So.... 2023. That was 3 days ago.
2023 was a special year for me. In this blog post, I will mention all the highlights, on a personal level, community and website.
Personal
The highlight in this area is that I got to speak at Experts Live Australia. You can read the report of this further on.
Earlier in 2023, I was nominated for Microsoft MVP. Unfortunately, I didn't become one.
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, I have been able to give quite a few training courses in the past year. Together with Class-IT, I was able to give an 11-week evening training MD-102 for a customer of Class-IT on behalf of my own company Mizze Solutions. With a good result, because students have already passed.
There are plenty of challenges ahead of 2024. One of them is that I will hopefully have the opportunity to speak more at different events.
Also, this year there was Experts Live NL. And also, this year I was part of the Program Panel. We then assess all submitted sessions, so that a short list is drawn up.
New this year, was also my 5 seconds of fame, together with Rex de Koning, as security guards on the roof of a data center, in the intro movie that was shown for the keynote.
On the day itself, I was responsible for the speakers together with Erik Loef. In other words, checking every time, every room, whether all the audio / video still worked. That day there weren't that many problems, thankfully. It had been different, I had heard.
Experts Live NL will be back again this year. And that will come back on June 4, 2024 in Nieuwegein. Will I see you there again?
This must be my highlight of 2023. I love Australia. So why not try to speak there.
So 3 sessions submitted and all 3 accepted. I only did 2, because 3 was a bit too much. I spoke to many people in real life, rather than virtually. And the weather was perfect these days. Good food, good coffee and breakfast at the beach before I went home.
Let's see if we can travel to Australia again this year for Experts Live AU.
I had already heard good stories about it, so I really had to go there. I took the train and when I arrived in Baden, Jose Schenardie was already waiting for me on a terrace.
The days that followed were full of sessions, networking, eating out and of course having a drink. Hotel for this year has already been booked. Now all I must do is arrange a ticket.
This year, we continued with the Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup.
During Experts Live AU I saw and spoke to the rest of the team in real life. Last year we had organized 11 meetups. Mostly in hybrid form with a number of regular speakers. This year we will continue as usual.
Every time I try to encourage myself to blog more. But that doesn't always work. However, I would like to list some figures, but I had a slight problem with my stats between mid-February and mid-June, so I'm missing some data.
Nevertheless, here is the data of what I do have.
44.5K unique visitors
48.8K total visitors
62.9K page views
Top 9 blog posts of 2023 are:
1.Remove bloatware on Windows 10 with 11.1K visitors
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