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Simon Binder

Simon has been working with Microsoft-based technology for almost 15 years. He got his start managing computer networks early in his career while serving as a US Army Military Police officer stationed at West Point. After leaving the military he developed a consulting practice in the Hudson Valley, and then moved to New York to found Greenhouse IT, a purely fixed-fee technology service company. In April 2011, Greenhouse IT merged with Lloyd Group, a 60 staff member technology service company where Simon is vCIO. Today, Simon provides a wide range of strategic technology services to organizations ranging from financial, insurance and real estate firms to large international not-for-profit organizations. View Guest page

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Laura Bucko

Laura Bucko is the Vice President for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce has worked with Microsoft to help their members learn about Microsoft products and be on the cutting edge of the latest software and options Microsoft has to offer. View Guest page

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Kevin Conroy

Kevin Conroy, President, Blue Rooster Kevin is the President and Founder of Blue Rooster, Inc. and Five Zero Nine Wine Company in Seattle WA. Kevin earned his MBA from the Foster Business School at the University of Washington and a BS in Business from San Francisco State University. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur and has worked for himself successfully since 1990. About Blue Rooster: Blue Rooster is an interactive marketing and technology consulting firm based in Seattle’s Fremont District. We specialize in creating unique UX design solutions, driving adoption and enabling system integration of collaborative tools and technologies. We believe in high performance collaboration. Our goal is to increase the clarity of our client’s message and facilitate improved business operations through enhanced internal communications and information handling. We pride ourselves in attracting exceptional talent and we use our industry knowledge and expertise to deliver professional results. Our consultants are adept at identifying challenges, making course corrections, and delivering the collaborative marketing solutions that help our clients flourish. In addition to immersing ourselves in solving your business objectives, a big part of our up-front process is driven by strategy. View Guest page

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Christine Gannon

Christine Gannon is a Business Development Manager for Microsoft specializing in small business. Christine works to help small businesses learn more about Microsoft products and provide a lifeline usually only seen with larger companies. View Guest page

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Ted Kempf

Ted Kempf is the Service Industries Director for Microsoft Dynamics. As Service Industries Director, Ted is responsible for developing and managing the execution of Microsoft Dynamics go-to-market strategy for enterprise business solutions for the U.S. Service Industries. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Kempf was Vice President Product Marketing and Strategy at Deltek, a midmarket business software company, where he managed all product direction and marketing activities for the Deltek Vision product line focused primarily on the global Architecture and Engineering markets. Before Deltek, Mr. Kempf was the Senior Director in charge of marketing Oracle’s business solutions for the Professional Services, Engineering and Construction and Travel and Transportation industries globally. Mr. Kempf was also a Principal Analyst with Gartner, where he managed a practice focused on quantitative and qualitative research and analysis of the business consulting, applications development, systems integration and project and portfolio management markets. He began his career as a Senior Research Analyst with CPM Group a boutique investment bank where he performed in-depth research and analysis on the commodity markets and natural resource equities for clients including investment banks, hedge funds, central banks and institutional investors. Mr. Kempf holds a Master’s Degree in International Economic Development from New York University and three Bachelor’s Degrees in International Relations, German Literature, and Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. View Guest page

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Jeff Medford

Jeff Medford works at Microsoft as a Technical Product Manager for Office 365. His expertise in Microsoft’s online service offerings will provide invaluable information to anyone interested in learning more about Microsoft’s launch of Office 365 and how this can be used to be more productive and work together in your small business. Jeff is also the Co-organizer for the Meetup group Microsoft Cloud services and Microsoft Online services. View Guest page

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Robert Patterson

Robert Patterson has worked in the IT industry for 10 years, initially as a freelance web designer then as system administrator for a midsized business. For the last several years he has provided both feet on the street technical support for SMB Clients as well as sales and marketing support in both traditional and social media. In 2005, Robert founded The New York Small Business Server Group which has become one of the largest SMB Focused technology peer groups in the world. All of Robert’s experience has culminated in his current role as a Business Development Manager for Progressive Computing Inc. Progressive Computing provides managed IT support to clients in Westchester County and Manhattan. Robert is a dynamic personality with a lot of zeal for technology. He will be sure to both educate and entertain you. View Guest page

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Kevin Conroy, Blue Rooster Talking about Sepulveda

May 1, 2012
Hosted by Melanie Gass, "The Microsoft Princess"

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SharePoint offers some terrific features, but sometimes as a customer you are looking for additional options, like social media integration, that just aren’t easily available. Sepulveda bridges the gap by offering terrific ways to work on documents with vendors outside of the company, integrate Facebook and LinkedIn, and so much more! This episode features Kevin Conroy talking about options available to help make the most of your SharePoint sites.

The Microsoft Princess Insider

Tuesday at 6 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel

The Microsoft Princess Insider is a weekly show designed to provide education on Microsoft products available for home and business use. It’s a great way to learn how to make the most of the products you already have or are looking to buy. Whether you are interested in learning about products for your home or business, this show will help you learn to have fun, save time, reduce stress and be more efficient in your day. A computer can be fun and really make a difference! Tune in to The Microsoft Princess Insider every Tuesday at 6 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Variety Channel.

Melanie Gass, "The Microsoft Princess"

Melanie Gass is an accredited Microsoft® Certified Trainer, Microsoft Office® Specialist, and Microsoft® Certified Access® Programmer. Melanie has been an expert in Microsoft products since 1998, and has helped thousands of employees worldwide learn how to use the computer effectively. She works with the top Fortune 500 companies, and has trained some of the most powerful people we read about and see on TV. She is not only an expert on the products, but her training methods and consistent praise makes her widely recognized and given her the nickname of Microsoft's Princess.

Melanie's dream has always been to help everyone save time in their day, even outside of work by using the Microsoft products. Through her crowning as The Microsoft Princess, she achieves this goal by providing tips, video tutorials and seminars to help everyone find creative ways to use the computer better and ultimately help them spend more time doing the fun things they've been putting off.

Melanie owns CenterPoint Solution, LLC, a worldwide computer-training firm focusing on helping employees save time in their workday using Microsoft products. Melanie is an author of over ten Microsoft product reference guides, and has created reference materials for Microsoft's clients, her own clients, and the general public.

Melanie Gass and The Microsoft Princess is an independent entity and persona of Microsoft Corporation.

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