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Introducing FranklySpeaking

chlong — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:42:26 GMT

Two of our Developer Evangelists, Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi (as seen in the “we’re looking for a boss” video) have setup a new podcast, “FranklySpeaking”.

It’s a great listen and if you’re interested in technology, I think you’ll enjoy it too… Let the boys know what you think…

ZDNet Australia & CeBIT 2008 Emerging Innovation Award

chlong — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:43:15 GMT

As a major partner and media sponsor of the show, ZDNet Australia is again teaming up with CeBIT to host the ZDNet Australia and CeBIT 2008 Emerging Innovation Award. The award seeks to recognise and applaud stand-out technological innovations that have had a significant impact on the Australian landscape and are helping companies transform their businesses.

The deadline for award submissions has now been extended until Tuesday, April 29. Eligibility and entry details can be found below and full selection criteria is outlined on the submissions Web page.

Eligibility: It can be any product or service developed over the past 12 months, from any technology area – whether mobile communications, internet hosting and IT support, to storage or perhaps enterprise software.
When? Nominations for this award are open until 29 April 2008
Who can enter? Any companies exhibiting at CeBIT 2008
How? Enter via www.zdnet.com.au/comps/cebit2008

All finalists will be announced at the official presentation ceremony to be held at CeBIT, details to be announced closer to the event.

Calling all Green & Indigenous Solution Providers

chlong — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:12:48 GMT

Nick and I are on the look out for Aussie Partners creating Green and/or Indigenous solutions to create a bit of a list.

Keep an eye on Nick's blog for the latest list, but expect to see this at our Australia Partner Conference. To add your company, please either like a comment on Nick's blog here or by emailing me.

The list as of 7/3/08 is:

Ecodriver. 3 solutions, built in Australia. Helping organisations, commercial and schools, reduce their environmental footprint.
Prima Consulting "Sustainability SCO2recard": a solution based on Microsoft BI platform to help organisations with reporting on their environmental footprint.
SDM's 'clever emissions calculator'. A public facing web-based emissions calculator, based on ASP.NET. Go here to see it in action: Climate Clever Emissions Calculator
Envision IT. Has several Microsoft-based solutions in this space, including Car Pooling and Car Parking Software and others.

Please get in touch...

PS - if you are interested in attending the Listen Up event, which is a forum to address the issues faced by Corporations who are /or have the desire to work with indigenous organisations.

When? 11 April 2008, 9.30am - 2pm

Where? The Australian Museum, College Street, Sydney

Facilitated by Jeff McMullen, Listen Up is a forum to address the issues faced by Corporations who are /or have the desire to work with indigenous organisations. In brief, this “Town Hall” style forum will bring together interested leaders of business and Indigenous communities, to openly discuss aspects and issues related to the formation and operation of business / Indigenous collaborations, and form a clear understanding of the most effective way to develop those collaborations.

To Register:
Please feel free to give Paul Clark (details below) a call if you have any further questions or call Sonal Kering on 9265 7600 to RSVP.

Objectives:

To encourage honest discussion between business and Indigenous groups on how best to engage with, and support aspirations of, Indigenous communities;
Particular focus on youth: how to engage, and encourage the development of, this enormous talent pool;
To exchange information and learnings;
To break down barriers of understanding;
To identify specific action points.

Ultimate goal: to come to an understanding of, and commitment to, Indigenous youth: how best to build confidence and a passion to pursue educational / employment / social engagement goals and leadership.

To RSVP or for further information, contact Sonal Kering, Listen Up Event Manager on (02) 9265 7600.

More detail here http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/2008/03/28/listen-up-business-indigenous-collaboration-forum.aspx

Key Analyst Reports

chlong — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:59 GMT

Just seen this blog posting from Bruce Rasmussen who found this great blog summarising recent analysts reports which ultimately links here.

