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  31. <title>Fluent design system development for designers</title>
  32. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2023/06/30/fluent-design-system-development-for-designers/</link>
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  34. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  35. <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
  36. <category><![CDATA[Content design]]></category>
  37. <category><![CDATA[design systems]]></category>
  38. <category><![CDATA[Microsoft Fluent]]></category>
  39. <category><![CDATA[product design]]></category>
  40. <category><![CDATA[UX design]]></category>
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  43. <description><![CDATA[<p>Understand Microsoft’s Fluent design system better with hands-on experience with the developer components of the system. If you’re like most designers I work with, you’re familiar with the Figma components of the design systems your product teams use. Another step you can take to learn about the design system is to work with the developer components, too. When you stretch your skills into this new space, you’ll understand the capabilities of the system better. The next time a developer tells</p>
  44. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2023/06/30/fluent-design-system-development-for-designers/">Fluent design system development for designers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  47. <p>Understand Microsoft’s Fluent design system better with hands-on experience with the developer components of the system. If you’re like most designers I work with, you’re familiar with the Figma components of the design systems your product teams use. Another step you can take to learn about the design system is to work with the developer components, too. When you stretch your skills into this new space, you’ll understand the capabilities of the system better. The next time a developer tells you they ran into an issue implementing your design, you might be able to test out the limits of the system yourself!</p>
  48.  
  49.  
  50.  
  51. <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><a href="https://codesandbox.io/s/fluent-2-get-started-button-2s882m" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img decoding="async" width="167" height="67" src="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-1.png" alt="Fluent 2 button component with the label &quot;Get started&quot;" class="wp-image-10761"/></a></figure>
  52.  
  53.  
  54.  
  55. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Fluent 2 and Fluent UI React v9</h2>
  56.  
  57.  
  58.  
  59. <p>Microsoft released the most recent version of Fluent, <a href="https://fluent2.microsoft.design/">Fluent 2</a>, in May 2023. Along with the Figma toolkit, updated versions of the Fluent UI code libraries were released. For web development, we use <a href="https://fluent2.microsoft.design/get-started/develop">Fluent UI React v9</a> which in turn relies on the React library and some other tools like Node.js and yarn. While it’s not critical to learn much about each piece, you’ll want to download and install them to explore the Fluent developer components.</p>
  60.  
  61.  
  62.  
  63. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Launch a popover from a button</h2>
  64.  
  65.  
  66.  
  67. <p>I recently went through all the steps to get a working example of a button launching a popover. Starting from the beginning, you should be able to repeat my steps in about 20 minutes.</p>
  68.  
  69.  
  70.  
  71. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="600" height="241" src="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-600x241.png" alt="The Fluent example in the browser with a “yarn start” prompt that loads it" class="wp-image-10758" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-600x241.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-300x120.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image-768x308.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/image.png 975w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  72.  
  73.  
  74.  
  75. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Set up the tool</h2>
  76.  
  77.  
  78.  
  79. <p>To get started with Fluent dev components, the first step is downloading and installing a couple tools.</p>
  80.  
  81.  
  82.  
  83. <ul>
  84. <li>Grab the right version of <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/Download">VSCode </a>for your device and install it</li>
  85.  
  86.  
  87.  
  88. <li>Get and install <a href="https://nodejs.org/">node.js</a></li>
  89. </ul>
  90.  
  91.  
  92.  
  93. <p>Next, make a place to put your work. I normally create a folder like “scratch” or “examples” when I’m getting started and I store the folders for my project there.</p>
  94.  
  95.  
  96.  
  97. <ul>
  98. <li>Launch a new terminal window (on Windows I use the “Run as administrator” option)</li>
  99.  
  100.  
  101.  
  102. <li>Enter the following command in the terminal window “cd \”</li>
  103.  
  104.  
  105.  
  106. <li>Then “mkdir scratch”</li>
  107.  
  108.  
  109.  
  110. <li>Then “cd scratch”</li>
  111. </ul>
  112.  
  113.  
  114.  
  115. <p>Next, set up and use <a href="https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/install">the yarn tool</a> required by Fluent.</p>
  116.  
  117.  
  118.  
  119. <ul>
  120. <li>Enter the following command in the terminal window “corepack enable”</li>
  121.  
  122.  
  123.  
  124. <li>Then “Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned”</li>
  125.  
  126.  
  127.  
  128. <li>Then “yarn add @fluentui/react-components”</li>
  129. </ul>
  130.  
  131.  
  132.  
