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Link Regional Speakers Program
Link Newsletter in a Nutshell
Link Up to the Challenge?
Link Community Champions News
Link It's All About the Tools
Link What's new on INETA Live?
Link Pluralsight Offers for INETA Members
Link Thrive for Developers now Live
Link Community Events
Link Upcoming Speaker Bureau Events
Link Contact INETA
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 Keeping Up with INETA
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 Regional Speakers Program

Last month, INETA NorAm announced the new Regional Speakers Program. The goal of the program is two-fold: to provide a place for user group leaders to find speakers to come talk to their groups' meetings and other events and to provide people interested in speaking at a regional level more experience and increased presentation skills through resources and speaking opportunities.  To date, over 100 people have signed up to join the program. 

For those who want to speak, all you have to do is register yourself. Your registration record will tell others a little about you including topics you can speak on and where you are interested in speaking.

For user group leadership, you can search for potential speakers and launch a peer-to-peer conversation to make appropriate arrangements. The program is designed such that a user group could potentially schedule all of its speakers here.

You can find out more about the Regional Speaker Program in the Frequently Asked Questions. Please contact us with any comments and feedback.

Randy Walker
Director of Speakers, INETA NorAm
randy.walker@ineta.org
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 Newsletter in a Nutshell

In this newsletter, we offer updates on two programs announced last month, the Regional Speakers Program and the Component Code Challenge, the new Community Champions winners and new website, details on a series of presentations on tools you might find useful, new resources available on INETA Live!, information from Thrive on how to differentiate yourself during today’s tough economy, a special offer on training, and the usual lists of Community Events and Upcoming Speakers Bureau events.  Enjoy!
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 Up to the Challenge?
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Ask any .NET developer and I bet the vast majority will tell you that PDC is the MUST attend conference of the year.  Here at INETA, we realize that times are tough and thought now would be a good time to give away two trips to PDC.  Each trip includes air, hotel and conference pass.  All we ask is you take some time to build an application using some third party components.

This could be something new or even something that you have been working on for a while.  It could even be something you are doing at work.

All you have to do is take a 5 minute video telling us why your application is so cool and you are in the running.  The judges will be evaluating submissions on many different criteria so even if you are new to a component, you still have a good chance to win.

Participating vendors:
\n SoftwareAmyuni Technologies Inc.
AtalasoftCodejock Software
ComponentOneDart Communications
Developer Express Farpoint
ActiveReportsInfragistics
NevronSoftware FX, Inc.
Syncfusion, IncTelerik

So what are you waiting for? Get busy, the deadline to get submissions in is August 25th.  Get all of the details at http://www.ineta.org/codechallenge.

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 Community Champions News
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INETA Community Champion Award Winners Q2 2009

Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the Q2 2009 INETA Community Champion Award!

  • Andrew Karcher
  • Michael Steinberg
  • Rachel Appel
  • Todd Stone
  • David Mohundro
  • Zachariah Young

The purpose of the INETA Community Champion Award program is to recognize individuals with the highest levels of contributions. Those exceptional leaders and volunteers who devote innumerable hours towards hosting user group meetings, organizing Code Camps and special events, mentoring and supporting their members, publishing newsletters, updating web sites, and the list goes on and on. The Community Champion program provides INETA with an opportunity to showcase the efforts of our user group communities as a whole as well as provide individual recognition. Recognition that we hope will open doors to networking opportunities, potential sponsors, future employers or partnerships.

Special thanks to everyone who took the time and energy to participate in this program. Keep contributing to your local developer community and submit your activities through the Champs program. This is your chance to show the world what community leadership is all about and to gain some of the recognition that you deserve! For additional information and to view past winners, please go to the Community Champions site at http://www.inetachamps.com.

INETA Champs Program Launches New Website

After getting lots of great feedback from the community and lots of work by the Champs team we are proud to announce a new version of the INETA Champs Website (http://www.inetachamps.com). Our goal with the updated site was to reduce the amount of time and effort it takes for you to tell us what is going on in your community. The new site is completely written in ASP.NET MVC and utilizes single sign on allowing you to log in with your Live, Google, Yahoo, or OpenID account. We invite you to take a look at the new site (http://www.inetachamps.com) and start telling us about your activities today. Additionally if you have any feedback about the site or the Champs program in general feel free to email us at noram.champs@ineta.org or use the feedback module on the site.

Thank you.

INETA Community Champions Team
noram.champs@ineta.org
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 It's All About the Tools

Russ’ Tool Shed presents… It’s All About The Tools – the TV Show! Microsoft Developer Evangelist Russ Fustino has put together an internet-based TV series filmed in front of a live studio audience that is entertaining, enlightening, and educational.  Three episodes have already been released on Channel 9 with more to come.  All three episodes run approximately one hour each.

Episode 1 covers tools including Live Services Virtual Earth integrated with SQL 2008 Geospatial support, Sysinternals, Fiddler, WPF Application Styling and more. Episode 2 includes VSTS DB Pro, SQL Reporting Services, Virtual PC, DotNetNuke and the Web Installer, and MSBuild talking to Twitter. Episode 3 includes Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow, IE8 Dev Tools, SSIS Data Profiler, Live ID services and more.

