Shannon Whitley

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I was jotting some notes in Twitter yesterday about Enterprise Microblogging.  I’d like to explore the possibilities in a more detailed post later.  For now, here are some of my initial 140-character thoughts:

• Enterprise microblogging actually makes more sense than Enterprise blogging. For example: Quick status updates for the team.
• Enterprise microblogging: Emergency preparedness, IT outages, project milestones, mobile updates, inter-team communications, B2B comm.
• Diff from IM. Messages are stored (not just immediate). Technically simpler. …
• Microblog messages are more flexible. Can be displayed on a website, through an email client, in a desktop client, RSS reader…

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This is the best post I’ve every read on the topic of Url Rewriting.  While rewriting urls is a very common task for users of the Apache web server, the feature is a little more difficult to implement under IIS.

I downloaded and installed UrlRewriter.net.  It worked for me right away and did exactly what I needed.  The sample web.config code in the post above was perfect.  Thank you, Scott Guthrie!

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.

Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.”

“I see millions and millions of stars, Holmes” exclaims Watson.

“And what do you deduce from that?”

Watson ponders for a minute.

“Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three. Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. What does it tell you, Holmes?”

And Holmes said: “Watson, you idiot, it means that somebody stole our tent.”

– Wikipedia

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After the rough day that Twitter experienced yesterday, @kr8tr suggested buying the team some pizza for lunch.  Sounds like a plan.  I’m in contact with the folks at Twitter and we’re going to buy them pizza today.  I’m passing the hat around and you can show your love by donating below ($1 to $5 dollars would be great):

Update: If you donate, you are consenting to allow me to post your name (not email address) as a Twitter supporter. Contact me if you don’t want to be listed.

After we buy Twitter lunch, any remaining funds will be donated to charity.  We can discuss which charity on our favorite communications tool.

Update 2:  Thank you for contributing:

Christopher Williams

Tom Price

James Johnson

Vitor Lourenco

Aaron Muszalski

Michael Doeff

Rob La Gesse

Tim McDoniel

Michael Keliher

Ben Jackson

Micah Apparel

William Knoll

Jennifer Leggio

Suzanne Ally

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