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MetroStar is sponsoring the Marine Corps Marathon’s Run To Register 10K 2010 event
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MCM Event Series 2010
As a part of our sponsorship of the 2010 Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) Event Series, we are pleased to announce our sponsorship of the MCM Run2Register 10K event that is taking place on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA. Here are some important details about the event:
- Participants can secure a slot in the 35th Marine Corps Marathon Main event which will be held later this year on Saturday, October 31st, 2010 in Washington, DC. All finishers of the Run2Register 10K ages 14 and older will receive a guaranteed, non-complimentary entry into the MCM, days before online registration is available to the general public.
- Date: Saturday, March 27th, 2010
- Time: 8:00 AM
- Location: Marine Corps Base in Quantico, VA
- Complete Info: MCM Run2Register 10K website
Members of the MetroStar Systems team will be participating in the race and others will supporting the Marine Marathon event team and cheering on the runners. Immediately following the MCM Run2Register 10 K event will be the 28th Irish Sprint One-Miler that is still open to the public for registration. We are proud to be supporting this event and are looking forward to it. Let us know if you are participating or plan to be there!
Notes from the 2010 Microsoft MVP Global Summit
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I’d like to share some of the experiences I had at the 2010 Microsoft MVP Global Summit which was held from 16-19 Feb 2010 in Seattle, WA. This year’s summit was exciting for MVPs as some big announcements for new products at Microsoft such as Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, Mobile 7 and new web technologies trends such as ASP.NET 4.0, MVC, Entity Framework, Silverlight 4, etc.
Being a C# MVP, I have been asked to present a MVP2MVP side session on Friday 19th from Charlie Calvert (C# Community Manager). My session topic was titled “LINQ in SharePoint 2010” and you can find my presentation here.
I met a good number of geeks within the summit : Hammad Rajjoub (Connected Systems MVP), Mohamed AbdelHaleem (OCS MVP), Waleed Omar-Exchange (Exchange Server MVP), Amit Bansal (SQL Server MVP), Martin Kulov (ASP.NET MVP), Gael Duhamel (Commerce Server MVP), Serge Luca (SharePoint MVP), Jonathan Noble (Power Shell MVP), Razi Bin Rais (SharePoint MVP), and many other MVPs and friends working at Microsoft.
I had a great discussion and made future plans with Ruari Plint (MEA MVP Lead) for future community events and work to be planned.
I’d like to thank our creative designer Hector Portillo for the design of my presentation.
Some pictures for the event and presentation are below:
You can follow the conversation around the 2010 MVP Global Summit by searching the #MVP10 hashtag and by following @MVPAwardProgram on Twitter or by visiting these links and resources:
- MVP Global Summit 2010 Blog
- MVP Award Program on Facebook
- The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog
- Microsoft MVP Worldwide website
Feel free to leave any questions or comments in the comment’s section below.
Thanks,
Mostafa
Vision 21CARE featured on Battlefield Healthcare website
Posted by: | CommentsMetroStar Systems employee, Sergeant Ross Beurmann, who served in Iraq, was interviewed by MyFoxDC about our program, Vision 21CARE. This video has now been posted on the Battlefield Healthcare website relating to this very topic. IDGA’s 11th Battlefield Healthcare Summit will detail best practices and the next generation in combat medicine and rehabilitative care as well as facilitate a forum where treatment initiatives and advanced research can be discussed, debated, and developed. MetroStar will be hosting a master class on Vision 21CARE at this summit.
December 7-9th: 11th Battlefield Healthcare - www.battlefieldhealthcare.com
MetroStar Systems will be speaking at this event
Where: San Antonio, Texas
OUR TOPIC
Title: Vision 21CARE: Protecting Warriors by Connecting Warriors
Description of Topic:
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have put enormous strains on the men and women of the U.S. military, and we must do more to ease their burden and heal their wounds. Learn how SOCIAL MEDIA can help address these challenges.
Session Leader:
Ali Reza Manouchehri, Chief Executive Officer, MetroStar Systems and Former National Guard Resiliency Program Manager
Marine Corps Marathon 2009
Posted by: | CommentsThe 34th Annual Marine Corps Marathon took place on Sunday, October 25 2009 in Arlington, Virginia and Washington, DC. As a sponsor of the 2010 MCM Event Series, MetroStar Systems got the opportunity to attend the event, support the MCM, and cheer on the runners. It was amazing to be part of the experience with everyone supporting and cheering on the over 21,000 race participants who crossed the finish line. Supporting the United States Marines and all of the participants who took on this incredible mental, physical and emotional challenge was truly inspiring. MetroStar Systems would like to congratulate all of the participants and thank the MCM for this wonderful event.
CongressCamp Unconference Notes and Thoughts
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I attended a couple of sessions at the Congress Camp ‘unconference’ a few weeks ago at George Washington University.
I had never attended an unconference before so part of my reason was to get a feel for what they’re all about. My weekend itinerary was jam-packed so I was only able to attend 2 sessions and lunch but even so it was definitely worth my time to come out.
Engaging Citizens in Subcommittees
The first session I participated in was focused on the question of how to get citizens engaged in Congressional Subcommittees when legislation is getting drafted. The major issue was that drafts of legislation are usually written under tight deadlines and as a result Congressional staffers often have difficulty performing the requisite research for the bills. The result is that staffers often rely on lobbyists and small groups of experts to provide input for drafting policy. Citizens rarely gain any influence into the process.
But now with advent of Web 2.0 tools Congressmen have the opportunity to solicit and incorporate citizen input into the subcommittee legislation creation process.
- How does one determine the location and identity of participants?
- How to verify the expertise or quality of user submitted opinions, data, content?
- How to incorporate citizen input in a timely manner?
- How to moderate comments and user forums?
The consensus from the participants was that the technology exists to answer all of the major questions. The major challenge then is to craft technical solutions to mitigate the human challenges to citizen participation.
My take on things was that crowdsourced input could be filtered by a rating/moderation system. Some of the participants brought up concerns about the quality of citizen content but the answer to that is that no system is going to be 100% clean and tidy, and at the very least there’s a chance of finding outstanding citizen ideas and solutions if they are engaged (as opposed to now where there is little to no chance of this).
A good idea that came from the session was that one need not to use an approach the relies totally on random citizen input nor totally on expert opinions. A hybrid approach of sorts could possibly get the best of both worlds.
