We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog
Thoughts about online communities, Power Toys for Visual Studio, and personal experiences with Windows Media Player and Zune
Update your RSS feeds...I'm leaving Microsoft
For the past two years, I've been working to improve developer community here at Microsoft. We've...
Date: 08/07/2007
Online Community Unconference 2007 - A Recap
Last week I traveled with my manager down to Mountain View to attend the Online Community...
Date: 06/13/2007
Traveling to Online Community Unconference 2007
Tomorrow I will be attending the Online Community Unconference in Mountain View, CA. It's been a...
Date: 06/05/2007
Report a Bug to Microsoft...in the forums
As part of the larger group of feature improvements in forums that includes the reputation changes...
Date: 06/01/2007
Microsoft Popfly - Why I'm Excited
Popfly has been out for about a week now, and I'm excited about it. Why? Is it because I've seen the...
Date: 05/25/2007
The Reputation System We're Actually Working On...
Over the past year, I've done quite a bit of blogging on reputation and got quite a bit of feedback...
Date: 05/22/2007
The Role of Microsoft Employees in our Forums
Recently, a forum moderator asked for some clarification from me in the moderators forum, and I'd...
Date: 04/25/2007
Off-Topic Posts: What To Do With Them
Last Edited: 4/10/2007 There has been much discussion on what to do with off-topic posts, especially...
Date: 04/09/2007
Can We "Digg" Forums?
When at a loss for what you might want to blog about, go to Digg.com...and voila--the top entry on...
Date: 03/30/2007
Forums SP3 Deployed - Paste Code Snippets in the Forums
I've gotten the message so many times it's ridiculous--the MSDN Forums display emoticons in the...
Date: 03/26/2007
What Was the One Millionth Post in the Forums?
James asked a good question in the comments section of my last blog post, and I thought the topic...
Date: 03/23/2007
MSDN Forums: 1 Million Posts and Counting!
Today I was doing a little bit of housekeeping on the MSDN Forums and I noticed the post ticker at...
Date: 03/21/2007
Fixing the Zune in Five Steps?
As you probably know if you follow this blog regularly, I'm a big digital music fan that's been...
Date: 03/20/2007
Takeaways from the MVP Summit
Another MVP Summit has come and gone. Maybe it was the fact that I was busy moving the weekend...
Date: 03/16/2007
Where Have I Been?!
Wow. I looked at my blog today and realized that it had been nearly a month since the last time I...
Date: 02/26/2007
Moving iTunes Library to Windows Media Player – The Final Word
I've gotten lots and lots of questions about my previous couple of posts about how to move your...
Date: 01/24/2007
The Developer Solutions Team is in a Book!
If you've been following my blog or the blogs of my teammates (Josh, Sara, Jeremy, Bertan, or...
Date: 01/22/2007
5 Things You May Not Know About Me
The trickle-down effect through MSDN bloggers has finally made its way to me, and I've been tagged...
Date: 01/15/2007
Democracy for Online Communities
When I first started with the DevDiv Customer Connection team, Josh gave me the thirty-second...
Date: 01/12/2007
How Can We Make Forum Content More Discoverable? Part 1
Josh forwarded around a Channel9 thread yesterday where some Niners were talking about how they got...
Date: 01/05/2007
Looking Back at 2006
It's been nearly a year since I started this blog, and unfortunately as of late, I've been pretty...
Date: 01/03/2007
TFS Administration Tool 1.2 Released
I'm happy to announce yet another release of the TFS Administration Tool, incorporating another code...
Date: 01/02/2007
Moving from iTunes to Windows Media Player, Part II
About six months ago I tried as best as I could to document my experiences moving from iTunes to...
Date: 12/18/2006
Idea: "Wiki" Code Snippets at the top of Forum Threads
This is just a short, half-baked idea that I'd love some feedback about. It's pretty common in the...
Date: 12/08/2006
Trouble Getting AJAX Beta 2 to Build Sample Apps
I guess it's the pain of using beta software, but boy, trying to figure out what CTP works with what...
Date: 11/20/2006
Microsoft Code Snippet Designer – Alpha Release
Wow—looks like I'm going to keep going on the "lazy" theme that I've started over the past few...
Date: 11/16/2006
Another Power Toy...the Resource Refactoring Tool
If you're like me, you're lazy. You'd rather order out than cook, rather buy a robot vacuum than...
Date: 11/13/2006
Eye Candy Getting Closer to Prime Time...
I remember when I was back in school and saw some of the demo videos of what was then called Avalon....
Date: 10/27/2006
Visual Studio "Orcas" Forums Launched
Has it really been almost a year since Whidbey launched already? One year later, we've started to...
Date: 10/20/2006
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer 1.0 Released (w/ ASP.NET 2.0 configuration plug-in)
I'm very happy to announce that today we released the 1.0 version of the Microsoft Best Practices...
Date: 10/18/2006
How Are People Using the MSDN Forums?
When every calendar month is finished, I usually take a few minutes to browse the site statistics...
Date: 10/17/2006
ForumExplorer: A Better(?) Way to Moderate the MSDN Forums
A couple of months ago I created a small tool that utilized some of the cool meta tag searching...
Date: 10/16/2006
Doom and the Magic of "Live"
If I was ambitious enough to create a "medium-to-very geeky" category, I'd make one, but I'm not. I...
Date: 10/07/2006
Searching for Code Online
While drinking my much improved coffee this morning and doing my rounds through my RSS feeds, I...
Date: 10/05/2006
Orcas September CTP Available to Everyone
Over here in Developer Solutions land, we're working hard on delivering the community power toys,...
Date: 09/29/2006
Time to Have a Little Fun on the Forums!
I recently had a thread with one of our MVPs who's been very active in the forums in the past, and...
Date: 09/25/2006
Preview Release of the Best Practices Analyzer Now Available from CodePlex
Following hot the heels of the 1.1 release of the TFS Administration Tool, I'm pleased to announce...
Date: 09/19/2006
TFS Administration Tool 1.1 RTW - A Community-Driven Release!
I'm happy to announce that the very first community-driven release of any of the Power Toys for...
Date: 09/14/2006
Help Us Bug Bash the 1.1 Release of the TFS Admin Tool!
We've had quite a few community contributions to the tool over the past few months, and we're almost...
Date: 09/08/2006
Best Practices for Running a Forum Community
Recently, my team has gotten quite a few requests for guidance on how teams should be engaging with...
Date: 09/07/2006
Windows Media Player 11 Beta 2 Released
If you follow my blog, you know about my experiences migrating from iTunes/iPod to the Windows Media...
Date: 08/31/2006