Not Your Typical IT Guys

Here are 3 of my favorite YouTube Video’s.  The first 2 make you think, the third gives you a break from thinking.  Enjoy!!

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Here is my first Twitter post ever’

“Learning all about twitter…2:48 PM Mar 13th, 2007 from web “

Wow, how have I been on Twitter for over 2 years now… in that 2 years I’ve gone from twitting about stopping at a rest area in the NJ turnpike to twitting about Cloud Computing.  I guess I am maturing  :P

Anyway, Twitter is cool, it was recently dubbed a “Knowledge Stream”  I think my friend, colleague and mentor Tom Hood twitted it during the MACPA TweetUp.  But now everyone from Rita’s Ice Stands to Pa’s Hardware store want you to follow them?!?!  What the heck?? What value is that going to bring me?? Hmmm, another highway for you to deliver marketing information to me maybe?? Brilliant!!

Seriously folks, make use of it, don’t just open the flood gates to more advertising!  If the people you are following are enlightening, entertaining or educational keep them they are good people to follow.  If they are just clogging your “Knowledge Stream” with marketing stop following them! 

oh by the way, you can follow me here   http://twitter.com/byron_cpa …..

OK, so if you are an IT geek by now you know what virtualization is.  But believe it or not it applies to so much more than just an IT Geek.  I just met with the founder of My Virtual COO, she then met with a virtual CFO and it just hit me, we are a virtual CTO.  In addition I recently provided a proposal to a virtual administrative services company.  And finally I am preparing to do a presentation on the virtual world of Second Life at the American Institute of CPA’s annual Technology Conference.  How’s that for virtualization that has nothing to due with hypervisors or Operating Systems??

So the question I have is this… with so many opportunities to go virtual is there really value??

Personally I think absolutely 100% YES!  The beauty of all of us virtual bodies is we can focus on what we are experts in.  Our success is tied directly to our ability to see what is going on around us and apply it to your company.  If you hire directly any once of our positions how long does it take for that person to become confined to the walls of their office and lose that perspective? 

So is anyone out their virtualizing their companies??