March Sherpa Contest Winner

Bal  April 2 2009 07:27:33 PM

We have our March winner for the Sherpagear contest:



For those of you new to this, it's pretty simple. Get a Sherpa beanie, do something cool with it, take a picture and send it in. You could win a $100 Amazon gift card and be entered into a drawing for a $1000 Liberty Travel grand prize. Here are the details. Also, please check out our past submissions here.

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Archive Attender 3.5, China and more...

Bal  March 31 2009 05:44:44 PM

It's been a while since I posted a meaningful blog entry. I'm sorry, I guess life got in the way!! So this is my attempt at summarizing my last couple of months and hopefully bring you up to speed on the goings on at Sherpa.

Up first, we now have a new, shiny release of Archive Attender for Exchange, our email archiving solution. Version 3.5 includes, in addition to a brand new, more intuitive interface, a bunch of often requested, cool features. Please checkout this newsletter article that briefly describes some of the new features. Also check out the Archive Attender product page here.

Seems like everytime we get ready for a release of Archive Attender, I leave the country; I swear I don't plan it that way! This time was partly for a vacation, visiting friends in China and then two weeks of work while spending some time with my family in India. This was my first trip to China and I have to say I was truly impressed by the cleanliness, the overall efficiency with which the country moves (who can forget the opening ceremony to the Beijing Olympics) and the cool, modern architecture, at least in the cities we visited. I have been to a few major international cities and I think Shanghai has to be one of the coolest. However, language was a HUGE problem. Even our friends who've lived in China for over two and a half years still struggle with communication. So our weak attempts, I hope, were forgiven. We found the locals eager to help but our inability to communicate in Mandarin (seriously sounds like a really hard language to learn) was a major hindrance.

And after 10 days of dysfunctional communication, it actually was a relief to land in India where in addition to English, I can at least passably speak a couple of the local languages. Although the sensory overload in India, even if I did grow up there, still gets me everytime!!

By now most of you are probably aware of our Sherpawear contest. Here are the details, in case this is the first you're hearing of it. As a Sherpa employee, although I'm not eligible to compete, here were my contributions to our Sherpawear gallery from the Great Wall!!

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February Sherpa Photo Contest Winner

Bal  March 6 2009 09:07:19 AM

We have our February winner in the monthly Sherpa Photo contest. The winning entry, as voted on by the employees of Sherpa Software, is:



Please follow the instructions here to send us your entries. You will have the chance to win the monthly $100 Amazon gift card and also the opportunity to win the grand prize of $1000 in free domestic or international travel.

If you need Sherpa gear, please post a comment on this blog or email us at info@sherpasoftware.com.

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January Sherpa Photo Contest Winner

Bal  February 3 2009 11:59:29 AM

We have our January winner for the Sherpa Gear Photo contest.



Please follow the instructions here to send us your entries. You will have the chance to win the monthly $100 Amazon gift card and also the opportunity to win the grand prize of $1000 in free domestic or international travel.

If you need Sherpa gear, please post a comment on this blog or email us at info@sherpasoftware.com.

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December Sherpa Photo Contest Winner

Bal  January 9 2009 08:09:29 AM

We have our second winner in the monthly Sherpa Photo contest. The winning entry, as voted on by the employees of Sherpa Software, is:



There was also an honorable mention for the entry below:



This month's winning entry will receive a $100 Amazon gift card and will also be added to the pool for the grand prize of $1000 in free domestic or international travel, to be selected at the end of the contest in December 2009.

For those looking to send us your pictures, please see the details here and here. If you need beanies or any other Sherpa gear, please post a comment on this blog or email info@sherpasoftware.com. You can view all current submissions on the left side of this blog site.

Congratulations to December's winning entry.

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Open letter from the SEC

Bal  December 23 2008 08:41:07 AM

Some of you may have run into this; it was posted on the sec.gov website earlier this month. For those of you that may not have seen it, it's a gentle reminder from the SEC to all registered firms that despite the rough financial situation, organizations are still expected to meet their compliance requirements.

Although, this particular letter is limited to SEC regulated organizations, there is no doubt the sentiment applies to all other regulations as well. So as you make your plans for '09 and beyond, please don't lose sight of your regulatory and compliance obligations. And be sure to contact us, if you believe we might be able to help.

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Finalist in Lotus Award for Sherpa

Bal  December 19 2008 07:55:02 AM

Congratulations to our Lotus Notes group for being named a finalist in the Best Tool and Utility Solution Award. Way to go guys!!

Here's a post from my colleague Denny, on our Domino blog, with a brief introduction to our Lotus Notes products.

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Twist on a cash gift

Srinivasan Balaji  December 18 2008 07:00:00 AM

Tom Hand, the head of Sherpa's Exchange practice and I, had a dilemma last week when trying to come up with an appropriate Christmas gift for the members of the Exchange technical team. With the varied interests and hobbies within the group, we would have had to shop around multiple vendors for gift cards. So instead, we decided to just give them cash. But to add a personal touch, Tom decided to put his origami skills to use and make these boxes out of the bills:




He filled each one of them with 2 pennies, returning each of their "2 cents" we got all year on the many political and economic discussions we frequently end up having in "Exchangeland". If you are stuck in a similar bind and are interested in sprucing up your cash gifts, here is a link to the origami site Tom used - http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all of you.

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The inspiration behind the Sherpa name

Bal  December 5 2008 12:00:00 PM

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've had folks stop me at shows wondering how we came up with the name Sherpa. Among other suggested explanations, I've had to inform folks that we really have no affiliation with the country of Nepal or with climbing in the Himalayas!

The caption in this photograph very eloquently highlights the sentiment behind our name. The caption reads "Sherpa Climbing Guide - Even if you are merely trekking in the Himalayas, a Sherpa guide is an invaluable member of your team." We certainly hope and feel our products and our people accomplish that for our customers.

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November Sherpa Photo Contest Winner

Bal  December 5 2008 11:00:00 AM

We have our first winner in the "Sherpawear" contest. The winning entry, shown below, will receive a $100 Amazon gift card for this submission and will also be added to the drawing for the Grand Prize, to be selected in December 2009.



The rest of you, get your Sherpa gear on and send us those photographs for your chance to win. Here are the details. Check out the submitted photographs over on the left side of this blog.

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