The next meeting of the London Small Business IT Pro Group will take place next Monday, 9th October.

We have a slightly different emphasis this month. After a few months of technical input we are going to concentrate this month on some of the business aspects of running a consultancy.

Susanne Dansey from the Kent group will be talking about the community and how to use the resources there to help you, "Utilising the Community for fun and for Profit" and also give us a run-down on last month's SMB Nation in Redmond.

We also welcome Maurice Isaac and David Coburn from the Business Referral Exchange who will be doing a short talk on the benefits of Referral Generation Networking. If you are anything like me most of my work comes from referrals, so this should be useful to us all.

The one bit of techy-related stuff is that there will be some folks from Microsoft Licencing there. They are looking for feedback on Open Value and Open Value Subscription licencing and on some planned training and promotions. As always discussions on Licencing should be lively!

The meeting will be start at 5:30pm Monday 9th October at Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street, London, W1F 9NB. Drinks and pizza will be served and the meeting will finish around 8:30pm in time for those who travel any distance to get away and for the locals to retire to the pub :-) 

Next month (13th November) I am hoping there will be a team from Microsoft talking about EVO, no not the Mitsubishi one, but Exchange 2007, Vista and Office 2007. I'll keep you posted.

Look forward to seeing you all!