The last time I spoke at a Code Camp I became aware of Community-Credit.com. In a nutshell Community-Credit was founded by David Silverlight, a Microsoft MVP and an active member of the development community, as a way to reward fellow IT Professionals who have contributed toward the development community. Currently, the rewards for these contributions are simply the satisfaction of helping colleagues in the development community.

Obviusly I signed up in a jiffy and starting adding all the stuff that I have been doing for the community at-large, from founding the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, to leading the DotNetNuke Blog Project, being part of the DotNetNuke core team, speaking at Code Camp and so forth.
Little did I know that only one month into it, I would be awarded a prize!

Shortly thereafter, David contacted me to ask me if I would be interested in integrating Community-Credit's Web Service into the DotNetNuke Blog; now that's an interesting idea! Imagine being able to get automatic "community credit" immediately after posting your blog entry and without having to manually enter the information again on the community-credit.com website.

Unfortunately since we are right in the middle of wrapping up development of the latest (and last) version of the DotNetNuke Blog which includes a slew of cool new features such as WetaWebLog API integration (which allows you to publish blogs using Windows Live Writer or even Microsoft Word), as well as social bookmarking, gravatar support for comments and more, I was not able to get this integration quite yet.

Instead I decided to write a little smart client which I call "Community-Credit Studio".
I have created a project for it on CodePlex and posted the source code as well as the application, which includes an MSI installed. The project page is http://www.codeplex.com/ccstudio.

If you are an IT Professional and are a frequent visitor of Community-Credit.com, then go give the little app a try; I have lots of ideas on improving this application and make it even more useful while promoting Community-Credit, so if you wish to participate, drop me a line and I will add you as a developer to the CodePlex project.