http://www.vladville.com/2007/11/smb-it-shops-need-a-new-messiah.html
So there it was, the challenge.
It wasn’t so much this particular Vladville post that got me going as I have been meaning to start blogging for ages. Bullshit excuses about not having time etc etc etc aside!
However, a challenge it is so…..
For the record, I disagree with Vlad about the ‘Community’. I see it in action in an albeit small way at every User Group meeting I go to. Not so much on the newsgroups anymore which have become a bit ‘he said she said’ and my all time bugbear, a newbie posts on say SBS2k google group and gets about ten reponses telling them to ’search the archive’! What the fuck, you just wasted your valuable time telling said newbie to do this in a very non-community fashion. I started with SBS 4.5 and immediately joined the relevant newsgroups where the names became very familiar. Very helpful they all were too and I don’t know if it is just that people are less tolerant that before but if you really want to help these newbs (like we all were) then just don’t reply if you deem the qusetion to be lazy or whatever.
Community is out there and it is individuals who care grouping together in a shared sense of trust and willingness to help that make it so.
Just look at Susanne Dansey! Well, we all look up to Susanne, she’s tall 
I don’t know about the States and Microsoft are very different in various global offices, but the UK is looking fairly good from an SBSC/SMB, whatever you want to call it…point of view.