We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog

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...

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...

A couple of months ago I created a small tool that utilized some of the cool meta tag searching capabilities of MSN Search and published it out to GotDotNet. It was simple, but definitely helps overcome one of the biggest limitations in the forums--lousy Read More...

Moderating the MSDN Forums can be tough work. There are posts to be edited, questions to be moved, trouble users to deal with, and of course, questions to be answered. Internally, we've been using an application called "Answerme" to help ease the burden Read More...

I've blogged about using Live.com macros to make searching the forums a breeze, but the feedback I've gotten is that the macros themselves are difficult to create, especially for the forums. It's a pain to troubleshoot whether or not the queries are working, Read More...

One of the cooler recent features that the Live.com search team has released is the creation of macros for searches—essentially a way to save the long advanced search parameters that you can add to a search to scope your search down. A common example Read More...