The Big Easy Offer gives you choices on Microsoft products and solutions that fit your needs. For every qualifying product you purchase, Microsoft pays you partner subsidy funds that can be used with a Microsoft Partner of your choice to help with the implementation of your Microsoft solution including software, hardware and services.

About the Offer
The Big Easy Offer gives you choices on Microsoft products and solutions that fit your needs. For every qualifying product you purchase, Microsoft pays you partner subsidy funds that can be used with a Microsoft Partner of your choice to help with the implementation of your Microsoft solution including software, hardware and services.

What is a Subsidy?
A subsidy is a check made payable to the Microsoft partner of your choice. This subsidy can be used to enrich and implement your Microsoft solution. The subsidy allows you to purchase additional products or services from the Microsoft partner of your choice thus lowering your Total Cost of Ownership.

Want More?
You can increase your subsidy by choosing:

• Products from more than one product group.
• Licenses with Software Assurance.
• Advanced or Enterprise Editions.

How do I take advantage of the Big Easy Offer 4.0?

• Make a qualifying purchase between January 3, 2010 and March 31, 2010.
• Redeem your purchase within 30 days of purchase date at http://www.microsoftincentives.com/BigEasy4/redeem.aspx.
• Receive your partner subsidy check from Microsoft.
• Spend your subsidy funds with your Microsoft partner upon receipt. Please note that subsidy funds expire after 90 days of the check issue date.

Great tips from Microsoft at Work. Actually it’s more like a list of links to Microsoft sites to help you get your business idea off the ground. Resources include:

Business sites:

• Small Business Center

• Startup Business Center

• Midsize Business Center

• Enterprise Business Center

• Industry & Public Sector

• Business & Industry

Business software and resources you can use:

• Microsoft Dynamics

• People-Ready Business

• Volume Licensing

• Business Intelligence

• Microsoft Advertising

• Microsoft Retail

• Microsoft Services

Hop on over to the site for the links and all the goodness.

http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/businesscentral.aspx

I’m a fan of this web application (TwitterFeed). It will allow you to hook up your blog postings to Twitter and Facebook. I use it on this blog (so you should see this post in Twitter within the hour – I’m still working on the link to our Facebook fan page). This is super-useful for people who want to get word out to multiple sources at the same time.

From the article:

You’re cranking out some solid blog posts for your company. And you’ve just convinced the boss to let you set up a Twitter account and a Facebook fan page, too. But the boss is worried it’ll take up too much time, and she asks: “Can you automatically update Twitter and Facebook with our new blog posts?” Yes, you can. Here’s how to do it reliably and for free.

Try it… You just might like it.

Update Twitter & Facebook Fan Pages Automatically via RSS

From Microsoft At Work:

When we think of documents, most of us think of such things as letters, memos, and reports. But the capabilities and demands of today's connected world mean that virtually anything we record, electronically or on paper, is a type of document.

OneNote is a wonderful tool for note taking. I’ve used it as a consultant, as a developer, as a woodworker, and on and on. This article shows how you can change your thinking about what “note” taking really means, including:

• Keep your own meeting minutes without learning shorthand (audio notes)
• Organize your notes for follow-up, without any extra time or effort (tagging your notes)
• Access and compile the notes you need in no time (automated lists)

These are just a few things that OneNote can help with. Contact Dash Technical Solutions today and we can get you started down the road to not only good, but EXCELLENT note taking for your business.

Get more from the notes you take every day and everywhere

Here’s TechRepublic’s list of top 10 Web-oriented tools, technologies, and ideas that promise to deliver the most value at the lowest cost.

Especially in this economy, people are looking for ways to improve their businesses for low cost. That’s one of the reasons that Dash Technical Solutions was born, out of an observation that this community, the Detroit metro area (and Macomb County in particular) is fairly underserved when it comes to improving businesses through the use of technology.

Have a read. And call us if any of them sound intriguing to you. We can certainly help and would love to talk to you about the many ways we can.

10 low-cost, high-value Web 2.0 strategies | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com

Somasegar has a wealth of good information on his blog, and this is no different. Microsoft BizSpark is a program that helps early-stage startups succeed by providing Microsoft software, support and visibility at no upfront cost. Unfortunately, I don’t think I qualify for the program today, but if you are a technology startup and are not afraid of Microsoft technology, then this might be for you.

Take a look at the information on Somasegar’s blog, and then hop on over to BizSpark on Startup Zone to see how you can enroll and get involved.