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Nice to encounter we all! My name is Matt Bernardy as well as we am gratified to contend which we will be your brand brand new Community Manager. we know which Marcus was desired by we all as well as we have the little large boots to fill, though we am vehement to get started.

So who am we anyway? Wow! Where to start? we adore skiing. I’m abnormally tall. we suffer traveling. we adore reading. My the one preferred tone is blue. we am the bit of an adrenaline junky. But many importantly, we adore record as well as the gigantic possibilities it represents.

It might come as the warn to we which we didn’t regularly have this opinion. As the have the difference of fact, it was the year we outlayed operative upon Microsoft’s Imagine Cup which non-stop my eyes. After graduating from the University of Washington, we began operative upon the Imagine Cup as the Competition Manager/Digital Marketing Consultant. The Imagine Cup is the premiere record foe for students around the world. Competitors have been approaching to emanate record solutions which assistance compromise the “toughest problems confronting the universe today.” Finalists experience in dual online rounds prior to they transport to the Worldwide Finals, which have been hold in the opposite city each year. we was advantageous sufficient to attend the eventuality final year in Cairo, Egypt in sequence to blog the event.

In the shade of the Great Pyramids of Giza, we was surrounded by the brightest up-and-coming minds in the record industry, all requesting their creativity as well as bent to rise solutions to the little of the World’s many formidable problems. we was amazed. Then, as we mostly do when we am amazed, we proposed thinking…  If record could assistance compromise the complaint as outrageous as universe hunger, we gamble there have been thousands of ways people request it to have their each day lives easier. A couple of reduced months later, we was offering the on all sides which will concede me to try this thought each singular day. Funny how things work out.  

As your Community Manager, we will be aiding the complete village in the query to find brand brand new as well as engaging ways of requesting Microsoft technology. But, as the Clubhouse newbie as well as deputy of the people, we need to know what we think. What do we similar to about the Clubhouse? What do we not like? What hurdles do we enjoy? What tips do we have for me? What do we wish to know about me?

Don’t be shy. My Twitter hoop is @mattbernardy. If we do not make use of Twitter, post the criticism as well as we will respond. we demeanour brazen to conference what we think!

Again, good to encounter we all!

Cheers,
Matt

We not long ago finished a tiny ascent to a Clubhouse which right away enables we to supplement some-more than a singular blog (up to 5) for each Windows Live ID we make use of inside of a Clubhouse.  Now we can say mixed blogs as good as mixed feeds as good as have all of those trustworthy to a singular form for you. 

To supplement a blog feed, click upon Your Profile during a tip of a Clubhouse site, afterwards click upon a Edit couple subsequent to About my blogs:

You’ll see your form switch in to “edit mode” as good as a brand brand brand brand new symbol during a bottom to supplement a brand brand brand brand new blog:

Note we can Deactivate stream blogs here as well.  Click a Add symbol as good as afterwards fill in a form:

We goal we suffer this brand brand brand brand new capability.  It’s generally accessible if we wish to pierce blogs from a singular place to another.  Just supplement a brand brand brand brand new blog, afterwards deactivate a aged one.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

Thanks to all of we who common your feedback as well as ideas to assistance us have Windows 7 a most appropriate handling complement recover ever!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

As you come in in to the last week heading up to the launch of Windows 7, I’ve been meditative about only how distant PCs as well as Windows have come over the years.  One of the areas where we’ve seen the small of the biggest leaps brazen is in the area of entertainment.  Back in the 80s as well as 90s, who would have guessed how many of an party device the Personal Computer would become?

What’s your the one preferred interesting thing to do you upon your Windows 7 PC?  Play games?  Chat with friends as well as family?  Download as well as fool around music?  Record as well as watch TV?  Share your stories as well as your how-to tips to have the party knowledge improved by checking out the Clubhouse as well as the many new challenge upon this really subject.

After all, you can all make use of the small some-more fun as well as the small reduction work, right?

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

You’ve substantially listened all about the Windows 7 launch parties, as well as we goal most of we practical as well as were comparison to horde your really own party.  If we longed for the focus deadline, weren’t selected, or have been only seeking for an additional choice to get the little friends as well as family together, here is your chance.  We’ve combined the special site for Windows 7 Meetups with lots of report as well as resources to assistance we move folks together to applaud Windows 7.

I goal you’ll take the little time to check out the Meetup site to devise your event, entice guests, as well as horde the successful gathering.

Thank you to everybody who filled out a Clubhouse consult which wrapped up final week.  you longed for to share with everybody a little of a things you listened from you about a Clubhouse privately as good as about a Windows Community in general.  We’ll be operative upon specific skeleton in any of these areas in a months brazen as good as demeanour brazen to pity those with you as you get them developed.

• The infancy of you revisit a Clubhouse site every day or weekly
• Reading what alternative members have posted is a many renouned activity, followed closely by pity your own blog posts
• 89% of you correlate with any alternative outward a Clubhouse, regulating things similar to Twitter as good as Windows Live Groups
• 81% of you pronounced which a Clubhouse has helped you get some-more out of a products as good as services you make use of
• Two areas which surfaced a list of things to urge – adding some-more interactivity without delay in to a Clubhouse and/or joining off to compared sites similar to Microsoft Answers as good as adding a poke underline to element a tab clouded cover
• We additionally listened from you about a need to enlarge a prominence of your contributions, adding some-more badges to commend what you share, creation it simpler to embody video clips, mending formatting of posts, as good as a multiform alternative equipment we’re researching

Thanks again for receiving a time to share your feedback with us.  It’s your community, so your submit is undeniably critical as you devise a improvements to a Clubhouse as good as alternative village sites as good as programs.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

If you haven’t already, greatfully review this post about a Clubhouse Survey as well as take a impulse to share your thoughts with us.  With your input, you demeanour brazen to formulation as well as office building an even improved Clubhouse for a Windows Community.  If you’ve already filled out a survey, appreciate you!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

As Windows village members, you all have common a little good how-to tips as well as stories about Windows in a past multiform months.  You’ve helped a lot of people assimilate some-more about what they can do with Windows Live, Windows 7, as well as many not long ago Windows 7 as well as Windows Home Server. 

Now, I’d similar to to ask you to assistance a greatest village of all – world Earth – by pity your tips upon how to “go green” with your PC.  You can review some-more about this Clubhouse Challenge upon a Clubhouse site.  If you’re not already a part of of a Clubhouse, this would be a good possibility to join. 

Thanks for all you do, as well as generally interjection in allege for your tips upon how you can all have reduction stroke upon a environment, save energy, as well as have a Windows Personal Computer knowledge greener.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

As we enter upon upon a second year of a Clubhouse, we’re starting to go on to have certain a site as well as a broader Windows village continues to be all about you.  To have certain we’re we do what we want, we’d conclude a impulse of your time to fill out a first ever Clubhouse Survey located here. How do we make use of a Clubhouse today?  What do we wish to see next?  We have a couple of ideas of a own, though what we caring many about is what we think.  The consult is usually up as well as using by Sep 22, so greatfully revisit soon.

Thank we really most for your assistance in office building a improved Clubhouse as well as a some-more colourful Windows community!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager