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• User Group Radio | Bringing community leaders together...

  Jay Smith, one of the awesome community leaders in Northwest Arkansas, has created a new podcast series called User Group Radio .  The idea behind this podcast series is best summed up by jay Smith in the first UGR blog post: Over the last several... Posted Jan 08 2009, 07:10 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, UserGroups, podcast, arkansas

• Dallas Cloud Computing User Group

  Mike Holdorf and Vince Blasberg have collaborated on putting together the inaugural meeting of the Dallas Area Cloud Computing User Group on January 21 from 6-8pm in the Dallas MTC.  It’s great to see the community so excited about embracing the... Posted Jan 07 2009, 09:49 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Dallas, Windows Live, WindowsLive, User Groups, UserGroups, Events, azure, cloud

• I’m Back!

  Sorry things have been so quiet on this blog, but I just got back from my first 2-week vacation since I’ve been at Microsoft and it’s been GREAT!  I (almost) totally unplugged from everything related to my job, and tried to enjoy just *being*. ... Posted Jan 05 2009, 08:00 AM by Chris Koenig Filed under: WeAreMicrosoft, .NET, Fun, UserGroups, Events, GiveCamp

• The night was humid…

  … so we spent it at a local .NET User Group meeting!  If you’re looking for one, you can always check http://www.codezone.com , http://www.southcentraldevelopers.com or this blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig .  Here is the list of upcoming... Posted Sep 12 2008, 05:28 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: Training, .NET, User Groups, Community, UserGroups, Events, oklahoma, louisiana, texas, arkansas

• User Groups in South Central District

  I have begun the process of compiling a giant list of all the developer-focused User Groups across TX, OK, LA and AR.  I know I don't have them all yet, and might not have all the exact details correct on all of them, but I get so many questions... Posted May 27 2008, 08:43 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, UserGroups

• Jennifer Marsman’s ‘Featured Woman in Technology’: Toi B. Wright

  Toi is one of our most active community members in South Central, and I think it’s great that Jennifer was able to connect with Toi for the latest edition of Jennifer’s Women in Technology blog series. Jennifer has been featuring one woman per week who... Posted May 23 2008, 01:30 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, UserGroups, mvp

• .NET Rocks! Interview from Dallas TechFest is LIVE

  The first session of the morning in the .NET Track at Dallas TechFest this year was a panel discussion on Building Communities hosted by our frieds Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks!   The panel consisted of Toi Wright (ASP.NET MVP... Posted May 23 2008, 01:21 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, Community, DallasTechFest, UserGroups, Events, dnr

• InstallFest Poland

  A few months ago, our team worked with several local-area User Groups to put on these events we called InstallFest.  The idea was to get people together talking about all the cool new features Visual Studio 2008 and hand out some free copies of the... Posted Feb 22 2008, 05:02 PM by Chris Koenig Filed under: User Groups, InstallFest, Poland, UserGroups