  133. <p>After the third step above with yarn, you’ve got the Fluent dev components installed on your machine and you’re ready to use them. Next, you can create your first React project and add Fluent components to it for a hi-fidelity prototype.</p>
  134.  
  135.  
  136.  
  137. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Create a React project and open it in VSCode</h2>
  138.  
  139.  
  140.  
  141. <p>With React and yarn installed, I use <a href="https://create-react-app.dev/docs/adding-typescript/">yarn’s project creation</a> to start my projects.</p>
  142.  
  143.  
  144.  
  145. <ul>
  146. <li>Enter the following command in the terminal window “yarn create react-app my-app &#8211;template typescript”</li>
  147.  
  148.  
  149.  
  150. <li>Open VSCode</li>
  151.  
  152.  
  153.  
  154. <li>Open the folder scratch\my-app in VSCode</li>
  155. </ul>
  156.  
  157.  
  158.  
  159. <p>Now you’ve got a React project set up for Fluent open in a code editor!<br>Next, copy and paste my example code to get you started with your popover and button components.</p>
  160.  
  161.  
  162.  
  163. <ul>
  164. <li>View the files of your project in the <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface">Explorer pane of VSCode</a></li>
  165.  
  166.  
  167.  
  168. <li>Expand the folder named “src”</li>
  169.  
  170.  
  171.  
  172. <li>Select index.tsx</li>
  173.  
  174.  
  175.  
  176. <li>Replace the contents of index.tsx with the following lines after the index.tsx title</li>
  177. </ul>
  178.  
  179.  
  180.  
  181. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Index.tsx</h2>
  182.  
  183.  
  184.  
  185. <pre class="wp-block-code"><code>import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
  186. import { FluentProvider, webLightTheme } from '@fluentui/react-components';
  187. import App from './App';
  188.  
  189. ReactDOM.render(
  190.  &lt;FluentProvider theme={webLightTheme}&gt;
  191.    &lt;App /&gt;
  192.  &lt;/FluentProvider&gt;,
  193.  document.getElementById('root'),
  194. );</code></pre>
  195.  
  196.  
  197.  
  198. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Add a Fluent popover and a Fluent button</h2>
  199.  
  200.  
  201.  
  202. <p>After you save the changes to the index.tsx file, you’ve got the Fluent theming engine running with the theme named “webLightTheme” set for your project. Next, you’ll repeat the steps of opening the other code file and replacing it’s contents so you have a button and a popover.</p>
  203.  
  204.  
  205.  
  206. <ul>
  207. <li>Select “app.tsx”</li>
  208.  
  209.  
  210.  
  211. <li>Replace the contents of app.tsx with the following lines after the app.tsx title</li>
  212. </ul>
  213.  
  214.  
  215.  
  216. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">App.tsx</h2>
  217.  
  218.  
  219.  
  220. <pre class="wp-block-code"><code>import { makeStyles, Button, Popover, PopoverSurface, PopoverTrigger, PositioningProps, Title1, shorthands } from '@fluentui/react-components';
  221.  
  222. const useStyles = makeStyles({
  223.  root: {
  224.    ...shorthands.gap("16px"),
  225.    display: "flex",
  226.    flexDirection: "column",
  227.    alignItems: "baseline",
  228.    justifyContent: 'center',
  229.  },
  230. });
  231.  
  232. function App(props: PositioningProps) {
  233.  const classes = useStyles();
  234.  return (
  235.    &lt;div className={classes.root}&gt;
  236.      &lt;header &gt;
  237.        &lt;Title1&gt;Fluent v9 Popover from a Button&lt;/Title1&gt;
  238.      &lt;/header&gt;
  239.      &lt;div&gt;
  240.        &lt;Popover withArrow  positioning={props}&gt;
  241.          &lt;PopoverTrigger disableButtonEnhancement&gt;
  242.            &lt;Button appearance="primary"&gt;Click me&lt;/Button&gt;
  243.          &lt;/PopoverTrigger&gt;
  244.  
  245.          &lt;PopoverSurface style={{ minWidth: 100 }}&gt;Container&lt;/PopoverSurface&gt;
  246.        &lt;/Popover&gt;
  247.      &lt;/div&gt;
  248.    &lt;/div&gt;
  249.  );
  250. }
  251.  
  252. export default App;</code></pre>
  253.  
  254.  
  255.  
  256. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Run your Fluent code</h2>
  257.  
  258.  
  259.  
