I’ve had a few people ask me how I know so many people in the IT industry, especially people overseas. I’ve become known as someone ‘who knows people at Microsoft’. While this is true, it doesn’t get me any special favors. But here’s the thing – I’ve had exactly the same tools and opportunities as …
Just Play
“PLAY is the highest form of research” – Albert Einstein It is quite unlikely to read an article or open a newspaper without reading about Digital Transformation and how it can improve customer experience, increase revenue streams, empower your employees and improve operations. Technology and the way we use it in our personal lives, work and society is …
Show your true colors
“There is only one way to look at things, till someone shows you how to look at them with different eyes” – Pablo Picasso The IT industry is a lovely place to be in and as I wrote in my last blog, I firmly believe we need more women, meaning female characteristics, since diversity will …
The story of a girl who fell in love with IT
A couple of weeks ago, I got the question from our PR-lead if I would like to do an interview about being a woman in technology, telling my story about what it is like to be in IT and especially for a woman. Within Microsoft there is a strong belief that (gender) diversity within the …
Customers – Make them feel special (Dutch)
Een tijdje geleden was ik in Seattle voor een Microsoft conferentie. Natuurlijk moest ik naast het bijwonen van de conferentie ook op pad voor cadeautjes, want met lege handen thuiskomen na een week van huis te zijn geweest, daar kom ik niet mee weg. Zo stond ik op een vrije middag in Macy’s, hét warenhuis in Seattle. …
Why the I.T. guy hates the Cloud
For small businesses, Cloud solutions seem to deliver innovation, productivity and profitability with ease. You don’t have to sit around and wait for the “I.T. guy” to install something on a server, then install something else on your computer. It’s all enabled by just signing up to a service in your web browser and entering …
De mindset van een lifter
De Lente is begonnen en we hebben de eerste warme dagen inmiddels alweer achter de rug. Een van de kenmerken van de lente is wel alle insecten die ineens massaal uit een winterslaap lijken te ontwaken en je huis binnenvliegen. Onder deze insecten heb je ook hele kleine vliegjes, ze staan ook wel bekend als …
Calling all SMB Innovators – Where are you?
Warning: This is an opinion piece and quite honestly, a rant. You have been warned. Our business has been supporting the technology needs of SMBs for 12 years now, after we stepped out of the corporate world. The early years were comparatively easy – a business wanted I.T. support, we’d upgrade a server or two …
The Internet of Things: Smart toasters, smart cities or dumb marketing?
The catalyst for this post was a conversation with a bunch of great, smart people in IT about IoT. The general consensus was that the term meant different things to different people and had fallen victim to its own hype. Sound like any other computing term you know … (Cloud)? It was then followed by …
Scam email from Microsoft Management Team
This landed in my Inbox last week. It’s a phishing scam, designed to capture your real login details and is definitely not from Microsoft. It’s good practice to log straight into the website or Cloud service in your web browser to check the validity of any warnings like these. Don’t click on links in your emails! From: Microsoft …