbusinessconnections.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/does-your-isp-have-control-issues/ I want to be clear, I do not... Continue Reading →
The week before the MVP Summit I got an e-mail asking me if I would be interested in blogging about the Summit for Microsoft Press. As I was planning on blogging anyways I agreed… and rather than posting several smaller articles here, I sent one giant article to Microsoft; it was published today at blogs.msdn.com,... Continue Reading →
In September I was honoured to discover that BizTech Magazine had recognized The World According To Mitch on their list of 50 Must-Read IT Blogs from BizTech (Sept. 7, 2011). Several weeks ago I was contacted by Ricky Ribeiro, BizTech’s Online Content Manager asking if I would be willing to do an interview about blogging... Continue Reading →
Last week a tweet came across my Twitter feed from Amy Babinchak congratulating me on being one of the fifty must-read IT blogs. I had to turn to Bing for the details. It turns out that BizTech Magazine published an article titled 50 Must-Read IT Blogs from BizTech. The honour comes complete with a badge... Continue Reading →
It was REALLY last minute… on Friday I got a mass e-mail from a training provider scrambling to replace a trainer who had cancelled at the last minute. By some miracle of scheduling I was available; after a few hours of back and forth e-mails I booked my flight for Sunday to be at the... Continue Reading →
Earlier in the week I received a Direct Message on Twitter from Jeff Wouters. He is one of the IT Pro bloggers that I make a point of referencing whenever I can. He is out of the Netherlands, and one of three IT Pros out of that country that I know and REALLY respect. So... Continue Reading →
Earlier today a LinkedIn contact asked me a question about Microsoft Office Access. I don’t know a while lot about Access, but here is why I am such a huge proponent of the IT Pro Community. The contact is someone who I met at a community event – an event I did on Windows Vista... Continue Reading →
I can’t believe it has been eight years… I wrote this article for TechRepublic while I was still working for IGS Security in Montreal. These articles are the genesis of my career as a computer consultant and IT Trainer and Presenter. The first article tells of how and why I began to transition from a... Continue Reading →
Last night I forgot to go out and buy soy milk for the baby. We had half a container left and it wasn’t a NOW NOW NOW emergency, but I still told Theresa I would, and I forgot. So this morning without being bidden I got out of bed a few minutes early, and while... Continue Reading →
