{"id":913,"date":"2009-03-23T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/New-Microsoft-Regional-Director-Paul-Randal.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:54:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:54:10","slug":"new-microsoft-regional-director-paul-randal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/new-microsoft-regional-director-paul-randal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft Regional Director &#8211; Paul Randal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I&#39;m very pleased, and deeply honored, to announce that I&#39;ve been made a Microsoft Regional Director. This is one of a very small group of people (about 120 worldwide) who Microsoft sees as influencers of, and liaisons between, the Microsoft community at large. Apart from me, the other SQL MVPs who are also RDs are <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Kimberly<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\"> and <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/GregLow\/\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Greg Low<\/font><\/a><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">I looked around for a good description of what RDs do and what the RD program is all about and found two blog posts:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collabshow.com\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Microsoft Regional Directors don&#39;t work for Microsoft<\/font><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/palermo4\/who-are-the-microsoft-regional-directors\"><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Who are the Microsoft Regional Directors?<\/font><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">And you can get the complete list of RDs (I&#39;m not listed there yet) at the RD site <\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">The Region<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Time for a few drinks tonight!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m very pleased, and deeply honored, to announce that I&#39;ve been made a Microsoft Regional Director. 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