John Porcaro, from Microsoft's retail marketing division, is recruiting his team members to join the blogosphere. Let's see: How many Microsoft employees is it going to take to link to each other in their messages and blogrolls before Microsoft owns the top 100 weblogs listed in Technorati? Hmmm.
I like John's enthusiasm and his eagerness to share his thoughts and inspirations. He recently posted a video link to a must see presentation given by Cranium's Richard Tait at a Microsoft event. Check it out. I wish it was practical to host more videos like this on the Net. Thanks Richard and everyone else for sharing the presentation. I can't wait for the day when recordings or transcripts of conferences and presentations like this are widely available for viewing on the Net.
Although there are several MS .NET-oriented blogs, I haven't found any Tablet PC-oriented ones. Too bad. More people need to learn about the Tablet PC. What a great way it would be help spread the word.
I'm not sure what I'd like to see, but for some reason I'd like to see something. I guess a Microsoft employee's Tablet-PC blog doesn't have to have comments about work-related topics, but I think Sean's Addicted to Digital Media is a great example of how a representative of a team can blog. A weblog like this on the Tablet PC side would earn an entry in my blogroll.
Posted by Loren at July 2, 2003 12:24 AMBwah ha ha ha. :)
I guess I'm just the quintessential "customer evangelist" for blogging, but only because I've learned so much from doing it. I haven't really urged my co-workers to blog as much as I bring up what I've learned from reading blogs.
Thanks for the post!
Posted by: John Porcaro on July 3, 2003 01:09 PM