  260. <p>Now that you’ve completed the installation and setup, created a new project, and added Fluent themes and components you’re ready to see the prototype work live in your browser.</p>
  261.  
  262.  
  263.  
  264. <ul>
  265. <li>Enter the following in your terminal window “yarn start”</li>
  266. </ul>
  267.  
  268.  
  269.  
  270. <p>You should see something like the screenshot at the beginning of this post.</p>
  271.  
  272.  
  273.  
  274. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Congratulations!</h2>
  275.  
  276.  
  277.  
  278. <p>You’ve created your first Fluent 2 app and you’re ready to change it and add other components.</p>
  279.  
  280.  
  281.  
  282. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Next steps</h2>
  283.  
  284.  
  285.  
  286. <ul>
  287. <li>Find the words “Click me” in the code editor and change them to “Learn Fluent”</li>
  288.  
  289.  
  290.  
  291. <li>Find the word “Container” and change it to “I made a Fluent app in 20 minutes. So can you!”</li>
  292. </ul>
  293. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2023/06/30/fluent-design-system-development-for-designers/">Fluent design system development for designers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  299. <title>An open source UX writing example from Mastodon</title>
  300. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2022/11/07/an-open-source-ux-writing-example-from-mastodon/</link>
  301. <comments>https://www.tomresing.com/2022/11/07/an-open-source-ux-writing-example-from-mastodon/#respond</comments>
  302. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  303. <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
  304. <category><![CDATA[Content design]]></category>
  305. <category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
  306. <category><![CDATA[open source]]></category>
  307. <category><![CDATA[ux wrting]]></category>
  308. <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomresing.com/?p=10726</guid>
  309.  
  310. <description><![CDATA[<p>Unlike Twitter,&#160;Mastodon&#160;developers use an open-source model. Open-source means, if you take the effort to, you can see the source of the messages you see on screen. Because Mastodon is an open-source app developed on&#160;GitHub, you can create an issue when you see something wrong. The following screenshot highlights some text I see on&#160;my Mastodon home page, &#8220;Pinned post&#8221;, followed by a screenshot of the same string, in code. The next screenshot shows the same message &#8220;Pinned post&#8221;, in the file</p>
  311. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2022/11/07/an-open-source-ux-writing-example-from-mastodon/">An open source UX writing example from Mastodon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
  312. ]]></description>
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  314. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="75" src="http://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Open-source-banner-from-PowerPoint-600x75.jpg" alt="An elephant and a typing prompt on a 4 color banner" class="wp-image-10727" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Open-source-banner-from-PowerPoint-600x75.jpg 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Open-source-banner-from-PowerPoint-300x38.jpg 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Open-source-banner-from-PowerPoint.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">An elephant and a typing prompt on a 4 color banner</figcaption></figure>
  315.  
  316.  
  317.  
  318. <p>Unlike Twitter,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/mastodonfuture/">Mastodon</a>&nbsp;developers use an open-source model. Open-source means, if you take the effort to, you can see the source of the messages you see on screen.</p>
  319.  
  320.  
  321.  
  322. <p>Because Mastodon is an open-source app developed on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/github/">GitHub</a>, you can create an issue when you see something wrong.</p>
  323.  
  324.  
  325.  
  326. <ol>
  327. <li>Start by learning how the app works.</li>
  328.  
  329.  
  330.  
  331. <li>Then identify an issue that needs to be fixed.</li>
  332.  
  333.  
  334.  
  335. <li>Finally, submit a fix to the issue!</li>
  336. </ol>
  337.  
  338.  
  339.  
  340. <p>The following screenshot highlights some text I see on&nbsp;<a href="https://social.coop/@resing">my Mastodon home page</a>, &#8220;Pinned post&#8221;, followed by a screenshot of the same string, in code.</p>
  341.  
  342.  
  343.  
  344. <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" width="462" height="342" src="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-on-my-timeline.jpg" alt="My Mastodon timeline, with the text &quot;Pinned post&quot;​ highlighted as a string I might want to change." class="wp-image-10728" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-on-my-timeline.jpg 462w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-on-my-timeline-300x222.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Screenshot of my timeline</figcaption></figure>
  345.  
  346.  
  347.  
  348. <p>The next screenshot shows the same message &#8220;Pinned post&#8221;, in the file <a href="https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/1e7ea50f4ccadee0a25db0d79840497bd0175589/app/javascript/mastodon/locales/defaultMessages.json" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defaultMessages.json</a>, in the Mastodon open-source project on GitHub.</p>
  349.  
  350.  
  351.  
