Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. In the past we showed you how you can become an MSDN or TechNet forum moderator . We also showed you how you can become an MVP or MCC . What haven't we showed you yet? How you can become an author on this blog, how you can become a Wiki...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Did you ever have faced the following problem: You are on your profile page, checking your latest activities. Ok, I have answered a question in forum y, I commented on blog post x and...what's that? "The article z on the TechNet Wiki has...

A while ago Ninja Thomas learned us to fish, using the RSS features of Technet Wiki. But what if you've got more appetite? Start hunting! Today's Wiki Life article is about the range of tools you can use to find the things you need. Featured articles Wiki home ! Be the first to know...

Writing Wiki articles is fun - right? How can it be even more fun? We have all these great templates and instructions for writing great Wiki articles on the Wiki site; however, whenever I need them, it usually takes too much time to locate and implement them. Wouldn't it be helpful to have common...

As per the Wiki Ninjas Blog Authoring Schedule , today it's my turn to put an article together on the Wiki life. But the experience I've had the last week, made me proud of the Wiki community, so allow me to disregard that article category, just for once. As some of you know, as of 2/apr I joined...

When you've published an article on Wiki, don't think your job as author is over... It's a healthy tactic to check back on your articles once in a while. And it also applies to articles which you aren't initial author of, but which you've been largely contributing to. To facilitate the check, I...

One of the most often used features of the Wiki is the ability to create tables. There are many different ways to do it, some easier than others depending on the experience of the person creating the table. I'll go through a few different options available on the TechNet Wiki. Insert Table Once...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. The last time I spoke about how you can build a community. That's a good starting point, but wouldn't it be easier to join an existing community? Luckily, Craig Lussier started an article a week ago which should help you with that. On...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! Today we're going to look at a neat trick where you can filter your tag results by more than one tag whilst in TechNet Wiki. Journey with me to Top 10 Wiki Ninjas: Craig Lussier (SharePoint Architect MCC) and his 2K en-US tags . In that blog post, I mentioned how...

Hi ! Today I will show you how to calculate your belt ranking. Belt ranking ? You don't know what the belt ranking is ? You should begin by looking at the blog posts What is a Wiki Ninja? And Why? and Wiki Ninjas - Why ninjas? . Then take a look at the Wiki article Wiki Ninja Belt Rankings for...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Do you know who/what has his/its third birthday on April 14? Let me ask you this question in another way: What do you think, how old is the TechNet Wiki? Nearly three years ago the TechNet Wiki was launched with the following announcement...

One thing that can hold people back from contributing on a Wiki is the uncertainty of what they can add to the community. There are numerous ways to contribute and not all of them mean that you have to be the most knowledgeable person in any technology. Below we present a few ways that YOU can contribute...

Welcome everyone to todays Wiki Life. Todays topic will be ratings. Ratings can be a nice tool to measure the usefulness/quality of content. This blog uses them for example, people can rate the blog entries, giving feedback to the authors what topics they liked and in that way influence what topics...

We often ignore this point and often all the credits go to the author (and he deserves it), but in all most diverse books or articles of different technologies there is a common factor among them: we can always see a note of gratitude to the reviewers and editors from the author. For those who are...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Before I start: That is my first post in 2013 and with that I wish you all a happy new year. I hope you had a nice Christmas and a good start into the new year. But lets get back to topic: How do you learn new technologies? Do you invest...

Hello Ninjas and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. In my last post here on the WikiNinjas Blog, I talked to you about the principle of invisibility . Today I present a principle again. But unlike the principle of Invisibility, this principle we already we use in our articles...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday! When you land on TechNet Wiki, you'll notice 8 boxes near the top of the page: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ Those 8 boxes act as our "Table of Contents". There are many ways to navigate TechNet Wiki: Search Portals Tags Recent Activity...

Something happened to me for the last article I did for the Wiki before my summer vacation ! That day I found the force behind the social’s media that can lead to a great portal’s page. It was in the morning of the 17’s July. I saw a lot of activity from the ninja Craig Lussier...

Each year Microsoft organizes the global MVP Summit . MVP's around the globe are invited to come over to the Redmond campus or the Hyatt Hotel in Bellevue to meet privately with Microsoft product teams for multiple deep-dive technical sessions. This year the summit will be held twice. The first was in...

As a Wiki fan you probably have compiled a nice set of articles to be proud of. If that's you, then good job! That's fantastic! But how do you manage your collection? To keep statistics you need good data. It seems easy but think of a title that make sense. It's important to choose the right key...

TechNet Wiki life is "organised chaos" "Chaos" Anyone can add anything they like, whenever they like, however they like! However, many people don't include a table of contents, follow the style guidelines , understand how to use the Editor or include the common tags Some articles are pure...

Hello and welcome everybody to our Wednesday - Wiki Life post. Today I want to continue on a topic I started a few weeks ago: How to write your first article . The last time we have seen how to write your first article on your own. Now I want to show you how you can easily translate an article into...

Let's review the new section added to TechNet Wiki: Engage! Wiki Ninjas Blog Wiki Ninjas on Twitter TechNet Wiki Discussion Forum You can find the section here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ We added it on the right side, under the "Help & Feedback" section...

Welcome to Wiki Life Wednesday ! This is the fourth article in the Social Synergy series: TNWiki + TechNet Gallery TNWiki + CodePlex TNWiki + TechNet Forums TNWiki + Blogs (this article) So... Why should I use TechNet Wiki if I already blog about Microsoft technologies? ...

A few people have asked me why our team uses the TechNet wiki to publish our content. I tell them that the number one reason why we use the wiki is that it saves us time and enables us to get our content out to the community faster than our traditional processes. That sounds good on paper, but what is...