Someone at Microsoft asked me whether I was an “IT Pro” or a “Dev” the other day in an official capacity, and I got a bee under my bonnet to figure out what the two terms actually meant. For a couple of years I haven’t really understood the terms, and since I figured I was …
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Dec 22 2010
Microsoft’s SharePoint Journeys Contest
I got a nice email the other day from someone working for Microsoft about the SharePoint Journeys contest they have running. She asked if I would do a blog post on it because "[My] blog shares such valuable insights about how [I] use SharePoint." Maybe she got the wrong guy, but I was happy to …
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Nov 16 2010
What Should Microsoft Do for the SharePoint Community – My Opinions
This post was cross-posted on NothingButSharePoint.com on 23 November, 2010. As with so many things these days, this post started off in a conversation on Twitter. Eric Ligman, Microsoft Global Partner Experience Lead, tweeted a question: “What would you like to see from #Microsoft from a social networking/community perspective? #socialmedia #mspartner“. Here’s the conversation from …
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Oct 19 2010
Microsoft Experience Center (MEC) Visit Last Month
Boy, I feel sort of ungrateful for not having blogged about this already. Last month, the good folks at Microsoft invited me to New York City to participate in an afternoon session to “showcase the end-to-end value proposition across the information worker (IW) solution set. In a nutshell, this will be a half day summit …
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Jul 07 2010
Should You Use a CDN for jQuery Libraries?
I frequently have people ask me whether they should store jQuery libraries in house or reference external Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) instead. I see plusses and minuses for using the various CDNs out there. (There are several big ones: Google, Microsoft, etc.) Reducing the ‘hits on the server’ thing is potentially one plus, but unless …
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