If you haven’t already, check out the Clubhouse Choice Awards and cast your vote before the polls close on July 31st.  There are some very close races!

Congratulations again to all the nominees.  We look forward to tallying up the votes and announcing the winners in early August.

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

Click here for the Official Rules
Open only to Clubhouse community members who have been invited to participate. Game ends 7/31/2009.  Winners will be announced in August 2009.

Lights! Camera! AWARDS!

We're celebrating the one year anniversary of The Clubhouse and rolling out the red carpet for our brightest stars with the first-ever Clubhouse Choice Awards.

Who’s On Our “A” List?

Seven categories. Three nominees each. We've helped narrow the field by selecting some of the best Clubhouse contributions in each category based on ratings, views and comments. Nominees are presented in the following categories:

But now it's up to you. See who is in the spotlight, cast your vote and spread the word to your friends so they can vote, too. Help us recognize the best of the best! We’ll award some cool prizes to the top vote getters.

Your Clubhouse. Your Choice.

Don’t wait! Voting ends July 31, 2009.

Congratulations to all the nominees, and thank you to each and every one of you that makes the Windows community such a great place to be!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

Click here for the Official Rules
Open only to Clubhouse community members who have been invited to participate. Game ends 7/31/2009.  Winners will be announced in August 2009.

The Windows community is searching for the best videos about Windows 7!  We’ll find ‘em, blog about ‘em, and share ‘em!

If you’re already a member of the Clubhouse, you can find out more about the challenge by signing in and checking out the Challenges area of the site.

Interested in joining the community?  We’d be happy to welcome you.  Just check out http://clubhouse.microsoft.com/join for more details.

Happy hunting!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager

It’s hard to believe the year is half over.  I guess time does indeed fly when you’re having fun! 

Before time slips by too much faster, I wanted to let you all know about some of the things that have been happening in the Windows Community to help everyone see just how incredible you all are and what amazing contributions you’re making to Windows.

Just a few days ago, we launched a new Communities web page for all of Windows, part of which is shown below:

I’m really excited about this as it gives us another place to show off all of your great tips and stories!  Plus this site lets people know about some of the other Windows communities they can get involved in, like Answers, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We’re looking forward to turning up the volume of traffic to this site.

Another new part of the Windows website is the new Exploring Windows area.  These new pages feature a lot of your community posts too.  Check out this example featuring our very own DocExtreme and Ludwig:

One other place you’ll see your stuff is on the @MSWindows and @windowslive twitter accounts.  We’re tweeting about all the cool stuff you’re sharing all the time.  If you’re on twitter, please follow those accounts and let us know what you think.  Oh, and leave me a comment below with your twitter “handle” so I can put it on anything I tweet out about you and your great posts.

Lots going on and lots more to come.  Thank you for being part of our community and have a wonderful summer!

- Marcus, Windows Community Manager