  352. <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" width="916" height="352" src="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-in-defaultMessages-dot-JSON.jpg" alt="A small portion of defaultMessages.json, lines 747 through 761 with the following notes &quot;The default message, in English - which I could update.&quot;​, &quot;The path to the defaultMessages.json file, which I found by searching for the text.&quot;​, and &quot;The JavaScript file where the message is used to label the pinned post on my profile.&quot;​" class="wp-image-10729" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-in-defaultMessages-dot-JSON.jpg 916w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-in-defaultMessages-dot-JSON-300x115.jpg 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-in-defaultMessages-dot-JSON-600x231.jpg 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pinned-post-in-defaultMessages-dot-JSON-768x295.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Screenshot of the code</figcaption></figure>
  353.  
  354.  
  355.  
  356. <p>If I wanted to, I could edit defaultMessages.json. <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/working-with-files/managing-files/editing-files#editing-files-in-another-users-repository" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Editing is safe</a> because GitHub creates a working version of the code for me, called <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">a fork</a>.</p>
  357.  
  358.  
  359.  
  360. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Editing 101</h2>
  361.  
  362.  
  363.  
  364. <p>After I edit the text in the file, I can submit it to the Mastodon maintainers for their consideration. On GitHub, we call this type of change request <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a pull request</a>. I&#8217;m making a request from the maintainers. I want someone in that group to &#8220;pull&#8221; my change into the current version of the code. We call this &#8220;committing&#8221; the change, or a &#8220;commit&#8221; to the project.</p>
  365.  
  366.  
  367.  
  368. <p>If you feel intimidated by the language, take a breath. You can take your time digesting this new world of open-source &#8211; it&#8217;s worth understanding. Open-source software puts the power in your hands. And that power requires responsibility. It won&#8217;t happen overnight. However, if you try to understand the language of open-source and experiment with creating forks and submitting pull requests, you can gain the power to improve the experience in applications that millions of people use every day.</p>
  369. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2022/11/07/an-open-source-ux-writing-example-from-mastodon/">An open source UX writing example from Mastodon</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  375. <title>King County, Washington &#8211; Make an informed vote</title>
  376. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2020/10/16/king-county-washington-make-an-informed-vote/</link>
  377. <comments>https://www.tomresing.com/2020/10/16/king-county-washington-make-an-informed-vote/#respond</comments>
  378. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  379. <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
  380. <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
  381. <category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
  382. <category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>
  383. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://tomresing.com/?page_id=10628</guid>
  384.  
  385. <description><![CDATA[<p>Today, October 16th, 2020, nearly 1.4 million registered voters in King County, Washington should have their ballots and voting guides from the state and county. The amount of information can be overwhelming. If you&#8217;re like me, you have 39 different items to vote on. Take some time to read the words on the printed pages you&#8217;ve received. Voting is one of the top ways to make your voice heard in the United States. We&#8217;re so lucky to live in cities</p>
  386. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2020/10/16/king-county-washington-make-an-informed-vote/">King County, Washington &#8211; Make an informed vote</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  389. <p>Today, October 16th, 2020, <a href="https://kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/2020/October/14-ballots-mailed.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nearly 1.4 million registered voters in King County, Washington</a> should have their ballots and voting guides from the state and county.</p>
  390.  
  391.  
  392.  
  393. <p>The amount of information can be overwhelming. If you&#8217;re like me, you have 39 different items to vote on. Take some time to read the words on the printed pages you&#8217;ve received. Voting is one of the top ways to make your voice heard in the United States. We&#8217;re so lucky to live in cities like Seattle, Kirkland, and Bellevue that push for voter rights and transparency. Please, use the help that&#8217;s being offered.</p>
  394.  
  395.  
  396.  
  397. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Ballot</h2>
  398.  
  399.  
  400.  
  401. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="381" class="wp-image-10629" src="https://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_144352938_iOS-600x381.jpg" alt="A picture of an official ballot envelope from King County Washington" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_144352938_iOS-600x381.jpg 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_144352938_iOS-300x191.jpg 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_144352938_iOS-768x488.jpg 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_144352938_iOS-1536x976.jpg 1536w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_144352938_iOS-2048x1301.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  402.  
  403.  
  404.  
