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www.live.com: Sharing my CRM page

As you all might know I am a great fan of www.live.com and it has been my start page for a long time. A new option is to share your "tabs' with others. So after seeing this new feature and testing it I started cleaning out my "CRM blog collection". Cleaning out you might think....?

Well we have a really great CRM blogging community, but sadly enough I must admit that a lot of the CRM bloggers stopped blogging so they left me no choice other than removing them from my CRM tab. I hope by reading this post fellow bloggers will update their bookmarks and update the links on their blogs.

A long time ago I created a CRM tab on my www.live.com start page and right now I am able to share this with you. Do you think you need to be on my list? Leave me a comment with your name and blog location and I will add you. My only requirement to be on my CRM list is that you regularly blog about Microsoft Dynamics CRM. I hope I can expand my current list and I will try to share my list as often as possible.

Click or copy this URL and paste it in your browser's address bar: http://www.live.com/?addTemplate=1e0c3577-7318-443f-9f93-5dc71ab683c5

Posted: Monday, March 05, 2007 6:00 AM by mennotk

Comments

Michael Hoehne said:

Great site! Just wondering why all of the article url's to my site are pointing to http://www.live.com/undefined? Does live.com not support atom feeds?

# March 5, 2007 11:26 AM

mennotk said:

I assume you are stunware :) I was wondering the exact same thing when i saw your website. live.com supports Atom feeds, but it seems your site doesn't work..

# March 5, 2007 11:50 AM

Michael Hoehne (stunnware) said:

Yes I'm stunnware :) - I thought that I have implemented the ATOM 1.0 specs correctly and according to http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stunnware.com%2Fcrm2%2Fatom.aspx I did. Will have to check what's wrong.

# March 5, 2007 3:41 PM

mennotk said:

That would be cool! You site is a good resource...

# March 5, 2007 4:45 PM

crmblog said:

Names, I want names. Which bloggers didn't follow through and quit. ;o)

I heard somewhere that over 90% of blogs that are started die off into nothingness, the great silence, some of them with the last post from years ago.

JaAG

# March 5, 2007 5:00 PM

mennotk said:

JaAG, you are right about that. To much names to mention and there is no use to name them all. I would love to get new names added on my list though. Active CRM bloggers that are here to stay!

# March 5, 2007 5:18 PM

Michael Hoehne said:

I tend to say that the problem is on Microsoft's side. Opening my feed (http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/atom.aspx) in Firefox and Opera gives the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">">http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

  <title>stunnware's CRM corner</title>

In IE7 it surprisingly shows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005"><channel xmlns:cfi="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005/internal" cfi:lastdownloaderror="None"><title cf:type="text">stunnware's CRM corner</title><atom:link href="http://www.stunnware.com/crm2/atom.aspx" rel="self"/>

What is IE7 doing here? It adds rss tags to my xml structure and as I'm generating the document in code I'm more than convinced that there's no rss-related element in there. I'm further looking into it, but inserting things into a file is weird.

# March 5, 2007 6:02 PM

mennotk said:

Michael, if I add this Atom feed http://navintmicrosoftcrm.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default than it works without any problem...I am curious on what you will find.

# March 5, 2007 9:49 PM

Merijn van Mourik said:

Hi Menno,

Here's a new blog for your CRM tab :-) including a new post on automatic deployment of crm.

http://crmerijn.blogspot.com/2007/03/automatic-deployment-of-microsoft-crm.html

Cheers,

Merijn

# March 6, 2007 6:01 AM

Reg DC said:

Hi,

I have just recently started blogging about CRM among other things such as SQL Server, .NET, Siebel and Mini-ITX among other things.

I do not have any experience with MS CRM 3.0 as of yet as I am currently a freelance Siebel consultant in North America and Europe specialising in EAI.

However, I do have a "proper" programming background in VB and COBOL and I currently do quite a bit of .NET stuff on the side. I have also played around with the CRM 1.1 from MSDN a couple of years ago so I have a little familiarity with the product.

MS CRM 3.0 is an area that I am interested in moving into professionally once I get bored of Siebel!

If you would like to add me to your list, I would be very grateful. Please also check out my Orders of Battle website at http://www.ordersofbattle.com.

Regards,

Reg

# March 6, 2007 6:15 PM

Michael Hoehne said:

Menno,

It's working now. The reason why it did not before was a missing <link rel="self" ...> tag in the articles. It is not required, but after adding it, live.com is happy.

# March 6, 2007 6:17 PM

Reg DC said:

I forgot to add to the text of the message; my blog site is at http://www.tech-crm.com.

I have added your blog to my blogroll.

Regards,

Reg

# March 7, 2007 2:40 PM

mennotk said:

Michael, cool that you found the "problem". Are you going to Convergence by any chance?

# March 7, 2007 3:10 PM

mennotk said:

Reg, thanks for adding me and I am adding you :)

# March 7, 2007 3:10 PM

mennotk said:

Merijn, you are added as well...just keep blogging :)

# March 7, 2007 3:11 PM

Michael Hoehne said:

I'm not going to convergence. Instead I'm attending the MVP Summit. I'm flying to Seattle tomorrow and return on March 16th.

# March 8, 2007 11:59 AM

Gustaf Westerlund said:

Hi,

I blog a few times a week about Microsoft CRM and SharePoint. Please add my blog if you find it useful.

Kind regards,

Gustaf Westerlund

http://gustafwesterlund.blogspot.com/

# March 15, 2007 5:22 AM

A Freaky Microsoft Dynamics CRM Blog said:

I guess Todd reads my blog. I recently posted my CRM tab for www.live.com In this tab I listed the most

# March 20, 2007 9:27 PM

THE Mscrmguy said:

Thanks for including my blog Menno...FU.

http://mscrmguy.blogspot.com/

# March 31, 2007 1:38 AM
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