I'm thrilled to say that today we've launched the Devdiv hotfix Public Availibility Pilot Program . This pilot program will allow you to download the most frequently requested Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes without having to contact Microsoft Developer Support...

"Hi, my name is Jana and I'm here to talk about Microsoft's Lessons Learned from MSDN Community Blogs and Channel 9'". Unfortunately Jana wasn't able to attend the Blog Business Summit and I had to take her place on a panel about Microsoft's lessons learned...

Unfortunately it's not listed on the home page, but you can now navigate around our blogs by the tags being used by the bloggers. The new pages are located here: http://blogs.msdn.com/tags/ http://blogs.technet.com/tags/ You can also subscribe...

I said I'd follow up when I got my 360 returned to me from support . I actually got it back before I left for vacation a couple weeks ago. They told me it would take 10 business days round trip and I think I got it back in around 4-5 business days. They...

There are a lot of small things I've neglected blogging about and I figured I could make up for it in one post that covers a bunch of ground. Self employed Ledgard: The obvious one has been watching Gretchen transition from the steady paycheck comfort...

Topic: On the Horizon: A Tour of Innovation Description: What are the most significant trends in social software as we look ahead 24 months? Introductory comments: Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group & Ross Mayfield, Socialtext...

Again, this will be more notes that will grow and change over time rather than time based since it's not a presentation. 2:00: Second breakout session. What are effective ways to mobilize your online community offline? ACLU Problem - People will click...

This is the first of two breakout sessions I'm going to attend. I'm skipping out on the "performance metrics" session since I'm tired of the metrics question. From a conversation last night. "Your performance metrics (for collaboration) depend on the...

9:50 Topic: Community Business Models What new opportunities and experience influence current online community business models. Introductory comments: Michael Sherrod, MyFamily.com & Michel Thouati, Lithium Technologies 9:52: Michael from MyFamily...

Good morning to all three of you interested in refreshing my blog regularly today! The day has started with some demos. 8:30: Forum One - Speak Out - Is a unique chatting service they offer to their clients. You can schedule a chat and questions can come...

4:00: Before this session starts... I had a good conversation with someone from Java.Net. Their team is currently helping teams at Sun push their projects into the open on Java.Net. Sound familiar? There were a lot of similarities and we agreed on some...

Well, we're back from lunch. The food alone is a great reason to come to Sonoma. The conference organizers take advantage of that. I'll probably gain a few lbs here over the couple of days. We just had some Chocolate Bread Pudding that was awesome. (The...

9:30-10:30 Key Trends in Online Collaboration for Social Good Presenters : Chris Wolz, Forum One & Perla Ni, GreatNonprofits Update: Refresh for the latest information. 9:10: Introductions have started. Chris is "setting the stage". Scarce resources...

It's that time of year again and I'm stuck in Somona CA attending the 2006 Online Community Summit . It's a small event with an invite list that's a mix of big tech business (Sun, Microsoft, etc), non-profit groups (Gates Foundation, Omydiar network,...

This probably took to long, but we've created two "lounge" type forums on the MSDN forum site for folks to have non Q/A focused conversations. This came as a suggestion from some of the volunteer moderators and was pretty easy for us to do. Enjoy! Via...