Today an article of mine has been posted to the Dynamics CRM Team blog as a guest post. This article discusses all the books which are currently available for Dynamics CRM 4.0. Next to these books you can of course get a lot of information in trainings, MOC's, the SDK and from the internet. Drop by at the team blog to look at which books are available and which matches your needs.
Hi Guys,
As a reward for community work last year, Microsoft has again reawarded me the Microsoft CRM MVP! I am very much pleased with this award because as one of my colleagues said: Getting to the top is hard, but staying there is even harder!
Last year I have spend a lot of time on doing community work again. I have spend a lot of time preparing for presentations like deepdive sessions and CRM 4.0 presentations. Furthermore this blog has been extended with quite some posts. And although there were not as much posts from me as in the year before, I did do spend a lot of time on the newsgroups en forums to help out people.
Once again I would like to encourage all of you to share your knowledge. Answer questions in newsgroups and forums. Or prepare a presentation about something you have been working on and share this with your colleagues. My girlfriend has a t-shirt which says: "Knowledge is power". I agree with that, but I am confident that sharing knowledge is even more powerfull!
See you around in the communities!
One of my fellow CRM MVP's has just decided to start blogging as well. Please welcome David Jennaway in this world by paying a visit to his already valueable blog:
http://mscrmuk.blogspot.com/
Hi Guys,
As a reward for community work last year, Microsoft has reawarded me the Microsoft CRM MVP!
My community work includes:
- Around 1000 newsgroup and forum posts.
- Around 75 blog posts, of which 35 self written articles. The blog had more than 75k visitors.
- Writing the article "Many to many relationships" for the CRM Team blog and the article "The power of choice" for CRN.
- Working as 'Ask the Expert' at the Convergence both in San Diego and Munich.
- Other tasks like participating in the Titan beta, answering hunderds of direct mails and delivering product team feedback.
This year again I plan on continuing my community work. Also, if you see a question somewhere and you have the answer? Please take the time to answer the question and help this person out. We all started with questions, including myself, and helping people with your knowledge is one of the greatest things you can do. And one day you might even get awarded an MVP award as well :)
See you in the community!
My fellow MVP Matt Wittemann has created a custom search which searches through all of the blogs listed on the blog list. You can search through all of these blogs by going to this page:
http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=007820608918962702080%3Ao4ydxw03wpa
or go to Matt's blog and perform a search from there.
Thanks Matt!
Update:
Not only Matt has created such a list, also Mitch Milam has created such a seach:
http://www.crmaccelerators.net/searchcrm.aspx
And also Maarten Dominicus has created that:
http://www.google.com/custom?cx=006153342194408151232%3Aji9yuqn0bms
The choice is up to you :)
As you can see I have changed the blogger settings to match the new blogger style. This does mean that labels are now used, the history browser is optimized and I should have some new features as author. I still have to find that out, but for now the template is a bit changed. I'll work on that soon!
Once upon a time in the Netherlands there was this developer who was working on MSCRM for quite some time. He started to notice that he had to search again and again for the same questions. Luckily he heard about the term 'blogging' and so he started to post the most frequent questions on a blog. The goal was to be able to quickly retrieve the information that he had found earlier. The fact that other people also read his blog and save themselves time to figure everything out themselves is just an added value to the blog.
Now with this knowledge you will understand why I post this piece of code:
Today I received a comment on the post around CRM Blogs from David Yack. If I wanted to update his entry in the list. Ofcourse I did so. In fact, I have searched around the internet and updated the complete list. I believe all records are up to date. If any MS CRM related blog is still missing, please let me know. Here's a link to the list:
The official MS CRM Blog List:
http://ronaldlemmen.blogspot.com/2006/03/crm-blog-world.html
Jim Glass e-mailed me some time ago. This was the content:
Now even easier to remember! This blog is accessible from the url: http://www.ronaldlemmen.com
Still running on blogger's engine, but since I received my first ad's paycheck I'm able to serve you even better.
Ronald
Hi,
Earlier this week I removed the popups from this page, now I have added a useful functionality. If you know for sure that I wrote an article about something, then just search for the words you remember. The textbox on the right side will only search this blog.
So far about searching the blog. Now something about searching in CRM.
Do you know on which fields of the entity the quick search is searching on? Or have you ever wanted to make the search also search another field, but it didn't work? Then you must have missed this feature: Quick Find View.
If you go to the customization page of the entity you wish to change, then go to "Forms and views". There is a view called "Quick Find Active [entityname]". On this view there is an option to set the search fields. There you can see and change the fields on which the quick find is searching on.