  405. <p>The official ballots were mailed out October 14, so many have arrived already. Open it up and read the instructions. Take a look at the candidates and measures on your personalized ballot. This will help you limit the other information that will be helpful. The candidates and measures you see are different than what others see in other locations. You don&#8217;t need or get to vote on candidates who represent other areas and measures that are for other cities and other counties. For example, there&#8217;s a Seattle measure I can&#8217;t vote for and a Kirkland proposition people outside Kirkland don&#8217;t see on their ballot. I vote for or against my US representative for Congress Susan DelBene. People in Bellevue don&#8217;t see her on their ballot.</p>
  406.  
  407.  
  408.  
  409. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">The Washington State Voters&#8217; Pamphlet</h2>
  410.  
  411.  
  412.  
  413. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="759" class="wp-image-10630" src="https://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS-600x759.jpg" alt="Washington state voter's paphlet" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS-600x759.jpg 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS-300x379.jpg 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS-768x971.jpg 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS-1215x1536.jpg 1215w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS-1620x2048.jpg 1620w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150412552_iOS.jpg 1870w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  414.  
  415.  
  416.  
  417. <p>You might have received your state voters&#8217; pamphlet weeks ago. I did. If you didn&#8217;t hold on to it, go to <a href="https://www.sos.wa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sos.wa.gov</a> to see the online version.</p>
  418.  
  419.  
  420.  
  421. <p>Every federal candidate, like the President of the US, statewide candidate and statewide measure has a page or more of information in this small book. Look at the instructions in the front, then browse through for the candidates and measures you see listed on your ballot. You won&#8217;t see King County or city measures or local judges. Those are in the next piece.</p>
  422.  
  423.  
  424.  
  425. <p>Everything or person you can vote for or against has some information in the guide.</p>
  426.  
  427.  
  428.  
  429. <p>For example, find <strong>Referendum Measure No. 90</strong> under State Measures, on pages 8-12, in the<a href="https://www.sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/voters-guide/2020/--ed06king-north,eastside.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> King county north and eastside version of the PDF download</a>. You&#8217;ll see an explanation, the projected financial impact, and statements from the community for and against this measure. The community can provide statements for and against every measure on the ballot. Sometimes you&#8217;ll only see a statement for or against. That&#8217;s a pretty good sign this measure has wide support one way or the other. I normally skim those, just to see if anything sticks out I wouldn&#8217;t agree with. Generally, I go with the unopposed recommendations.</p>
  430.  
  431.  
  432.  
  433. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Local Voters&#8217; Pamphlet</h2>
  434.  
  435.  
  436.  
  437. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="766" class="wp-image-10631" src="https://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS-600x766.jpg" alt="King county voters' pamphlet cover" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS-600x766.jpg 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS-300x383.jpg 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS-768x981.jpg 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS-1203x1536.jpg 1203w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS-1604x2048.jpg 1604w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201016_150357713_iOS.jpg 1870w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  438.  
  439.  
  440.  
  441. <p>Registered voters in King County also receive a local voters&#8217; pamphlet. Not all counties in Washington have these, as far as I know. However, King County, with the large amount of voters from the Seattle area, feels like it&#8217;s worthwhile to print these to help inform us as voters.</p>
  442.  
  443.  
  444.  
  445. <p>Again, take a look at your ballot to see what part of this voting information is important for you to look at. On my ballot, I have some items from the county and one from my city and a few local judges with information in the guide. Most of the King County measures are responses to racial bias in policing. For example, <a href="https://info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/vote/contests/ballotmeasures.aspx?cid=99730&amp;groupname=County" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Charter Amendment No. 5, Making the King County Sheriff an Appointed Position</a>, is one of two charter amendments on the King County ballots which have community statements both for and against them.</p>
  446.  
  447.  
  448.  
  449. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Newspaper endorsements</h2>
  450.  
  451.  
  452.  
  453. <p>For most things on the ballot, I feel I have enough information in the pamphlets to make my decision. For the candidates, I already did a lot of research in the primaries and don&#8217;t have to do much more now. However, there are some items on my ballot where the information in the pamphlet isn&#8217;t enough for me to make a decision. That&#8217;s the case for Amendment No. 5.</p>
  454.  
  455.  
  456.  
  457. <p>Newspaper endorsements are a really good source of information when the voting guides from the state and county aren&#8217;t enough. Major local newspapers like The Seattle Times have long established journalistic integrity. Without high reporting standards, papers can&#8217;t keep readers. And in times like this, I&#8217;m really glad we still have local papers. Without them, there&#8217;s just so many voices, from so many sources on the internet, it&#8217;s really hard to figure out if all of them have any standards or integrity.</p>
  458.  
  459.  
  460.  
