Every year at Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), we hear feedback from partners all around the world that one of the greatest parts of WPC is the opportunity to make connections with other WPC attendees. Whether they are connections with existing contacts you know already but haven’t seen in awhile...

That’s right, the next episode of MPN Live is going to be coming your way next week Thursday, and for this session, we’re going to be talking all about my favorite conference of the year: Worldwide Partner Conference! With WPC 2012 just around the corner, this is going to be a fantastic episode of MPN...

Tomorrow is the next in our series of MPN Live events, which bring together Microsoft hosts, Microsoft partner guests, hot topics, fantastic insights, live interaction, and even an incredible giveaway: A free, all-access pass to Worldwide Partner Conference 2012. Talk about a value packed block of time...

At the beginning of March, we officially announced the Small Business Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network . If you looked at the comments from that post, you also saw that I said, “We will announce more program details in April,” in response to questions I received over the the Small Business...

With each passing day, we get another day closer to Worldwide Partner Conference 2012, which is July 8-12th in Toronto this year. I absolutely love Worldwide Partner Conference and it is by far my favorite conference of the year! What is also getting closer with each passing day is the deadline to get...

Last night, I received an online ping via social media from The VAR Guy (@TheVARGuy ) asking for a little direction and assistance from a social media perspective when it comes to navigating and following the information coming out of Microsoft. After all, I don’t think you will find many people that...

From week to week, I share a bunch of different content across a multitude of my various online presences, such as through my blog , my Twitter account , my LinkedIn account , and my Facebook account . Across these different online resources, the content shared is not always the same, nor is everything...

Thank you again to all of you that joined us for this week’s MPN Live session that Jon Roskill and I hosted along with our Microsoft partner guests: In-Person Partner Guests: Ric Opal (@RicOpal) - Vice President, Peters & Associates. Chicago, Illinois Derek Drennan (@dcdrennan) - Regional Director...

This Thursday, I will be hosting the next MPN Live round-table show from our Microsoft Worldwide Headquarters right here in Redmond, Washington. I’m excited that hosting our discussion will be our Corporate Vice President of the Worldwide Partner Group, Jon Roskill. In addition, we have a great line...

Can you believe it? Worldwide Partner Conference 2012 (WPC12) is just around the corner. Woohoo! And today marks a great milestone on the journey towards Worldwide Partner Conference 2012: The opening of registration. I say it every year and I’ll say it again, Worldwide Partner Conference is by far my...

Connecting with our partners around the world is something we love to do here at Microsoft and as you know, Worldwide Partner Conference is a huge component of that. A few years ago we took that experience to a digital level by launching the Digital WPC (Digital Worldwide Partner Conference ) site and...

At Worldwide Partner Conference last summer, we kicked off the MPN Live sessions from the floor of WPC. For those of you not yet familiar with MPN Live: MPN Live is a roundtable talk show program where Microsoft partners connect on issues of interest. For the current series, they are being streamed live...

Welcome to 2012, everyone! I certainly hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and New Year’s Day. To kick off the 2012 year, I thought it might be fun to look back at 2011 quickly to see which of the posts here on the blog you all came to and visited the most. With that, below is a list of the top...

As you may recall, earlier this week we hosted the latest Microsoft Partner Network Interactive Leadership Forum session, which gives you, our partners around the world, the chance to hear directly from the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group leadership team here at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond on...

Today marks a great day here in Redmond, WA and around the world as the Microsoft Partner Network officially hits it’s one year anniversary! Wow, can you believe it has already been a year? Oh how time flies when you are having so much fun, and believe me, working with the Microsoft partners around the...

Since the initial V 1.0 release of the Microsoft Partner Info mobile app in May, it has continued to evolve in terms of interface and information that it brings directly to the phones of partners everywhere based on input and feedback we have received from our partners on what they would like to see...

For those of you that were at Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 with us in Los Angeles, you may have heard the exciting announcements that were made for our partners that obtain or have the Mobility competency as well as for all partners with competencies in regards to Windows Phone hardware and service...

This year at Worldwide Partner Conference, we launched the very first “MPN Live” series, which brought you live webcasts from the floor at WPC11. These sessions included a Microsoft host for the session as well as partner and analyst guest speakers, including some joining us remotely via Skype from around...

Day 3 here at Worldwide Partner Conference brought with it the always popular Kevin Turner, a “bringing it all together” with Jon Roskill, and this year’s fantastic guest speaker, Sir Richard Branson. All in all, in my opinion, a great way to kick off the third day here at WPC11. This day also brought...

What a week it has been! Hard to believe that here we are at the beginning of Day 4, the final day, of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. I don’t know about you, but this week has absolutely flown by. Then again, this is my favorite week of the entire year, and you know what they say, “Time...

Here we are at the beginning of Day 3 of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. I don’t know about you, but I thought yesterday was a great look into some of the great solutions available today and some more on the way, not to mention some of those really cool demos! In case you missed it, I posted...

Well WPC 11 day 2 picked up right where day 1 left off, with tons of fantastic energy and excitement, then added a bunch of eye catching demos, attention grabbing statistics, some exciting announcements, and even more. To help make sure that all of you, whether you are joining us in person or virtually...

Welcome to Day 2 of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. What an amazing day yesterday was to kick off the conference! In case you missed it, I posted up a recap last night: WPC 11 Day one – What a start! Here’s some of the great things from WPC 11 day one for you… Be sure to check it out and...

Day one of the 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference is now behind us and what a start to the conference it was! This year more than ever, not only can the attendees who are joining us here live be a part of the excitement but also partners around the world can join in on numerous parts of WPC11 online as...

Welcome to the official day 1 here at Microsoft Partner Conference 2011! We are so excited to have all of you here with us in this record-breaking crowd we have joining us here in Los Angeles, as well as the partners around the world joining us online and through social media. Since we are kicking off...