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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx</link><description>Members of the Microsoft Partner Network are Microsoft partners, and beginning in October 2010 you will be eligible to use a new market-facing Microsoft partner logo along with reference to any gold competencies and/or silver competencies you have earned</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)</generator><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10089338</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:02:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10089338</guid><dc:creator>Sarah_Arnold</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Everyone who signs up to the Microsoft Partner Network are partners, logos are a benefit of the Microsoft Partner Network to partners who earn the Silver and or Gold competency. &amp;nbsp;The small business specialist logo is another logo that is available but this to needs to be earned. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10089338" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10089325</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:36:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10089325</guid><dc:creator>yup</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Sarah, you clearly say that Members of the partner network are Microsoft Partners and then you say that we will be eligible to use the new logo along with a competency reference. In response to Ray&amp;#39;s question you say that registered members will not get a logo. So then I guess registered members are not really members of the partner network.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10089325" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10088606</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:58:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10088606</guid><dc:creator>Sarah_Arnold</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Nikki yes there has been a change to the Microsoft Gold certified partner logo as we &amp;nbsp;now have a new Gold Competency logo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yup, not sure what you mean by my first sentence being a lie as everyone in the Microsoft Partner Network is a partner. &amp;nbsp; If you would like to explain more I am happy to answer you can always email me if you dont want this on the blog. sarahar@microsoft.com&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10088606" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10088466</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:36:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10088466</guid><dc:creator>yup</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Well then I guess you lied in your first sentence Sarah. Apparently not all members of the Microsoft Partner Network are Microsoft partners.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10088466" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10073567</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 06:00:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10073567</guid><dc:creator>Nikki Van Winden</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Will there be changes to the &amp;#39;Microsoft Gold Certified Partner&amp;#39; logo?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10073567" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10059513</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:21:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10059513</guid><dc:creator>Sarah_Arnold</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Ray,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Registered members will no get a logo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sarah&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10059513" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Rebranding Advanced Competency and Competency to Gold Competency and Silver Competency</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/auspartners/archive/2010/08/09/rebranding-advanced-competency-and-competency-to-gold-competency-and-silver-competency.aspx#10059180</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:03:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10059180</guid><dc:creator>Ray Frangie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Will Registered Members get a logo too?&lt;/p&gt;
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