Palm Beach IT Users Group 08 Oct 13, Windstream, West Palm Beach, Fl

Join us at our next meeting and attend Manuel Palachuk’s The 10 golden Rules of PSA. Here’s a brief description of what Manuel will be covering:
Whether you’re a one person shop or 50, you must have some guidelines of how you plan to break down the work into an organized fashion and how you will communicate with the client along the way.
You don’t have to be an MSP or use a PSA to work efficiently and be profitable but you do need a system and a method. These ten golden rules can be the seed for your own system if you have none, or you can adopt them in whole. Either way, this is your opportunity to take your service delivery to the next level. Join our guest Manuel Palachuk for this interactive conversation that starts with the unbreakable rules of the service ticket and end with communication with the client.
This meeting will be held back at Windstream Communications on 1641 Worthington Avenue, Suite 140, West Palm Beach, Florida  33409, and we’ll be meeting at our normal time of 6:30 pm. Presentation will start promptly at 7:00 pm, so please register soon so that we not only have enough seating, but enough food and drink as well.
Also in attendance will be Mr. Adam Rozenzweig of Cartridge World, who will briefly talk about his business and who will also be providing us with food and refreshments for the evening.
For everyone that will be attending, please provide a warm welcome to Ms. Jennifer Cohen-Louth, who will now be our new hostess at Windstream (don’t worry, I’m sure that Lynne will still be visiting us every once in a while).
One final item; we will start to present (and depending upon the presenter’s acceptance, will also record) future meeting presentations. Check back frequently to find out what other new and improved things will be implemented.

That was the invitation and here is the summary from our Organizer:

I want to thank everyone who attended (both physically and remotely) our meeting last night. Manny’s presentation was great and on point with what we do and how we run (or should run) our businesses.

Question for the remote attendees; how was the presentation from your end? Were you able to hear everything clearly? Please provide us with some feedback and please be brutally honest as we are trying out several products and want to use the best one based upon member feedback.

Thank you once again Manuel Palachuk for your presentation, thank you Adam from Cartridge World for your presentation and the pizza & sodas, and last but not least, thank you Jennifer for continuing to host our user group meetings at Windstream!

By the way, it was great to see Lynne Keane from that other telecom company show up last night, too!

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.

3965 Investment Lane

Suite A-9

Riviera Beach, FL 33404

Mobile: 561.722.1514

Fax: 561. 828.2232

We tried an experiment with remote attendees that couldn't make the meeting.  This is expected to be expanded further in the future. 

Check out the Photo Essay with a click !

NSU Hosts FBI Presentation on National Cyber Security Awareness

Nova Southeastern University's FBI Special Presentation on National Cyber Security
Awareness.
Event Details: Thursday, October 3 at 6:00 p.m. Nova
Southeastern University Carl DeSantis Building, Knight
Auditorium Hall, Room 1124 3301 College Avenue Fort
Lauderdale-Davie, FL 33314

No photo essay this time.  Active FBI Agents apparently remain a bit camera shy. Regardless, a great presentation on the subject matter.  Amazingly conducted without Power Point!

NSU remains one of the area's most gracious hosts in the area for this type of event.  Light snacks were very excellent, Thank You!

Also, kudo's to :

For his continued support to the IT community in South Florida.

Did you miss it?  You still have time to make the next three events this month!  See the poster above.

Deerfield Beach Coder's Cafe at Caffeine Spaces, Boca Raton, Oct '13

Coder's Cafe - Caffeine Spaces Boca - Tuesday 10/01/2013 @ 6:30 PM - Cloud Deployment Options Today - Jess Coburn - Appliedi.Net

There’s not a one size fits all cloud solution today and likely never will be one. As you look to deploy your web application, there's more than one path to the cloud. In this presentation we'll review how you can deploy many of the Azure services yourself, with the same tools, the same technology and even the same user interface but in your datacenter, on your servers and customized to your unique business needs and we’ll go over some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with that.

Also come and check out Caffeine Spaces, a collaborative workspace in the EDC Incubator at FAU in Boca.

Ok, that was the invite announcement.  Did you miss it?  check out the Photo Essay and see what happened.

Palm Beach IT Users Group 25 Sep 13 Southeastern College

Echoing PBIT Group Leader, John Vighetto's comments on this meeting:

Hello everyone,

Last night’s meeting was not our usual meeting format, but nonetheless, it was very interesting & informative. Robert Oliva (and his staff) explained what his facility is currently providing its students, as well as how they perceive what the communities needs might be for future IT graduates. Our group was shown what certifications were currently available, and not only just in Information Technology. After dinner, we were also given a tour of the facilities by Robert.

The members of our group who attended yesterday’s presentation were also handed a certificate of appreciation for accepting the position as a member for Southeastern College’s advisory board. After the presentation, several of the current students stayed and expressed their concerns of what their chances of being placed in a good job were. Our members explained to them that they not only need this school’s foundation for their training, but to also go out and see what user groups are presenting on, as well as technologies that are emerging that the user groups are gearing up for.

On behalf of our user group, I extended an invitation to these students to attend one of our meetings so that they can see what the current topics of discussion are. Hopefully, we have a new wave of techs coming to our meetings, and thus providing us with new ideas and concepts to review.

I’d like to thank Robert for hosting our meeting last night, presenting, and also providing us with dinner!

Regards,

John Vighetto

Vighetto Networking, Inc.

3965 Investment Lane

Suite A-9

Riviera Beach, FL 33404

Mobile: 561.722.1514

Fax: 561. 828.2232

A few candid photo's of the meeting:  Click Me

Deerfield Beach Coders Cafe = 08/06/2013 - Internet to database - Screen Scrape the web - Bill Voltmer - Elation Technologies LLC

Deerfield Beach Coders Cafe = 08/06/2013 - Internet to database - Screen Scrape the web - Bill Voltmer - Elation Technologies LLC  
You’ve found a website that’s got data you need. Don’t let the lack of direct database access or even a web service keep you from enjoying it. Create your own web scraper to download it! If you’ve got the patience to reverse-engineer the site’s HTML, you can automatically extract its data into distinct records.

As always, enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the Casa Maya Grille with good company, food and a beverage.
Click on the Photo Essay. 

South Florida Joint Security Event – State Sponsored Hacking, 23Jul 13

South Florida Joint Security Event – State Sponsored Hacking

It’s one thing when an individual tries to hack into your company but it’s quite another when foreign governments sponsor cyber-crimes and other malicious attacks. You might think that you are defenseless against such an onslaught; but all is not lost…
Join us and a panel of distinguished security experts, Tuesday July 23, 5pm at NSU’s Knight Auditorium for an in-depth look at what these threats mean and how you can apply best practices to stay one step ahead of the criminal spies.
Participating User Groups
CSA – Cloud Security Alliance, South Florida Chapter
ISSA – South Florida Information Systems Security Association
ISACA – Information Systems Audit and Control Association, South Florida Chapter
SFDA – South Florida Digital Alliance
SIM – Society of Information Management, South Florida Chapter
IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
InfraGard – South Florida Chapter

See the Screen Shots

South Florida ITProCamp 2013

The South Florida ITProCamp 2013event took place Saturday, July 13, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EDT) Keiser University-Ft. Lauderdale Campus 1500 NW 49 Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309. (In the throes of the remnants of TS Chantel)  Sherlock Teck and the band of supporters and sponsors who regularly create these events do a real good job.  Check out the Photo Essay!