Interested in Helping us Shape the Next Version of the MSDN Library?

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Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:11:09 GMT

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re: Interested in Helping us Shape the Next Version of the MSDN Library?

larryj — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:19:43 GMT

In response to Tim's post...

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=566

Hi Tim,

The idea was not "choose" facebook to singularly be the option to engage people on the next generation of the Library, but to expand the conversation to as many people who are interested as we can. Traditional means of engaging MVP’s, inviting folks in for usability studies, putting up surveys in the library, etc., all these efforts are solid means to get feedback. We tossed in the facebook groups and other social networking sites to expand the audience we can get involved with our site and designs. We’ll see how it goes, I do agree that these early efforts are competing with thin participation across the groups, but a couple hundred folks who are willing to give us back comments as we make progress is another valued outlet IMO.

Larry W Jordan Jr - Product Unit Manager for MSDN and TechNet Infrastructure Team

re: Interested in Helping us Shape the Next Version of the MSDN Library?

jagadish prasanna — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:32:46 GMT

Larry,

There are tech centers now on MSDN, currently i don't see any ways for people to check back on what they learnt on a particular content. Having a questionier has two advantages - a) This will give immediate feedback for people to check on what they just studied.

b) This will increase the customer sats for MSDN as they are given feedback on what they just learnt from the content.

Perhaps the questions for the content can be fed from MS Learning and there can be ad. revenue from other companies which offer people to prepare for Microsoft Certification exams..

Jaggi