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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:24 PM

TE08: Community Input

My last post, essentially thanking Readify for their involvement in TechEd08 caused a little bit of a stir :-) to the point of being reported in the press , not once, but twice . I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight all of the influencers whom
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 5:05 PM

TE08: Support from our partners

TechEd is a huge undertaking, and there is no way we could be successful without the support of our partners. Today I got to see the impact of that again first hand. I was invited to address the Readify Annual Kick-off as their guest speaker. During my
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Sunday, September 07, 2008 4:46 PM

TE08: First Ever Australian Annual IT Demo Champion - Tatham Oddie

Way back in March this year we kicked off the largest ever launch of a Microsoft product, with the Heroes Happen {Here} Launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Since then we've been running a competition throughout the community
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Saturday, September 06, 2008 11:25 PM

TE08: The Smackdown Finale

I'll do a fuller wrap-up of the Smackdown *SMACK!* "HooHa!" later, but I just had to get the little video of the finale competition out. We wrapped up the biggest, and loudest Smackdown "HooHa!" ever held at a public TechEd with a
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:27 PM

TE08: Coatsy’s Facebook Promise

Andrew Coates , the initimable Developer Evangelist, has reiterated his promise to join Facebook, this time on video, if there are 250 members of the “Convince Andrew Coates to join Facebook” Facebook Group by the end of Friday 5 Sep 2008. Let’s hold
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:13 PM

TE08: Who will be crowned the 1st Annual Australian IT Demonstration Hero?

Here at TechEd08 we’ve been working through the National Finalists of the Demos Happen {Here} competition. So far we’ve had 4 demo hero’s strut their stuff on the stage in the Expo hall, with another 3 to go. The competition is so successful that we decided
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:59 PM

TE08: Are Social Networks the new Usergroups?

A session asking people “in the know,”about the future of communities. Those who meet in exotic locations, at late nights, and speak arcane languages; those who tweet, and blog, and (well some) Facebook! Do we need to gather together in the same place
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:10 AM

TE08: Joe Wilson on Mobility Smackdown

Joe, Microsoft’s Senior Director for Academic Evangelism was downunder this week to keynote our hugely successful Student Day. We also managed to keep him around for a couple of days to catch up with our Student Partners, Deans from local universities,
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:18 PM

TE08: Smackdown – ONE MORE WAY TO WIN

There is another way to win at the Smackdown!! *SMACK!!* If you’re not one of the 100 lucky dogtag winners. We’re running another across the whole conference, where people can take a photo of their Windows Mobile experience at TechEd08 . Email the photos
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:48 PM

First Video of Surface at TechEd08

Here it is, the Surface ready for demo at TechEd08 down in the MSDN Lounge. Come and check it out. R 42 Technorati Tags: TEAU08 , TechEd08 , Cool Tech , Surface
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:19 PM

First Pics of Surface at TechEd08

It’s arrived, it’s here, and ready for unwrapping. If you want to check out and play with Surface, you need to get down to the MSDN Lounge. R 42 Technorati Tags: TechEd08 , Australia , Surface , Cool Tech
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Friday, August 22, 2008 5:43 PM

Embedded Development

At Imagine Cup in Paris, for the first time, I had my eyes opened to the power of Embedded Development. Essentially, this is developing a software solution for a prescribed hardware function. Computers running particular functions without the traditional
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:57 AM

Winning at TechEd08

This year, TechEd is bigger, more energetic, and delivers more choice than ever before. The more I work with Business Groups across Microsoft, the more I hear about their plans to Connect with delegates. There seem to be a lot of competitive games being
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Monday, August 18, 2008 12:13 PM

Are you the Ultimate Expert?

We’re on a quest this year for “The Ultimate Expert” at TechEd08. Is this you? Or do you know that ultimate geek? Perhaps you work with them. Check out Michael Kordahi’s blog for more details, and nominate your expert. R 42 Technorati Tags: TechEd08
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Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:02 AM

Announcement: New Academic Evangelist in Australia!!

It's been a little while in coming, but I'm very pleased to announce that we have a new Academic Developer Evangelist in Australia. After a rigorous recruiting process, on Monday I offered the role to Andrew Parsons , which he accepted. He popped into
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