One of the recent perks we have added to the Geekswithblogs.net community is an influencer program made up of those bloggers who have the most influence on the site. Being apart of this program gets you access to some awesome products for review and special contests we run. The latest contest was a free attendee badge for one of our influencers to join @StaffofGeeks at TechEd and as you see from title Chris Williams is our winner. This means Chris will be having the time of his life (well hopefully)...
As Staff of Geeks is gearing up for Tech-Ed 2011, we’d like to highlight a couple of important tools that you should really be using if you are attending! If not, it’s not too late! Click here for some resources to help convince your boss and learn more! The first tool is Schedule Builder. With over 800 sessions and 250 exhibitors listed in the catalog, it’s important to take time before the event to map out your on-site experience. Why? First and foremost, as Tech-Ed alumni, the number one complaint...
Going to TechEd 2011? If so, you have an amazing opportunity at TechEd 2011 with the TechEd Bloggers Hub, facilitated by Geekswithblogs.net. Located in the Connect Zone, the TechEd Bloggers Hub is a wonderful resource for the new blogger and the experienced one. In this area, there are experts that can assist you getting started, great tips and tricks on how to run your blog, resources and tools that can make your blog and writing experience better! And Geekswithblogs.net is proud to facilitate!!!...
Recently, @StaffOfGeeks announced to a select group of bloggers, the Geekswithblogs.net Influencer Program. Here is a little detail about the program. Description (from Influencer Page): Geekswithblogs.net is a community of bloggers passionate about contributing information to the world of developers and IT professionals. Our bloggers are some of the best in the world and receive honors on a regular basis for outside companies (such as the Microsoft© MVP Program). The Geekswithblogs.net Influencer...
We have struggled in the past with different approaches of getting feedback from you as bloggers. We really want to know what you would like to see, what other systems have that is helpful, and where we need to grow. This community is made up of many different individuals so the system for feedback needed a voting or liking tool for us to gage what was a popular thought or just one guys request. We would love to put every request in, but that would make the system function for some and unusable for...
I would like everyone to welcome Box3 to our community. Box3 will be handling Geekswithblogs.net traffic along with Box2 and load balanced (using hardware, not software) to direct traffic correctly. So everyone, welcome Box3! This puts us at 2 web servers and 1 database server. Each machine is dual-core dual-Xeon servers with enough RAM to make everyone salivate. Please let me know if you see any problems or slowness in the site. If you to, report it to support@geekswithblogs.com. Technorati tags:...
With a stable version of Community Server finally out in the form of 2.0, John and I are investigating the transition. We have a few things to look at and we as a community need to realize that this site is more than a personal site. It is a real production system. Just like the ones you and I go to work with and maintain everyday. Have you ever heard you company say, lets upgrade to this new out-of-the-box system without any worries of how it will effect your company? I think not. Here are the things...
We have reached the 800th blogger marker and 12,500th post making us one of the largest, if not the largest blogger site (not owned by Microsoft) relating to Microsoft technologies. One thing I have heard over time from early members was a concern about getting to big and having the community voice no longer be the same. This has not been the results. We have changed a little over the past year, but we still get a steady voice of great content coming out everyday. Thanks to all the members that have...
Yesterday, working with Daryll from Microsoft Academic, we added 10 new bloggers from the Faculty Advisory Board (K-12) for Microsoft. I would like to welcome these new members to our community. Here is a list of the members: Pat Phillips Brian Scarbeau Tom Indelicato Judi (Judith) Heher David Jacobus Judith Hromcik Chap Percival Susan Canaga Reg Hahne Dan Forhan...
John and I decided to launch a separate blog for Geekswithblogs.net related news so you guys have a blog to subscribe to when issues are fixed and announcements are made. Thanks for being part of this community