Some of the really interesting ones for me include:

IDE Usage Trends (Forrester Research, Feb 12, 2008, .pdf file, 560 kb) This Forrester report examines IDE usage trends via a survey of more than 700 application development professionals who are actively involved in .NET or Java development. Results of the survey shows that Microsoft Visual Studio is a leading integrated development environment (IDE) in the market today, with nearly one half of all respondents noting that Microsoft is their primary IDE provider. Among .NET developers in particular, Microsoft Visual Studio is the primary IDE of choice, with 97% usage – “nearly a clean sweep.”
Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008 (Gartner, February 1, 2008) Gartner positions Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant in the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms.
Microsoft Pushes Virtualization Frontier (Enterprise Management Associates, February 2008, .pdf file, 182 kb) This impact brief covers recent announcements by Microsoft around its virtualization strategy. In particular, this paper discusses the acquisition of Calista Technology and a recently-announced expanded partnership with Citrix. This paper includes a brief introduction to current virtualization challenges and concludes with Enterprise Management Associates’ (EMA’s) favorable perspective on the announcements and Microsoft’s strategic virtualization vision.
Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms, 2008 (Gartner, Inc., January 23, 2008) This vendor evaluation looks at the Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) market. Gartner states that “the control of code configuration and the changes made to it are key to successful development” and “this sector has seen substantial activity during the past several years.”
SharePoint Redefines Document Management (Forrester Research, Jan. 3, 2008, .pdf, file 115 kb) This independent Forrester survey examines buying trends in team collaboration software and document management. Based on a survey of 216 decision makers at North American and European enterprises, Forrester found many organizations will invest in Microsoft for their ECM solution in 2008.
Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets, 2007 (Gartner, Inc., December 31, 2007) This Gartner Magic Quadrant by L. Frank Kenney and Daryl C. Plummer evaluates those vendors in the Integrated SOA Governance market focused on supporting heterogeneous environments. Gartner positions Microsoft in the Challengers quadrant.
SOA: The State of the Market (AMR Research, Dec. 18, 2007, .pdf , 705 kb) In this market roundup, AMR defines the structure of the SOA market, identifies the most influential players, and makes some predictions about the future. “The mega-vendors, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and Oracle, are exploiting their deep pockets to build broad product suites. They also use their powerful relationships with customers to actively direct the market.”
Microsoft: Software Development and Delivery Has Never Had It So Good (Ovum, Oct. 31, 2007, .pdf, 200kb) This Ovum report discusses Microsoft’s role in the recent industry focus on the software development and delivery process, especially in relation to successfully managing the wider and more strategic application lifecycle. Ovum writes that “the last 24 months for Microsoft have been a period of strategic activity with no uncertain amount of innovation, the launch of new product strategies, new product releases, unnerving key competitors in important markets, and better clarity in the company’s future direction.”
The Impact of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 in CPM (Gartner, October 25, 2007) In this report Gartner evaluates Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007 (Gartner, Oct. 10, 2007) Microsoft is positioned in the leader’s quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007.
Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007 (Gartner, September 21, 2007): This Gartner Magic Quadrant by Karen Shegda evaluates leading vendors in the Enterprise Content Management market which includes web content management, records management, document imaging, document management, workflow and document-centric collaboration. Gartner positions Microsoft in the Visionaries quadrant.
What’s the Point of SharePoint? (IBRS, August 2007, .doc, 547 kb) With business units and end users calling for, if not demanding, IT managers to deploy Microsoft SharePoint, IBRS explores the product’s many functions and how organizations can implement them effectively by educating stakeholders, setting proper expectations and making sure the right skills are deployed internally.
Microsoft Securing the Future of .NET in Asia Pacific (Longhaus, June 1, 2007, .pdf) With the recent release of the SoftwareAP.net initiative in conjunction with Intel, Red Herring, Group Intelligence and Asia Venture Capital Journal, Microsoft is aiming to take the lead in incubating emerging independent software vendors (ISVs) across Asia Pacific. Previous .NET initiatives, such as Victoria.net, have offered application developers training and a market for the commercial purchase of their technologies. In contrast, this latest incarnation offers advice and partnering with VC’s and regional governments. As Asia Pacific continues to develop as a service dominated market, Longhaus undertook to evaluate this latest effort towards the development of a local software economy.
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Coming Soon to a Desktop Near You (Gartner, June 1, 2007) Gartner evaluates Microsoft’s entry into the CPM suites market with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure For New Service Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07 (Gartner, May 31, 2007): This Gartner Magic Quadrant by Yefim Natis evaluates those vendors within the Application Infrastructure market who proved the end-to-end enabling technology for building new service-oriented business applications. Gartner positions Microsoft in the Challengers quadrant. According to Gartner, “Challengers excel in their ability to attract large user following, but owe that ability to a relatively narrower focus on a particular usage pattern or user type.”
Forrester Wave: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 2007 (Forrester Research, Inc., May 23, 2007, .pdf, 564 kb) Microsoft was rated a Strong Performer in this Forrester Wave. Forrester analyst, Carey Schwaber, noted that while “Team Foundation Server is just a year old, it’s mature beyond its years” and “ready for prime time.” Additionally, she highlighted that “Microsoft’s strategy of focusing on the platform while letting the community develop add-ons like process editors and form editors has paid off handsomely.”
SPLA - blah, blah, blah? (Ovum, Nov. 2006, .pdf, 44K) This report is a result of announcements made at Convergence EMEA 2006 about Microsoft’s extension of its Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) to the Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions, which allows partners to pay for the licenses they use on a monthly basis. According to David Mitchell, this radically improves the cost model for Microsoft partners offering software as a service (SaaS), either as a standalone offering or embedded in a wider business offering, such as managed services, BPO or newly created products and services. In this report David Mitchell examines the announcements and the positive impact it will have in the market.
Microsoft SQL Server Runs the Security Table (Enterprise Strategy Group, Nov. 2006, .pdf, 78K) This recent Enterprise Strategy Group research note compares the security of Microsoft’s SQL Server to industry competitors. “ESG considers Microsoft, with proper execution, to be years ahead of Oracle and MySQL in producing secure and reliable database products.”
The Forrester Wave: BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006 (Forrester Research, Feb. 8, 2006, .pdf, 410K). Forrester evaluated 10 leading business intelligence (BI), database, and application vendors across 92 criteria.

