Tim Long

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The life and times of a Small Business Server MVP and all-round technology enthusiast. Tim is founder of TiGra Networks, a company based in South Wales UK specialising in small business IT. This blog is aimed at Microsoft Small Business Specialists, IT professionals, Astronomers and anyone interested in science and technology.

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UK SBSers Fly The Flag

TiGra Networks At last, some UK partners are starting to promote the SBSC 'blue badge'.

BMS has a nice bit of signwriting on their new van.

 Here at TiGra Networks, we've just taken out an advertisement (reproduced here on the right) in Business in Focus magazine, which has a circulation of about 98,000 across Wales. Vijay's blog has long sported the blue logo (I preferred the previous skin though, Vijay).

Some other UK SBSCs that are correctly and proudly displaying the logo on their web site home page: LuxTech, The Oxford Knowledge Company, Farmore IT, and many more. I've also found a number who are displaying an incorrect logo (no date) and some who are shooting themselves in the foot by displaying an out-of-date 2006 logo.

It's nice to see so many people proudly displaying the badge.

In closing, a call to action: If you're an SBSC, add a comment to this post with a link back to your web site. It'll improve your Google ranking and help me promote the blue badge. Please check your web site or blog to see if you are displaying the correct logo, which should include the tagline "UK Partner Qualified for 2007" if you are in the UK. Please don't display it without the date as that dilutes the value and will call into question whether you have really qualified this year. If the logo isn't on your home page, shame on you!

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Posted: Sun, Apr 29 2007 15:15 by Tim Long | with 4 comment(s)
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Vijay Singh Riyait said:

I wouldn't swap the Small Business Specialist accreditation for anything else. Why? Because, we're a "Community" and one which is global! I'm not sure that is true of any other Partner Category in Microsoft? I would still like to see more conversations going on amongst us all without necessarily being facilitated by Microsoft.

# April 29, 2007 4:52 PM

Richard Tubb said:

Whilst I use the "blue badge" on company literature and web-sites, I don't tend to wear the "blue badge" pin on my shirt during visits to customer sites. It sits here glumly in Tubb Towers gathering dust. Is this just me suffering a case of typical Britishness (reluctance to promote your own achievements) or do other SBS'ers regularly don the "Blue Badge" pin with pride?

# May 1, 2007 10:05 PM

Tim Long said:

Yes Richard, you're being "too English". I wore mine yesterday in the "big boys playground" - I was attending a seminar concerning System Centre so it was mainly Enterprise people there and a few mid market, some end users and some partners. I wore both my SBSC pin and my Certified Professional pin. The SBSC pin helped me get a few conversations started so it was good for that at least.

# May 2, 2007 8:11 PM

Steve Wright said:

Hi Tim,

While I wholeheartedly agree with you about the 2007 issue I would point out we expect to keep the van for 3 years and therefore omitted the 2007 part on the grounds I didn't want to have to have it altered every year! All our other marketing however carries the 2007 qualified partner option :-)

Cheers

Steve Wright

BMS Digital Solutions Ltd

# May 7, 2007 7:23 PM