If you’re interested in Microsoft technologies and are on the technical track, there are two annual events that you need to be aware of: The Insiders Dev Tour, and the Global Office 365 Developer Bootcamp. Here’s a quick post to share some of the details for these events — and...
While walking around the expo hall at the Microsoft Inspire partner conference held in Las Vegas last month, I ran into Rachel Braunstein (@rkbraunstein), a Partner Marketing Manager and brand strategy expert at Microsoft, discussing her role in bringing a partner art installation to the event. That discussion was top...
July is the month for Microsoft’s worldwide partner conference — Microsoft Inspire — which has moved to Las Vegas for the next several years. In past years, many product and partner program details were shared primarily through Inspire (formerly WPC), Ignite, Build, TechEd, and other regional events. We now see...
As you know, this month’s #CollabTalk tweetjam is focusing on the topic of Microsoft Inspire, which took place earlier this month in Washington DC. We have a fantastic panel, with participants from various organizations within Microsoft, as well as across the global Microsoft partner ecosystem, including many tweetjam regulars. To...
With Microsoft’s global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, behind us now, I thought we would use this month’s #CollabTalk tweetjam to bring members of the community together to share their takeaways from this fantastic event, which took place this year at the Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington DC. This was...
In a December 7th, 2016 post by Microsoft's Cindy Bates on the US Small and Midsize Business Blog, Bates highlights some data points from a recent survey of over 1,000 consumers that, as she points out, uncover "shifts in the ways customers want to hear from businesses." Bates is the...
For anyone within the Microsoft Partner ecosystem, the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) is “the” event of the year to attend each July. There is no better place to connect with experts and practitioners in every Microsoft category, from every region on the planet. I attended my first WPC in July...
Sitting here on my flight home to Seattle from a week with other partners in Orlando, attending my 6th Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (#WPC15), I’ve had time to reflect on some of what I picked up at this year’s event, and thought I’d share a few thoughts. If you follow...
The Seattle chapter of IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) welcomed Phil Sorgen (@phil_sorgen), Microsoft Channel Chief, to today’s monthly meeting, where he provided a preview of some of the topics he’ll cover in his vision keynote next month at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (#WPC15) taking place in Orlando,...
After three years as co-founder and president of the Seattle Chapter of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP), it is time for a change – and I am excited to share our new chapter leadership team, effective immediately: President — Jeff...
