{"id":686,"date":"2005-01-24T05:11:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T05:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/kimberly\/post\/Buy-an-hour-of-time-for-a-good-cause!.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-02T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T15:07:00","slug":"buy-an-hour-of-time-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/buy-an-hour-of-time-for-a-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy an hour of time for a good cause!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>In the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenforte.net\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Stephen Forte<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenforte.net\/\" class=\"broken_link\">&#8220;Bid early, bid often.&#8221; <\/a><\/P><br \/>\n<P>I am constantly amazed at the technical breadth and depth of the team of <a href=\"https:\/\/partner.microsoft.com\/40124635\">Microsoft Regional Directors<\/a>&#8230; Roughly 150 people from every corner of the world who not only work in technology but also love it (<EM>well, most of the time<\/EM> :)&#8230;&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been honored to be a member of this community for the past two years and they never cease to impress me. This blog entry only takes my ever-increasing respect for this group up a notch (<EM>especially for having thought about it and inspired us to join in<\/EM>)! <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Fellow RD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenforte.net\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Stephen Forte<\/a>, working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedatafarm.com\/main.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">the Data Farm<\/a> guru Julia Lerman, asked a group of RDs to donate 1 hour of their time &#8211; to be auctioned off on EBay &#8211; with all proceeds going to help fund relief efforts in the Aceh Province of Indonesia. 30 RDs have and I&#8217;m truly excited to be a part of it.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So, bid early, bid often. The auction runs through the 2nd of February 2005 at 6PM PST.<\/P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/Error?errid=2&amp;item=5552696499\" class=\"broken_link\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/content\/binary\/auction.jpg\" border=0><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of Stephen Forte, &#8220;Bid early, bid often.&#8221; I am constantly amazed at the technical breadth and depth of the team of Microsoft Regional Directors&#8230; Roughly 150 people from every corner of the world who not only work in technology but also love it (well, most of the time :)&#8230;&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been honored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}