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In this segment on Northwest Digital News, we discuss five cool tools that are no cost or low cost to take your business sales and marketing to the next level. The key is to “just do it” as its both easy and hard. Easy to actually use the tools. Hard in that most people are either busy or lazy and don’t want to do it or don’t’ want to work hard.
I caught a few moments with well-known MSP business coach and speaker Manuel Palachuk at the recent CompTIA ChannelCon 2018 conference in Washington DC. A frequent guest at leading industry events, Palachuk shared his background and his roadmap in this interview that I conducted. His basic philosophy is starting with culture to get to the next level. His niches include agile service delivery.
At the recent CompTIA ChannelCon18 conference in Washington DC, I interview first timer John Cooper about his career change from being a security guard (18+ years) to becoming a Managed Services Provider (MSP). He's tapped into one of the things CompTIA does best: workforce training. As you'll see int he interview, he was dazed and amazed by the conference content and networking opportunities. It's how the game is played.
We are community! Across the years, we’ve shared beers and tears. We’ve celebrated and supported each other on these trips around the sun. Now is one of those times. Recently community leader and Office Depot MSP program executive Michelle McBain announced that she is having open heart surgery this coming week.
Michelle and her husband Jay (an analyst at Forrester) have been tireless supporters of the community. Michelle has been a strong advocate for women in technology and a cheerleader
By: Bernard Marr
Hey everyone – nothing like the dog days of summer to reflect on new money makers and booty shakers! At the recent CompTIA ChannelCon 2018 conference in Washington DC, I caught up with Robert Cooper, the general manager for Wildix. His firm is an established European unified communications ISV and is just entering the US market. He imparts both wisdom from his current position plus his body of work in the technology sector over the years.
Machine Learning is an Artificial Intelligence technology that allows computers to learn without having been explicitly programmed for that purpose. To learn and grow, however, computers need data to analyze and to train on. In fact, Big Data is the essence of Machine Learning, and Machine Learning is the technology that makes full use of the potential of Big Data.
What is Machine Learning?
If Machine Learning is not new, its precise definition remains confusing for many people.