New Voices for Innovation Website

chlong — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:37:43 GMT

We just launched a brand new, entirely redesigned Voices for Innovation (VFI) website. The new site provides many new features that we hope will make VFI even more valuable to our members and in particular to you. There's a touch of Silverlight, the ability to personalise the home page, meet other innovators and entrepreneurs, view and share multimedia content, and so much more.

Your user name and password on the new VFI website remain the same. If you’ve forgotten your password, you can recover it using the "forgot password" tool at the top of the sign-in box.

The first time that you log in to the new site, you’ll be asked to complete your profile, which includes information such as your preferred language, your time zone, your Web address and so on. You choose what information you want to provide and share with other members.

VFI has added hundreds of new members in recent months. Visit the new site, look around, join a discussion and introduce yourself.

If you have questions or comments, please click "Leave Feedback" on the site or email us at info@voicesforinnovation.org.

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Aussie Blog Updates

chlong — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:30:34 GMT

Andy Coates published the latest Aussie blogs

Roger Lawrence (Sydney) - our new Group Manager, Developer Evangelism. Still drinking from the fire hose, but blogs increasingly frequently. Bit of a Windows Mobile buff.
Dave Glover (Melbourne) - Developer Evangelist extraordinaire and passionate ISV community man. Also digs Windows Mobile, but adds Web things. The keeper of the world's smallest Team Foundation Server.
David Lemphers (Melbourne) - the wild man of Roger's team and the Dynamics Evangelist. I think he's been doing Mo'vember since it began and has racked up a very creditable 500+ posts. He fluctuates a bit between his MSDN blog and another.
Nigel Watson (Melbourne) - Architect Evangelist who (literally) lives with a Princess. Passionate about S+S and architecture things in general. Has trouble with some of his vowels.
Greg Willis (Sydney) - Architect Evangelist. Loves to talk about Web Architecture, Silverlight, SaaS, SOA, S+S and Hype. Hasn't posted for a while.
Nils van Boxsel (Canberra) - Platform Architect. The only DPE guy in Canberra, but if you could only choose one, he'd be it. Organises the Architect Council and Australian Architect Forum, blogs about Architecture, resources, case studies and user groups (amongst other things)
Anna Liu (Sydney) - the other Group Manager, Developer Evangelism. Anna runs the team who look after the web things. Her strong architectural and academic (she's the only Ph.D. in the group) shine through.
Jorke Odolphi (Brisbane) - Web Platform Architect (a.k.a. "Hosting Geek"). IIS7, Command Lines, basically all things hosting - Jorke's your man.
Scott Barnes (Brisbane) - RIA Evangelist (and keeper of the flame). Barnsey loves to talk about stuff. Sometimes it even makes sense ;). Silverlight, RIA, Integration with other environments are all fair game. Prolific.
Michael Kordahi (Sydney) - Developer Evangelist. Concentrating on the web-ier side of things, Michael is an ex stand-up comic who likes to ask the difficult questions. Sometimes he even writes about technology.
Nick Hodge (Sydney) - Professional Geek. Number 9 on Australia's Top Web Celebrities of 2007. Nick's job is to reach the people that the rest of us don't. Basically he gets to play with stuff and interview people who play with stuff. Also has a feline fixation.
Shane Morris (Melbourne) - User Experience Bloke. It can't be easy being the creative one in the middle of the technologists, but ShaneMo carries it out with aplomb.
Jeff Alexander (Sydney) - IT Pro Evangelist. Jeffa just celebrated 20 years at Microsoft. He loves Technology for Technology's sake and his new house is buzzing humming and blinking with cool stuff. He's a hardware junkie and there are no less than 4 machines in various stages of undress on his desk, even though he's been on leave for the last month.
