Monthly Archive for March, 2006
I’m chuffed to say I passed Microsoft exam 70-282 today to meet the final requirement for my business to be recognised as a Microsoft "Small Business Specialist". 
The main focus of my business is helping Small and Medium sized organisations make the most of IT to help their businesses grow, so being able to prove I’m capable of this through a Microsoft certification is valuable. With any luck, the recognition will help generate new business for me through Microsoft’s "Find a Local Consultant" program too!
I’d like to say I can now relax for a while, but taking a few days off to cram for exams means that I have a backlog of work from customers waiting for me to deal with. The perils of working for yourself! Still, realising goals such as todays one does make it worthwhile – somebody just remind me of it next time I’m getting stressed with too much work and wish I worked for someone else. 
Recommended by Davey Winder recently, Linkedin.com appeared to me to be "just another" Friends Reunited. However, having signed up and used it for the past day or so – I’d have to say I’m impressed already.
The idea is simple. After signing up, you make a list of your Professional experience, achievements and goals and then invite business contacts and current and ex-colleagues to do the same. When they join, they invite their business contacts and so on. Pretty soon, friends or friends and contacts of contacts become visible to you, many of whom you may find are people you’d like to do business with or visa-versa.
In a nutshell, imagine going to a party where everybody brings everyone they know in business and introduces them to everyone else.
The site is much more than, and has some handy Firefox Search bar and Microsoft Outlook plugin’s too.
You can find my Linkedin profile at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardtubb
If you reading this and you’ve worked with me before, what are you waiting for? Go and try it. 
Opened myself a Flickr account today which you can find at http://www.flickr.com/photos/tubbweb/
Flickr allows you to upload photos by the dozen and share them with friends, family and the general public. I’ve already done this for years with my personal web-site, TubbWeb, but the facility to search and catalogue my growing picture collection was beyond the reach of simple HTML.
In steps Flickr. I’ve found the Flickr Windows Upload software interface (which allows bulk uploads of pictures through a simple drag’n'drop interface) very neat indeed, and although it’s a chore to type lots of comments and tags for your photos as you upload them – I appreciate the power this will provide to search and display them in the future.
More on Flickr as I spend some more time playing with it!
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