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The final school in Haiti that the Mona Foundation has been lending support to is the Georges Marcellus school in Guerot – about a four hour drive north of Port au Prince. A daylong expedition took us to this small oasis of learning situated literally in the middle of rice fields near a tiny village. Getting… Read more

Today was such a mixed bag of emotional and physical experiences. Incredibly inspiring visits to the schools that have been started, built and nurtured by individuals with exemplary patience, fortitude, and divine missions…peppered with support from Mona Foundation to help them grow.  Combined with physical challenge…hot, hot, hot…75%+ humidity and dusty roads – welcome to… Read more

By mid-morning, the bulk of our 13-person contingent gathered at Miami Airport to fly together to Haiti. This is an incredible group of devoted supporters of the Mona Foundation – some are long-time board members and advisors, others are long-standing volunteers, and others are new to the foundation. All of us have come on this… Read more

I am sitting in the hotel that is inside the Miami airport just having squeezed in for a quick dinner before the restaurant closes for the night.. With Miami being the farthest diagonal trek across the US from Seattle, it is an all day affair point to point.  My flight was uneventful, and long enough… Read more

  July 1 marks the turnover of the fiscal year here at Microsoft, and I always find it to be a bit like the proverbial "turning over a new leaf" – both professionally and personally.  My role this year will have a much deeper focus on the IT Pro technical audience and I am quite… Read more

My drive home tonight was tough. Just before leaving, I’d read the same email everyone else at Lincoln Square (and likely other parts of Microsoft) from Lisa Brummel telling of the passing of an employee that I did not know…having passed away "at Lincoln Square". Odd, I thought…someone actually dying at the building…I assumed a sudden heart attack… Read more

Today was – to say the least – interesting.  Working at Microsoft, I have gotten used to the ground…priorities…focus…shifting regularly. Agility is key to keeping up. Today was different.  I felt like everyone came in fully prepared to have ground shift – in major ways – but approached it with the focus and intensity of… Read more

The last week has given me a great appreciation for being able to "work virtually". Unlike those who have to actally show up in the flesh at their jobs – in retail, at banks, in any public-facing or manufacturing role really, working at Microsoft allows me to literally work in my pink fuzzy slippers when… Read more

   Check out the new IT Manager Community Hub on TechNet…. If you’re an IT Manager or know and IT Manager, and are looking for a good starting place for answers to questions such as: “How do I start this kind of a deployment?” “I’ve heard that Microsoft has great ways to save money doing such-n-such. … Read more

  The MSDN Developer Conference (MDC) will deliver the core PDC message, content and experience in a 1-day, multi-track event in 11 key cities across the United States in December and January reaching in excess of 5,000 professional developers.  Attendees will experience Microsoft’s Azure (Cloud Computing) Platform, be among the first to see Windows 7… Read more