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April 2006 - Posts

Why the Developer Solutions Team is a Great Place to Work

Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:14 PM by joemorel
A while back, Josh asked for his blog readers' opinions on why somebody should want to join the Developer Solutions team that he leads. He's already received a great response from an outside reader , but I thought it might add something to hear a testimonial Read More...
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Forums Reputation Phase 3 – Profiles

Posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:04 AM by joemorel
I used to think that rich profiles were dumb—that they were really only something that were only used by teenagers hell-bent on getting the latest and greatest AIM virus. Then I saw the Xbox.com Forums. Wow. Now those were great profiles. Why? The profiles Read More...
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PageRank for Answers?

Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:25 AM by joemorel
A few of the comments I've gotten about my reputation system are telling me that I'm on the right track, but I'm really not doing enough to measure answer quality , not just quantity. Recently, the community lead for the C# team told me that she had been Read More...
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Take On the "forums guys" at Fantasy Baseball!

Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 6:18 AM by joemorel
Now, honestly, I don't believe that my little blog is going to generate more interest than Josh's well-read blog, but I'm going to try... Anybody want to take on the "forums guys" at fantasy baseball? Josh is a huge Red Sox fan, I'm a huge Indians fan, Read More...
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Forums Reputation Phase 3 - Community Ownership

Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:27 AM by joemorel
On for the next part of phase 3 of the forums reputation system... It's not Microsoft's community... …it’s yours. So, as a community, it should be possible to do all of the same things I’m able to do in my site administration tool. Through a voting process Read More...
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Forums Reputation Phase 3 – Expansion

Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:47 PM by joemorel
Over the past month I’ve blogged a ton about my “crawl, walk, run” plan for a reputation system in the Microsoft Forums. Honestly, I’ve been putting off writing this “final” phase, because it’s pretty tough to write a vision for the do-all and end-all Read More...
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Answer Marking: It's Not Just For Moderators Anymore

Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 10:49 PM by joemorel
I've been writing quite a bit about reputation and auto-moderation on the MSDN Forums on this blog. It's been a cool way for me to organize my thoughts and collaborate a bit with other people on what we be great for the forums in the future--but it's Read More...
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Why Microsoft Employees Should Own a Mac

Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 6:42 PM by joemorel
Wow. Lots and lots of hits on my last post about Apple’s Boot Camp software that allows Windows XP to be installed on the new Intel Macs. I guess my comment implying that I had MacBook envy (I wish my computer was lighter and better looking!) really got Read More...
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Apple Does Windows

Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 5:12 PM by joemorel
Wow. I never thought I’d see the day. Apple announced official software today, called “ Boot Camp ” that will allow Macs to dual-boot Windows XP and Mac OS X. The software looks like it will partition your hard drive for you without destroying your data, Read More...
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