Jim Hamilton Posts

ChannelCon’s Community Day is a once-a-year event where 8 of our communities come together for the purpose of networking, learning and making a difference. Let us help you plan according to your interests, and get the most out of your day.

Ready to collaborate and gain more ideas and inspiration for your business? Check out the ChannelCon 2015 Community Day agenda and prepare to network with other successful channel professionals!

Did you receive a Trustmark in 2015? Register for ChannelCon by July 10th to be included in our recognition program.

Help us further our mission to drive the IT industry forward by shaping the future of the IT channel in Australia. We’ll be holding our first CompTIA Australia Community meeting on November 12, which is free for all solution providers, vendors and distributors working in the IT channel. Register now and be part of the conversation.

The Security Assessment Wizard — a new tool from CompTIA currently available to premier members — lets you walk customers and prospective clients through the gaps in their security profile. Using the tool positions you as a security expert attuned to the needs of business while simultaneously positioning you for sales. It’s an easy button we can all use.

ChannelCon’s Community Day, set for Aug. 4, is when CompTIA’s most engaged members gather to share insights, network with peers and build initiatives that drive the IT industry forward. Start your day with the Community Breakfast: 8 Nuggets to Start Your Day, where leaders from CompTIA’s eight communities will entice you to attend their meetings.

The CompTIA IT Services and Support Community set out to explore the future of IT Service Delivery over the next three to five years as one of its 2014 initiatives. The first step in this expedition is a recently completed survey of IT service professionals. IT services of the future will seek to continue to delight customers by addressing their needs in a complex and changing IT landscape (91 percent of respondents classified addressing customer needs and challenges as a “must have”).

At the CompTIA Advancing Women in IT (AWIT) meeting at AMM in San Diego this month, community staff leader Cathy Alper welcomed attendees by announcing “In other CompTIA communities people say they want to join. In AWIT they say they want to get involved.” Get involved they did! I had the pleasure of watching over 50 professionals participate passionately in concrete initiatives designed to encourage and help women of all ages establish fulfilling careers in IT. In addition, the comm ...

Defining a term or industry adequately is hard work. Here’s a perfect example– how do you define “life”? Many have tried; it grows, reproduces, undergoes a complex set of chemical reactions to maintain growth and reproduce, and responds to stimuli. Sound like a thorough explanation? Not so fast— fire does all of these things, but clearly it is not living. Despite the difficulty of defining “life,” we all have a reasonable understanding of what it means when something is alive. Unified Communicat ...