At least, on this blog...
I've been using Nedstat for sitestatistics from the start of this blog. They have been taken-over by webstats4u.com. I didn't mind that much, but ever since there have been appearing popups on the blog. Now I'm running google analytics on the blog. They give a lot nicer reports and they do that without popups! Have fun with the improved user experience :)
See here a screenshot of the report of last week:
After 10.5 months of blogging, 50 posts after the "hello world" posting, this blog has been grown to what I hoped it would be. A place to find interesting information regarding MS CRM with a personal touch. Obviously this is being appreciated by the CRM community because as of this day I have had over 10.000 visitors!
Thanks to all of you!
Wonderfull thing blogging. I'm doing this now for more then half a year and still am having fun to continue. But more and more blogs are coming up. There's a huge list now of people blogging mostly about MS CRM. So where is this list? Everyone has got some other blogs on their blogroll, but there is no full list. Well. Here's a list of what I think is the complete list of MS CRM blogs at the moment. Starting with the Microsoft people, then MVP's and then the other bloggers. Some blogs are marked with [inactive]. Those are blogs that have mentioned to stop or which do not have any CRM related post for the last half year. Furthermore there's no logic in the ordering. Hope you find some new information which you can use!
Microsoft Bloggers:
MSCRM Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/crm
MSCRM Partner Specialist Team West region http://westregioncrm.spaces.live.com/
Andrew Bybee [MS -US] http://bybeeworld.spaces.live.com/
Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/arash/default.aspx
Ben Riga [MS - US] http://blogs.msdn.com/benriga/default.aspx
Ben Vollmer [MS - US] http://blogs.msdn.com/midatlanticcrm/default.aspx
Benjamin Lecoq [MS - France] http://blogs.msdn.com/benlec
Bill Patterson [MS -US] http://pattersonwc.spaces.live.com/
Charles Eliot [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/charle/
Charly Wood [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/charliew/
David Orlander [MS - Norway (language: norwegian)] http://www.crmnorway.com/
Jason Hunt [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonhun/
Jim Glass [MS - US] http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/
Jon White [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/jonwhite/
Jonas Deibe [MS - Sweden] http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasd/
Joriz Kalz [MS - Germany] http://blogs.msdn.com/joris_kalz/
Kevin Nazemi [MS - US] [inactive / cleared] http://blogs.technet.com/microsoftcrm/
Marcello Fisicaro [ MS - Italy] http://mfisicar.officeisp.net/blog/default.aspx
Menno te Koppele [MS - US] http://blogs.msdn.com/mscrmfreak/
Michael Rich [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_crm_western_region_news/
Michaeljon Miller [MS - US] http://blogs.msdn.com/mikemill/default.aspx
Michaeljon Miller [MS - US] [inactive] http://inside-mscrm.blogspot.com/
Philip Richardson [MS - US] http://www.philiprichardson.org/blog/
Philip Richardson [MS - US] [inactive] http://spaces.msn.com/philiprichardson/
Philippe Brisaud and Vincent [MS - FR (language: french)] http://blogs.msdn.com/frcrm/
Prashanth Kaankadae [MS - US] http://blogs.technet.com/pkcrm/
Praveen Upadhyay [MS - US] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/crmbest/
Ross Dembecki [MS - Australia] http://microsoft-crm-au.spaces.live.com/
Satya Nadella [MS - US] http://blogs.msdn.com/satyanadella
Simon Hutson [MS - UK] http://blogs.msdn.com/ukcrm/default.aspx
UK MCS [MS - UK] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/thecrmguys/
MVP's
Aaron Elder [MVP CRM - US - Ascentium] http://www.ascentium.com/blog/crm/Default.aspx
Aaron Elder [MVP CRM - US - Invoke Systems] http://www.invokesystems.com/cs/blogs/mscrm/
