Vote for Telerik in 2008 Readers' Choice Awards

It's March. Do you know what that means? Clocks are "springing forward" around the world. College hoops is well underway. The major Microsoft conference season has started. And it's time for the annual asp.netPRO Readers Choice Awards. That's right, the voting has just opened for one of the most respected and well recognized awards programs in the .NET industry. Last year, Telerik brought home 8 Readers Choice Awards, one for every category in which it was nominated. For that, we continue to owe you- the "readers"- a huge thanks for sharing your enthusiasm for Telerik with the rest of the .NET community.

This year Telerik is nominated once again in a number of award categories. In fact, we've picked-up 3 new category nominations this year, so you've got your voting work cut out for you. And the nominations are (in voting order):

• Best Charting & Graphics Tool: Telerik RadChart
• Best Community Resource: Telerik's Community
• Best Component Set: Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET
• Best Content Management System: Sitefinity Web CMS
• Best Grid: Telerik RadGrid
• Best Navigational Control: Telerik RadMenu
• Best Online Editor: Telerik RadEditor
• Best Printing/Reporting Tool: Telerik Reporting
• Best Scheduling/Calendar Tool: Telerik RadCalendar
• Best Training: Telerik
• Best Utility: Telerik RadSpell

And if you make it through all of those categories (making your Telerik votes along the way, of course), you'll be asked last to cast your vote for "Product of the Year." Telerik has about 10 options in this list, so to concentrate our "PotY" votes, let's all vote for the RadControls for ASP.NET as product of the year. Also, in the category of Best Scheduling/Calendar Tool, cast your vote for Telerik here if you like our RadScheduler or RadCalendar. I don't think we can have both products nominated in this category, so you'll have to make a RadScheduler vote a RadCalendar vote.

Also, while voting, show some support for our good friends at Falafel Software by voting for their Active!Focus product in the Best Project Management/Defect Tracking Tool category. This is their inaugural year in the awards and I know they'd love to get your support and do well.

With that, I encourage you to vote right now before you forget and then check back in early May to see the results. Thanks in advance for all of your support in these awards and for choosing Telerik as your .NET component vendor of choice!

Telerik award winning communication recognized

Since there is little else to report on this Monday afternoon, let me take this opportunity to highlight some fun awards Telerik won in early January from the Society for Technical Communication. In this year's Technical Art Online Competition, Telerik won the Excellence Award in the Promotional Materials Design category for the Q2 2007 "hype" game and a couple of Merit Awards for the RadChart and Telerik Reporting development manuals. As a reminder, the documentation for Telerik's RadTreeview also won the Distinguished Award in the 2007 STC International Online Communication Category. These awards underscore the hard work that all teams at Telerik put in to making sure our communication- both technical and promotional- is among the best anywhere. Hopefully you've found that to be the case when you interact with Telerik documentation.

Even though we are good communicators, we are far from perfect. We are always on a quest to improve our documentation and make all of our published material as accessible as possible for developers of all skill levels. In fact, a key area of focus for the upcoming Q1 2008 release is improving documentation across all product lines, with an emphasis on RadControls for WinForms and the new "Prometheus" controls. With your help and feedback, we expect to build on our recognized communication success and solidly establish Telerik communication (documentation, demos, web casts, etc.) as the best in the UI component industry- if not in the broader software industry as a whole. If it makes your development life easier, we are going to do it better than anyone else.