We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog

7/17/2020

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

For the past two years, I've been working to improve developer community here at Microsoft. We've...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/07/2007

Last week I traveled with my manager down to Mountain View to attend the Online Community...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/13/2007

Tomorrow I will be attending the Online Community Unconference in Mountain View, CA. It's been a...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/05/2007

As part of the larger group of feature improvements in forums that includes the reputation changes...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 06/01/2007

Popfly has been out for about a week now, and I'm excited about it. Why? Is it because I've seen the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/25/2007

Over the past year, I've done quite a bit of blogging on reputation and got quite a bit of feedback...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 05/22/2007

Recently, a forum moderator asked for some clarification from me in the moderators forum, and I'd...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/25/2007

Last Edited: 4/10/2007 There has been much discussion on what to do with off-topic posts, especially...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 04/09/2007

When at a loss for what you might want to blog about, go to Digg.com...and voila--the top entry on...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/30/2007

I've gotten the message so many times it's ridiculous--the MSDN Forums display emoticons in the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/26/2007

James asked a good question in the comments section of my last blog post, and I thought the topic...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/23/2007

Today I was doing a little bit of housekeeping on the MSDN Forums and I noticed the post ticker at...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/21/2007

As you probably know if you follow this blog regularly, I'm a big digital music fan that's been...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/20/2007

Another MVP Summit has come and gone. Maybe it was the fact that I was busy moving the weekend...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/16/2007

Wow. I looked at my blog today and realized that it had been nearly a month since the last time I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/26/2007

I've gotten lots and lots of questions about my previous couple of posts about how to move your...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/24/2007

If you've been following my blog or the blogs of my teammates (Josh, Sara, Jeremy, Bertan, or...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/22/2007

The trickle-down effect through MSDN bloggers has finally made its way to me, and I've been tagged...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/15/2007

When I first started with the DevDiv Customer Connection team, Josh gave me the thirty-second...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/12/2007

Josh forwarded around a Channel9 thread yesterday where some Niners were talking about how they got...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/05/2007

It's been nearly a year since I started this blog, and unfortunately as of late, I've been pretty...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/03/2007

I'm happy to announce yet another release of the TFS Administration Tool, incorporating another code...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/02/2007

About six months ago I tried as best as I could to document my experiences moving from iTunes to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/18/2006

This is just a short, half-baked idea that I'd love some feedback about. It's pretty common in the...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/08/2006

I guess it's the pain of using beta software, but boy, trying to figure out what CTP works with what...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/20/2006

Wow—looks like I'm going to keep going on the "lazy" theme that I've started over the past few...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/16/2006

If you're like me, you're lazy. You'd rather order out than cook, rather buy a robot vacuum than...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 11/13/2006

I remember when I was back in school and saw some of the demo videos of what was then called Avalon....

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/27/2006

Has it really been almost a year since Whidbey launched already? One year later, we've started to...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/20/2006

I'm very happy to announce that today we released the 1.0 version of the Microsoft Best Practices...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/18/2006

When every calendar month is finished, I usually take a few minutes to browse the site statistics...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/17/2006

A couple of months ago I created a small tool that utilized some of the cool meta tag searching...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/16/2006

If I was ambitious enough to create a "medium-to-very geeky" category, I'd make one, but I'm not. I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/07/2006

While drinking my much improved coffee this morning and doing my rounds through my RSS feeds, I...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 10/05/2006

Over here in Developer Solutions land, we're working hard on delivering the community power toys,...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/29/2006

I recently had a thread with one of our MVPs who's been very active in the forums in the past, and...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/25/2006

Following hot the heels of the 1.1 release of the TFS Administration Tool, I'm pleased to announce...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/19/2006

I'm happy to announce that the very first community-driven release of any of the Power Toys for...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/14/2006

We've had quite a few community contributions to the tool over the past few months, and we're almost...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/08/2006

Recently, my team has gotten quite a few requests for guidance on how teams should be engaging with...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 09/07/2006

If you follow my blog, you know about my experiences migrating from iTunes/iPod to the Windows Media...

Author: MSDN Archive Date: 08/31/2006

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