May 28, 2008
Thanks to everyone who was in New Orleans earlier this month, and who took the time to fill out the mobility survey. Some awesome info there.
Erick “Pimp Mastah” Simpson happened to uncover a weird little something today. Prolly having to do with the curious interaction of permissions that allows the SharePoint survey to work with totally anonymous logins.
Erick found that if he submitted the survey without filling something in the comment section, it dumped his responses with nary a squawk.
So if you filled it out the survey, but didn’t put something in each section…yours might have hit The Great Bit Bucket In The Sky.
Feel free to fill it out again, if you’d like:
http://wss.blackwarriortech.com/nola08/Lists/Mobility%20Survey/overview.aspx
Best way to know if it took your response? See if the response count increments by 1 after you submit yours.
And just so ya know…the only reason I ask for an e-mail address?
Well, there are really 2 reasons…
- To say “Hey thanks!”
- To get the mailing info for folks who requested discs.
But if you don’t want either, then feel free to put something bogus for your e-mail address. No one else will ever see it.
You can also sound off about the pirate ROM issue. Which is really an issue with the way official ROM updates are distributed now. Here’s the pirate ROM survey:
http://wss.blackwarriortech.com/nola08/Lists/Pirate%20ROM%20Survey%20and%20Pledge/overview.aspx
Let it all hang out. The responses to the pirate survey have been VERY interesting.
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May 16, 2008
Yes, I just had one of those when this come in over the transom…
Eileen Brown (eileenb) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Not only that…
eileenb @chrisrue - thanks for the advice - the nasties are just growin - we’re looking at a full format now 
24 minutes ago from web in reply to chrisrue
SWEET!
No idea what advice she got from me, but that rocks!
Been wanting to meet her (virtual or in person) for a couple of years now.
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May 14, 2008
And with this being the big day for LT, I especially wanted to give a big shoutout of thanks to the LT Program Chair this year, the always amazing Pam Smith!
She and her team did an amazing amazing job with LT this year, and I know all of my classmated will join me in giving her a standing “O” this afternoon.
And yes, Pam got to play firefighter too!
I asked to join the LT team next year. I hope they will accept me. I have a couple of ideas that might help them streamline operations (*ahem* less paper!)
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May 13, 2008
I want to say BIG HUGE thanks to everyone who has filled out the Mobility survey so far.
I am truly, honestly, and utterly amazed, humbled, and grateful at all the fantastic response from those folks who attended my talk on Mobility at the SBSmigration conference in New Orleans this weekend.
I really hope that the rest of you who were in attendance (and there are a WHOLE lot of you left) would please please take the time to finish the survey.
I know all of you are back home now, back to work…and have tons of stuff demanding your attention. I know I’m asking a lot of you. Seriously, I do.
The survey has taken most folks a max of 2 minutes. But the feedback that being generated is stuff that has some serious serious opportunity to shape Windows Mobile. No kidding!
In the interest of full disclosure, and so you all know exactly why I put the survey together, here are my reasons…
First, I did want some feedback that would let me know how well my session came across. Was my delivery OK? Did I make sense? Were the demos compelling? All that typical presenter-y stuff. Mainly to help me be a better speaker in the future. And, also…to hopefully get on a speaking slate at other conferences about this topic of Mobility in SMB.
Here’s why.
I have been trying to get Mobility as a topic on the agenda at all the SMB conferences and tech conferences you know and love for almost 3 years now. And have had NO success at cracking that.
You know why I think that is? Because, quite frankly, the approach toward Mobility I outlined in my talk is a unique enough approach to be completely foreign to 99% of folks. Including conference organizers. Including…heck, especially including MS.
And I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter what one insignificant person like me says about something, no matter how passionately or often I do it. Because I’m only one voice.
Sometimes, it takes a choir to move people.
Ever hear a choir sing, and something about the way the voices all come together just send shivers up and down your spine, and makes your soul jump around inside you?
That’s what I’m hoping this survey feedback will become.
If everyone who was in the session would complete the survey, it would be a chorus of voices louder than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, all stuff that is super fooking awesome about how MS could improve Windows Mobile. And maybe, just maybe…
Would actually compel some change for the betterment of the platform, which ends up bettering us, MS’ Partners.
Because let me tell you…the things that have been posted already are super compelling, awesome awesome stuff that I think the Windows Mobile team would like to hear, and be able to make things happen.
In fact, I know they would like to hear it. Because MS and specifically the Windows Mobile team is right at this very moment doing some amazing amazing things to open up the channels of communication about Windows Mobile, which is totally and utterly new.
And best of all, these channels are open to ANYONE. Anyone who is willing to engage in reasonable, constructive, positive (altho not white-washed) feedback that can help make Windows Mobile the truly kickass platform we all know it can become.
Honestly, I had hoped to have time to talk about these very initiatives during my session. But my session was chopped to 35 functional minutes very early in planning, so I couldn’t get everything in.
So here’s a link to the survey again…
Mobility Survey
Thanks in advance for filling it out. I promise to be a good steward with your feedback and to get it where it can do the most good.
Now, hopefully…
No one will think that anything I said in this post comes across as elitist, exclusionary, or otherwise a-hole-ish.
Evidently, according to some people…I have a real problem coming across like that.
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May 12, 2008
Folks are starting to respond to the Mobility survey I posted for NOLA conference attendees. Which is awesome!
Thanks to everyone who’s responded so far. If you haven’t responded yet, please do!
And if someone you know was at the conference, please remind them to fill out the survey. Gracias!
You can get to the survey by clicking…
Mobility Survey
Thanks for taking a minute to respond. The awesome feedback and responses I’m getting will be going directly to folks responsible for the Windows Mobile platform, BTW.
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