This year we brought together the MSDN and Technet Canada awards to create the IgniteIT Awards .  This is a special award in Canada as it recognizes the hard work and innovation of the members of our IT community across Canada. The submission periods...(read more)...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Incoming information via RSS feeds can be completely overwhelming. More people every day are using social networks and other forms of communication. Microsoft developers are working hard to make this much easier on all of us. The team has com...

Homeless people continue to roam our streets with no acceptable place to "land" on a permanent basis in large part because of decisions we've made and continue to make as a community. They overcrowd our new homeless assistance center, The Bridge , because of the limitations we've decided to impose o...

I'm in and out of giant church buildings on a fairly regular basis. Not long ago I walked from one end of such a building to the other. It was quite a trek! This particular "campus" is enormous. No doubt the structure cost several hundred million dollars. That's a long way from the "upper room." The...

It's been a long time since I've been in a room with as much energy as I felt at this morning's Love Fox Valley Synergy Meeting!  There must have been 60 people of many races & cultures representing all kinds of churches, city government, state government, and non-profit and so...

My dear friend, Bob Glaze passed away on Tuesday, February 3 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. I cannot begin to say how much he will be missed by so many people here in Dallas. And, I count myself among that number. Bob had a distinguished career in the Dallas business and philanthrop...

If you’ve spent any time in Washington DC lately, you know that our little town is buzzing with energy.  Certainly the promise of once in a lifetime change under a new administration has a lot of people excited by the possibility of a brighter future.  Certainly a strong component of this gr...

Vladimir Putin seems hell-bent to let the world know what an asshole he is. Meeting Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Putin spurned Dell's offer of technological help, The New York Times reports. Following a speech Wednesday at the World Economic......

We all know the ultimate King of unity is Jesus himself, but I have to say this guy runs a close second.  Randy Schoof is the founding pastor of Warehouse Church in Aurora.  But, if you ask Randy, he would probably say he is just a pastor in the Church of Aurora.  I have never met ...

Just a quick note that there are two huge events coming up in February that will be in Denver.  One’s about Twitter and the other is a Wordpress camp. Twestival is going on February 12th, 2008 and involves twitter-ers in respective areas.  Thanks to Chuck Blakeman, we’ve got a Denver T...