Windows 7 Volume Licensing

Author: Jim Karl
The Windows® 7 operating system (OS) will help business users around the world become more productive and will help IT departments enhance security and control and streamline PC management.
Microsoft® Volume Licensing solutions provide the most flexible, cost effective way to give your clients access to the latest Windows desktop technologies.  Whether they want [...]

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Effective Dashboards

Author:  Joan Muschamp
As we struggle with information overload, dashboards are becoming more and more essential to decision making, and not only at the executive level. But, as with traditional technology “deployments” dashboards are too often built without the end result in mind. They get loaded up with whiz-bang features and graphical representations that grab attention [...]

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Sales Compensation Plans-2010

Author: Ken Thorenson
Sales Compensation Planning for 2010   Now??
It takes time to get it right. As sales leaders or executives everyone must be focused on exceeding the end of year sales quota’s and budgets-but alas- it is mid-September and October will be quickly on top of you.  Over the next few weeks I will be discussing [...]

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Influencers vs. Fans: Where’s the ROI?

Author: Jeremy Epstein
Conventional wisdom about how to “get the word out” about your products is focused on finding and relating to the “influencers.” If you do this, so we’re told, you will get the “big hit” from a mention in a powerful blog or mainstream media publication and that will drive traffic to your website, [...]

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Microsoft to Stop VB6 Support?

Author: George Porzuc
Ok folks -
I have heard that MS is getting ready to stop support for VB6 is this correct? I have a product that uses VB6 as the base and need to know if we need to do a rewrite to .NET – already have some issues with COM+ not working any longer… and [...]

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Looking for good people?

PartnerPoint has partnered with the Microsoft® Students to Business (S2B) team again to drive awareness of their incredible service to our members. The Microsoft® Students to Business (S2B) team helps you locate qualified entry-level and internship candidates with Microsoft skills for your business. See more here:
http://www.partnerpoint.com/Communities/S2BProgram/tabid/542/Default.aspx

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New LinkedIn Applications Announced

Well, I got the formal notification from LinkedIn today that they have launched their eagerly awaited Applications, and I thought I would let you know in case you had’nt heard.
I LOVE the idea of having more ways to customize our presence on LinkedIn, similar to what we can do on FaceBook, and I really hope [...]

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New PartnerPoint FaceBook Widget – Point Partners to PartnerPoint :->

We have added a cool new feature to your Facebook account if you have added our PartnerPoint Community Application .  If you haven’t added this yet and are curious, you can click on the previous link to learn more.  We have about 2,200 member installs to date.
This new feature will now show a PartnerPoint icon [...]

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Recipricol Link Update

We recently asked our members to consider adding a link to our community on their websites, and the response was overwhelming.  I would like to thank all of you that participated.  It is greatly appreciated.  As promised, I have added a link for each of you on our new Member Spotlight page which you can see [...]

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LinkedIn Upgrades

As you are probably aware, LinkedIn has released quite a few new features lately.  One new set of features was the upgraded Group functionality that we have been eagerly awaiting.  It is a great start for sure, and I hope they continue to upgrade it (For example, I wish it was easier to tell what [...]

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