Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia
New Find a Partner Site - Virtual Earth enabled
https://www.microsoft.com/australia/findapartner/ We've just put this live - a visual geography-based...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/29/2007
Portal Nuggets #5 - Competitive Selling Resources
https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/salesmarketing/competitiveselling We have sales resources by...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/28/2007
New - QuickStart for Windows Live
"Windows Live™ Quickstart is your one-stop-shop for training, resources, up to date information,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/27/2007
New Windows Server Compare Site
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare "Informing Decision-Making for Customers at the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/27/2007
Partner Focussed Blogs - reminder
Preparing my keynote slides for partner conference, I have a slot for our blogging strategy and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/27/2007
Up at Hamilton Island for Partner Conference
Just arrived today for the conference - such an awesome location and we have an exciting week ahead...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/26/2007
The Silverlight showcase keeps growing
We've added some more nice showcase entries to the Silverlight site in the last few days: Omnicom's...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/26/2007
Online training on Forefront Security Products - check this little lot out !
Wow - there is a serious amount of training for partners coming out around the Forefront product...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/23/2007
Introducing Tafiti - Silverlight based UI for Search
This just came out - a new experimental front end for Live Search - FAQ Here. The introduction of...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/23/2007
Licensing 101 - via UK Partner TV
https://blogs.msdn.com/ptstv/archive/2007/08/22/partner-tv-licensing-101.aspx "Patrick Voss and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/22/2007
Seeking Inspiring Stories of ISVs Making a Difference
One of my US colleagues asked me to post this - would love to see some of our Australian ISVs...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/21/2007
What Sales and Marketing Courses Do Australian MS Partners Want ?
Via Mike's Marketing for Partners Blog: "Our marketing consultantcy, Carpe Diem recently undertook a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/21/2007
Australian Award Finalists Announced
We've just announced the Microsoft Australia 2007 Partner award finalists publically - winners to be...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/21/2007
New Virtual Images to try BizTalk 2006 and Windows Server 2008
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/default.mspx
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/21/2007
Windows Server 2008 Partner Training - move quickly to secure a spot !
Upcoming Partner Readiness training on Windows Server 2008 1. Windows Server 2008 : IT Pro...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/20/2007
Portal Nuggets #4 - Increase Your Opportunities with Software + Services
This is the 4th post in the series of Partner Portal Nuggets - highlighting some of the useful and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/20/2007
New Silverlight real-world examples coming all the time
This one caught my eye: https://www.flowers-for-you.com.my/catalog2.aspx A Malaysian e-commerce site...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/17/2007
Partner Conference Full
We hit our target attendees a while ago but managed to get a little more capacity - but now we are...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/17/2007
Portal Nuggets #3 - The Value of Partnering - and Profitability Assessment
Here on the portal is the section all about helping your business succeed financially. This includes...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/15/2007
Please Help Us Improve With Your Feedback
As part of our continued efforts to improve partner & customer satisfaction we are sponsoring...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/15/2007
Commerce Server Roadmap
Ryan Donovan announces the roadmap for our ecommerce platform - it's a great plan and a good...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/14/2007
Free Web Experience DVD - for Blog Subscribers Only
Christian gave me 100 DVDs for my blog subscribers (partners only I am afraid) to give away - you...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/10/2007
Portal Nuggets #2 - Increase My Opportunities - Logo Builder and Guidelines
Hardly going to build you a pipeline on its own, but nevertheless this may prove useful for your...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/10/2007
UC Specialisation Launched
I got the final email from the 'Early Start' for the Unified Communications Early Start today....
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/09/2007
Announcing Windows Live SkyDrive - online storage
Not yet available in its beta form in Australia but good to see that it's coming down the line: So...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/09/2007
Live from TechEd - further information on the Health presentation
My colleague David Dembo, our Health and Human Services Industry Manager, is just about to give a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/08/2007
A day at TechEd
I am at TechEd today on the Gold Coast. Great to see a number of partners exhibiting - so far I've...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/08/2007
Portal Nuggets #1 - Expand My Skills - The Partner Learning Center
The Partner Learning Center is a comprehensive online store of training and related resources - both...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/08/2007
New Series of Blog Posts - Partner Portal Nuggets
I used to run a Gold partner and often found the portal just too complex and unwieldy to be useful....
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/08/2007
30 New Messenger Icons
https://www.messenger-emoticons.com.au/
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/07/2007
Photosynth on the Space Shuttle...
"REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 5, 2007 — For the first time, people around the world can view 3-D images of...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/06/2007
Popfly interview on 10
"I sit down with Dan Fernandez and he takes us through Popfly. Popfly is about building content...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/04/2007
Want to see the Windows Live API ?
Download the API document then..
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/03/2007
Forthcoming changes to Action Pack
I have some important news for those of you who are Action Pack subscribers! Beginning November 30,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/03/2007
Microsoft Learning at TechEd
Next week of course is TechEd - I am going up on the Thursday and hope to meet some partners there....
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/03/2007
Good News Friday - Massachusetts endorses Open XML
This was announced yesterday - but good news on a friday is just that much more pleasing :-) After a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/02/2007
Application Platform - exec q&a
An interesting Q&A session with Steve Guggenheimer, our general manager of App Plat Marketing:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/02/2007
New Features in Live Search - find faces !
https://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/07/27/three-new-features-in-live-search-images.aspx...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/01/2007
Hosted VSTS offering from Readify
Spotted via Frank. Great piece of innovation from Readify here: www.tfsnow.com The concept ? Hosted,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2007
Want a list of Windows Server 2008 blogs from MS staff ?
Try this:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/31/2007
6 Silverlight screencasts... and the RC announcement
From Markjo: "I've finally got round to uploading some short MSDN Nuggets looking at particular...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/30/2007
Australian Partner Conference selling out fast
I've just heard from my team that we are running out VERY fast of spaces for the partner conference...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/30/2007
ISVs - how to make business proposals to Microsoft
At last week's AiiA presentation I was asked by a couple of ISVs how they could make Microsoft aware...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/29/2007
The Map To Success for Partners
Click here: https://members.microsoft.com/partner/roadtosuccess/default.aspx for an interactive...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/29/2007
More from the financial analyst's meeting - cars versus Windows
Watched Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's sessions and there was one nugget from SteveB's that really...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/27/2007
Ray Ozzie Spells Out The Live Platform Story
Mary Jo has summarised nicely Ray's outline of the Live platform plan at the recent financial...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/27/2007
Sharepoint Sales Break US$800m
Our IW partners hardly need reminding that Sharepoint is hot - we are in constant discussions about...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/26/2007
Learn all about our Open Source strategy
New website launched yesterday: www.microsoft.com/opensource You'll see a clear tone (reflecting the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/26/2007
New Portal Resources for Web Partners
Via Christian: " There is some new content on the worldwide Microsoft Partner Portal for Web...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/26/2007
More Silverlight Demos
Check out the latest on the Silverlight community site where more demos and news is coming fast:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 07/26/2007