Spectacular event, nearly everyone showed up and through the magic of social networking we wrapped up some old friends and some new friends.

Joining us from Autotask, CEO Bob Godgart, talked about the upcoming event Autotask Live that OWN/ExchangeDefender will be sponsoring. Bob talked at length about the IT space, Web 2.0 and the control of company information as well as tracking data and availability. This is really the beauty of the SPAM Show, where the leaders of the industry drop in and you never know what they have on their mind that they are willing to share. Bob also discusses a lot of development and investment in Autotask, the community that surrounds it, the value of the SBSC.

Mark Crall walks us through the new Microsoft SBSC program and all the effort that went into getting it put together. Mark discusses in great detail the specifics of the new brand, the new requirements and the new benefits that all Microsoft partners need to be aware of.

Erick Simpson joins us to talk about the success and lessons learned from the first MSPU bootcamp, that OWN/ExchangeDefender was proud to play a part of – we will be sponsoring the entire circuit this year so join us at next one happening in Baltimore later this spring.

Last but certainly not the least, the pioneer of SMB IT broadcasting, my good old friend Chris Rue pays us a visit to talk about social networking and the way to leverage it for SMB marketing. Chris talks about cost control being critical as he tries to take his regional IT Service Provider business nationwide. Chris also goes at length about the personal and social value of Web 2.0, something I unfortunately had to strip from the show because it really did not fit the format, however, you will soon be able to hear it on Chris’s blog at www.chrisrue.com

Kudos to Karl @ www.smbbooks.com for the conference bridge hookup!

So there you have it, SPAM Show #5. If you’re doing great things and want to talk about them, the door is open.

You can listen to it live at www.ownwebnow.com

We proudly present SPAM Show #3. This all star mega mix super chat is about one thing: Awareness.

Understand that things change, understand where you are, understand what worked, understand why things worked or why things failed and understand where we are all moving. We discuss the MSP Mentors Top 100 ranking publication, Microsoft starting to open stores, Apple’s competitive challenge, Master MSP roles and the other exciting developers in our space.

This is by far the biggest one we’ve had so far: Mark Crall, Stuart Selbst, Dave Sobel and Karl Palachuk all join Vlad Mazek for an hour of analysis of top MSP and SMB trends of the week.

Tune in. You can stream the show by clicking the play button on the right.

P.S. The beta invitation mentioned at the beginning of the show will be published later this week.

I hope you are having a wonderful and relaxing Sunday afternoon. It’s my great pleasure to bring you OWN’s SPAM Show #2 with a special guest Tim Barrett. Tim is a prolific blogger and joins Mark, Stuart and me to discuss the changes coming with Windows 7. The conversation gets away from licensing and features that are still in development and onto the quagmire of supporting multiple production operating systems from Microsoft in a managed services industry. We talk about the opportunities and challenges this presents for us, our partners and vendors.

We also spice it up a little with the discussion about network policies and how an Indian contractor nearly destroyed Fannie Mae’s server infrastructure after being terminated for general incompetence. It doesn’t get more entertaining than that.

Click here to download it today or listen to it from our web site.

About SPAM Show

SPAM Show is OWN’s attempt to reach out to partners in order to inform, entertain and communicate the news in our business. More personally, it is a way for me to reconnect and chat with my peers so I can step on top of my game – and I’m glad to share. Show is free and open to anyone in our partner base, if you have something that’s on your mind and would like to discuss it please let me know.

Sincerely,
Vlad Mazek, MCSE
CEO, Own Web Now Corp

Welcome to 2009! We’re half-way through the first month of the year, and things are going great. Thank you for a fantastic 2008, for your feedback, for your development support and, most of all, for your money. Own Web Now is a great company because its partners and clients invest in us by helping us deliver the exact software and services that are expected. I will not lie… 2008 was tough. We straightened out billing. We globalized half a dozen services. We added staff across the board and positioned the company to be by your side for years.

Now it’s payback time. My biggest regret in 2008 was that I did not spend enough time talking to you- my fellow partners and clients.

Today we are changing all that with the launch of Own Web Now’s SPAM Show. This podcast is meant to do two things:

1) Bring you up to speed with developments at Own Web Now

2) Provide you with the expert opinion on today’s top tech trends

Whether you own your own technology business or are responsible for a network of 64,000 users, time is scarce. Staying on top of all the technology developments and getting various opinions and experiences is a very difficult and time consuming task. Thankfully, I work with many intelligent people at Own Web Now and have a lot of friends in the IT field that talk to a lot of techies, and we will do our best to present a concise review of what you should be thinking about. (This used to be the most popular and most demanded quality of the SBS Show – people love to learn but they also like to be entertained and to save time.)

So to find out what is on my mind and what my friends are working on… just tune in and listen. The first show is online already:

 Download OWN’s SPAM Show #1

Featuring Mark Crall from Tech Care Team and Stuart Selbst from SecureMyCompany, Inc. They discuss trends in cloud services, Kaseya, Google Reseller program and more.

Mark and Stuart are my go-to folks in the community and true leaders in our market. To find out more about them you can follow their blogs: Mark Crall’s blog. Stuart Selbst’s blog.

Sincerely,
Vlad Mazek, MCSE
CEO, Own Web Now Corp