Just another Microsoft MVPs site
We’re gearing up for a major revision of myITforum.com. Take a quick tour and give it a whirl:
Click the image to view a larger version so you can understand what’s available on the new pages.
Take a look at the new article pages, too…
http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=13957&zoneid=89
We’re getting closer to the dates of the best conference on systems management available, the Microsoft Management Summit 2010. Are you still working to get approval? Are you approved already and can’t wait to get there?
Let us know by participating in the latest MMS 2010 poll:
Are you attending MMS 2010? http://bit.ly/67US95
P.S. We’re working on communications about the annual myITforum.com party at MMS. Keep an eye out for it. Also, there will be a long awaited announcement at MMS 2010 from myITforum.com. Get ready!
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| Could be useful. I'll wait and see how it works out. |  (17.02%) |
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| I hate it! Put it back! |  (51.06%) |
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Click to participate in the poll
Built into our new article system, we’ve implemented a cool, new feature where *anyone* can submit news, links, insider information (anonymous, if you want) and just general news that the System Center community should know about.
As a columnist, the new article system requires a columnist login, but the “reporter” submission system doesn’t. You’ll start to see the new link across the site so it’s easy to submit something quickly and easily. Anything posted is reviewed first, but once it has been authorized for publishing it’ll hit our front pages, RSS streams, Twitter, Facebook, etc., etc. – and all attributed to you.
Give it a whirl using this link:
Have an industry insider tip or news? Submit it here!
Here’s what it looks like (click the image for a larger view):
Yes, its true. You can convert your PSS contract hours into attendance to MMS 2010. If you want to pursue this option to attend MMS 2010, contact your SSR or TAM and request it. If your SSR or TAM has no idea what you are talking about, have them contact the MMS 2010 folks at mmsqs@microsoft.com for guidance on how to set it up internally.
The conversion rate
8 hours of Premier Support time = MMS 2010 registration
**Note: This only covers registration – you still have to pay for your flight, lodging, and miscellaneous expenses (Dinner, etc.).
Ways to Help! – Sharing Knowledge.
Embrace your "inner author" to help teach others
myITforum.com is Powered by You and depends on you to give your time, experience, and knowledge through the web-based forums and email discussion lists, by writing articles as a myITforum.com columnist, by participating in the myITforum.com Wiki, and by becoming a myITforum.com blogger. As you participate in these ways, you help to continue building the myITforum.com reputation, keep the community growing, while also increasing your own professional reputation, skills, and knowledge.
Some of you may be in your specific job because of myITforum.com, and some of you may not have been able to perform your job without myITforum.com. Some of you may have tried other communities and felt like you simply didn't belong there. myITforum.com offers as many ways as possible to ensure success in your professional life. myITforum.com has contributed more members to the Microsoft MVP program than any other organization. Please consider giving back to the community that has given so much to you.
Want your own blog? Just email us: admin@myITforum.com
(blog setup is done in minutes)
Ways to Help! – Going Shopping.
Help your fellow geeks and help myITforum.com
Everyone loves to buy new stuff. Especially when we don't have to leave our comfortable seats to do it! Online shopping is the best thing since sliced bread. So, whether you are after the latest books on SMS or Microsoft Operations Manager, or just looking for a warm winter coat… You can find what your heart desires and help myITforum.com at the same time by using the referral links in our myITforum.com Amazon.com store.
Pass this link on to all your friends, and be sure to use it whenever you shop:
http://www.myitforum.com/myITAmazon.asp
It doesn't cost you any extra cash to use the myITforum.com links. So, have fun shopping and know that you are helping myITforum.com in the process.
Thanks in advance!
We’ve updated the myITforum.com Wiki service today, moving from 2.x to 3.x. With the major update there are a horde of new features that have been added, keeping the myITforum.com Wiki service as the best out there for System Center-related technologies.
Check out the myITforum.com Wiki:
http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/MainPage.ashx
And, take a look at the new features:
http://www.screwturn.eu/NewFeaturesV3.ashx
One of the coolest things about it is that it’s now fully WYSIWYG!
At the top of the main myITforum.com web pages, you can now find quick link icons to connect with the System Center community in various social “settings”.
We’ve added a quick icon for our ever-growing list of RSS feeds, but also to the myITforum.com areas on the popular social networks Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Yes, we have a presence in each of those social networks and have been maintaining those for a long, long while. If you were at MMS 2009, you know the guff I received for being such a prolific Twitterer, but you can also select your social network of choice.
Here’s how you’ll find the icons:
Each year we roll out the fabled myITforum Amazon.com shopping portal graphic. This year is no exception. If you jump out to the main page of myITforum.com right now you’ll see the graphic at the top right.
Why?
The majority of people shop at Amazon.com anyway, so we have partnered with Amazon.com to provide a click-through link straight to Amazon.com. But, the link does a bit more than just take you to Amazon.com, it also provides a special link for myITforum’ers so that any purchases you make at Amazon.com during the holidays generates a small percentage of revenue to help myITforum.com’s financial needs.
Financial needs? Oh yeah. Did you know that myITforum.com employs 3 people and the site also incurs a significant operating cost during the year for hosting, development, administration, etc.? Everything to you on myITforum.com is free, and will always stay that way. But, to keep the lights on we do have financial needs. myITforum.com started small way back when, but has blossomed into the defacto site for all things System Center and Systems Management. The ever-growing amount of traffic is staggering. If I showed you the stats you’d probably pass out and wonder how we’ve managed over the years.
So, just a simple Amazon.com icon on the site is a small way for you to give back – without giving back. Just a simple click through our Amazon.com shopping portal costs you nothing, but provides a good deal of value to us if you use Amazon.com to make any holiday purchases. It won’t keep the lights on, but it definitely helps.
P.S. Feel free to send the info to friends and family.
End-User self-help portals are getting more and more exposure in web articles and industry magazines. This survey is to help Matrix42 understand what you IT administrators are thinking and planning around end-user self-help portals.
Participate in the survey:
http://www.myitforum.com/absolutepm/polls/matrix42.asp