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This year is our 30th Employee Giving Campaign at Microsoft and today we announced that our U.S. employees have raised $1 billion in cash for more than 31,000 nonprofit and community organizations since the start of the campaign. http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2012/10/18/a-billion...

In his book Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, David Mamet writes: ..." It is our nature to elaborate perception into hypotheses and then reduce those hypotheses to information upon which we can act. It is our special adaptive device....The excess of ability/energy/skill...

Microsoft has a wiki. It is called the TechNet Wiki . It is free-as-in-beer. A one minute “fly-through” video is at: http://youtu.be/gj5Ug0CEg70   One of the “wiki ninjas” (a group of wiki early adopters committed to helping others use the wiki) has compiled a nifty list of wiki articles that will...

Like a lot of people in technology, I call myself an auto-didact . This means I like to fool myself into believing that I am largely “self-taught.” It is part of the mythical life of Americans in particular that the individual can succeed as a lone-wolf. I say mythical not in the sense that it doesn...

There is a new feature on the TechNet Wiki. Push a button, generate a Table of Contents (TOC) for your article. Before: Click Edit, add [toc] and then save After: Check it out, let us know what you think.

Wouldn’t it be great if you had a visual representation of all the event IDs for a service, let’s say for example the Microsoft Windows Active Directory Domain Service, and when you clicked on one of the IDs, you could “drill down” into more info on that event? Let me wiki that for you . Kudos to colleague...

The TechNet Wiki now has a Bing translator widget on each page, no charge. Free-as-in-beer. Enjoy.  享受。 Nyd.  Appréciez. Genießen. Απολαύστε. Godere. お楽しみください。즐길 수 있습니다. Ciesz się. Disfrutar. Keyfini çıkarın.

You can find some common TNWIKI tags at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/wiki-common-tags.aspx Internet pundit Clay Shirky said “The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody.”   The idea behind a tagging taxonomy, or “tagsonomy” as it is implemented on the...

There is a new page on the TechNet Wiki “ What's Considered Quality Technical Content ?” that offer you the opportunity to help define the metrics the community will use to judge “quality” attributes of technical content. It is easy to sign up and contribute on the TN Wiki . Pile on!

If you don’t read French, I can explain that the title of this post “ordinateur virtuel stocké “ translated into English (according to the Microsoft Language Portal ) is: “ An inactive virtual machine that has been saved to the Virtual Machine Manager library. The virtual machine's virtual hard disks...

Thank you comrades. “Microsoft Employees gave US$96 million to charity, including corporate matching, in 2010.”

IT Pros have long asked for a “change log” on technical information from Microsoft. For example, the Vi rtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Guide to Operations Manager Integration shows this right up font: For decades now inside Microsoft TOC has stood for Table of Contents. In this new age of “good enough...

For grins: Hey Scripting Guy blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/ Watch the blog for a holiday special series staring 12/19/10.

Most web pages you find print out all the extra crap in the “gutters” ( there is a appropriate feature name if ever there was one…), like this: On the TechNet Wiki , we figure you just want the information please, thank you very much. So, when you print from IE your TNWIKI page looks like this: We hope...

Traditional media images of ninjas depict them as solitary and good at doing things some (especially pirates) would term anti-social. The TechNet Wiki Ninjas are a community of TNWIKI users that are social, and care about sharing their cognitive surplus with the IT Pro and Dev world audience. If you...

Here are the top 10 most-read TechNet Wiki articles from last week, in order: social.technet:/wiki/contents/articles/windows-server-appfabric.aspx social.technet:/wiki/contents/articles/windows-powershell-survival-guide.aspx social.technet:/wiki/contents/articles/active-directory-overview.aspx social...

There is a happy-time-waster out there called thereifixedit.com that details some amazing hacked fixes: The new TechNet Wiki is the equivalent for technical content. Find an error or an omission on TechNet content? Now, on the wiki, you can fix it. Check it out http://technet.com/wiki .

To contribute, you must first sign in. To sign in, you must first Join . After those pre-reqs are accomplished, editing a TN Wiki article is pretty easy. This 10 minute video shows PM Eric Batallio demonstrating: How to edit How to Check Article History How to Revert How to enter an Edit Comment (comment...

Have you heard? TechNet has launched a wiki for IT Pros and Devs – the TechNet Wiki (Beta). Why does this matter? If you think about the content development and distribution business in terms of the software business, then you can consider every un-met customer expectation as a “bug”. As relates to content...

A few years ago a Microsoft colleague names Jon Pincus talked about “Changing Grumbling Into Energy”. One of the most interesting things about the TechNet Wiki (Beta) is how liberating and energizing it is. See a problem with the documentation? Frustrated by how long it takes/how difficult it is to get...

Keith Combs has broken the news on his blog that TechNet Wiki is coming: http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2010/02/23/technet-2-0-episode-6-wiki.aspx Co-created content – Microsoft and IT Pro/Dev customers together in community. What do you think? Leave comments.

I love XKCD … may all my colleagues in IT Pro and Dev content read this to REALLY understand the customer … and tremble…

Only for those who know what a Dalek is. I thought you would be amused to see this architectural marvel in downtown Seattle, in the international district, across the street from Uwajimaya.

Listening to Sir Ken Robinson this afternoon talking about his book “The Element.” William James told us “common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds“ and we’d all do well to remember this and how to shift speeds (and change directions). Beware, we don’t know most...

There’s a new aggregation page on TechNet that collates TechNet Library, Blog, and other resources such as Videos and scripts: http://bit.ly/7UiIjp . Highly Recommended. Interesting taxonomy too – how do you like it? Leave feedback and thanks in advance. Planning Pre-Deployment Tools Installation Guidance...