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Running any community requires a lot of work, as I'm sure every user group leader already knows. Make that a global organization, add in the fact that it's just undergone a major restructure, that many of the board members are newly elected, and that
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We are going to be working on a number of global programs over the year in support of the User Group community, and it’s very important that we get as much input as possible from you as to the right way to approach each program. To this end, we have set
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We have just launched a new web site which should really help you with your user group. Check out User Group Support Services at http://ugss.codezone.com Here is some more information on what UGSS provides.. User Group Support Services exists for one
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You might have heard that Steve Jobs won't be attending MacWorld Expo this year. I just read an interesting item about this, what it could mean to MacWorld itself and to the Mac community. You can find it at http://www.techflash.com/Pondering_Macworld_without_Apple_Jobs36265269.html
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I'm curious - what makes someone a member of a user group? I don't mean what makes someone want to join, I'm wondering how a user group leader counts up their membership numbers. For example, There is a group in China which reports over 20 million members.
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As many of you know, one of the key roles of the TAGM group I'm part of is to connect with and support the technical user groups around the world, working with the Microsoft field and more importantly with associations such as Culminis, INETA, PASS and
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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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