Aaron Elder [MVP CRM - US - Invoke Systems] [inactive] http://spaces.msn.com/members/provega/
Aaron Elder [MVP CRM - US - Invoke Systems] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronel
Andreas Donaubauer [MVP CRM - Germany (language: German)] http://www.crmfaq.de/
Andrii Butenko [MVP CRM - Ukraine] http://a33ik.blogspot.com/
Ayaz Ahmad [MVP CRM - Pakistan - Ovex Technologies] http://ayazahmad.wordpress.com/
Darren Liu [MVP CRM - Crowe Chizek - US] http://msdynamicscrm-e.blogspot.com/
Darren Liu [MVP CRM - Crowe Chizek - US (language: chinese)] http://msdynamicscrm.blogspot.com/
David Jennaway [MVP CRM - Excitation Ltd - UK] http://mscrmuk.blogspot.com/
David Yack [MVP ASP.NET - US - Colorado Technology Consultants] http://crm.davidyack.com/ [CRM]
http://blog.davidyack.com/ [ASP.NET]
Frank Lee [MVP CRM - US - Workopia] http://spaces.msn.com/microsoft-crm/
Frank Lee [MVP CRM - US - Workopia] [inactive] http://microsoft-crm.blogspot.com/
Geoffroy Gabel [MVP CRM - FR (language french)] http://mscrm3.blogspot.com/
Guy Riddle [MVP CRM - Australia - Snapdragon] http://guyriddle.spaces.live.com/
Guy Riddle [MVP CRM - Australia - Snapdragon] http://www.mscrm.com.au/
Joel Lindstrom [MVP CRM - Customer Effective - US] http://blog.customereffective.com/
John O'Donnell [MVP CRM - US - Crowe Chizek] http://crowechizek.typepad.com/crm/
Larry Lentz [MVP CRM - US - Lentz Computer Services] http://ts2community.com/blogs/larrylentz/
Leon Tribe [MVP CRM - Australia] http://leontribe.blogspot.com/
Marco Amoedo [MVP CRM - Spain - Plain Concepts] http://geeks.ms/blogs/marco
Matt Wittemann [MVP CRM - US - gTECHserv] http://icu-mscrm.blogspot.com/
Matt Wittemann [MVP CRM - US - gTECHserv] http://www.askcrm.com/Home/tabid/866/BlogID/15/Default.aspx
Michael Höhne [MVP CRM - DE - Stunnware] http://www.stunnware.com/crm2
Mitch Milam [MVP CRM - US - Infinite-X] http://blogs.infinite-x.net/
Nithya Balasubramanian [MVP CRM - India] http://niths.wordpress.com/
Ronald Lemmen [MVP CRM - NL - Avanade] http://ronaldlemmen.blogspot.com/
Scott Colson [MVP CRM - US] http://msmvps.com/blogs/crm/default.aspx
Umar Khan [MVP CRM - Pakistan] http://umarkhan.wordpress.com/
Company Blogs:
C5 Insight http://blogs.c5insight.com
CustomerEffective http://blog.customereffective.com/
CWRMobility http://www.cwrmobility.com/weblog/
Simego http://www.simego.com/Blog/
Sonoma Partners http://blog.sonomapartners.com/
Unitek http://www.unitek.com/training/microsoft/crm/blog/
Other Bloggers:
Abe Saldana [US] http://blog.crmbuzz.net/Default.aspx
Andrey Slepitsky [Russia (language: russian)] http://blogs.technet.com/ansle
Anne Stanton [The Norwich Group - US] http://www.crmlady.com/
Arne Janning [Germany] [inactive] http://geekswithblogs.net/insidemscrm/
Asle Berg [Columbus IT - Norway (language: norwegian)] http://dynamics-crm.blogspot.com/
Ben Hosking [UK] http://crmbusiness.wordpress.com/
Boris Kanlica [Turkey] http://www.cub-e.net/
Brian [US] http://mscrmspot.blogspot.com/
Cafe CRM [FR (language French) ] http://cafecrm.typepad.com/webblog/ms_crm/index.html
Carsten Groth [Germany (language: german)] http://carstengroth.spaces.live.com/
Catherine Eibner [Cybner - Australia] http://blog.cybner.com.au/
Christian B. Mortensen [Denmark] http://blogs.msdn.com/cbm/
Cornel Croitoriu [Romania] http://crmstuff.blogspot.com/
Craig Hamer http://blog.crmvault.net/
David Fronk [Dynamic Methods - US] http://dmcrm.blogspot.com/
David Hawes [Avanade - UK] http://blog.davehawes.com/
Dejan Dular [Slovenia] http://a-crm.blogspot.com/
Douglas Leung [Unique World - Australia] http://sharepointsix.blogspot.com/
Erik van Hoof [CWR Mobility - NL] http://www.cwrmobility.com/weblog/
Gagandeep Singh http://mscrmnovice.blogspot.com/
Gareth Tucker [Avanade - Singapore] http://garethtuckercrm.com/
George Doubinski [Australia] http://crm.georged.id.au/
Greg Owen [UK] http://thecrmgrid.wordpress.com/
Guenter [World-Direct.at - Austria] http://geekswithblogs.net/guentersblog/
