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Goskin Bakir, the MS Developer Evangelist from Istanbul just let me know about a cool event held by INETA in Turkey. It was a two day event focusing on Silverlight and IE8. They put together a rather nice video with a number of interviews with the attendees.
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You may have heard about UGTV, the "TV news" program especially for user groups. The next edition is now out and you can see it at http://channel9.msdn.com/Search/Default.aspx?Term=UGTV for developers, and http://edge.technet.com/Search/Default.aspx?Term=UGTV
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You may not know this, but we have been providing Live Meeting accounts to user group leaders for a couple of months now. It's something that has been very successful - as an example, here is a comment we received from www.developers.ie . Just to inform
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The UGSS platform went live today! Here is the full announcement... MICROSOFT AND CULMINIS ANNOUNCE USER GROUP SUPPORT SERVICES WHAT ARE USER GROUP SUPPORT SERVICES User Group Support Services (UGSS) offers a free set of tools specific to user group management
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As you may know, I'm a senior marketing manager at Microsoft and I focus on technical communities and how Microsoft can support them better. I want to give everyone a heads-up on some important changes we are making in conjunction with Culminis which
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Tech Ed season starts right now - this is only for the US TechEd, but the others will be spinning up shortly - The Birds of a Feather sessions and TechEd connect let you participate and contribute rather than simply listen... Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
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I set off for TechEd tomorrow - This year I'm going to be spending time at both the Developer and the IT Pro halves, attempting to meet up with as many User Group members (and candidates) as possible, so that I can find out as much as I can about what
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Among my other interests are Cars. Porsches to be specific. I'm a member of a Porsche focused board - www.6speedonline.com , which has an off topic section which is only accessible to registered members. There are some weird conversations in the off topic
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I just heard about a great community event held in Croatia. For those of you wondering what you might do in your user group, you might be able to get a few ideas from this. MSCommunity CodeCamp 2007 – Another INETA successful event! Quick facts - Date:
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What is Unlimited Potential ? It's about helping individuals and communities around the globe achieve their goals and dreams with relevant, accessible, and affordable technologies. Through innovative solutions and local partnerships that are transforming
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Both Culminis and INETA have produced excellent guides on how to start and run a user group. In addition to this, they also have a mentorship program where new user groups can be supported by larger groups. If you are starting, or thinking of starting
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I've just created this blog so that I can not only pontificate about user groups and Microsoft, but also so I can get your ideas on how we (note - we , not me ) can make things as good as possible. I desperately need your feedback and suggestions! Along
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