Collaborating For Success Hello ECNO members, We hope you had a restful long weekend. It has been an exciting May for ECNO leading up to our Shake IT Up Conference 2019 . In this month’s update we talk about the Connect 2019 Conference, the OASBO AGM, and our Board/EAC retreat this month.

In early May, ECNO participated at the Connect 2019 Conference in Niagara Falls. ECNO Shared Technology Services staff and Wayne Toms, our Director of Customer Solutions manned the ECNO booth to provide conference attendees with information related to our Shared Technology Services projects. The ECNO team also delivered information to school board attendees and other vendor sponsors holding positive discussions relating to Microsoft Licensing, Cashless Schools Agreements and other ECNO services.

The STS Team hosted an in-person and online Community Call at Connect, allowing IT technical staff from STS boards to enjoy a face-to-face and online meeting with each other. Through Skype, the meeting was available for those unable to attend the conference. The STS Team also presented 4 informative and well attended sessions at the conference: MSIX Software and Distribution TopDesk Asset Management Shared Technology Services Project Update Azure RemoteApp, ScaleSets and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services It was a successful conference as we came out a stronger team and attendees left with great impressions of ECNO.

In mid-May ECNO sponsored a booth at the OASBO Annual General Meeting and Industry Trade Show. The show was well attended by both ICT staff and other school board business staff, leading to lots of connections with existing board partners, and introductions to some new vendors to the Ontario marketplace. It was great connecting with the attendees and vendors and we are excited to build on these connections to help better serve our ECNO members.

If you have been following us, or anyone on the board or EAC on Twitter (click the link if you don’t) you might have noticed the #ECNOv2 hashtag on your feed last week. On May 16 the ECNO board of directors and EAC spent the day discussing ECNOv2. We had great conversations around how ECNO can be supporting our members through more collaboration and partnerships, and captured some of those conversations on camera! We are looking forward to sharing some of our ideas with you at the conference next month.

Thank you to all members for your continued support. To those attending Shake IT Up we look for to seeing your smiling faces in June!

~ The ECNO Team

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