Michael Kleef (Perth) - IT Pro Evangelist. Kleefy's the only DPE person in Perth, but what he lacks in numbers he makes up for in volume - of posts that is. He's not afraid to take on the big issues, but he also loves talking about Virtualisation, Interoperability, Hardware and Software. A geek's geek.
Nick Ellery (Sydney) - Academic Evangelism. Nick is responsible for connecting with tertiary students and faculty. He does this via the Microsoft Student Partner program, by organising competitions and events on campus. He also maintains the Imagine Cup blog.

In addition there's some non-technical/developer blogs:

AusDev blog with thoughts from Jenny Savann and Finula Crowe
Nick Mayhew's blog on everything for partners - our head of partner marketing and strategy who used to own his own content management Gold Certified Partner in the UK and writes about anything partner related
Mike Heald's Marketing for Partners Blog - our token American in the Team who runs the Through Partner Marketing function and is a huge fan of the Seattle Seahawks
and Wendy Smith's blog for Small Business Specialists as a Channel Development Manager (and also interviewed on Partner-TV recently)
Partner-TV, which houses short videos of Microsoft people and partners

Positive changes to the Open XML standard

chlong — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:02:26 GMT

Brian Jones blogged recently about the latest round of proposed changes to the Open XML standard. If you read the status report released by TC45 you'll see that there have been some pretty significant changes proposed so far, and you'll see more are on the way. Here's a link to the TC45 report: http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/New%20set%20of%20proposed%20dispositions%20posted.htm

Here's a list of some of the changes that were proposed in this batch:

Allowing for ISO-8601 Dates: ECMA-376, the original Open XML standard adopted by Ecma, assigned a unique numeric value to each date in a spreadsheet, in order to improve the speed of date calculations. Based on the comments received from some National Bodies on this issue, DIS 29500 will be updated to allow date values to be stored using the format defined by the ISO 8601 standard.
Internationalized handling of weekdays and weekends: ECMA-376 allowed for a week that begins on Sunday or Monday, but not a week that begins on any other day, such as Saturday. Ecma is proposing a comprehensive range of options for what is defined as the first day of the week, and what is defined as the weekend.
Language tags: ECMA-376 used a set of integer values to identify the language applied to regions of a document. Ecma is proposing that the language tags specified in the DIS should instead leverage an internationally recognized practice for representing languages, IETF BCP 47. IETF BCP 47 is a Best Current Practices document that incorporates use of the ISO 639 standard for languages, ISO 15924 for scripts, and ISO 3166 for regions. This proposal directly follows recommendations from National Bodies in several countries.
Page Borders: ECMA-376 included support for a variety of graphical elements that could be used as page borders. Several National Bodies noted that this closed list of graphical elements was not sufficiently diverse and global in its contents. Based on that feedback, Ecma is proposing to change the Open XML standard to allow for custom page borders. This will enable implementers to determine the best option for including borders relevant to their applications.
Usage of ISO standards for grammars: ECMA-376 used its own notation for defining the grammar for some of the more advanced functionality, such as spreadsheet formulas and word processing fields. Several National Bodies noted that the existing grammars in ECMA-376 are non-standard and were not fully described within the DIS. In response to this concern, Ecma proposes to revise the notation for spreadsheet formulas and fields to use an existing ISO standard. Formula notation will now use ISO/IEC 14977:1996 – Syntactic metalanguage – Extended BNF. This proposal improves the ability for implementers to test and validate conformance to the specification.

