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Time for introductions! Clubhouse Community, greatfully encounter Roudi. He is an ex-Imagine Cup aspirant which we met during my time in Cairo as good as is SUPER ardent about a energy of Microsoft technology.  He is intensely associating as good as we am certain he will be a good item to a Clubhouse community.

Roudi was kind sufficient to answer a couple of questions so which we can all get to know him a tiny better.

Tell me a tiny bit about yourself. Where do we live? Where do we work? Etc.

Hello. My name is Roudi Hamzeh. we am from Lebanon, a tiny nation located in a Middle East of Asia. we graduated from a American University of Science as good as Technology with a BS in Computer Science as good as Computer Communication as good as Engineering. we am right away completing my Master’s grade in Computer Science as good as Marketing. we right away work during Microsoft as a Microsoft Student Partner Lead as good as an Assistant Captain for a Imagine Cup 2010 Software Design Competition. My stream pursuit during Microsoft allows me to do utterly a bit. Typically, we go to universities as good as benefaction about Microsoft technologies as good as programs similar to Windows 7 – Windows Live –Imagine Cup Competition – Student 2 Business – DreamSpark – Visual Studio 2010 – Silverlight – WPF – Expression Studio – SQL Server as good as most more. we unequivocally similar to my work since we similar to to bond with people as good as sense a approach they indeed feel about technology.

What done we wish to stick upon a Clubhouse?

Clubhouse… Great place to share, sense as good as explore. I’m vehement to bond with professionals as good as enthusiasts as good as listen to about their practice with technology.

What is your a one elite underline of Windows Live? How do we make make use of of it?

I would have elite if we asked my slightest a one elite underline in Windows Live. This total height or make use of is unequivocally good as good as combines fun with professionalism! we make make use of of Sky Drive to upload my files. we already combined multiform groups for Microsoft Student Partners where they can plead as good as share information. we combined a blog in Spaces (roudihamzeh.spaces.live.com). All a facilities in Windows Live assistance me synchronize my work as good as Making My Life Easier. Oh, we can’t dont think about Movie Maker, Windows Live Messenger, Writer as good as a rest of a Windows Live Essentials.

What is your a one elite underline of Windows 7? Why?

When we privately speak about Windows 7, we confess which it is my a one elite OS Microsoft has created. Windows 7 has altered a approach a Personal Computer works, creation things some-more simplified. My laptop is not as irritating as it once was. It takes reduction time to boot. we can simply entrance a large files which we have upon my PC. As we pronounced in my initial Clubhouse posts about windows 7, we have a outrageous volume of files upon my laptop as good as we frequency could find these files when we indispensable them. But now, simply write a name which we recollect about any record or printed matter in a poke bar, as good as there it is; really quick opening which satisfies my needs.

You participated in a Imagine Cup previously; discuss it us a tiny bit about a module as good as your knowledge with it.

I participated in a Local foe in Lebanon as good as won a 1^st place, giving me a possibility to contest in a Worldwide Finals in Egypt. My plan was called Service to Survive, where we could trade products as good as services but regulating money. My complement was radically a pattern which searches all a products which we need as good as posted upon S2S as good as review it with alternative products to trade against. The shipping costs have been lonesome by a donors as good as United Nations. And if we need to go over a thought of competing, we would gladly speak about how Imagine Cup became an journey which combined most friends to my hit list from over 83 countries around a world. Can we suppose this? One Event, One World, Unlimited Possibilities…

Now we am aiding a students who have been participating in Imagine Cup 2010 as a Software Design Assistant Captain.

Please assistance me in welcoming Roudi Hamzeh to a Clubhouse community. I’m certain he will feel right during home.

Cheers,
Matt

Clubhouse Community!

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