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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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Greetings from Barcelona -- TechEd Developers
05 November 07 06:50 AM
For the few folks reading my blog, I'm attending TechEd Developers 2007. Yes, it seems odd that a blog on blogs.technet.com would have someone attending the dev side of TechEd (IT pros are next week), but what can I say? Community is one of those things Read More...
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(Un)intentional broadening of community?
13 August 07 11:59 AM
Bill Johnston has a nice write up on how discussion groups can play a central role of one's overall community strategy. Although I find many of his points quite salient, the most intriguing takeaway for me is in what is not said. Specifically the following Read More...
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Blogging as transformational
13 August 07 08:49 AM
Gerald Kanapathy's recent post on successful blogging points towards Microsoft as one company that has been transformed by blogging. Specifically he talks about how blogs "opened up Microsoft" and goes on to say how "it's now amazingly open and responsive." Read More...
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quick note on third places
31 July 07 11:14 AM
Scott Hanselman , a recent Microsoft hire, poses a question to software developers about identifying their third places. I don't know Scott, but I love the fact we have more folks joining MS who are familiar with the notion of third places and the like. Read More...
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Terminology towards a more personalized experience
27 July 07 09:05 AM
"Hi, my name is Brian. What's your name?" "Hey you! Who are you? What do you prefer to be called?" User? Customer? People? Friends? Josh Bernoff of Forrester recently set off some discussion around the term "user." He says he's sick of users . Instead Read More...
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When individual interests and the public good intersect
26 July 07 10:28 AM
With a new fiscal year upon us, my role is shifting a bit. as a part of that, i've been taking a closer look at community planning, broadly speaking. during this process, i keep on coming back to a best practice of sorts that occurs when individual interests Read More...
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