Brian also says in his post, "I was surprised to hear from a number of people that they were skeptical TC45 would accept any changes to Open XML. TC45 is excited to work closely with the national bodies and investigate what the best solution would be to these issues (including of course changing the specification). While its tough news in certain ways for me as an Office developer; it's great news for me as a TC45 member. We had made some design decisions within TC45 that many of the national bodies disagreed with, so we took that feedback into account and came up with proposals we think will address the national bodies concerns.

Jan van den Beld, former head of Ecma international, had a post this morning talking about his thoughts on the progress we've made so far: http://janvandenbeld.blogspot.com/2007/12/number-of-proposed-dispositions-for-nbs.html.
Jan is impressed by the progress made, and also shares his thought on how many comments per page you would typically expect to get.
We still have a ways to go, and those of you following along know there are a number of other contentious issues we haven't finalized on yet (but we're getting very close). I'll provide more detailed explanations of many of the responses over the coming weeks, and I'm sure you guys will find those interesting.

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Popfly for Business

chlong — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:00:10 GMT

John's post on Popfly seems to have popped up a lot in the Microsoft blogsphere recently. There's a great example on how Popfly could be used in the retail space with the "Gift-o-Matic"... I thought I was pretty familiar with what it could do after a few of Nick Hodge's demos... but this is cool (discounting Nick's t-shirt here).

As John says, "Popfly is pretty cool. Not just geeky-cool -- but honest-to-goodness cool on multiple levels. It goes way beyond what anyone else is doing, and represents a new way for businesses and consumers to engage with each other. If there's anything close, it's FaceBook with their FaceBook applications -- but those only work on FaceBook -- and Popfly works on FaceBook and virtually everywhere else, too".

So you are interested in doing something with Popfly...

Visit http://www.popfly.ms/Overview/ for some other examples on the art of the possible
Visit the Popfly blog for a step-by-step guide on how to get it
Read the Popfly documentation at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/bb510375.aspx

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New Facebook Group

chlong — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:43:37 GMT

I created a Microsoft Aussie ISV Facebook group which you are more than welcome to join, contribute and have a play with. If are you involved in an event, take a photo and upload it :)

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Partners, Microsoft Australia, Facebook, Aussie ISV Facebook Group

ISVs are from Mars, and Hosters are from Venus

chlong — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:32:31 GMT

Reading Gianpaolo's blog, I noticed they have published a white paper which covers the the sometime quirky relationships that exist between ISVs wanting to deliver their software as a service and Hosters.

Here is an excerpt from the paper: The Impetus for Specialized SaaS Hosting

The case for specialized Software as a Service (SaaS) hosting can be easily rationalized by examining an incompatible pair of anecdotal fact and reality:

Fact: When we explore the expertise of software vendors today, we find that most of them will not claim operating a hosting environment as a core competency. Actually, many would also cite operational excellence as a key barrier of entry into the SaaS market. This observation should not come as a surprise to the reader.

Reality: However, when we take a look at the prevailing market situation, delivering SaaS applications often depends on hosting solutions that are “home-brewed” by the software vendors themselves. This is to say that in addition to implementing the application logic, many SaaS software vendors themselves will need to design, develop, and integrate the operational modules for their service offerings. As illustrated in Figure 1, the service delivery components, such as billing, metering, and logging, are built by the application vendor and integrated into the application stack.

