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Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın) - Microsoft introduced the first in a planned series of online communities for users of its Dynamics applications to provide forums where peers can exchange best practices. Centered around specific industries or job titles

the first community is aimed at finance professionals such as corporate controllers

finance managers and accountants.
The software vendor made the announcement at its Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego as a way to help its Dynamics customers better connect with their external communities of customers

suppliers and partners.
"You can think of it as the MySpace for financial professionals

" said Satya Nadella

corporate vice president of Microsoft's Business Solutions group. "It's how you can have a Convergence [show] 365 days a year."
In talking to customers

one of their main reasons for attending the Convergence show is to engage with their peers

said James Utzschneider

general manager of Dynamics marketing at Microsoft. The vendor has been spending a lot of time recently looking at the Web 2.0 world to discover how the social network technology mostly aimed at teenagers could be applied to a business setting

he added.
Microsoft demonstrated the online community concept at last year's Convergence conference and plans to bring more communities online later this year.
The online finance community can be accessed on
Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın . It features forums

blogs

articles

columns and tagging. While Microsoft has created the fabric of the site

the vendor intends it to be run by the community

according to Craig Dewar

director of Microsoft's Dynamics community marketing. That's why the site is as yet unnamed

with Microsoft encouraging the community to vote on what to call itself. Users also have the option to rate :-):-):-):-):-):-):-) within the community. So

far the name "Net Knowledge" is proving the most popular

trailed by "Finance Forum" and "Capital Chat."
In about a month

Microsoft will go live with further networking capability on the site so that users can create working groups within the community

which are either open to everyone or private where participants receive invitations to join

Dewar said. He sees the upcoming functionality as a good opportunity for user groups to establish themselves in the online community.
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