The rumors are true. I have officially accepted an offer from Microsoft to join the MSCOM CRM & Communities Team (MSCOM-CCT) as a Program Manager (on the Communities side). This team is responsible for building and maintaining the community tools that are used on Microsoft web properties, such as Chat, Webcast, Blog, Newsgroup tools and more. I will continue to work on the Codezone project, or at least on the platform that supports it - the Federated Community Services.
I am very excited about the opportunity to take my external experiences as a community site owner, speaker, author, and all-around community guy, and apply them in the MSCOM space. I look forward to working on some great projects.
My start date is Monday, 3/28/05.