The key observation from the datum above is that many ISVs are re-implementing operational components by necessity, not because those infrastructure additions provide significant value to differentiating the core features of the applications. Moreover, building these components add to the time and cost of delivering the application. Therefore, for the software vendors, most of such redundant work and expenditure can be eliminated if the software vendors can obtain the same operational functions from third parties that specialize in SaaS hosting.

Link to the white paper here.

Andy Lees Videos

chlong — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:56:34 GMT

I have just posted the third Andrew Lees video to Partner-TV Australia. Andy visited Australia last month and we interviewed him on Bondi Beach as well as filming the 2008 Launch Wave Partner Briefing at our Sydney office.

Partner-TV: 60 Seconds on the 2008 Launch Wave (just over 1 minute)
Partner-TV: Andy Lees on the 2008 launch wave (7 minutes 17 seconds)
Partner-TV: 2008 Launch Wave Partner Briefing with Andy Lees (56 mins 30 seconds)

You can watch the videos via a stream, or download them to watch offline and listen to the audio via our podcast. Visit http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv for more.

Messenger IM Control and Presence API Beta

chlong — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:02:53 GMT

Today Angus Logan announced the availability of Windows Live Messenger IM Control & Presence API. Get it now for your blog or website as it's a great way to connect with your customers.

In a nutshell, it allows people to publish their presence and receive messages via the web from anonymous users without Messenger client installed via a control placed in the blog (or any website). The messages received are within the Messenger Client.

Could be interesting... I tried it but it was too wide (it needs at least 300x300px to overcome the captcha type input to prevent spam). So once I have time to update the graphic etc. I'll think about implementing it... or figure somewhere else to put it on the blog... maybe the header itself?

Visit http://settings.messenger.live.com/Applications/CreateHtml.aspx to create your own.

Happy Birthday Blue Monster

chlong — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:34:07 GMT

Reading Steve's blog, I can't believe it's a been year since I met the Blue Monster. Steve's blog recounts the journey he took along with Hugh MacLeod. I remember thinking, "What's that all about" and being pretty excited to receive one of the limited edition lithographs.

Happy Birthday :)

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Win an AIMIA Award

chlong — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:17:35 GMT

Nominations for the 14th Annual AIMIA Awards, the longest running and most prestigious awards in Australia’s interactive media industry, will be closing Friday 9th November 2007!

There are plenty of Awards Categories to choose from, so click here to start your entry:

Best Advertising or Marketing
Best Children’s
Best Classifieds
Best Corporate or Business-to-Business
Best Cross-Platform Content or Content Integration
Best Cultural, Lifestyle or Sport
Best Integration with an Offline Advertising Campaign
Best Interactive TV
Best Emerging Exporter
Best Entertainment
Best Financial Service
Best Learning & Education
Best Mobile Advertising or Marketing
Best Mobile Product or Service
Best News, Media or Reference
Best Non-profit or Government
Best Online Retail
Best Science, Health or Environment
Best Student Developed Content
Best Tourism or Travel
Best Word-of-mouth, Peer-to-peer or Viral
Effectiveness Award
Best of the Best Award
Outstanding Contribution Award

Entries for the Awards are open from Tuesday 2nd October to Friday 9th November 2007, and all AIMIA Business, Associate and Corporate members are eligible to enter. Student members can enter their projects into the Best Student Developed Content category, and all members are invited to nominate an individual for the Outstanding Contribution Award.

Winners of the 14th AIMIA Awards will be announced and celebrated at the Digital Content Industry’s Night of Night’s, a glitzy ceremony bringing together over 650 industry leaders in Sydney on Friday 7th March, 2008.

Be a real winner in interactive innovation. and visit www.aimia.com.au/awards for more details and to begin your entry!

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Welcome Wendy Smith

chlong — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:42:47 GMT

Wendy has joined the team and the blogsphere as the new Channel Development Manager, to help the Small Business Specialist Community be successful, which in turn drives our success.

Welcome to Microsoft, Wendy !

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