  461. <p>On Amendment No. 5, there&#8217;s competing endorsements printed, so read them closely. To me, this is the one item on my ballot I need to do the most research on. It might be the same for you.</p>
  462.  
  463.  
  464.  
  465. <ul>
  466. <li><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/the-times-recommends-keep-the-king-county-sheriff-an-elected-office/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Times recommends voting against the amendment</a>.</li>
  467. <li><a href="https://www.thestranger.com/news/2020/10/14/47141697/the-strangers-endorsements-for-the-november-2020-general-election" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Stranger recommends voting for the amendment.</a></li>
  468. <li><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/pro-on-charter-amendment-5-king-county-sheriff-should-be-appointed/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Times also printed a community statement for the amendment.</a></li>
  469. </ul>
  470.  
  471.  
  472.  
  473. <p>Keep in mind that, while well researched and following journalistic standards, the newspaper endorsements are all printed in the opinion sections of the papers. The three articles I link to should be looked at as opinions you can take or leave. However, they do provide good perspectives on the issues.</p>
  474.  
  475.  
  476.  
  477. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Websites and misinformation</h2>
  478.  
  479.  
  480.  
  481. <p>Finally, if you do need more information beyond newspapers, I suggest you use a tool like <a href="https://www.newsguardtech.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NewsGuard </a>to help identify the quality of information from a website. NewsGuard is supported as part of <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/09/01/disinformation-deepfakes-newsguard-video-authenticator/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Microsoft&#8217;s campaign against misinformation</a> and is a free extension for my browser of choice, Microsoft Edge.</p>
  482.  
  483.  
  484.  
  485. <figure class="wp-block-pullquote">
  486. <blockquote>
  487. <p>Vote an informed vote this election and every election in the future. It&#8217;s your right, a great privilege, and I see it as a duty to support democracy.</p>
  488. </blockquote>
  489. </figure>
  490. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2020/10/16/king-county-washington-make-an-informed-vote/">King County, Washington &#8211; Make an informed vote</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  496. <title>Words can save lives</title>
  497. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2020/06/29/writing/</link>
  498. <comments>https://www.tomresing.com/2020/06/29/writing/#comments</comments>
  499. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  500. <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
  501. <category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
  502. <category><![CDATA[coronavirus]]></category>
  503. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://tomresing.com/?p=10488</guid>
  504.  
  505. <description><![CDATA[<p>Disputes delayed early reporting On January 27th, 2020, Dr. Camilla Rothe discovered Germany&#8217;s first case of the new coronavirus. The case involved one person at risk for the virus. According to the New York Times, the visitor from China had &#8220;no coughing or sneezing, no signs of fatigue or fever.&#8221; Coronaviruses were only known to be contagious from people showing symptoms. Confusion over the words used to describe this case caused delays. Thousands of people who caught the virus from</p>
  506. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2020/06/29/writing/">Words can save lives</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  509. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="338" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Any-symptoms-versus-full-onset-1-600x338.png" alt="" class="wp-image-10490" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Any-symptoms-versus-full-onset-1-600x338.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Any-symptoms-versus-full-onset-1-300x169.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Any-symptoms-versus-full-onset-1-768x432.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Any-symptoms-versus-full-onset-1.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  510.  
  511.  
  512.  
  513. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Disputes delayed early reporting</h2>
  514.  
  515.  
  516.  
  517. <p>On January 27th, 2020, Dr. Camilla Rothe discovered Germany&#8217;s first case of the new coronavirus. The case involved one person at risk for the virus. <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/world/europe/coronavirus-spread-asymptomatic.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">According to the New York Times</a>, the visitor from China had &#8220;no coughing or sneezing, no signs of fatigue or fever.&#8221; Coronaviruses were only known to be contagious from people showing symptoms. Confusion over the words used to describe this case caused delays. Thousands of people who caught the virus from people without symptoms died before the confusion was resolved. Words can save lives.</p>
  518.  
  519.  
  520.  
  521. <p>How do words save lives? The first disagreement was about the words &#8220;any symptoms&#8221; and the &#8220;full onset of symptoms&#8221;. Dr. Roche used the first term in her report. A team in Berlin described it the second way in their report.  Medical researchers also argued over the words asymptomatic, presymptomatic and oligo-symptomatic. Because of the disagreements, important medical journals didn&#8217;t publish either report in January. Instead, news about the dispute of the first report got published.</p>
  522.  
  523.  
  524.  
