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Traveling to Online Community Unconference 2007

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:36 PM by joemorel
Tomorrow I will be attending the Online Community Unconference in Mountain View, CA. It's been a little bit over a year since the last time I attended this conference, and I'm looking forward to seeing whether or not people's focus has changed over the Read More...
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Report a Bug to Microsoft...in the forums

Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 11:27 PM by joemorel
As part of the larger group of feature improvements in forums that includes the reputation changes that I blogged about earlier , we're also adding in something that people have been asking about for awhile--product feedback and bug reporting. The idea Read More...
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The Role of Microsoft Employees in our Forums

Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:21 PM by joemorel
Recently, a forum moderator asked for some clarification from me in the moderators forum, and I'd like to respond to his question publicly. His post was quite eloquent and long, but his question could be summed up with: Why are there tons of Microsoft Read More...
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Who's Rated the "Most Helpful" in the forums?

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:44 AM by joemorel
A little bit ago, I started talking about ways that we could measure the success of the community without using pure "answer count" as the only barometer for community health. I decided to do a little bit of data mining today and looked for the people Read More...
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Off-Topic Posts: What To Do With Them

Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 10:23 PM by joemorel
Last Edited: 4/10/2007 There has been much discussion on what to do with off-topic posts, especially in the moderators forum. I've gotten a request to make an executive decision and stick with it, for here on forth, here is the official Microsoft guidance Read More...
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Sounding Off: Feedback from the Forum Moderators

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:02 PM by joemorel
Last Edited: 4/6/2007 [I'll be amending the lists in this post based on the comments and continual feedback that comes in. Thanks for hanging with me here.] We've recently released a service pack for the forums that have changed some functionality in Read More...
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What is a "Healthy" Online Community?

Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:25 PM by joemorel
For over year, we've been measuring a few key metrics in the MSDN Forums to monitor overall forum health. We track them aggressively, send out biweekly mails about them, and use them as guideposts to make decisions about what we should or should not do Read More...
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Can We "Digg" Forums?

Posted Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:43 AM by joemorel
When at a loss for what you might want to blog about, go to Digg.com...and voila--the top entry on the page was about a new site that's using Web 2.0 online community concepts to bubble up the best technical pieces of content to other devs. http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/tweako_a_social.html Read More...
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Forums SP3 Deployed - Paste Code Snippets in the Forums

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:40 AM by joemorel
I've gotten the message so many times it's ridiculous--the MSDN Forums display emoticons in the middle of code snippets. Nothing, I mean nothing, will make a developer more mad than a cutesy little light bulb rendering in the middle of their carefully Read More...
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What Was the One Millionth Post in the Forums?

Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 11:16 PM by joemorel
James asked a good question in the comments section of my last blog post, and I thought the topic might be a fun blog post to end a Friday on. What exactly was the one millionth post? Well, the one millionth post on the MSDN Forums was the fifth post Read More...
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MSDN Forums: 1 Million Posts and Counting!

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:50 PM by joemorel
Today I was doing a little bit of housekeeping on the MSDN Forums and I noticed the post ticker at the bottom of the page... In case the picture comes through fuzzy--today we broke through 1,000,000 posts on the MSDN Forums, almost exactly two years after Read More...
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Takeaways from the MVP Summit

Posted Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:07 AM by joemorel
Another MVP Summit has come and gone. Maybe it was the fact that I was busy moving the weekend before it started, but wow, it just seemed to fly by! I had the opportunity to meet with some great MVPs that I've been working with in the forums, sit in on Read More...
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MVP Summit 2007

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:39 AM by joemorel
It's that time again...the MVP Global Summit is happening this week in Seattle and Redmond. The first Summit was one of my favorite experiences so far working at Microsoft--I love talking to customers and hearing it "from the horse's mouth." It's not Read More...
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Democracy for Online Communities

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 10:47 PM by joemorel
When I first started with the DevDiv Customer Connection team, Josh gave me the thirty-second elevator speech about his goals for the forums. The phrase "self-sustaining community" was used more than once. The idea was that just creating the forums or Read More...
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Looking Back at 2006

Posted Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:32 PM by joemorel
It's been nearly a year since I started this blog, and unfortunately as of late, I've been pretty bad at keeping it updated. I'll blame it on the craziness that was December 2006—between traveling for the holidays and Washington's recent string of weather-related Read More...
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