Gustaf Westerlund [Logica CMG - Sweden] http://gustafwesterlund.blogspot.com/
Hans Veldman [ACI - Netherlands] http://microsoftdynamicscrm.blogspot.com/
Henry Cordes [Avanade - Netherlands] http://www.henrycordes.nl/category/CRM.aspx
Hero [India] http://www.crmsaurin.tk/
Ibrahim Sukari [RightServ - Australia] http://www.mscrmblog.net/
Imran [Pakistan] http://microsoftcrm3.blogspot.com/
Imran [inactive] http://crmexpert.blogspot.com/
Jeff Bennett [Solutions Consulting Group] [inactive] http://mscrm-notes-from-the-field.blogspot.com/
John O'Connor [US] http://crmnit.blogspot.com/
John Straumann [Canada] http://mscrmguy.blogspot.com/
John Straumann [Canada] [inactive] http://blogs.msdn.com/jstraumann
Julian Sharp [active again!] http://spaces.msn.com/members/mscrm
Keith Delarge [Aspective - UK] http://www.mscrmblog.com/
Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi [Objectware - Norway] http://kjellsj.blogspot.com/
Luis Mazario [Spain (language: Spanish)] http://blogs.msdn.com/crmlandia
Maarten Dominicus [NL] http://www.crmwatcher.com/
Mads Nissen [Norway] [inactive] http://weblogs.asp.net/mnissen/category/5782.aspx
Maik Roempagel http://blog.codealchemist.com/
Marcello Tonarelli [VAR Group - Italian] http://marcellotonarelli.wordpress.com/category/ms-dynamics-crm/
Mario Raunig [World-direct.at - Austria] http://marioraunig.blogspot.com/
Mike Snyder [Sonoma Partners - US] http://blog.sonomapartners.com/
Mike Taylor [UK] http://crmuser.blogspot.com/
Neil Huffman [Productivegap - US] http://nhuffman.spaces.live.com/
Oguz KIRIS [Turkey] http://www.crm4.ws/
Olivier Furnemont [METRUM SàRL - LUX] http://www.furnemont.eu/
Oshri Cohen [Canada] http://mymscrm3.blogspot.com/
Peter Florijn [NL] - http://customcrm.blogspot.com/
Peter Maude [inactive] http://www.tconv.com/blogs/crm3tips/
Phil Adams http://blog.expertsoftware.co.uk/
Pierre Hulsebos [EHTC - US] http://blog.solomon2crm.com/
Rich Oyler & Nicholas Cole [Saratogaus - US] http://crmblog.saratogaus.com/
Rob Bakkers [Avanade - NL] [inactive] http://robbakkers.blogspot.com/
Robert MacLean [South Afrika] http://www.sadev.co.za/
Robert Peledie [UK] http://www.crmrocks.net/
Robert Peledie [UK] http://www.crmconsult.info/
Roberto Nocera [Avanade - Italy (language: italian)] http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/rnocera
Roberto Vecchio [Italy (language: italian)] http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/roblog/
Ron Kane [Scotland] http://mscrminscotland.blogspot.com/
Ross Lotharius [Ascentium - USA] http://rosslotharius.com/
Ryan Farley [inactive] http://crmdeveloper.com/blog
Sandor Schellenberg [Atos Origin - NL] http://friendlycrmonster.blogspot.com/
Seidl Michael [Germany (language english/german)] http://mscrm.m-seidl.com/
Seth Kircher [Navint - US] http://navintmicrosoftcrm.blogspot.com/
Stéphane Dorrekens [Belgiu] http://blog.dorrekens.com
Stephen Maij [SeeSharp - NL] http://www.maijspace.nl/
Steve Boyce [UK] http://blog.crmvault.net/
Wim Coorevits [U2U - Belgium] http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/WimCo
Wolter Kreun [Netherlands] http://www.crmmaps.com/
Wolter Kreun [Netherlands] http://skypecrm.blogspot.com/
Xavier Courchinoux http://blogs.msdn.com/xavier_courchinoux/
General CRM Blogs
Aina Neva Fiati [Indonesia] http://www.crmpieces.blogspot.com/
Kevin Nazemi, Lead US Product Manager for Microsoft CRM, started a blog regarding MSCRM as well. He'll be able to give inside information, so I do expect lots and lots of good information here: http://blogs.technet.com/microsoftcrm/
Kevin, welcome in the MSCRM blog world!
How original!
Starting the first post with a holy "Hello world".
On the other hand, I'm also not the first one starting a blog. But I do think that I help other people with this blog. Here you will find information about CRM, C# and a little bit of myself. Feel free to contact me for clarification or whatever you would like to contact me for.
See you soon again,
Ronald Lemmen
