WPC is over! Over 14,000 attendees came to talk about opportunities with Microsoft on the cloud, with mobile devices and the wave of new products coming. (You can catch keynotes here). We had thousands of people to meet and things to do in Washington DC this year and the IAMCP was the center of many things this year. This is a recap of the show so if you didn't go, you can catch up and if you did attend, you can recall the good memories!

We now have pictures posted. Come see and ADD TO them!

First, our theme this year was "What starts at WPC continues in your local chapter” so we hope you'll embrace this theme and pick up a summary of the vision and resources available to your local partners from Microsoft. .

• Our IAMCP Welcome Party was a big hit!  Steve Hall, IAMCP DC President got us a prime location where we mixed, mingled and gave a parting recognition award to Allison Watson.  (see video)  
• Our membership meeting attracted over 60 IAMCP members and Per reviewed our challenges, our strengths, our future and what makes a good chapter (see the membership meeting presentation)
• Per Werngren, Pam Salzer and Allison Watson were recognized for their special contributions over the years (see photos).  Each received an honorary lifetime membership and hearty thank you's from the IAMCP.    
• The IAMCP Delivered the MPN Value Report and the July edition of PartnerPulse to Microsoft. 
• We recognized our award-winning PAMs with a ceremony with Jon Roskill, Microsoft's new VP of WW Partner Program replacing Allison Watson.  See pictures.
• The Microsoft Partner of the Year was our own Angel Perez from Rock Solid Technologies (interview in Spanish)
• See our interview with Allison Watson.   
• We had interest from leaders hoping to open many new chapters including Nigeria, Ghana and Iceland
• We had some celebrities over the week, from former US President Bill Clinton to Steve Ballmer to author David Allen and reporter Mary Jo Foley
• The Int'l IAMCP Chapter Presidents had dinner with David Allen and Partnerpedia was kind enough to host the dinner and took photos and footage to post on the pPartnerpedia community.
• Our social media activity was exciting throughout the show with many IAMCP members contributing to our Twitter feeds throughout the show www.twitter.com/iamcporg
• Our sessions and roundtables on Thursday had many of our own great speakers and lots of interaction.
• In our lounge, we registered 50 new members and spoke to hundreds of members. We even had a book signing with David Allen and Mary Jo Foley stopped by for interviews and Q&A.
• Students2Business had an on-stage presence with Kevin Turner which was co-organized by our Elisabeth Vanderveldt.
• Many of our IAMCP members participated in the sold-out Day of Giving in DC.

Now we begin our new year with new priorities and continued best practices. For all chapters, we hope to emphasize:

· Formalizing local events and being disciplined about their routine. New IAMCP Event Kits will be sent to 12 pilot chapters to add materials and giveaways to their events. If these are successful, we will share the best practices and possibly expand in the coming year

· Enabling even better P2P

· Using chapter best practices to their fullest. You can post or find a best practice here and even translate our entire site and documents using Microsoft Translator.