Comments on: Partnering with Microsoft — the myth of a single point of contact http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/ An entrepreneur's journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:26:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Juha Harkonen http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-56437 Juha Harkonen Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:52:28 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-56437 John, Microsoft probably has the widest official web precense from all the vendors. If you want to partner you can start with: - partner.microsoft.com - microsoftstartupzone.com - or www.microsoft.com/dynamics /partnersource if you are Dynamics partner But I do agree that social networking could be better enabled within the community. - Juha John, Microsoft probably has the widest official web precense from all the vendors. If you want to partner you can start with:
- partner.microsoft.com
- microsoftstartupzone.com
- or http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics
/partnersource if you are Dynamics partner

But I do agree that social networking could be better enabled within the community.

- Juha

]]> By: Todd Weatherby http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-18295 Todd Weatherby Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:43:06 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-18295 Hi John...I work on Allison Watson's team in Redmond, Washington, USA. We were discussing your blog post here recently. We're interested in ways to improve networking for Microsoft partners...particularly on-line networking services. Specifically, we're continuing to invest in the MSPP partner portal, including features such as MSPP Channel Builder which you mentioned. https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/40015789 We'd be interested in the top 2-3 most valuable and most practical ideas for improving on-line networking. In the spirit of on-line communities, blogs etc, we would like to use this forum to discuss this w/you and your readers and see where the conversation goes. Thanks for the dialog! - Todd Hi John…I work on Allison Watson’s team in Redmond, Washington, USA. We were discussing your blog post here recently. We’re interested in ways to improve networking for Microsoft partners…particularly on-line networking services. Specifically, we’re continuing to invest in the MSPP partner portal, including features such as MSPP Channel Builder which you mentioned. https://partner.microsoft.com/US/program/40015789

We’d be interested in the top 2-3 most valuable and most practical ideas for improving on-line networking. In the spirit of on-line communities, blogs etc, we would like to use this forum to discuss this w/you and your readers and see where the conversation goes. Thanks for the dialog! – Todd

]]> By: john http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-17898 john Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:02:59 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-17898 Christian -- YES, I am interested! Email or post to let me know where to find this tool. (I think it's official -- the Brits get it. I have to find an excuse to get over to the UK this year.) Christian — YES, I am interested! Email or post to let me know where to find this tool.

(I think it’s official — the Brits get it. I have to find an excuse to get over to the UK this year.)

]]> By: Christian Longstaff http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-17855 Christian Longstaff Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:09:49 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-17855 I work for Steve Clayton as one of the people who have said "Ah ah" and part of the team who run the Partner-TV blog... to compliment this, a small team of us in the UK Partner Group have created a solution to help find; use and leave feedback for some of the benefits you receive as a Microsoft Partner... it's not publically released yet but we are looking for a few Partners to start using it to to collect some feedback to try and make it mainstream. If you are interested, please let me know. I look forward to hearing from you if so. Christian. I work for Steve Clayton as one of the people who have said “Ah ah” and part of the team who run the Partner-TV blog… to compliment this, a small team of us in the UK Partner Group have created a solution to help find; use and leave feedback for some of the benefits you receive as a Microsoft Partner… it’s not publically released yet but we are looking for a few Partners to start using it to to collect some feedback to try and make it mainstream. If you are interested, please let me know.

I look forward to hearing from you if so.

Christian.

]]> By: steve clayton http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-17847 steve clayton Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:26:00 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-17847 thanks for the kind words guys. we're trying to spread the blog/video blog word out around the partner world and I can assure you that Allison is aware of this post and listening :) thanks for the kind words guys. we’re trying to spread the blog/video blog word out around the partner world and I can assure you that Allison is aware of this post and listening :)

]]> By: Chris Garza http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-16743 Chris Garza Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:31:03 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-16743 This is so true and a terrifically articulate post. We are creating some solutions around Microsoft's Unified Communications products. Does anyone have some best practices they can share? Any "networking" we can do on this subject is greatly appreciated. This is so true and a terrifically articulate post. We are creating some solutions around Microsoft’s Unified Communications products. Does anyone have some best practices they can share? Any “networking” we can do on this subject is greatly appreciated.

]]> By: john http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-15143 john Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:36:43 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-15143 Now THAT's what I'm talking about. Thanks, Steve! Let's hear it for the UK -- and for isolated efforts in the individual regions in the US, and anybody else within Microsoft trying to use 21st century tools for community building. And yes -- please point Mike Pallot my way. The human-to-human work Microsoft does generally hits the mark -- for example, I was at a partner-to-partner "speed dating" event today organized by Suzanne Levine of the Northern California partner organization, which was excellent. The idea of building an online community through blogs and Partner-TV is great -- and far more likely to succeed than trying to use centralized command-and-control database-driven tools so popular with the Microsoft Mothership. I fear that there's somebody on the SQL Server team whispering to the Partner Program people "if only you get the table structure just right, a community will emerge." This mentality has plagued the Microsoft Partner Web Site for years, and while there have been some improvements, those improvements are more in operations than mindset. Much, much more of this another day... Now THAT’s what I’m talking about. Thanks, Steve! Let’s hear it for the UK — and for isolated efforts in the individual regions in the US, and anybody else within Microsoft trying to use 21st century tools for community building. And yes — please point Mike Pallot my way.

The human-to-human work Microsoft does generally hits the mark — for example, I was at a partner-to-partner “speed dating” event today organized by Suzanne Levine of the Northern California partner organization, which was excellent. The idea of building an online community through blogs and Partner-TV is great — and far more likely to succeed than trying to use centralized command-and-control database-driven tools so popular with the Microsoft Mothership. I fear that there’s somebody on the SQL Server team whispering to the Partner Program people “if only you get the table structure just right, a community will emerge.” This mentality has plagued the Microsoft Partner Web Site for years, and while there have been some improvements, those improvements are more in operations than mindset.

Much, much more of this another day…

]]> By: steve clayton http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-15054 steve clayton Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:49:47 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-15054 great post and very fair comment. here in the UK Partner Group we've been working to try to forge a closer relationship with partners through trying to help them get to know more people within the group and using blogs and Partner-TV (http://blogs.msdn.com/ptstv/default.aspx) to put a human face on the many contacts partners are likely to have with our group. Hopefully we can extend this type of thing worldwide so would love to hear what you think. Great site btw...I'm going to point Mike Pallot in our group your way as he works on HPC. great post and very fair comment. here in the UK Partner Group we’ve been working to try to forge a closer relationship with partners through trying to help them get to know more people within the group and using blogs and Partner-TV (http://blogs.msdn.com/ptstv/default.aspx) to put a human face on the many contacts partners are likely to have with our group. Hopefully we can extend this type of thing worldwide so would love to hear what you think. Great site btw…I’m going to point Mike Pallot in our group your way as he works on HPC.

]]> By: marc http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/comment-page-1/#comment-11308 marc Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:16:45 +0000 http://powersunfiltered.com/2006/11/28/partnering-with-microsoft-the-myth-of-a-single-point-of-contact/#comment-11308 Referenced this post on my blog Referenced this post on my blog

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