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Free Website Hosting for INETA User Groups

If you manage a User Group and you need a powerful CMS platform, Sitefinity will meet your needs. The Sitefinity Team and the leading hosting provider DiscountASP.NET are happy to support the INETA community by providing a free Sitefinity Standard Edition License + free website hosting to the INETA UGs.

Our team has developed a special DNUG sample website based on Sitefinity to help UGs enhance collaboration between UG members and facilitate the management of the user group's daily activities. By leveraging the Sitefinity DNUG platform UG members are empowered to:
  • Organize events
  • Share files and photos
  • Participate in forums
  • Write blogs
  • Participate in polls
  • Publish presentations
  • Create job postings
  • Create sponsor listings

The sample site can be implemented in a matter of hours using the special INETA manual/KB. You can easily customize the template and implement your own branding and content organization.

To avail the offer please visit http://www.sitefinity.com/product/features/free-offer.aspx

In addition internationally the following vendors also offer free hosting:
VERIO has hosting for INETA UG members:
http://ineta.mykb.com/Article_7B694.aspx

Free .NET User Group Hosting and Kentico ASP.NET CMS to Boot!
Applied Innovations and Kentico have teamed up to offer a free CMS and hosting account for any .NET user group requiring it. We could probably sneak in some SQL or ITPro groups if we tried! Anyway, Applied Innovations will give the user group a free account, and setup the CMS for you. For more info see http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb840364.htm
Free Live Meeting account for every User Group Leader

URL : http://apac.ineta.org/Newsletter/English/March2008/tabid/325/Default.aspx

We are delighted to be able to announce that in collaboration with Microsoft, INETA APAC is able to offer a free LiveMeeting account to every User Group Leader. We hope that this will prove to be invaluable to you in helping you to run successful meetings, especially when it is not possible to get all of your members to attend the same location at the same time.

This account will provided to you specifically for use within your user group and for the benefit of your user group. Once given your account, you will be provided with a user name and password which you must keep confidential. Only you as the user group leader will be able to schedule meetings, although of course any of your members will be able to join and even run them once set up. Please note that although you will receive a LiveMeeting account with its many benefits, you will not be provided with a telephone conferencing facility - you may use your own if you have one, and LiveMeeting has the ability to provide audio conferencing through any PC which has a speaker and microphone.

Some of the many advantages that you LiveMeeting account will provide include:-
  • The ability to share both audio and video with anyone connected to the internet who has the LiveMeeting client software (a free download) installed.
  • The ability to present both Powerpoint presentations and anything on your desktop to the meeting attendees.
  • The ability to collaborate on documents and other content.
  • The ability to record presentations and events and make them available for review at a later date and time. 

    • You can find out much more about LiveMeeting by going to http://www.livemeeting.com.

    In order to provide with your LiveMeeting account, you will need to send the following information to apac.admin@ineta.org, which will in turn be provided to Microsoft so that the account can be created. Microsoft will keep this information confidential and will not use it to contact you.

    First Name

    Last Name

    Account

    Email

    Ineta

    Time Zone
    (GMT +/-)

    User Group Name

    Example

    Graham

    Watson

    GrahamWatson

    emaill@domain.com

    INETA

    8

    Redmond friends of Microsoft
    DevForce Express

     URL : http://apac.ineta.org/Newsletter/English/July2007/tabid/307/Default.aspx

    DevForce Express is a free developer productivity solution for .NET that is fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio for developing data-intensive client/server applications. DevForce Express includes a core RAD framework, an integrated ORM, advanced UI DataBinding, MVC architecture, and one-click deployment and versioning. It includes all product documentation including "Quickstart" tutorials and demos. Applications built with DevForce Express may be developed, deployed, and resold royalty-free.

