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Five things I love about Microsoft
19 December 08 11:03 AM
Giving -- As someone who does a lot in the community, I really appreciate the fact that Microsoft spends a lot of money each year to support those organizations where I volunteer. Whether it's matching my time with money, or matching dollar for dollar, Read More...
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Microsoft Answers beta
17 December 08 11:44 AM
I want to congratulate all of those who worked on getting a beta Microsoft Answers up and running. It's great to see the nice integration of social applications like Forums and Social Bookmarks in a very person centric view. What exactly is Microsoft Read More...
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Community advisory boards help shape our future
10 October 08 11:24 AM
A few months ago, I was at the Norman Rockwell Museum and I ran across his " Four Freedoms " series again. I always enjoyed his work and am in awe of his ability to capture humanity in such a poignant manner. As such, in light of our recent community Read More...
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Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 highlights
22 September 08 08:57 AM
This past week, I had the honor of going to O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo in New York City . Overall, it was a great event that allowed me to connect with some of the great minds in the industry in addition to learning a lot. Some highlights from the conference: Read More...
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Social Bookmarks v1 released
10 September 08 09:11 AM
A few months ago we previewed a version of Social Bookmarks that enabled technical professionals to: store urls of interest to you share them with others explore what others share Now we're ready to open it up even more. With the new release of Social Read More...
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More than bookmarks are coming to MSDN and TechNet...
31 August 08 04:26 PM
John recently wrote about the broader vision we've been working towards here for technical professionals. Rather than rehashing the whole thing, I encourage you to see what John has to say, and to stay tuned for these updates. With my passion around the Read More...
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Sara Ford publishes a book, changes lives
11 August 08 09:19 AM
One of my colleagues, Sara Ford , just finished her first book on Visual Studio tips and will be donating all author book royalties to create a scholarship fund at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College for anyone living in her hometown of Waveland, Read More...
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Is love more powerful than the web?
11 July 08 04:10 PM
With two high profile product launches being a bit bumpy ( here , here ) I can't help but wonder if the all of the love for their products (and the spread of love via social networks) is causing strain on the underlying infrastructure. Course, from a Read More...
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Ray Ozzie on community and Live Mesh
23 April 08 08:03 AM
Being a community guy of sorts, I am always quite interested when folks like Ray Ozzie talk about community. Check out Ray Ozzie's memo on our software + services strategy (via the ReadWriteWeb), in addition to announcements regarding Live Mesh. I still Read More...
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Business and community evolution
16 March 08 03:52 PM
Thanks to Fili for calling out Chris' post discussing Oracle's "Social CRM." This has been on my mind a lot lately -- rationalizing the role of community in the business world. In many ways, I've been trying to balance this very thing from all my time Read More...
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Online Community Roundtable Notes
16 March 08 03:40 PM
A few days ago, I attended the Online Community Roundtable where we had some robust discussion about community strategies. Thanks to Bob for stepping up and hosting this session with Forum One. Thanks also to Nancy , Teresa and Bill for posting their Read More...
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community types revisited...
10 March 08 08:57 AM
Josh Bernoff over at Forrester just posted something that relates to community types . There, he gets at the question of why companies want to participate in communities. Unfortunately, I don't think that list is very people focused. Communities are great, Read More...
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Community types for technology professionals?
09 March 08 10:43 AM
With social media exploding the last several years, it's easy to think that all this emphasis on community is equal from one experience to the next. Wanting to be precise in what we're talking about, I think it will be helpful to describe the communities Read More...
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"Ownership" of community?
29 November 07 01:18 PM
That was a question I got at TechEd Developers 2007. While I am technically on point for planning community different aspects (along with others) on MSDN and TechNet, I know that I do not "own" it. There are others, for example, focused on community from Read More...
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$425 B personified
29 November 07 01:05 PM
There was a recent report out the other week that talked about the value of the Microsoft ecosystem totaling $425 billion . Just looking at the number, it didn't really register for me (after a certain point, large numbers lose their personal nature for Read More...
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