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Update your RSS feeds...I'm leaving Microsoft

Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:42 PM by joemorel
For the past two years, I've been working to improve developer community here at Microsoft. We've seen some pretty great times--the forums continue to grow at a huge rate, we released several open sourced power toys, and we've seen a change in culture Read More...
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Online Community Unconference 2007 - A Recap

Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:16 PM by joemorel
Last week I traveled with my manager down to Mountain View to attend the Online Community Unconference. I went to the conference last year when it was in San Francisco, and I found it to be a great gathering of ideas and people who are truly excited about Read More...
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ZunePass - What Have You Downloaded?

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:53 PM by joemorel
If you're a Zune owner, I hope that you at least tried out the 2 week free trial subscription to the ZunePass service that allows you to download as many tracks as you want from the Zune service in a "rental" fashion--as long as you keep paying your fee Read More...
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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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Microsoft Popfly - Why I'm Excited

Posted Friday, May 25, 2007 7:48 PM by joemorel
Popfly has been out for about a week now, and I'm excited about it. Why? Is it because I've seen the site evolve internally over the past few months? Is it because it's the first "real" application I've seen that really shows off the power of Silverlight? Read More...
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The Reputation System We're Actually Working On...

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:37 AM by joemorel
Over the past year, I've done quite a bit of blogging on reputation and got quite a bit of feedback back from you as a community. Well...I've got good news and I've got bad news. The good news is that we're actually working on a reputation system. The 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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