Comments on: Microsoft Canada Wants to Pick Your Brain!

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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:54:58 +0000

[...] Microsoft Canada’s Audience Marketing Team wants to pick your brain! http://tinyurl.com/qp38kq5:14 PM Jun 2nd from Echofon (Link) [...]

By: Rick Claus

Rick Claus — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:14:45 +0000

@Ian Tuck – Good question. The shared value is that we’re BOTH helping the Technical Community in Canada, something the team (and hopefully you) is very passionate about. You’ve getting visibility and exposure to a wider audience and demonstrating your mad skilz as an expert / thought leader in your local community. Visibility & credibility has helped people we have worked with in the past land new contracts, acquire new clients, gain valuable references to add to their CV / linkedIn profiles. We value your opinion and don’t try to “put words in your mouth”, so you are free to speak your mind [provided you can override the implant - oh wait, we don't do that anymore ;-) ]
@Kate Gregory – good catch – if you don’t include the ability for Our Team (not all of microsoft, just to be clear) to contact you, there is no point in filling out the survey. Just so that we’re not a faceless group of people – our team consists of John Oxley, Damir Bersinic, Rodney Buike, Myself, John Bristowe, Joey Devilla, Christian Beauclair, Qixing Zhgen, Dottie Yeats and Barnaby Jeans.
@Geoffrey Wiseman – alas, we are at the mercy of the tools that the survey company uses to host the survey. I agree – very Web 0.5… please don’t hold that against us – we’re probably one of the most “risk adverse” groups within Microsoft Canada, doing the bleeding edge thing and diving into social media. We tend to make more traditional groups within Microsoft very nervous.
@Farhan Thawar – Crashed – what? I worked fine for me in Firefox. ;-) and IE and Win7 RC 7100. probably user error. (hee hee)

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How to Best Work and Connect with You? | Coded Style — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:06:08 +0000

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By: Farhan Thawar

Farhan Thawar — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:58:28 +0000

Weird, the survey crashed for me halfway…. I was using Win7 RC and IE 8 :)

By: Geoffrey Wiseman

Geoffrey Wiseman — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:45:25 +0000

The survey engine is pretty Web 0.5 — somewhat ugly, and says things like “Don’t submit your answers by pressing enter”. Although it does seem to be bilingual, which might be an important criterion.

By: Kate Gregory

Kate Gregory — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:07:39 +0000

Be aware that if you don’t provide your contact info and check the box that you are ok with followup contact, the only question you’ll be asked is “where do you live?”. So if you want to help, fill out the contact stuff, I guess.

By: Ian Tuck

Ian Tuck — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:49:16 +0000

I’ve never been the type of guy to ask “What’s in it for me?”

But, but…but..

What’s in it for me?
:)

By: Microsoft Canada Wants to Pick Your Brain! — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:08:14 +0000

[...] If you’re a developer or IT Pro based in Canada, my team at Microsoft Canada – the Technical Audience Team – would like to pick your brain in order to find out how to better serve you. The full details are in my tech blog, Global Nerdy. [...]