  525. <p>To you or me, the difference may not matter so much. What we needed to know was that people don&#8217;t have to show symptoms to spread the disease. When we know that, we can take steps to prevent the spread.  For example, everyone should cover their face, even healthy people.</p>
  526.  
  527.  
  528.  
  529. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Finally, reports did save lives</h2>
  530.  
  531.  
  532.  
  533. <p>In March, studies from Hong Kong and Britain showed significant transmission of the disease by people without symptoms. People without symptoms spread the disease 50% of the time. In May, a journal published the report from the Berlin team. How many lives would have been saved if doctors in Munich and Berlin hadn&#8217;t disagreed about &#8220;any symptoms&#8221; versus &#8220;full onset of symptoms&#8221;? Some people knew in January that people without symptoms spread the disease. Because of disagreement and confusion around language, it wasn&#8217;t reported in a journal until March. 10&#8217;s of thousands of people died who got the virus from someone without symptoms in between.</p>
  534.  
  535.  
  536.  
  537. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">More posts about words</h2>
  538.  
  539.  
  540.  
  541. <p>Do you like posts about writing? I&#8217;ve published two others, so far, <a href="http://tomresing.com/2018/01/18/more-on-ui-text-design/">More on UI Text Design</a> and <a href="http://tomresing.com/2017/10/28/the-power-of-9-characters/">The Power of 9 Characters</a>.</p>
  542. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2020/06/29/writing/">Words can save lives</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  548. <title>Connect with Tom Resing, not on Facebook</title>
  549. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2019/03/03/connect-with-me-off-facebook/</link>
  550. <comments>https://www.tomresing.com/2019/03/03/connect-with-me-off-facebook/#comments</comments>
  551. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  552. <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
  553. <category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
  554. <category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
  555. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://tomresing.com/?p=10451</guid>
  556.  
  557. <description><![CDATA[<p>Update, December 11th, 2020: Me, my wife and daughter have enjoyed 2 years off Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I feel more connected than ever to the people I care about without the distractions of their business. I&#8217;d love you to join us in defunding them by deleting your accounts. Here&#8217;s a graphic from Professor Scott Galloway that might understand how badly Facebook is misleading people who use their properties. Update, August 9th, 2019: It&#8217;s been more than 8 months since</p>
  558. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2019/03/03/connect-with-me-off-facebook/">Connect with Tom Resing, not on Facebook</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  560. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  561. <p><strong>Update, December 11th, 2020:</strong> Me, my wife and daughter have enjoyed 2 years off Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I feel more connected than ever to the people I care about without the distractions of their business. I&#8217;d love you to join us in defunding them by deleting your accounts. Here&#8217;s <a href="https://www.profgalloway.com/fire-fawning" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">a graphic from Professor Scott Galloway </a>that might understand how badly Facebook is misleading people who use their properties.</p>
  562.  
  563.  
  564.  
  565. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="345" src="https://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NMNM-Chart-Facebook-More-Likely-to-Direct-Users-To-1-600x345.png" alt="Facebook more likely to direct users to untrustworthy web sites. 20% of visits come from Facebook versus much smaller percentages from Google, Twitter, and webmail." class="wp-image-10716" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NMNM-Chart-Facebook-More-Likely-to-Direct-Users-To-1-600x345.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NMNM-Chart-Facebook-More-Likely-to-Direct-Users-To-1-300x173.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NMNM-Chart-Facebook-More-Likely-to-Direct-Users-To-1-768x442.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NMNM-Chart-Facebook-More-Likely-to-Direct-Users-To-1.png 1303w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  566.  
  567.  
  568.  
  569. <p><strong>Update, August 9th, 2019</strong>: It&#8217;s been more than 8 months since I left Facebook and I feel more strongly than ever that it was the correct decision. Please watch <a href="https://www.ted.com/speakers/carole_cadwalladr">the April 2019 Ted talk by Carole Cadwalladr about Facebook&#8217;s role in Brexit and the 2016 US elections</a>.</p>
  570.  
  571.  
  572.  
  573. <p>I&#8217;ve deleted my Facebook account. You won&#8217;t find Tom Resing on Facebook anymore. I still want to connect with you.</p>
  574.  
  575.  
  576.  
  577. <figure class="wp-block-image"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="372" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ByeFacebook-600x372.gif" alt="Deleting Tom Resing on Facebook" class="wp-image-10452" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ByeFacebook-600x372.gif 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ByeFacebook-300x186.gif 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ByeFacebook-768x476.gif 768w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  578.  
  579.  
  580.  
  581. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Where to find Tom now</h2>
  582.  
