Community Star Discussions and Future
In my continuing discussion with Community Stars across the country, I had a discussion today with Sadashiv. Though he works out of chennai and was here for a short trip, he found time today to discuss the opportunities for Community Star program to improve on.
Some of thoughts we generated out of the discussion are as follows:
1. Community Stars are disengaged 'cause of lack of communication with them from MS. Better communication channels need to be developed.
2. Award experience and delivery of the Community Star benefits leave a lot to be desired.
3. Community Stars feel that MS is not laying enough importance on Community Stars and do not value their contributions much. More information needs to flow to CSs.
From our end, we are doing the following:
1. Launch an extranet portal exclusively for Community Stars. We will host issue submission on this site. Also, we will share opportunities via this site e.g. beta opportunities
2. Re-launch the Community Star distributi...
Comments
I was just browsing through your blog... really enjoyed your post. Good going, cheers for you. Regarding blogstar i have question, that why still after so much time we haven't recieved any official mail from Microsoft stating a winner of Blogstar.... what could be the reason. Can you please find out the reason as other MVP also have the same question.
Vivek
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