scooblog by josh ledgard
group manager | developer solutions | devdiv
Align Right
For anyone that's just learning basic HTML. I suggest this tutorial......
Date: 06/12/2007
Random Tips on Interviewing for Microsoft
A co-worker recently asked me to share some tips on interviewing people at Microsoft. I wrote a few...
Date: 06/12/2007
OCU2007 Notes: Establishing Culture and Guidelines in Community
There was a lot of good discussion in this one, but I tried taking notes on my windows mobile phone....
Date: 06/07/2007
OCU Notes: Increasing User Particpation in Online Communities
Incentives Influencer relationships such as the MVP program Connect them to your product teams so...
Date: 06/06/2007
Ads in Online Communities Session at OCU 2007
Question: Should there be ads in the community? Some people don't care, some people are really...
Date: 06/06/2007
Hello from the Online Community Unconference
I'm at the computer history museum in the valley attending the Online Community Unconference. I'll...
Date: 06/06/2007
Merging Humans with Tools to Slow Down Trolls
This was a great read that I found through Seth Godin's blog. Troll whisperers aren't necessarily...
Date: 05/15/2007
Curt Shilling - The Robert Scoble of Baseball?
You know, the person that everyone listens to, makes outlandish statements that may offend people on...
Date: 05/09/2007
Car 1 : Carbon Bike 0 : Josh OK
I posted my experience being hit and run by a car yesterday on my personal blog. I'm posting the...
Date: 05/04/2007
Tips on Motivating Your Team to Engage with Customers
I was on a thread where a dev lead asked if anyone had tips to share on motivating his team to...
Date: 05/01/2007
Overheard from the MVPS: More specific Feedback on Forums and Other channels
This is the last of the notes i took at the Summit that I was able to actually write down. On...
Date: 04/11/2007
A reason for social mapping
Dare has one good point and one bad point about the new google mymaps feature that we've had for a...
Date: 04/06/2007
Forget Fancy new Powerpoint Templates
I thought this was pretty cool.
Date: 04/06/2007
MVP Learnings: User Groups, Web Sites, and Feedback
User Groups We do great at participating in our conferences, but we don’t focus on the breadth of...
Date: 04/05/2007
Customer Support in Communities; From 0 to 761 in a Year
Last week 761 developer customer questions were answered in our online communities by members of our...
Date: 04/02/2007
Linkage: Microsoft and cool: so close yet so far :)
Source: The JobSyntax Blog : Microsoft and cool: so close yet so far :) Anyway, I love the end of...
Date: 03/26/2007
Google makes your code prettier
Something I'd love to see Microsoft do more of is small, simple, solutions to annoying problems that...
Date: 03/23/2007
Facilitate Knowledge Transfer in Online Communities
I'm often asked how products teams can best participate in their online communities. It would be...
Date: 03/22/2007
Great tips on ramping up online user communities
There is truth in every recomendation from the following post. Source: Creating Passionate Users:...
Date: 03/22/2007
Forums are now as simple as a widget
The interesting thing is that the same forum could be hosted in different widgets on different sites...
Date: 03/21/2007
Viacom to YouTube: Zip It... Zip it good
I think the clip says it all, but incase it doesn't... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate...
Date: 03/13/2007
Having an open mind towards leaks
Recently a blog post was made by a Microsoft employee who was excited about the new team he was...
Date: 03/12/2007
Something you don't see everyday at Microsoft
Source: Sara Ford's WebLog : Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a...
Date: 03/09/2007
Strong free one two combination for creating localized applications
So you started your application and now realize you've hardcoded strings and you need to start...
Date: 03/07/2007
Vista use is habit forming
Last night I sat down on my home PC and typed [windows-key] w-o-r [enter]. Nothing happened. This...
Date: 03/07/2007
I started a personal blog
Blogs.msdn.com just doesn't seem like the place to post about cooking, the Red Sox, my kidmanals,...
Date: 03/06/2007
A suggestion for online RSS feed readers
Read and display the comment count so I can see how many people have an opinion about the post.
Date: 03/06/2007
The problem with subscribing to guidance feeds
I think next-gen guidance is about bringing together a lot of key concepts: context-precision (using...
Date: 03/05/2007
I guess they listened to Scoble
Went to check out the Google Reader. Loved the introduction and personal tour by the engineer on the...
Date: 03/02/2007
A Reason Blogs Shouldn't Ship as Part of the MSDN Library
I'm not sure that the humor found here would translate well. Nevermind, I'd love to see what would...
Date: 03/01/2007
It's a good sign when
A competitor starts copying our stuff. I saw it with Netscape before they lost market share and also...
Date: 03/01/2007
Ebay Spam
I wonder what E-bay does to try and stop phishers from leaching off of their membership. Seems like...
Date: 03/01/2007
Devdiv Brought Career Compass Down
This afternoon was time that several teams had set aside to work on their career discussion...
Date: 02/22/2007
Ship It
Scoble is right. All the research, value proposition positioning, and market playbooks can't save...
Date: 02/22/2007
Testing Community Based Open Source projects for corporations
John's blog postings on testing open source projects where recently picked up by Mary Jo. Not bad PR...
Date: 02/20/2007
More Talk About Points and Reputation
Brain, a PM on the forums.Microsoft.com site, discusses the element of adding game like systems into...
Date: 02/20/2007
Bad cover letters
My favorite are letters sent to me at Microsoft, but that personally address Bill Gates in their...
Date: 02/19/2007
Good Comments about the Virtual Forum Economy
Feels like this concept is more tested than I imagined. There are some good comments from the post I...
Date: 02/19/2007
A Virtual Economy for Forums?
While I was in China the forum engineers pointed us at some of the more popular forums. These forums...
Date: 02/16/2007
Product Feedback Meets Digg at Yahoo
Via the Yodel Blog We call it a Suggestion Board — you can browse suggestions from other site...
Date: 02/14/2007
Spam killed MyblogLog
I removed the "My Blog Log" list of recent readers from the side of my page. That group, now at...
Date: 02/08/2007