The Microsoft Community Demo Comp is making a splash within the community with several demo's already registered for the competition.

There are some fantastic prizes to be won including a ticket to TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles and the opportunity to present your demo LIVE at TechEd 2008 in Sydney.

We've already seen some great demo's submitted covering each of the launch technologies (Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2008) - all of which can be viewed on the Heroes Happen 2008 site

You can also check out Microsoft's Evangelist Manager, Rog42 as he goes through some tips on how to load your demo onto the site and register it online.

Entries close July 31st so start preparing your demo today and present it to your community group - it's easy - and you will be in the running for some amazing prizes!

For a full list of entry details, prizes and demos submitted, click here

 International Social Media Research Wave 3

I found this a is a pretty interesting study by Universal McCann on the Social Media Landscape. It takes a global view and highlights some key variances in the social media participation and awareness rate over the past few years.