I’ve been working on putting together a set of forum ownership requirements and moderation guidelines for the MSDN forums in preparation for other sites and forums that may be launching in the future. You may have seen my posts today. My belief is...

The Moderator forum exists to facilitate private conversations between the site moderation staff. It will be the primary means of communication between community empowered moderators and Microsoft moderators. Typical usage of the moderator forum might...

Every posts contains a "report" link that any user can take advantage of. This link is intended to help users alert moderators of issues that may require attention that have so far gone unnoticed. Users should feel free to report any issue they'd like...

This feature is intended to help keep conversations on topic and make sure that answers are searchable within the appropriate buckets. Any forum moderator has the ability to move threads by using the "move thread" command. When to Move Threads Off...

Any user can delete their own posts on the MSDN forums . The “Delete Post” option exists for moderators just to the right of the “Edit Post” link. Messages that are off-topic, inappropriate, or add no value to the forum should be deleted. Keep in mind...

This is cross posted from the announcement on the MSDN Forums I just made . Who's posted the most replies marked as answers from the end of May to June? Who are the domain experts? Here is the June view of top forum users! In June (5/20-6/30) Top Answerers...

Any user can edit their own posts on the MSDN Forums with the graphical “Edit” button. Moderators have the ability to edit any users post by clicking the “edit post” link in the upper right of the post. When you edit a post you are required to leave notes...

Think of the MSDN forums as a gigantic FAQ generating discussion system. The question and answer tags within threads enable users to easily see what threads contain answers and what posts within that thread actually provided the answer to the question...

Sorry Robert, if people have to create and log into their own blogs just to leave comments on other blogs they are reading... you'll lose at least 90% of the feedback. The barrier to entry is just to high. I have to: 1. Read your post 2. Create...

New door tags have arrived featuring our super cool customer drawn logo ! Next stop... full on swag! Since its bad camera phone picture night in the Ledgard house I figured I'd post this shot I snapped today.

Starting the Scooblog Reader Rewards program has reinvigorated my blog reading. My "social software on the cheap" system has added 41 blogs to my subscription list. I just went through and read the last months worth of posts (330 of them) from 41 of my...

Just saw this http://activehead.com/dotnetweblogs/ in my referrals. Apparently my Reader Reward program is one of the most talked about posts. I actually think our default blogs.msdn.com homepage should offer this sort of view... maybe with a couple...

Hello Scooblog readers! If you read my blog and have a blog then please leave a link below. I’d like to read your blog too. I’m looking to shake up my subscribed feeds list and the first thing I want to accomplish is make sure that I’m listening to my...

The Red Sox are back in first place today and coincidentally are the FOX game of the week... unless you live on the west coast. Then you get to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on FOX instead. There are no other baseball games to watch because Fox has...

I attended Tech-Ed for the first time this year. My mission was to talk to as many people as possible in person about the community tools Developer Division has been leveraging to converse with customers. I just finished posting the quotes and notes I...

The Microsoft perception issue is something that came up in the discussions I had about our communities and role in the community. Here are my quotes and notes on how the few customers I talked to perceive us. Servicing “Developer perception...

I missed this stuff when I posted the constructive blog feedback. I talked a few people about podcasts, webcasts, video blogs, demos, etc. Here are the quotes: “Channel9 content is entertaining” “(I) don’t have time for video and audio blogs...

Employee biographies generated the least excitement amongst the people I was able to rope into talking with me about them. I liked the theme format because it shows that these quotes are not the only ones I heard, but the ones i managed to write down...

More notes from Tech-Ed. This time its what I heard about the Product Feedback Center experience. Forced Search First “Its tough to find bugs for dupes. The search needs a lot of work. Right now it feels like a wasted step for people who file a...

Again, some raw quotes and what I think I heard at Tech-Ed. This time about the community tech previews. “ I love them” “I have no problems if they don’t run well, you disclaim them just fine” “I prefer the downloads because I can still get...

These are the raw notes, quotes, and my thoughts, I wrote down from people on the MSDN Forums at Tech-Ed. I subscribe to the philosophy of trying to just capture what people say during my interviews rather than trying to find the meaning of their quotes...

I've been on 2 of the 3 sides of the Microsoft review. I've been an individual being graded by the system and I've been a lead that has participated in the dreaded "Stack Rank". I've never had the opportunity to see how it works once the review model...

You never know what is going to take off. My post last week about the positive benefits and quotes I heard about Microsoft blogs at Tech-Ed made its way around internally in a way that no e-mail I could have ever sent would have. Chalk that up as another...

It’s sad. It’s depressing really, that some prophecies have the ability to be self fulfilling if people don’t maintain a balanced perspective. I’ve been forwarded several negative articles on corporate blogging. Most are filled with 50% of the story populated...

Just a reminder that if you are reading this from Tech-Ed and would like to help shape the direction of the MSDN forums application please stop by the focus group Monday. Focus Group: MSDN Forums Date: Monday, June 6th, 2005 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM...