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Thoughts about online communities, Power Toys for Visual Studio, and personal experiences with Windows Media Player and Zune

Why Are People So Vicious Online?

Hey, you! Yes, you. The one with the keyboard in front of you and the mouse in your hand. Step away...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/27/2006

This Time It's For Real--I'm Selling My iPod

For those of you who have been keeping up with the blog, I've been going through a migration from...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/25/2006

How Am I Supposed to Find the Right Forum?

I'll admit it--the MSDN Forums have grown to the point where it's very difficult to find the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/11/2006

Forums Moderator Toolset Requirements and Feature List Available

Well, it looks like I really am going to move forward on creating the moderators toolset that I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/09/2006

How cool is this--the little applet I wrote awhile ago to make complex searches using MSN Search...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/08/2006

Apple Disbands Forum Support Team

Yikes...this wasn't an article I expected to see coming:...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/02/2006

One Year at Microsoft...Assimilation Complete?

Six months ago, I started this blog with a post commemorating my first six months at Microsoft,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/01/2006

What Would a Great Forum Moderator Toolbar Look Like?

Moderating the MSDN Forums can be tough work. There are posts to be edited, questions to be moved,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/19/2006

Where Can I Ask Questions About Vista or Office 2007?

Well, we do! A couple of months ago the "sister" forum site to the MSDN Forums, the TechNet forums,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/13/2006

Microsoft Forums MSN Search Tool

I've blogged about using Live.com macros to make searching the forums a breeze, but the feedback...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 07/12/2006

Best Practice Analyzer for ASP.Net Alpha Released!

One of the most difficult parts of ASP.Net 2.0 application creation is configuring your site...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/29/2006

Forums Threads – Just One More Question…

This morning I had the opportunity to present to a group of community leads for the Windows Server...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/23/2006

Using MusicBridge to Sync Windows Media Player with iTunes

In my previous post about migrating from iTunes to Windows Media Player, I mentioned a small applet...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/20/2006

Moving from iTunes to Windows Media Player (and what’s up with album art?)

UPDATE (12/18/06): By popular demand, I've added an article on how to convert your (unprotected) AAC...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/08/2006

MVP Identification on the Forums

I've had the pleasure of meeting many, many super-smart people in my year or so of working here at...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/02/2006

Finding the Good Stuff on the Forums

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Online Community Camp run by Forum One Communications...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/31/2006

Dealing with N00bs on the MSDN Forums

One of the most fun parts of my work with the MSDN Forums has been working some of the most...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/22/2006

New Forums Features!

Josh scooped me to the story, but yesterday the Microsoft.com team released a service pack for the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/19/2006

TFS Administration Tool 1.0 Released...with Shared Source!

It's been a long road, but it's finally happened...the first version of the Team Foundation Server...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/16/2006

Why My iPod Still Hasn't Been Sold...

Well, time for a little bit of backtracking. :) A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about why I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/09/2006

Coffee Culture (How Microsofties Know I'm Not From Seattle)

When I first came out to the Redmond campus of Microsoft during my internship, I was really...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/02/2006

Why the Developer Solutions Team is a Great Place to Work

A while back, Josh asked for his blog readers' opinions on why somebody should want to join the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/27/2006

Take On the "forums guys" at Fantasy Baseball!

Now, honestly, I don't believe that my little blog is going to generate more interest than Josh's...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/14/2006

Forums Reputation Phase 3 - Community Ownership

On for the next part of phase 3 of the forums reputation system... It's not Microsoft's community......

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/12/2006

Forums Reputation Phase 3 – Expansion

Over the past month I’ve blogged a ton about my “crawl, walk, run” plan for a reputation system in...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/11/2006

Answer Marking: It's Not Just For Moderators Anymore

I've been writing quite a bit about reputation and auto-moderation on the MSDN Forums on this blog....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/07/2006

Why Microsoft Employees Should Own a Mac

Wow. Lots and lots of hits on my last post about Apple’s Boot Camp software that allows Windows XP...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/07/2006

Apple Does Windows

Wow. I never thought I’d see the day. Apple announced official software today, called “Boot Camp”...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/05/2006

Web 2.0 == Collective Intelligence?

The girl that used to live in my place never changed her address for her Newsweek subscription, so I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2006

Channel9 Video on VS Power Toys Team

I didn't want to be the last one on my team to the blogging party today about mentioning that our...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2006

Managing My Music: What's Really Important?

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I had switched to a subscription-based music service (Yahoo!...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2006

Tidbit to Start the Week: Google PageRanks

I was a bit bored last night and started going to some common websites just to see what the Google...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/20/2006

Forum Content: What is Okay to Delete?

As early adopters of the new forum platform that the Microsoft.com team is developing at Microsoft,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/17/2006

You Can't Sell Pure Technology

Last year at this time, I was wrapping up a Masters program over at good ole Case Western Reserve...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/15/2006

Why I Sold My iPod

Outside of the online communities space, one of my biggest passions is music and home entertainment....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/09/2006

TFS Administration Tool Updated to Support RC of TFS

As I blogged about on the DDCPX Blog... "Updated binaries have been posted on GotDotNet for the TFS...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/01/2006

Microsoft Forums Reputation System - Phase 2

A couple of posts ago, I covered my vision for the first phase of a reputation system for the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2006

Why Web Forums for Support? What Do You Have Against Newsgroups?

Last week one of the program managers, who works with a segment of customers that is very...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/22/2006

Microsoft Forums Reputation System - Phase 1

In my last post about Trust and Reputation, I outlined what I believed were the key elements of...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/16/2006

Announcing Beta 1 of the TFS Administration Tool!

Outside of just the MSDN Forums, I also have had the opportunity to work as the Program Manager on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2006

Trust and Reputation on the Microsoft Forums - Part 1

In my last post, I talked about how difficult it was to try and decide what groups of people you can...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/09/2006

Who Can You Trust?

Awhile ago, my manager and I were kicking around ideas to solve a problem in the MSDN Forums. By...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2006

Six Months at the Empire

Hello! My name's Joe Morel, and I'm a relatively new Program Manager here at Microsoft, working on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/25/2006

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