Thanks to Steve Clayton in MS UK for the plug to his readers for Frank and me. Welcome if this is your first visit to my blog. Steve's blog is a brilliant read so I'd encourage all my readers to subscribe to Steve's also. For new visitors, you might...

With our awesome Expression Design and Dev tools line up, we are of course looking to engage the web agency community more and more, and lots of work is already going on in this area. Microsoft UK have been at this a little longer and I found this useful...

Via Mark Harrison : http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2007/02/moss-2007-external-sites.htm "Update 2 The Body Shop - http://www.wise-woman.net/ - built by ContentAndCode Update ... another great looking UK external facing website powered by MOSS Fifteen...

UPDATED: See the video on Channel 10 and see the Deepfish website. Now this I like the sound of - as a regular user of web on my smartphone, I think there is great potential to improve the user experience. Here, maybe, is the solution: http://www.microsoft...

http://blogs.msdn.com/shanemo/archive/2007/03/26/age-of-user-exerience-sydney-brisbane-2-and-melbourne.aspx Shane Morris has got his first round of UX briefings lined up: " Well, we've finally got our act together and scheduled the Age of User Experience...

There's been a Small Business Summit running in the US for customers and partners. Some useful content now available in replay format: http://blogs.msdn.com/mssmallbiz/archive/2007/03/28/1984004.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/small-business...

Firstly please note that whilst we call this 'enterprise' search we encourage partners to think 'business' search - this applies to all sizes of customer not just the biggest ones. Found this great offer and realised I hadn't promoted it beforehand. Basically...

We've had amazing levels of interest and excitement around our search proposition to partners, but we want more ! So we've put together an offer to get more and more partners signing up for Quick Start for Search, and to reward those that have done it...

Via Lorna's SBSC blog : " Hot off the press - Corp have just launched an Action Pack Managed News Group for support around Action Pack! They have committed to a 1-day turnaround on responses - which given its based in the US will be a bit longer here...

Via the UC Blog but the whole post in here as it's so important ! I'll keep saying it, "there is gold in them there UC hills for partners".. :-) " Today is a really exciting day for the Office Communicator team because it marks the first time we have...

http://www.microsoft.com/australia/health/default.mspx Love it - in Australia our industry marketing team have pioneered delivery of a clear and exciting vision for what Microsoft can do to help healthcare customers deliver better services. This of course...

I am volunteering for this - and we are hoping our partner community can help extend the reach of Microsoft staff getting involved. Go on, give it a go !! www.thinkuknow.com.au

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/01172007ForrMSFinancing.pdf We knew this of course but this very important way for partners to help customer finance both software and services has now had a strong 3rd party analyst's thumbs up. Definitely...

From Mark Harrison : " Six detailed presentations on enterprise search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities ... This session starts with an overview of Microsoft's enterprise search strategy...

Via Angus : Well done to the guys at Unique World who built this. www.microsoftsharepoint.com

Found this via Steve Clayton's blog . Very funny - involving Orlando Ayala who is one of our senior execs in Redmond. Fun for Friday afternoon :-) Video: Extreme Makeover: Server Room Edition

We are very excited about getting these off the ground - driven by feedback received directly from our partners, who asked for better opportunities to network with other partners, and to engage with Microsoft staff. Hear from our industry managers and...

This was some recent news we were all very excited about. We work hard to make Microsoft a truly great place to work and build your career and it was recognised as such alongside some other great companies. http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID...

Are you an ISV curious or interested in taking your application to Software as a Service delivery ? This will be a great way to start. If you need extra help, please email me through this blog as we are very keen to support in this area wherever we can...

Just found this to add to my RSS feeds. http://blogs.technet.com/uc/ UC is of course one of THE biggest areas of growth for us and our partners going forwards, as we bring our Unified Communications vision to market. Coming soon is Office Communications...

Do you know anyone who might be interested in this ? We have a great intern program and it could be a fantastic opportunity for someone to learn all about Microsoft and technical marketing in our company: Great Solutions - Great Team – Great Company ...

Your invitation to attend a Virtual Earth Seminar, including a masterclass with Johannes Kebeck! Never before has it been so easy to track your assets, find your customers, manage your mobile sales force & engineers or make sure your customers find...

As we gear up for the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver 10-12 July, it's worth noting that if you are a Small Business Specialist and/or a Certified/Gold Partner, you can submit for an award. See here for details: http://www.microsoft.com/partner...

For those of you who have sat in or got involved in Microsoft conference calls, this will definitely bring on a smile: http://blogs.technet.com/usefultechnology/archive/2006/08/08/440787.aspx Never say that Microsoft can't poke fun at itself :-)

This came via the Early Start email for Performance Management: "Utilize this new customer-ready presentation to demonstrate the value of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. Information about the components of PerformancePoint available with...