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I stayed up way past my bedtime to join into the UCVUG Kick-Off meeting tonight (midnight BST) but it was well worth it.

I’ve long believed that the regional user groups are great, but a vestige of slightly dated concept.   I’m a “Yank” living in the UK and I’ve travelled the world for work and fun.  The people I connect with for support and to collaborate with are just as likely to be in the US, Australia, Kenya, Singapore or Slovenia as they are to be in the UK.   The virtual user group addresses that by being the first truly global user group for Microsoft Unified Communications technologies. 

The best part:  The virtual user group meets by using the very technologies that are being discussed.  A very loopy Escher-like event indeed!

Jeff Schertz (resident OCS rock star at PointBridge in Chicago) kicked-off the first presentation with a great overview of the OCS 2007 R2 feature set.

Congrats to Dustin Hannifin and the gang for pulling this together.  Doing this kind of thing requires a lot of time.  If you’re interested in OCS, get in there and ask questions, answer questions, offer to help.  The success of the group is up to you and me. 

To participate: http://ucvug.org/

-John Lamb, Modality Systems