By Craig Dewar
Over here on the community team we have been hard at work on many improvements for you. This past week we released two of them to you.
Thomson Reuters Partnership – We know you value all the different content that is available here on the community and we are constantly on the lookout for new things to add for you. We have now finalized a partnership with the Tax & Accounting practice of Thomson Reuters. They are a leading provider of technology and integrated information for tax and corporate professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms and government. The first result of this partnership is the RIA SEC/GAAP Watch blog which features announcements and analysis on all the important changes going on in the world of the SEC, FASB and GAAP space. We know many of you in our Finance community will find great value from subscribing to this feed. We are also exploring republishing some of the articles from a variety of Thomson Reuter publications for your use.
Business Networking – The Microsoft Dynamics Community grew out of our Convergence conference and the desire to provide you a place to learn and connect with each other year round. A big part of this is forming and maintaining long term relationships with others in the community. The new business networking release gives you a set of tools to help with this. You can access this new functionality in the networking section here. The way this works is just like in real life… you just exchange business cards with people. Below you can see my business card from the community. All I need to do is select the send business card option and enter the people I want to network with.
Later this year we will extend this functionality to have the community platform automatically suggest people that you might like to network with. It will do this by finding the people with profiles most similar to you. People with the same sorts of jobs, in the same industries, with similar sized companies and so on.
We hope you enjoy the improvements and look out for even more in the near future
Get networking!
| About the Author |
| Craig is a 13 year Microsoft veteran with a breadth of experience across the company. Craig currently leads the Microsoft Dynamics Community team who focus on events such as Convergence and the application of online community in business. Prior to joining Microsoft Craig spent time working in the telecommunications and legal industries. Craig originally comes from Wellington, New Zealand and holds a BSc in Physics from Victoria University. |