Chris.blog.Microsoft : social

How to make your mark on the System Center site

cslemp — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:59:00 GMT

The number of feeds on MSDN and TechNet sites that are driven by social bookmarking (community members tagging relevant URLs) just keeps growing. The latest adopter is the System Center TechCenter , which has just put “links from the community” front...(read more)

MSDN at PDC 2008, or "why bookmarking is like fire insurance"

cslemp — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:32:00 GMT

After four days of speaking with a total of 269 developers at PDC in Los Angeles about MSDN Bookmarking , I have a pretty good idea what you think of it. Nearly all of the response at the booth was very positive, with a few in-depth conversations yielding...(read more)

Under the Azure skies of PDC 2008

cslemp — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:56:53 GMT

I couldn't resist getting Azure into the title of my first post from PDC 2008 . The day started with what I'm sure will come to be known as "the keynote that started it all." Ozzie's vision of what cloud-computing will do in the shape of Azure...(read more)

MSDN Social + fine-tuned SQL 2008 = speed, sweet speed

cslemp — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:27:00 GMT

Today we released an update with a number of performance enhancements, some of which I referred to in my previous post . I decided that now was a good time to compare our performance with some other leading sites that we might be compared to. I opened...(read more)

Top 10 Bookmarkers on MSDN and TechNet for September 2008

cslemp — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:35:00 GMT

We’d like to give kudos to our top bookmarkers as of September 30, 2008. These are the people that are on the leading edge of driving new content onto MSDN and TechNet. I removed a few of the people from our own team, as they’re kind of expected to use...(read more)

IE8 Accelerators for MSDN and TechNet Social and Search

cslemp — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:50:00 GMT

In the last of my series of cool new toys we're adding to extend the new MSDN , TechNet , and Expression social bookmarking sites, we've just posted a set of accelerators for IE8. Thanks to our own Tim Pearson and Husain Shambhoora for creating these!...(read more)

Shiny object #3: Live Writer Plug-in for MSDN and TechNet Social

cslemp — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:51:00 GMT

Rahul Soni, a Microsoft field engineer in Bangalore, wrote a Live Writer plug in for including “Add to…” links to a number of social services like Digg, Delicious, Technorati, and Facebook. He’s now updated the plug in to work with Microsoft’s new social...(read more)

Shiny objects for MSDN and TechNet Social: #2 Custom feed queries

cslemp — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:55:00 GMT

Continuing our series of cool new stuff you can do with our new social platform, Taylor Parsons has a post fully outlining all the conditions and parameters that you can use to slice and dice social platform queries. Here's some examples using Taylor's...(read more)

Shiny objects for MSDN and TechNet Social: #1 FeedFlare

cslemp — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:27:00 GMT

This is the start of a series of small posts on some goodies that are sprouting up to make interacting with our new Social apps easier. First up is some FeedFlare that Dan Rigsby created . FeedFlare, according to the FeedBurner site, is designed to "Give...(read more)

Launched: Social Bookmarking V1 on MSDN and TechNet (VIDEO)

cslemp — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:18:21 GMT

We're pleased to announce the availability of our V1 release of MSDN Social , TechNet Social , and Expression Social . These new sites, which have been available in preview since May 2008, make it easy for Microsoft's enormous technical community to help...(read more)

Preview of MSDN & TechNet Social Bookmarking V1 Release

cslemp — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:57:00 GMT

John Martin has a post today previewing the early September launch of our V1 social bookmarking app. The list of new stuff includes: Subscribing to people feeds (sounds yummy) Browse and find people (was hard to do from bookmarking before) IMPORT - huge...(read more)

MSDN Bookmarking: 20,000 bookmarks. 2,000 users. 30 days.

cslemp — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:48:00 GMT

Our social bookmarking preview got a fair bit of attention when it was announced back in May . We've been eager to see how technical professionals will use it, so we decided to take a snapshot and analyzed the first 30 days of data. First, some full disclosure:...(read more)

Bookmarking Widget for MSDN and TechNet

cslemp — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:03:33 GMT

We've finalized the script for a blog widget that you can add to your blog now. You can see it on the right under my bio. Here's the script: <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:window.open('http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/bookmarks/en-US/action/Create/s/E/?url='...(read more)

No need to shout! Plus forums updates

cslemp — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:07:41 GMT

An amusing video inspired by MSDN and TechNet's new focus on "kicking up the social volume" is over on YouTube (and Soapbox, embedded below). I think it tells the story of why community is critical for our sites in a just-annoying-enough-to-be-funny...(read more)

Channel9 dives into MSDN's social aspirations

cslemp — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:52:08 GMT

Video posted yesterday featuring yours truly and my awesome colleagues goes into why we're doing social bookmarking and tagging and avatars and so on... We spend over 30 minutes expanding on Dan Truax's theme for our org: open the sites up to the community...(read more)