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The Wii60 Expereince

Posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:24 PM by jledgard
I alluded to my purchase of the Nintendo Wii but I really didn't talk about the system itself. The Wii is the ultimate party box as far as I'm concerned for those of you that still meet people in person. The innovation of the Wiimote controller gives Read More...
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Answers on my perspectives about blogging

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:22 PM by jledgard
Here is another set of questions that was put to me recently... well over a month ago to be specific. It might be too late for my answers to be internally useful, so I figured I'd post them here. We’d like to get your answers to a couple of questions Read More...
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Xbox 360 Gamercard Integration is Cool

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:07 AM by jledgard
Sure, I'm biased, but Microsoft did a LOT of things right with the 360. It was super easy to post my gamercard on the side of the blog. Here's how to set your up today . I'm amazed with the richness and integration of data they managed to squeeze into Read More...
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My New Role as Lead PM on Developer Solutions

Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 9:10 AM by jledgard
I'm overdue for a blog post that explains my new job. I'm still a "community stick weilders" in the Developer Division, but my role has been expanded to include both Self Sustaining Communities (think MSDN Forums ) AND Developer Solutions (think Developer Read More...
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Holiday ZEB Goal Achieved!

Posted Friday, December 30, 2005 12:54 PM by jledgard
No, this is not an invitation to send me mail... nor does it mean that I've run out of work to do. One of my personal goals this holiday season was to hit Zero E-mail Bounce so that I can start the new year off right. I've used the quiet time this holiday Read More...
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The Effects of an Angry Customer E-Mail Regarding the Forums

Posted Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:24 PM by jledgard
IMO the MSDN Forums have been doing really well so far. The early success and feedback has been encouraging to the point that I believe the forums will ultimately be a welcome edition to official MS community offerings. I've been pretty stressed about Read More...
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Quick Notes on the Community Server Blog Upgrade

Posted Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:44 PM by jledgard
These are simply my thoughts after playing with the new site for a couple of hours. I'm having some ups and downs with the new engine so far. I'm sure I'll come to love it and there are probably some good workarounds to several of the issues I'm having. Read More...
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The Value of Making Yourself Available to the Community

Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:05 PM by jledgard
One goal that my team is looking at pushing within the Developer Division is that every PUM (Large team leader) make themselves available to their customer communities through having a blog. In addition to the feeling that blogging is really the industry Read More...
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Creating Communities Around Music Playlists

Posted Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:01 PM by jledgard
I love watching ideas turn into reality. Mike, from www.FIQL.com , recently sent me this mail because comments were closed on the post in question: Hey Josh, ran across an old post of yours here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2004/06/07/150302.aspx Read More...
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Updated my "How to pimp your blog" entry

Posted Friday, January 21, 2005 10:27 AM by jledgard
I had a couple of questions about color choosing and adjusting the location of the title text after adding a background picture. I had left that stuff out apparently. Well, I've updated the entry. http://blogs.msdn.com/jledgard/archive/2005/01/19/356978.asp Read More...
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Read Dirty Laundry and Join the Mobile Revolution Anyway

Posted Monday, December 20, 2004 5:08 PM by jledgard
Scoble is taking some heat for this post and his letter to Bill about creating an interesting music player that a fellow "softy" described as the " Most Insulting Blog Entry of The Year ". Judging from the comments and the trackbacks, Ed is not the only Read More...
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Thanks Neil, for explaining why my GPRS is "Always On"

Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 11:49 PM by jledgard
Just a quick shout out to Neil Enns (PM on the Visual Studio Devices team) who resolved my concern that I couldn't disconnect my new Audiovox smartphone from the GPRS network. Apparently , once the connection is established to the data network the Smartphone Read More...
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When the solution is worse than the problem

Posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:20 PM by jledgard
My wife added her thoughts about the recent site changes that disallow comments on ALL posts after 30 days. She adequately described what I would like to see happen. “ merge the two features (moderation/30 day policy) so that you have the ability to re-enable Read More...
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"Welcome to Last Week" Scoob Comments on API War

Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:03 PM by jledgard
I was never prompted or felt compelled to write up my thoughts on Joel's article until tonight when a co-worker sent it my way and it landed in my inbox... again. Here was my response. I saw it in RSSBandit since I'm subscribed. :-) It's interesting and Read More...
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MSBaseball Charity Update

Posted Friday, June 25, 2004 2:13 PM by jledgard
As of this moment I've collected $430 for the MSBaseball Challenge charities. I'll thank everyone who has contributed again and extend a most recent thanks to Marko, William, Brian, Joseph, and Matthew. All of whom should be getting their g-mail invites Read More...
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