MVP Learnings: User Groups, Web Sites, and Feedback

posted by  mneon (8)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

User Groups

We do great at participating in our conferences, but we don’t focus on the breadth of developer user groups like we should. One of the better ideas was that we provide “presentation kits” to user groups. We create a topic and a talk with additional materials that could be distributed to a network of user group leads and then they could find people locally to give the talk after learning it. The biggest suggestion, however was how we get more MSFT people to talk at user groups. This led to me saying “you get 200 people in a room and I’ll send you