Sample code, PowerPoints and demo scripts for the demos are available at http://code.msdn.com/toolshed.  Download links for the tools can be found at http://channel9.msdn.com/toolshed.

If you don't have an hour to spend or are just interested in particular tools, check out the Tool Shed Tooltips -- clips from the episodes, one per tool.  Make some popcorn and enjoy the show!

Remember, you have to know the code to get in the shed.  KNOW THE CODE!
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 What's New on INETA Live

INETA: Career Webinar Series

The INETA: Career webinar series, presented by Hector Hernandez of Sherlock Technology Staffing, has been completed.  All of the presentations are now available on INETA Live!

You don't need talent to succeed, but Everything else Counts...

How to talk to your manager about your career and actually make it happen...

Unlocking the hidden value of your organization through people, technology and innovation...

Unlock YOUR potential, by Applying the New Language of Business - CTRL-ALT-DEL your Career

Community Radio

Community Radio is a new series of podcasts recorded on the road at community events. Hosted by Steve Andrews, these recordings focus on topics of interest to the community such as speaking, writing, podcasting, and user group management. They can be found on the INETA Live site under the new Audio section  (http://live.ineta.org/audio/).

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 Pluralsight Offers for INETA Members
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Pluralsight On-Demand! Training – 30% OFF a 1-Year subscription ($500 value)
 Pluralsight is the premier Microsoft® .NET Training provider and home to many of the top authorities on .NET today.  On-Demand! is a subscription-based library of online Microsoft® .NET Training modules you can access from anywhere, anytime, while still learning from the best in the field. Subscribe using Promo Code: INETANEWS-100-SFG5-5ZM8 or click here for more information.

Unemployed? Get Pluralsight On-Demand! Training – FREE 1-Month Trial subscription
Are you currently unemployed and needing to sharpen your .NET skills to get a job? In support of INETA, Pluralsight is pleased to offer unemployed .NET User Group members a FREE 1-month unrestricted On-Demand! trial subscription. Contact your User Group Leader for details or click here for more information.
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 Thrive for Developers now Live
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Learn from industry leaders and community developers who are sharing their top recession survival strategies. These seasoned coders are tackling the economy head-on – and coming out on top. At Thrive for developers, you’ll also find career advice, job postings, training resources. Visit Thrive for Developers today. www.microsoft.com/thrivedev
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 Community Events

Upcoming Conferences

Best Practices ConferenceWashingtonDC08/24-26/09
DevLink 2009NashvilleTN08/13-15/09
St. Louis Day of .NETSt. LouisMO08/28-29/09
SharePoint Conference 2009Las VegasNV10/19-22/09

Code Camps and Other Events

SharePoint Saturday DallasIrvingTX07/25/09
Baton Rouge SQL SaturdayBaton RougeLA08/01/09
South Florida SQL SaturdayMiramarFL08/08/09
Jacksonville .NET Code CampJacksonvilleFL08/29/09
Tallahassee .NET Code CampTallahasseeFL09/05/09
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 Upcoming Speaker Bureau Events
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KC .NET User GroupOverland ParkKSTim Huckaby07/21/09
CRINETA - Cedar Rapids INETACedar RapidsIAMiguel Castro08/03/09
LA C# Developers GroupLos AngelesCAClaudio Lassala08/04/09
Southern California .Net Developers GroupLong BeachCAClaudio Lassala08/05/09
Iowa .NET User Group Des MoinesIAPaul Sheriff08/06/09
Southern Maryland .NETCaliforniaMDKevin McNeish08/10/09
Chattanooga Area .NET User GroupChattanoogaTNMark Dunn08/11/09
Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group (NWADNUG)FayettevilleARCaleb Jenkins08/11/09
Huntsville VS.NET Users GroupHuntsvilleALRachel Appel08/11/09
Houston .NET User GroupHoustonTXJason Bock08/13/09
SouthBay.NET User GroupTorranceCABrian Noyes08/13/09
Twin Cities Languages User GroupGolden ValleyMNTed Neward08/13/09
Dallas .NET Users GroupDallasTXBilly Hollis08/13/09
Central Pennsylvania .NET Users GroupHarrisburgPALes Pinter08/18/09
Northern Nevada Software Developers GroupRenoNVPaul Sheriff08/26/09
Philly .NET User GroupDresherPAKathleen Dollard08/26/09
Maine Developer NetworkAugustaMEKathleen Dollard08/27/09
TwinCities XNA User GroupGolden ValleyMNNick Landry08/27/09
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 Contacting INETA North America
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noram.communityactivities@ineta.org The community activities team which coordinates all events and program with the community like launch events, user group leaders summits, etc.
noram.marketing@ineta.org The marketing team responsible for all external correspondence like this newsletter and emails to user group leaders.
noram.membership@ineta.org The membership team responsible for membership applications and member relations.
noram.president@ineta.org Any ideas, concerns, praise, etc. you want to send or if you do not get a response from another email address.
noram.speakers@ineta.org The speakers team responsible for scheduling and coordinating INETA expert speakers.
noram.sponsorship@ineta.org The sponsorship team responsible for acquiring and maintaining sponsors.
noram.technology@ineta.org The technology team responsible for infrastructure and email.
noram.volunteers@ineta.org Inquiries about becoming an INETA NorAm volunteer.
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