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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 29 September 2007
Yesterday I attended the Australian Blogging ConferenceQUT Kelvin Grove Campus.
Overall I thought it was good and congrats to Peter Black for organising it. The conference covered a number of areas including blogging in politics, legal issues, corporate blogging and the future of blogging.
For me the day was a great opportunity to get away from my desk and lappy. Being a technical, geeky person, I have only attended "technical conferences" before like Tech.Ed etc. The conference was a little different as you had a big variety of people..journalists, technical geeks, lawyers, politicians, people who get paid to blog etc.
The welcome intro was quite interesting as it had a professional blogger, a uni professor and a federal politican talking about blogging. Some of my highlights were:
1/2 way through the Senator said "this is all off the record right?" followed quickly by a large number of keypresses on lappies round the room.
Discussion around the use of blogging/Facebook etc in politics and the differences between Australia and United States.
Next up i went to the Legal issues of Blogging session. This session dealt heavily on copywrite and the differences in the law between the US and Australia. It discussed a few cases such as first Video Recorder, Kazar etc. There was a little bit of conversation around defamation and the issue of people asking you to remove content from your site. It touched on things such as Google search caches etc. which would have been an interesting topic to discuss further.
After lunch i attended the Business and Corporate Blogging session. It had some great discussion about should ceo's blog, blogging policy, measuring roi, building a brand/profile. The session had some great stories of how companies are using their blogs to market themselves.
One of the questions about should you mix...
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By Soul Solutions on
Saturday, 29 September 2007
 I was made the moderator for the MSDN Virtual Earth Forums today. The idea is a moderator can help make the forums function better for everyone. How?
- Make sure Answers are marked as answers. This makes searching easier for others and also rewards the person who answers (Star system in place and top answer leader board)
- Create Sticky posts. A sticky post is stuck to the top of the forums, used wisely these can answer the immediate needs of common or timely questions and can prevent duplicate and repetitive posts.
- Remove duplicate posts. These annoy people that answer questions, typically it's a glitch in the network connection or a page refresh and the poor user can be the target of the annoyance caused, simple solution - remove them.
- Make sure Comments are not posted as questions. Again it helps with the searching.
- Keep an eye out to ensure that everyone is treating one another with respect.
So from today onwards I'll not only be answering questions but also helping to make the whole forum a better place. First up I'll be clearing the very old sticky posts and adding a new FAQ and Resources post.
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
The crew over at Virtual Tech.Ed have been dedicating some space to feature Women in Technology. So being of the correct gender, and in the right place at the right time (Tech.Ed on the Gold Coast), Zaakera, The Program Manager for Virtual Tech.Ed took some time to interview me about how I got into IT, what is great abot working in IT and the problems you come across as a Geek Girl.
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 21 September 2007
It's been a big 2nd week for ViaWindowsLive. What's been happening?
103 registered users!
2 new articles published - Your Video to Silverlight Streaming 101Using Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live In Your Blog Posts and WebsitesLive translator has been added so you can view in 11 different languages!
Virtual Tech.Ed video where John and I talk about What is ViaWindowsLive
2 new team members who are going to be helping out with looking after sections of the site - Antonio Chagoury and Scott Lovegrove
New gallery items
List of blog entries about the site I've found so far...
There's been a few people blogging about the site:
http://www.virtualteched.com/videos/BronwenZandeJohnObrien002.asx
http://mobilewares.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!78533A1A2E078194!618.entry
http://livesino.net/archives/346.live
http://blogs.msdn.com/angus_logan/archive/2007/09/09/viawindowslive-com-community-site-launched-in-beta.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat/archive/2007/09/11/viawindowslive-com-for-windows-live-developers.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/annali/archive/2007/09/10/via-windows-live.aspx
http://bink.nu/news/windows-live-developer-community-via-windows-live-launches.aspx...
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By Soul Solutions on
Friday, 21 September 2007
 Today we've posted a new article on Turning video to Silverlight Streaming 101.
It shows how I turned the video on Virtual Tech.Ed into this! So check it out and give us some feedback.
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By Soul Solutions on
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
When we were at Tech.Ed this year we were interviewed for Virtual Tech.Ed. We decided to talk about the new community site ViaWindowsLive.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
We gave away a few ViaWindowsLive shirts at Tech.Ed. 
We gave one to Delicate Genius...and it's now on the web:
 
So anyone else out there that has one of these..send us your pici's or blog entries.
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By Soul Solutions on
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
Awhile ago i put out a call to all the geek girls out there...well today i've got over 20 blog feeds from geeky girls here.
Thanks to all the girls who've submitted their feeds and to Anna and Catherine for helping looks for them.
So if you're a geek girl with a blog give me a yell!
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