A Great Day for Social and NewsGator

Wow. Everyone here at NewsGator is elated that we are Microsoft’s Partner of the Year for the United States for 2011.

This is a tremendous achievement for any company – but particularly one of our size. Microsoft received nearly 3,000 partner entries for the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2011 Awards program this year.  The award acknowledges that NewsGator is the top U.S. partner across all partner types and across Microsoft’s 30 competency areas.  Just ‘cause one award is not enough, we were also named a finalist for Microsoft’s ISV/Software Line of Business Partner of the Year.  As social computing evolves toward more vertical market offerings, we’ll win that one, too ;-).

A huge and  heartfelt “thank you” to all of my colleagues here at NewsGator, each and every one of whom has delivered their best effort to earn these honors. Achievements like these demand seamless, organization-wide collaboration and full-on dedication to the team. We set one of these Microsoft awards as a stretch goal this year. We over delivered. It’s a testimony to the spirit, intelligence, goodwill, talent and maturity of our employees, and to the power of our social computing software to marshal all of this effort in a common direction.

And thank you, Microsoft, for providing the necessary software platform for this new world of work. 100 million folks collaborate better every day due to your transformative technology. 

Thank you to our wonderful partners, who help ensure the success of our implementations, now serving more than 2.5 million paid users around the world.

Thank you particularly to our customers, who are full partners in every innovation you see coming out of our company.

Our flagship Social Sites 2010 product for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is rapidly becoming the social computing standard for the Global 2000, and we’re looking forward to continued extraordinary growth in close cooperation with Microsoft.

Does it get better than this?  Yep.  We’re just starting.

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