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More Details Coming on Small Business Competency

More details on the Microsoft Partner Network's new Small Business competency should be coming tomorrow during a webinar with Microsoft partner officials.

Microsoft worldwide channel chief Jon Roskill will host an MPN Live session Thursday at 10 a.m. Pacific time called "Introducing the SB Competency." The session will be available from the MPN Facebook page here or on the Digital WPC site here.

"We expect this to become the Microsoft Partner Network's most popular competency. Tune in to the conversation to be among the first to find out more about this competency from a great line-up of Microsoft partners with extensive experience working with SMB customers and / or selling and deploying cloud solutions," the session description reads.

For more detail on the competency, check our detailed news story here.

Posted by Scott Bekker on April 25, 2012


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