We launched the VoiceForInnovation.org initiative a few months ago and have seen some great recent take up in terms of partners signing up to express their support for the importance of intellectual property in software and similar topics like choice...

"Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V beta ships early to customers and partners. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 13, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. this morning delivered a holiday surprise for customers and partners, unveiling a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization...

Via Mike Heald's Marketing For Partners Blog: " WIN $10,000 of marketing collateral with Unified Communications According to Frost & Sullivan, demand for Microsoft Unified Communications technology is already enormous in Australia - with the market...

Step 1: Go to the partner portal homepage: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/ Step 2: Sign in with your Windows Live ID Step 3: Note the nice new banner: Step 4: Click on it ! Step 5: Explore the resources linked off the page to help you get ready...

http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/cool-stuff/default.mspx This will be an interactive experience delivered worldwide - so if you can't attend the physical events ( see here for dates - partner events will be on at the same days as the customer...

Via Chris Vidotto's great blog on BizTalk and Application Platform : " https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=250304&linvitation https://www.local.microsoft.com.au/australia/events/register/home.aspx?levent=250304&linvitation...

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Many of you will know Bruce Rasmussen who works with us in delivering sales and marketing training to many Microsoft partners in Australia. Well the good news is he has launched a new blog full of marketing tips and advice aimed squarely at Microsoft...

We hear from partners almost every day that one of the issues in landing Sharepoint projects is about end user training - or the lack of it. Let me know via the comments or email if this is a particular issue for you - I want to help. We have training...

For a bit of fun, check out the comics on the Windows Server website (see top right). For the creator's blog go here: http://www.nectarine.com.au/nectarineblog/

The team at Readify sent me this today. A great way for partners to get some free technical training on some of our more specialist developer concepts. "The Readify Developer Network (RDN) is the easiest way for you to get a head start in new and upcoming...

Microsoft Dynamics in Focus Our Dynamics team is conducting a series of complimentary Live Meeting Presentations delivered through the internet for our partners, customers and companies considering a new ERP system. The feedback from those attending so...

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Mike Heald has put up 3 new useful posts on his marketing for partners blog : " Optimise Secure Your Infrastructure Campaign Launches!! This campaign introduces the new online Infrastructure Optimisation Assessment Tool . This tool enables customers to...

"Save the Date! Announcing PDC08 October 27–30, 2008 Pre-conference October 26, 2008 Los Angeles, California OK, OK. We are delighted to announce the date and location of the next Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC): October 27–30, 2008...

Jeff is one of our MCTs (and a certified partner) in Canberra and won a competition called Speaker Idol at TechEd Barcelona . He won two prizes: 1. A metre of MS Press books ! 2. A speaker ticket for the 2008 event. Well done Jeff ! http://blog.wharton...

This has recently gone live - customer facing assessment tool. You can now refer your customer to this, or maybe do the assessment with them collaboratively as a way to put some science behind your conversations with your customers. The technique is of...

http://www.stayathomeserver.com/ A bit of fun from the Windows Home Server team :