The Deakin MSP blog is now live, although still a work in progress as we get everything going. "We" being me, and the two other Deakin Microsoft Student Partners, Elmar and Rob.
Some of the content I write for the Deakin MSP blog, I’ll repost here (such as the Its A Microsoft Life).
Last Thursday (21st) Microsoft was kind enough to fly me up to Sydney to attend the two day MSP Bootcamp 2008. I met two MSP’s back at Mix On Campus (but since it was so close to the wedding, I didn’t take anything in), but that’s about all I’ve done as a MSP so far, so it was a great opportunity to meet more fellow MSPs and find out what sort of things they’ve been up to. Turns out, not a lot, as there were so many new MSPs!
The event was to cover what the coming year would bring for MSPs, tips for running our own demos (thanks to Andrew Coates), as well as some of the promotions that Microsoft are running such as Dreamspark, Its Not Cheating (and INC’s Golden Blog competition – more on that later) and one of the best bits….FREEBIES!
Included in the freebies were: 1gb USB stick, a frisbee, two shirts (one tshirt, one polo), itsnotcheating totebag (?), Student Partner stickers, Student Partners branded laptop bag. Oh, and flights, food and accommodation! Edit: photo updated, thanks to Edmund. I forgot we also got Gears of War!
Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough room to bring my laptop and camera up to Sydney with me, but Edmund Tse (another MSP) did, so he’s got a few photos up.
In all serious though, it was fantastic to meet a lot of like minded people, and it was a whole lot of fun. Nick should definitely be commended for doing such a fantastic job of organising it all!
