ConnectWise Community: Take your business farther in the ConnectWise community

The ConnectWise Community: Getting You Connected

The ConnectWise Community is about connecting and sharing information. To facilitate these interactions and create an ideal environment for learning and collaboration, ConnectWise has created many ways for you to connect collaborate and grow in the community.

For face to face learning and networking, ConnectWise hosts nine regional user groups as well as our annual partner conference IT Nation. ConnectWise also attends and supports many IT industry events and tradeshows.

In the virtual world, ConnectWise maintains a vibrant, active community that includes more formal, in-depth collaboration on our discussion forums as well as casual, spontaneous interactions through social media.

The ConnectWise University is filled with content to help you get more out of ConnectWise and develop best practices in your organization. Our in-house studio produces ConnectWise TV which features ConnectWise partners and vendors in dynamic and interactive video broadcasts. The IT Nation Blog features insightful articles about business best practices, industry trends and product news, from contributors across our organization.

Finally, it's important to us to participate in other industry communities that ConnectWise partners find valuable. We support a number of affiliated communities, including distribution and affinity groups and several popular industry alliances.

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Be our friend. Tweet about ConnectWise. Link use into your network. You'll find many ways to interact with other IT service providers like you on ConnectWise social media communities. Join in the conversation—choose your favorite social media platforms and get started. You'll find ConnectWise on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. We also have a blog and and an IT Nation Wiki.

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We encourage partners to interact with the ConnectWise community for valuable advice and education to help you grow your businesses. A community doesn't have to be face to face to connect—you'll find a vibrant, growing community and plenty of best practices online at ConnectWise University. Accessible only by ConnectWise partners, you'll find:

Active discussion forums with thousands of participants sharing advice with each other on hundreds of IT and ConnectWise related topics.
Dedicated discussion forums for each ConnectWise user group.
Videos and webinars that communicate best practices for ConnectWise software and strategies for effectively building and running your business.
A library of resources from past IT Nation conferences.
The IT Nation Wiki with detailed information about ConnectWise staff, affiliated technology companies and communities, and a glossary of IT services terms.
Blueprints that map out a high level diagrammed flow of how business processes operate in ConnectWise.
And much more!

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Kathy Smith, Director of Consulting

Kathy Smith joins the ConnectWise team as Director of Consulting, where she is responsible for expanding the onsite consulting offerings and educational department initiatives at ConnectWise.

Kathy has significant experience in project management, consulting and account management. Most recently, Kathy has been a Senior Consultant for NextStep International, which provides project management and risk management services to banks and credit unions throughout the U.S. Kathy's work with NextStep included project management of new system implementations and bank mergers as well as process streamlining initiatives.

In addition to NextStep, Kathy was Director of Solutions Consulting for Fidelity National Information Services, where she lead the creation of a consulting practice and greatly improved the company's competitive positioning by reengineering their product presentations. She held a similar position with EDS in its Community Banking and Securities Group. She has also been an Account Manager for Information Technology, Inc. and Aurum Technology.

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Arnie Bellini, Chief Executive Officer

Arnie Bellini is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectWise. Arnie is the chief visionary behind the company's long-standing success in the information technology industry. Today, ConnectWise is a leading provider of IT services to companies in the Tampa market and the publisher of the industry's most widely-used business operating system.

In 1982, Arnie astutely recognized the impact that microcomputers would have on business and formed the company with his brother David. Arnie's passion to continually drive operational efficiencies and deliver excellent customer service makes ConnectWise one of the most admired companies in the IT services market. In 1998, Arnie decided to capture his company's best practices in an integrated, workflow-driven business management solution that would benefit all IT services companies. That project resulted in the creation of the ConnectWise business operating system.

Today, ConnectWise is used by over 4,000 IT services companies across the Globe. With over 49,000 users, ConnectWise automates the full life cycle of IT services delivery – from sales and service to project tracking and back-office functions. ConnectWise has continually incorporated important new technologies, such as streamlining managed service operations and integrating mobile devices for field service operations.

Arnie is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of South Florida.

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