I have been using WordPress longer than a lot of people. I think I first moved from Windows Live’s blogging platform to WordPress around 2007. Because I’ve been here a long time, I’ve got some plugins that have been around for a long time. One of those is the Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin. The…
[important] Mark Miller (@EUSP) and I did a webinar on Friday, March 15, 2013 at to show the demo again and take questions about how we built it. If you’d like to look at the demo yourself, check out the publicly available page on NothingButSharePoint.com. The video is embedded below. [/important] It’s not every day…
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…
When I first started using the nascent Internet back in 1992 (How many of you were even alive – or at least out of Legos – by then? Raise ’em up!), there was little I could do to interact with it. Most content was static and commenting barely existed. There were very few “publishers”, and…
Yeah, I’m hanging out on a beach in Mexico (Morgan Freeman isn’t here; someone told me he stopped by many years ago), but I never really stop SharePointing; I’m a SharePointilist. A few observations from the lounge chair, each of which will probably turn into a full post itself: If you are publishing ANYTHING about…
Around the time that my wife was pregnant with our son, I got very into genealogy. Suddenly it seemed very important to understand my backstory, and then my wife’s backstory, and even the backstory of any friends who were silly enough to mention a possibly famous ancestor to me. Since I’m a computer guy, I…
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…
Today I asked a question on Twitter that I’d like to also ask here so that I can get longer replies (if anyone has one). Recently, I realized that some of my old blog posts get questions or comments that (at least to me) tend to be interesting and/or useful. So I figured I’d start…
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…
In a post about a week and a half ago entitled Judging a Company in the Age of Social Media, I talked about a product called LastPass that I had been trying out. I had been having problems with it, and I tweeted about it. Not a minute had gone by (literally) when I got a…