Today on the return home from work I had a great surprise awaiting for me in my email inbox, it was an email with the title “Congratulations” now normally I would just think great more spam but as I saw it was from the Buddy Program at CafeMSN, well my eyes light up with joy and I immediately opened it to find out that I had won a £10 gift voucher for Amazon now this isn’t the biggest prize you can win but because I enjoy participating in the discussions and this is the first time I’ve one at the Buddy Program at CafeMSN I’m delighted with joy!

Here’s what they sent me:

Hello Straight, Darren

You have won the monthly £ 10 prize from the Buddy Program at CaféMSN. Your inputs have been of great help and we would love to have people like you to be a part of this venture.

If you wish, you could invite your friends to join this program at http://www.cafemsn.co.uk/msnbuddy/buddy/join.asp

It would be great if you could send in your latest photograph and tell us what you feel about being an MSN Buddy.

Cheers,
Program Manager
Buddy Program at CaféMSN Team

And here’s my reply, pretty good I must say:

Dear Cafe MSN,

Thank you ever so much for the chance to win this month’s prize on the Café MSN Buddy Program.

To be part of the Cafe MSN Buddy Program and join in with the discussions is something that I take with great pride in doing because I believe that it gives me the chance to directly influence the product strategy and direction of MSN’s current and latest line of products and services and because I am also a keen Beta tester and Windows Live Session member of MSN UK I believe that I can make a great impact on how people see and use MSN for the better especially by beta testing and attending the Windows Live Sessions in London.

So as I have said to also be part of Café MSN is yet another great way of getting my voice heard by bringing everything I know about MSN’s current and newest products and services right to the heart of the MSN Program Managers by discussing it on Café MSN so for that reason I would greatly recommend the Cafe MSN Buddy Program to anybody who would love to get there voice heard especially as you also have the chance to win prizes.

So once again thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of Café MSN and thank you for the prize.

Best Wishes,
Darren Straight

P.S. I’ve attached two recent images of me so you may have the pleasure of picking from! 😉

Now what shall I spend my voucher on! 😀

Ohh and by the way best of luck for everyone else in the Cafe MSN Buddy Program especially those of you I already know who are on it, I’ll expect I’ll see you in the next discussion and well if you know me or just visit my blog and haven’t yet joined already, well what are you waiting for, sign up now!