The Dynamics GP Community and Convergence

Community continued to get a boost at Convergence this year.

• The Dynamics GP folks are finally on board with an official GP blog and they are very willing to work with other bloggers.
• There was a session on Dynamics communities (blogs, twitter, newsgroups, forums) this year that actually showed folks how to subscribe to RSS feeds for common GP blogs. (Sweet!)
• Nick Hovan of Microsoft tirelessly worked the community lounge pushing community efforts.
• I've heard that DynamicAccounting.net got a plug in a BI session for the GL Table References file.
• I heard Dave Musgrave's blog mentioned by several people.
• Lots of people stopped to say hi and mention that they like blog.
• The GP User Group (GPUG) had a good week though there are still some logistical struggles with Convergence. Last year their rooms were too small, this year they were too far away. I suspect next year will be juuuuusssst right.
• I added a significant number of Twitter followers this week.

It was fun to see the emphasis on community and to see that this year, it's not just talk. There is some real action around this. We first saw the community emphasis at Convergence 2005 and Microsoft is finally catching up to the rest of us.