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Geekazine will be on the Tech Buzz, a Technology Roundtable with multiple guests talking everything about Tech. I will be on the Friday Free for all, which is an open discussion of many topics. This should be a fun discussion and I will most likely be kept on my toes for the two hours we discuss the news of the week.

You can watch and react below.

This is the live feed of the HP Converged Infrastructure Road Show in Palo Alto, CA. Andy McCaskey from SDR News and myself will be spending all day Thursday, March 11th, interviewing and recording video.

Show has concluded. Videos from event will be up shortly.

This last couple days was a pretty eventful one. Andy McCaskey called me and said – Hey, your going to California. Funny, I wasn’t shootin at no food.

The event is the HP Converged Infrastructure Road Show. It was a 2 day event in multiple cities that ends in San Fransisco – More specifically, Palo Alto – At the heart of IT. Unfortunately, it also happens opening weekend of SXSW, but ya know, it happens.

I am actually not only honored to go, but very excited. As an IT professional in the former life, I still love to keep my hands in the infrastructure and administration. That, and it’s the first time I get to go to the sunshine state. Not the Dairy state – That is my home.

Andy and I will be heading down with one goal in mind – Video. We will be interviewing multiple people in the HP IT world, including Dave Peterson, Bill Allen, Grant Jacobsen and many others in the HP line.

HP Road Show Contest

Oh yeah, once we finish the video, we’ll be having a contest. The prizes are not finalized just yet, but the main prize we were bopping around is something you might want in your arsenal.

If you want to follow via Twitter, the hashtag combo will be #hprs and #hpci. Streaming will be available if we have the bandwidth.

Topics covered:

Learning how to reduce your IT operations and maintenance resource costs
Remove trapped budget silos that are costly and underutilized
Transform your Data Center to operate more efficiently
See how the HP converged infrastructure architecture is breaking down technology silos to simplify IT and accelerate business results.

Day 1 sessions will highlight the following:

- Bulletproofing your virtualization strategy
- Why Converged Infrastructure matters to your Data Center
- Control Aging Server Sprawl; New economics you can’t ignore
- Unleash Trapped Capacity with Virtual Storage Infrastructure
- Get out of the Sparc, IBM mainframe and legacy rut with Integrity optimized infrastructure
- Changing Networking to Unlock Business Value

Day 2 sessions will highlight the following:

- HP BladeSystem Matrix and Insight Software: Converged Infrastructure solution for delivering shared services
- Flex Fabric to dynamically connect resources
- Unified Storage for flexible, resilient scale-out storage
- BladeSystem with G6 processors for maximum performance and power efficiency
- Detailed technical teardown of competitive systems to see what’s really under the covers

During the party – I got to talking to part of the board of directors at the Social Media Club – Madison, WI. chapter. Jessica Binder is the party planner, which we started talking about events. I (in my infinite wisdom) didn’t have a business card to give her. I noticed she had an iPhone, so I suggested we “bump”. She did not know what that was, so we setup and configured the application.

During that time, the chair of MadisonSMC – Marlena Deutsch stopped by to find out what was going on. She, too did not know about this iPhone application. Therefore, we installed and setup her device with the software and collected contact information.

Marlena did ask a great question – is there a field to put in Twitter info. I did a quick scan, but could not find any other place than the nickname.

In this backchannel video, we go through the bump application and learn how to swap contact info with just the tap of a phone.

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I have met many a Social Media Club members from around this great nation. About a year ago, I toyed with starting the Madison chapter, but we already had a great community in Web608. However, a group has officially created the Social Media Club of Madison and their first kick-off party will be on Feb 23rd.

Good Morning!
Just wanted to let everyone know that we have scheduled our first kick-off event for tomorrow, Tuesday, February 23 from 5:30-7PM at Brocach Pub on the Square. We have the whole upstairs reserved with music, swag and drink specials. Event details are located here: http://madisonsmc.eventbrite.com/
I hope to see you there! Please spread the love in any way you can!!!
Best,
Janie

–
Janie Winston
Network Administrator (membership)
Social Media Club of Madison

This should be a great time and I encourage anybody in the area to check it out tomorrow.

I went on the show “Bageltech BIG” this last week. I joined Ewan Rankin, Troy King, Sarah Jane and Andy McCaskey to talk about news and cool stuff.

Bageltech News is a daily rundown of news in IT and Bageltech BIG is a weekly show with a panel. Big topics were the Schools Laptop privacy issues, MWDC, Flying police drones, RFID on phones, Who owns Lindsay Vaughn and weekly picks.

A fun hour of discussion between the four of us. You can check out Bageltech BIG here:

January’s Roundtable was another great event. Todd Cochrane was your host for the TechPodcasts Roundtable.

Jeffrey Powers talked about ways to podcast via a mobile device. He introduced Mark Smith – CEO of iPadio.com -We provided TPN updates from CES by phone right from the show floor, in audio podcast form. Learn how the technology from the UK Company spearheaded coverage of the disaster from Haiti a few days after CES. Mark even used the iPadio service to also stream out his portion of the discussion to his followers.

Andy McCaskey introduced Rob May from BackUpify.com. Backupify offers a way to safely back up all of the social media data that you have stored in the cloud – such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Gmail. It’s in beta right now, so if you want to try it for free, you can get your current social media content backed up.

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There are a lot of options to watch of listen select one below.

• Watch the Interactive Video
• Watch Apple TV Ready Video
• Listen to the Audio Only

Or just watch the video below.

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This month we have another great Roundtable filled with valuable information. In the show:

• Andy McCaskey will be talking with Rob May on Backupify – Backing up your Online Life
• Jeffrey Powers will be talking about ways to Podcast via your mobile device. He will be talking with Mark Smith from iPadio on their business model
• Todd Cochrane will be talking about what is new in the TechPodcasts area

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The last day of the Consumer Electronics show is upon us and we were completely ready for it. Because the 9 person team was so efficient, we were able to cover most of the show in the 3 days. Today it was walking through the International side, catching a couple more interviews throughout the other halls, and of course stream the Day 2 Live Show from the NBC Universal booth.

Kara Karsten joined us on camera since not only did she review the one of two videos we created, but this item became the pick of the day. The Zeo Personal Sleep coach.

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This week, I was the guest host of the Techpodcast Network TPN Weekly – a weekly show from the members of TPN. I reviewed all the happenings at Techpodcasts, played some promos and talked about whats coming in 2010.

I also created live video on ustream on the event. To check the post out:

TPNW-2009-12-28 #37 TPN Year in Review and Last show of the Decade

Over on Podcast Madness, we gave away an Artisan 810 all-in-one printer / scanner / fax. It has WiFi, Ethernet and USB capabilities and can be used without computer by plugging in a USB drive or compliant memory card.

Names were pulled, then placed into the Randomizer at ranomizer.org. Susabelle was the top name on the list.

Congrats to Susabelle on winning this great printer for Epson!

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