John Martin's Blog : Forums

VORT-EX08: The Swirling Mass You Actually Want to Get Sucked Into

John Martin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:19:00 GMT

The MSDN and TechNet teams recently helped to launch VORT - EX08 (Virtual Online Remix- Total Experience), an online “virtual” conference for IT professionals, developers, and designers in the Europe. There are cool virtual booths for both MSDN and TechNet....(read more)

Create Customized Social Feeds with MSDN and TechNet Social

John Martin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:20:00 GMT

Thousands of technical professionals worldwide are now using MSDN and TechNet Social and Forums to bookmark and tag online resources. And it's easy to create customized and dynamic feeds from our social platform to publish social content by person, tag,...(read more)

Microsoft is Planning Much More Than Just Social Bookmarking

John Martin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:16:00 GMT

Our vision is for the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression sites to be the largest and most vibrant online communities for technical professionals, enabling easy connections to the best resources and most knowledgeable people from Microsoft and the global community. Social bookmarking plays a vital role in that vision, but is just one application amongst a network of increasingly integrated applications - all running on a common social platform....(read more)

VIDEO: Learn about New MSDN, TechNet, and Expression Forums from the people who built it

John Martin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:24:00 GMT

While we were at TechEd 2008 last week, Brent Serbus (Program Manager), Chris Slemp (Program Manager), and Don Tan (Test Lead) cut a great TechTalk video on our new Forums app.

Millions of customers use forums every month to get support and learn about Microsoft products - find out about the latest new features and see a demo.

New Channel 9 Videos on MSDN/TechNet Social Vision and Apps

John Martin — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:43:00 GMT

Great new videos about MSDN and TechNet's social vision, new social apps, and site redesign are now online on Channel 9!

Meet the people behind the sites...

MSDN/TechNet Social Platform: Social Bookmarking, User Profile, Enhanced Forums

MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience, and Search Really Works :-)

MSDN & TechNet Forums 3.3

John Martin — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:49:00 GMT

Back in February, we released a totally new Forums application for MSDN Forums, TechNet Forums, and Expression Forums.

In addition to an overhauled UX, and better performance, the new Forums app has some notable new features like filters to quickly find the posts you need and Live Update, which can make a forums discussion as interactive and responsive as an IM session.

Next week, we're releasing an update to the Forums app and migrating some major forums from the old app to the new one. At this time, all forums on the new app and begin migrated are English-language; non-English forums migrations are being planned for the Fall.

Find about the new features and which forums are moving over in this Announcement from Andrew Brenner, Product Planner for Forums.