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xClaims in beta blogs and forums
06 June 07 02:18 PM
You've heard Korby talk a lot about xClaims and how they help not only authors like myself determine the lenses through which people evaluate my content contributions, but also how xClaims help readers like you determine the credibility of folks like Read More...
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Mini-refresh for Microsoft Beta Communities
06 June 07 02:14 PM
Woohoo! We just finished up a mini refresh of the beta community offerings including blogs, forums, tagspace and now claimspace. Way to go everyone! In terms of the specifics of what's new… New features in the June 2007 refresh of Beta Blogs xClaim integration Read More...
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Looking ahead to a beta communities refresh
29 May 07 09:16 AM
A little over a month ago, we pulled the curtain away and invited you to take a look at the work beng done on the next version of Microsoft blogs and forums. Additionally, we showed off a revamped version of tagspace , our social bookmarking and tagging Read More...
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Recent Numbers from Beta Blogs and Forums
29 May 07 09:10 AM
This is just a quickie post about some updated numbers (as of May 22, 2007): 56 beta blogs 66 beta blog posts 436 beta forum messages Way to go team! Live blogs, live forums, live content! Yay :-) I realize when compared to all the blogs and forum messages Read More...
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Forums Posting Wizard Feedback?
01 May 07 10:39 AM
Have you been to our forums yet? There's some great feedback so far. I've summarized and outlined the current thinking on the posting wizard in forums here . For simplicity, specific links are below. Let us know what you think! step 1 -- title and message Read More...
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Beta Blogs and Forums -- post launch notes 070420
20 April 07 04:14 PM
Just a quick little update on where we stand a few days following our announcement of the beta. 1) beta means different things to different people. this probably goes without saying, but suffice to say, the "beta" messaging has caused confusion exhibit Read More...
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What exactly do we mean by "beta"?
18 April 07 04:43 PM
In light of some of the responses I've been seeing on the forums , I wanted to clarify what exactly we mean by "beta." Admittedly, it is a loaded term. Depending on your perspective, "beta" might refer to something that is pretty polished but needs some Read More...
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Introducing beta Microsoft blogs and forums
17 April 07 03:20 PM
Last night, we announced the beta of several Microsoft community solutions. Thanks to everyone who's helped make this possible! For information on the new blogging solution: here's a text overview here's what's ahead here's a little tutorial on commenting Read More...
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Milestones for forums
02 April 07 09:49 AM
Recently, Joe Morel in the Developer Division called out some wonderful stats for forums on MSDN -- we reached our 1,000,000th post :-) Forums on TechNet and other branded sites also continue to do well. We also deployed a recent update to forums.microsoft.com Read More...
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Support forums via video?
23 February 07 11:42 AM
Alex Barnett has a post pointing to Chris Prillo's video tech support experiment and wonders if this is the beginning of an online video-based technical support network. Given the amount of interest in UGC, videos, and all of the various home improvement Read More...
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RE: Democracy for Online Communities
17 January 07 09:57 AM
Over the past few months as the product manager for blogs and forums, I've had the pleasure of meeting some incredibly talented and passionate folks. Joe Morel , over in the Developer Division is one of them. He recently wrote a post that is near and Read More...
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Forums and Forum Views
17 January 07 09:54 AM
Currently on MSDN and TechNet sites, we have forums organized in a general hierarchy of site, groups, forums, and threads (which contain messages). From an organizational logic standpoint this makes a lot of sense. A particular message belongs to a thread, Read More...
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