    INETA APAC members can obtain a copy of DevForce Express at the url below.

    http://www.ideablade.com/DevForceExpress_Home/registerDownload.aspx?referrer=INETA
    The Developer Library

    URL : http://apac.ineta.org/Newsletter/English/August2008/tabid/329/Default.aspx

     Carry all your tech books with you anytime with one-click reference on Microsoft technologies

    Microsoft Press has developed a virtual library for IT Professionals, developers and information workers who want to learn about Microsoft products and related technologies. And we want to share it with the Microsoft user group members. To learn more about the E-Reference Library, please check http://www.microsoft.com/learning/books/ereference/default.mspx

     The Developer Library
    • The Developer library lets you search across over 100 technology books (New books are added every month!) published by Microsoft Press with one click to locate just the information you are looking for – by topic, code fragments, problems, etc. You can also create your personal bookshelf, bookmark, make notes, and download up to five chapters per month.

    INETA members are entitled to 25% discount on the subscription of the Developer Library.
    Great Microsoft Learning Offers!

     URL: http://apac.ineta.org/Newsletter/English/September2008/tabid/330/Default.aspx

    Microsoft Learning has released a collection of valuable offers for the Ineta user group community. Get the Microsoft Learning products that you want for less. Take advantage today of these special offers for developers by visiting: www.microsoft.com/learning/offers
  • Get a free “Second Shot” at passing a Microsoft Certification exam;please visit: www.microsoft.com/learning /secondshot
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  • For savings on SQL Server learning resources, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/sql/2008 
  • Get great savings on Virtualization learning resources at: www.microsoft.com/learning/virtualization

    •  Free Microsoft Learning “Snacks”

    Learning Snacks are free, short, interactive presentations about popular topics and have been created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. Time-strapped? You can learn something new in less than five minutes!

    Try a “snack” today at: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/snacks

     Social Bookmarking on MSDN and TechNet: A Collaboration Tool

    Microsoft is opening up the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression sites to the worldwide technical community. Social bookmarking is an important element of the overall vision, enabling technical professionals to easily share their web favorites, find and connect with each other, and publish community-generated content directly to our sites.

    In May, we released a preview of our social bookmarking application. Today, we released v1.0 of social bookmarking for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression. Chris Slemp has a blog post going into details of the features in this release, and includes some How-To videos for getting started.

    Your user group could get value from bookmarking in a couple different ways:

  • Develop a list of resources for technical pros in your area. Use the “boston” tag to bookmark great tech bloggers in the Boston area, UG sites, area vendors, and/or projects.
  • Build sets of resources on a topic of recent interest to the group:
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  • An event (e.g. “codecamp”)
  • A very specific technology (e.g. “regularexpressions” or “ipv6”)
  • A broader technology topic, broken down into smaller categories using tags (“sql + explore”, “sql + deploy”, “sql + manage”)

    • Here's an example from a group in Australia who's just started tagging content for their geographically-dispersed team: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/#sort=all&page=0&filter=allcontent&tags=cscperth
    If you'd like to start a tagging project in your user group or in your company/team, and would like to share your experience, please leave a post in the Bookmarking forum. The team is collecting case studies to better understand how groups would like to use bookmarking and to inform requirements for future features such as the ability to define groups (user groups?!) on the MSDN and TechNet sites
    TechEd South-East Asia 2008 SlidesWith close to 3200 delegates, partners, trade visitors and media attended the Microsoft’s premier and largest annual IT conference in South East Asia, the organizers have generously put the slides up for downloads for the various tracks.
    Tech•Ed North America 2009 returns to one-week format

    URL: http://apac.ineta.org/Newsletter/English/October2008/tabid/331/Default.aspx

    Microsoft Tech•Ed is the premiere technical education and networking event for any technology professional interested in learning, connecting and exploring a broad set of current and soon-to-release Microsoft technologies, tools, platforms and services.

    Tech•Ed North America 2009 will be held on May 11-15, 2009 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

    Refer -     http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/
    PDC 08 sessions online for FREE

    URL: http://apac.ineta.org/Newsletter/English/December2008/tabid/332/Default.aspx

    Since 1991, the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attend the PDC to understand the future of the Microsoft platform and to exchange ideas with fellow professionals. You’ll learn about upcoming products, meet Microsoft’s leaders and top engineers, write some code, and be inspired! Unplug for a few days and think about the future.

    The slides and session recordings has been made available for free at https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx
     
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