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Next Tuesday I'm “brownbag” (Presentation) with Brad Abrams for teams in the Developer Division about engaging the community.  A lot of it is about passing on best practice advice.  Sure, I have my own content, but I figured I'd ask you guys (and gals) for your advice.  I don't have fancy prizes, but I'll post the slides with the best quotes I use after the event for you to see. :-)

If you could tell this large group of PMs, Developers, and Testers one thing about participating in the community... what would it be?

What do you like about our current engagement?

What would you change about how we participate?

What, one thing, should people new to the community from Microsoft know?

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  • Anonymous
    July 30, 2004
    I enjoy the large amount of information MS gives - it's just hard to sort it all out if your not part of a larger group. There is no smooth way to connect the dots between introductory examples and enterprise practices and/or best practices. Using ADO.Net as an exaple, it would be great if one could follow a series of ideas from the basics on the DataSet to how it's leveraged in enterprise/best practices. A lot of this involves coding techniques, techonolgy backgrounders, process patterns and development philosophy.

    Just thinking.

    : )

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  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2004
    Lyne: Your feedback is justified and several teams have recently been doiung thinking about how to connect the education between the 100 level education and the advanced samples. I'm hoping this improves in the coming year.

    Charles: I've now got a slide promoting the Microsoft usage of "3rd Party" community sites. The only correction I would make about what you are saying is that the codewise sites are not officialy run by microsoft like the Asp.Net or GDN sites. They are independant and are more of what I would consider "2nd Party". I also talk about working with and supporting INETA more now. :-)

    Stephane: I've heard this feedback about web casts before. I personally think that they are just one tool that teams could use, but should not be the only tool. I like the model of doing a web-cast that supports and existing whitepaper or published sample. I think that having the combination probably serves what you are looking for.

    I've also heard the feedback about the lack of coverage for "non-trendy" technologies that are still in use by a large number of customers. I don't have as good an answer here. People agree that we probably hyped whidbey/longhorn a little hard a little early, but, from an internal perspective, it's hard not to be excited about what you are currently working on.
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    June 19, 2009
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