We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog
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
Forums MSN Search Constructor (1.1) the Featured Project on GotDotNet!
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