Save $50 on SMB Nation East (New York)

SMB Nation is geeking out East-Coast Style (boyeeeee)!

Register today for SMB Nation East in New York, May 5-6. Use the code COMMUNITY and save a cool fiddy on the registration fee!

The speakers list is awesome!

• Harry Brelsford
• Audrey Baker
• Arnie Belinie
• Laura Didio
• Dana Epp
• Marc Harrison
• Michael Klein
• David Luft
• Jeff Middleton
• Matt Makowicz
• Beatrice Mulzer
• Brian Ocheltree
• Frank J. Olhorst
• Karl Palachuk
• Ramon Ray
• Naseem F. Saab
• Erick Simpson

I even have it on good authority that HappyFunBoy (Chris Rue) is a confirmed attendee. So maybe you can show up get him to autograph your MP3 player or something.

**BREAKING NEWS** – I spoke with Nancy at SMB Nation, and she said that if you attend SMB Nation East in May, you can get a special discount on SMB Nation West in September. E-mail me for details at timbarrett-at-nogeekleftbehind.com for details.

Get Your Learn-On Across The Pond

Not since Jackie Chan filmed "Who Am I?" in Rotterdam has so fine a cast of talent invaded the Netherlands. Behold:

SMB Nation Amsterdam 2006!
April 6-7 2006

Hear from these world-class speakers (fight card subject to change):

• The Magical M&M's – Mariette Knap & Marina Roos (Netherlands)
• Susanne Dansey (UK)
• Mark Mulvany (Ireland)
• Ulrich Schluter (Germany)
• Beatrice Mulzer (USA, Germany)
• Harry Brelsford (USA)
• Jeff Middleton (USA)
• Karl Palachuk (USA)
• Matthew Dickerson (Australia)
• David Overton (UK)

Be sure and attend 'SMB Nation's European Vacation'!

Sign up TODAY (before 1 March) at www.smbnation.com and save 50 EURO (that's $70 US folks). If you miss the Early Bird discount, it's still only 350 EURO ($425 US). So get moving!!

Webcast – SMB Security w/ Harry Brelsford & others

SMB Case Study: What You Should Know About Security, Storage and Desktop Management in an SMB IT Environment
January 19, 2006 @ 12:30 p.m. Eastern/9:30 a.m. Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes

Register & Attend Online
http://ct.eletters.eseminarslive.com/rd/cts?d=187-1307-1-1654-525575-22159-0-0-0-1
If you are unable to attend the live event you may still register and will receive an e-mail when the on-demand version becomes available.

Event Overview:
Juggling multiple security, storage and desktop management technologies can cause you to lose focus and distract your employees from their ultimate goal — attracting and maintaining new business opportunities. Find out how Bonnie Lee Goldstein, owner of a law firm in Dallas, Texas, and her IT consultant Andy Bensinger deployed a new, multi-layered protection solution that prevented a catastrophic loss of her critical business data and reduced her IT management costs.

Join SMB Nation CEO Harry Brelsford, Andy Bensinger, CEO of Halogen, Inc. and Bonnie Lee Goldstein for this live, interactive eSeminar sponsored by Computer Associates. You'll learn what SMBs like yours are doing to address today's unique security, storage and desktop management challenges.

You'll hear firsthand accounts from real, in-the-trenches SMB IT professionals that manage these challenges on a daily basis. During this peer-to-peer discussion, you will learn:

* What organizations like yours are doing to manage risks
* What data protection strategies are working, and which ones aren't
* What challenges are unique to an SMB environment
* What questions should you ask before deploying a new solution
* What you can do today to improve your security, storage and data
management practices

Featured Speakers:
Harry Brelsford, CEO – SMB Nation
Bonnie Lee Goldstein, Attorney & Owner – Bonnie Lee Goldstein, P.C.
Andrew Bensinger, President – Halogen
Frank Derfler, VP, Market Experts Group – Ziff Davis Media

Sponsored by Computer Associates