MPC Ideas

I am new to this group and to my understanding, this group is there to work with you on those ideas that will help you serve your community better. I am a non-profit partner of Microsoft and now in the partner community. ITExperience is a nonprofit that is helping participants transition into the tech industry through trainings on on-demand jobs by collaboration with companies, experts in different tech skills who want to volunteer their time to give back to the community, etc.  Our emphasis is on lots of projects work hands-on and our target market is women, underrepresented communities, minorities, etc.   In order to serve this community better, this is my idea   Problem Statement A lot of people graduate from boot camps, do a lot of trainings online either self-taught or pay some huge amount to get trained, and still don't get to fill the positions out there for jobs. There are very few companies like the big techs that are ready to train a newbie. Most companies want who is ready on the first day to hit the ground running. The big tech cannot employ everyone and only very few get jobs after this trainings either due to network or pure luck.  Recruiters don't look at your resume if you don't have some years of experience in tech working in the field.  This has made transitioning slow and I am speaking from experience.   Solution  Portal Lab A Platform where people just work on projects for example participant logs into their portal lab picks up data analyst projects goes through the stages from start to completion by doing the ask- prepare the data- process it - analyse - share and act by applying insights that were shared. The participants do these projects continously, get better at it (training ground). Participants are rated based on how many projects they work on and they also have to subscribe to the platform. Participants have unique identifiers they can share on social media or employers to see the work they have done.   Experts The experts that we recruit put the projects into the portal and are rated based on successful completion of their projects, so they are in charge of participants that are enrolled, be ready to guide them through and make sure projects are completed, If possible they get income from these, creating side hustle income.   Employers They pay to access our platform, they see firsthand the projects that are being worked on, how each participant approaches the projects, able to see how the analysis was done, displayed, etc.  They can filter on candidates etc, They get the right candidate to schedule interviews just to get to know if he is a fit for their organization and not if he can do the work.   The portal ties in all entities talked about and can be done for all kinds of projects and reach can be worldwide and with remote working gaining grounds it no brainer. @DanielIkem  ... View more

Currently it is not allowed to buy O365 licenses for internal use as a CSP partner. (Sample scenario 5 in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/partner-center/csp-supported-partner-relationships)   Technically there is no reason for this, so it would be great if MS would make it allowed so that we can service ourselves and affiliated companies in the same way as we are serving other customers.   ... View more

Hi,   There has been a lot of traffic on your partner community forum regarding people having lots of problems with the verification process failing and your partner support team failing to progress the workflow and also failing to maintain an effective level of response when your partners contact them regarding the process failures. There are multiple threads but this is the one I have directly contributed to and am posting this suggestion for improvement as a result of my discussions with your forum admin.   https://www.microsoftpartnercommunity.com/t5/Partner-Membership-Discussions/Joining-MPN-stuck-on-Employment-verification/m-p/49488#M1508   Thank you for your kind consideration.   Regards,   David MPN member for 10+ years. ... View more

Various people have pointed out that our community seems to be inactive due to them not being logged in and only seeing the groups but not the number of posts. The number of posts is actually displayed as zero to them.    It would be great if we could leave the groups closed but still display the number of posts to non-members so that partners are more likely to join if they see some activity in the groups.    Thanks! ... View more

The time calculation for "when has smth been posted" is based on the timezone and not on a correct UTC difference calculations. E.g.: User A) has time zone PST set in the settings and posts at 8:00h GMT+1 (which is his browser and OS setting) and User B) has also PST set in settings, but the browser is using the correct GMT+1. Then the post is displayed as "yesterday".  The moment User B) switches to GMT+1 then it is correctly calculated. This shows that the calculation is based on the absolute time with timezone and not on UTC timing.  The attached picture with "yesterday" was taken before the one with "5 hours". P.S.: during creation of the profile the timezone should be set correctly AND the available timezones are confusing as these do not represent the default timezones of other systems, e.g. Windows. ... View more

Currently there is no opportunity that allows admins of a closed group to invite new members to the specific group. You can only invite exisiting memebers of the MPC to a group.    It would be great if there was an automated process that would allow admins to invite new members to join a specific group via link that was shared with them (without the admin approving them a second time).  ... View more

On the home page you see 5 topics across all communities that are new or have had a recent comment in them. However when clicking the 'View All' link after the fifth post it takes you to a long list of every recent comment. Would it not be better, and easier to navigate if this 'View All' page was grouped by topic as per the homepage so that it is not flooded with all the comments from a popular topic? Perhaps with a counter of unread comments within that topic to note how popular it is?   Many Thanks, Alex C Brewer ... View more

Link to an answer not possible it is not possible to get an hyperlink to an answer within a threat     Email a friend field to short The TO line is very short, only 3 adresses are possible (most of the time) ... View more

Hi,  I would like to create a Community for French Partners.  How do we go about getting a Community launched?   Thanks,  Pierre ... View more