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In customize, settings I had to allow trackbacks from outside MSN!
Try the 'BlogIt!' button goose.
(Thanks Blakey)

Scoble first Microsoft Dollar (RedCouch TOC)

From:
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2005/01/blog_or_dietoc.html

1. Scoble’s First Microsoft Dollar
In 2002, Robert Scoble attended a Microsoft “Most-Valued Partners” event at Microsoft’s headquarters, representing his employer at that time. In keynote remarks, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer challenged participants for ideas; "Give me a good one and I‘ll give you a buck. I’ll even sign it.” Scoble suggested Microsoft speak in “a more human voice,” and thus, Ballmer awarded Scoble his first Microsoft dollar.
Six months later, Scoble would join Microsoft as one of the company's 300 technology evangelists. Placed in the mid-level of the 57,000-person organization, seven tiers beneath the company’s chairman, neither Scoble nor Microsoft had any idea of how each were about to transform the other. A year later, Scoble would be the best-known voice of the new “more human” Microsoft. By day, he’d walk around the Redmond campus, armed with a camcorder, interviewing company technologists on myriad software projects, posting the video interviews on the new Channel 9 developer’s blog. At night, Scoble would prolifically blog on any technology-related subject. At times, he championed his employer. At others, he’d be among Redmond’s harshest critics. Sometimes, he advised readers to visit competitors’ sites or even to download or buy competing products. He had no idea how his superiors would respond, but they did nothing to stop it, so he just kept on, posting as many as 40 times a day. He knew that Microsoft’s PR agency and in-house marketing technicians wanted to muzzle—or at least filter him—but they never received the authority to do so.

The result was twofold: (1) the unfettered Scoble emerged to become one of the best-known and most highly regarded members of Microsoft’s organization. (2) Microsoft, a company whose public image was among the worst of any company, started to see public hostility diminish. Just the fact that Microsoft’s senior powers allowed Scoble to continue helped moved theneedle toward favorability. As of today, there are over 1,300 Microsoft blogging employees, each giving outsiders insight into the internal workings of this huge, controversial company.

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I went to ricks shed today

http://www.rickclise.com has an excellent shed where he makes funky metal art.
he blogs here at: http://ricks-rambles.blogspot.com/
Ill tell U more about the visit later and maybe even post a picture if I can figure out how.

I hope to use ecto inside shrook to do that...

Bye