Last week I started as an Engagement Manager on the Microsoft Communities team with Neudesic . This is essentially the role I had up until October 2008 with Telligent, at which point Microsoft and Telligent parted ways on those sites, and Neudesic took over their management. It's a lot of hard, yet rewarding...
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Yesterday I found myself among dozens at Telligent who were terminated as a result of a Reduction in Force . With the uncertainty in the economy, and similar reductions having taken place at some of Telligent's key competitors, this move was not entirely unexpected. While I don't understand some of the...
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Overview There has been some discussion and confusion on the Graffiti CMS support forum about how to install the Training theme, as well as how to use SQL Server with the theme instead of VistaDB. There is documentation on how to install the Training theme in the readme.txt file included with the download...
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Edit 3/28/2009: I was separated from employment with Telligent on 2/13/2009, and no longer have any idea of what Telligent's plans for Graffiti CMS might be. On November 14, I became the PM for Telligent's Graffiti CMS product, and I am pumped! When I was first introduced to Graffiti at an internal Telligent...
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Inspired a while back by James Shaw's blog post concerning coordinating his family's calendars via Google Calendar, my husband and I set up Google Calendars for each family member. I also added an external calendar with the US holidays. This has worked reasonably well, but there was something of a disconnect...
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Growing tired of the painful Yellow Hell theme, and being largely design challenged, I went on the hunt for a new site theme. Searching via Google, I came across Brandon Schwartz' Graffiti CMS theme page and quickly decided that I was very fond of the Embouteillage theme. I downloaded it, and made the...
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For the past 1.5 years I had served as Telligent's project manager on Microsoft's ASP.NET and Silverlight.NET developer community sites. As announced here , Telligent and Microsoft mutually agreed to transition the site management to another company. This transition was complete on September 30 and I...
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Inspired and impressed by my 16 year old daughter's efforts to raise over $100 in sponsorships for her 6-mile walk to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis society (sold $1 paper foot at a time), I decided to participate in the event instead of just dropping her off and picking her up when it was over. I wrote...
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Last month I purchased a 4 GB microSD memory card for my Samsung SCH-i760. After struggling to get the card out of its packaging , and promptly losing the SD adapter , I inserted the card into my phone and thought I was good to go. This past weekend, my phone told me it didn't have enough space to allow...
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One of my fellow Telligenti ( Michael Kelley ) had this as his Windows Live Messenger tagline for the past few days: "I'm only as smart as Google." Each time I looked at my contact list in WLM I stopped and reflected on that tagline. For me, it holds many truths. People who know me tease me...
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