  583.  
  584.  
  585. <p>If you want to connect to me, I make myself available. I value personal relationships. And nothing beats face-to-face, in-the-living-flesh discussions. Some relationships I&#8217;ve built online, have paid off with in-person connections. I&#8217;m driven to make a better world &#8211; starting with me, my family and my close friends. Don&#8217;t hesitate to reach out if you think our goals are connected and we can make life better for each other and the rest of the world.</p>
  586.  
  587.  
  588.  
  589. <p><a href="https://tomresing.com">TomResing.com</a> and Resing.net provide contact info and I&#8217;ll keep them up to date. Both sites have provided a way to contact me for close to 20 years now. </p>
  590.  
  591.  
  592.  
  593. <p>Get in touch with me through <a href="https://tomresing.com/contact/">a contact form</a>, <a href="mailto:resingnet-website@yahoo.com">my email address</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/resing/">my LinkedIn profile</a> and my <a href="https://twitter.com/resing">twitter account.</a></p>
  594.  
  595.  
  596.  
  597. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Why I deleted my Facebook account</h2>
  598.  
  599.  
  600.  
  601. <p>Security, privacy and productivity are all good reasons to question if giving your time and information to Facebook are good for you and the rest of the world. Many thoughtful writers I respect are leaving the platform. Darrell Webster wrote<a href="https://webster.net.nz/2018/12/31/im-leaving-you-fb-its-you-but-its-also-me/"> a great post about his reasoning and how he suggests you cleanly make the break</a>, when you choose to. I was surprised and provoked by <a href="https://twitter.com/meetdux/status/1080177389659930625">Dux Raymond Sy&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Day tweet of an animated GIF showing the deletion of his account</a>. So much so, in fact, that I made a very similar tweet.</p>
  602.  
  603.  
  604.  
  605. <p>My separation from Facebook began in December after <a href="https://www.naacp.org/logout-facebook/">an NAACP call to log out of Facebook</a>. After logging out for 2+ plus months I realized the platform doesn&#8217;t line up with my goals for my life. I removed more than a gigabyte of data that I had shared on Facebook. However, I still want to share and connect. Keep reading and replying! 🙂</p>
  606.  
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  608.  
  609. <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="414" src="https://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sub-buzz-18778-1545076541-12-600x414.png" alt="#LogOutFacebook" class="wp-image-10718" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sub-buzz-18778-1545076541-12-600x414.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sub-buzz-18778-1545076541-12-300x207.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/sub-buzz-18778-1545076541-12.png 700w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  610. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2019/03/03/connect-with-me-off-facebook/">Connect with Tom Resing, not on Facebook</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  616. <title>3 ways Epic&#8217;s Fortnite is changing gaming</title>
  617. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2019/01/27/3-ways-epics-fortnite-is-changing-gaming/</link>
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  619. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  620. <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 04:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
  621. <category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
  622. <category><![CDATA[software development]]></category>
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  624.  
  625. <description><![CDATA[<p>If you know 5 people under the age of 20, chances are, you know someone who&#8217;s played Fortnite. Epic Games, creator of this free, massively scaled, multi-platform game, is making billions of dollars from in-app game purchases. How did a game that didn&#8217;t exist at the beginning of 2017 come to dominate the gaming world before the beginning of 2019? In some ways, Fortnite is the ultimate software as a service success story. Whatever device you own, you can download</p>
  626. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2019/01/27/3-ways-epics-fortnite-is-changing-gaming/">3 ways Epic&#8217;s Fortnite is changing gaming</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  629. <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="338" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide1-600x338.png" alt="" class="wp-image-10445" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide1-600x338.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide1-300x169.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide1-768x432.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide1.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure></div>
  630.  
  631.  
  632.  
  633. <p>If you know 5 people under the age of 20, chances are, you know someone who&#8217;s played Fortnite. Epic Games, creator of this free, massively scaled, multi-platform game, is making billions of dollars from in-app game purchases. How did a game that didn&#8217;t exist at the beginning of 2017 come to dominate the gaming world before the beginning of 2019?</p>
  634.  
  635.  
  636.  
  637. <p>In some ways, Fortnite is the ultimate software as a service success story. Whatever device you own, you can download and play Fortnite for free. Whatever device your friends and family have, they can join you in a game. And whatever platform&#8217;s store you can buy Fortnite&#8217;s in-game currency with, you can buy their in-game add-ons, but only with Fortnite&#8217;s in-game currency. Not only are people playing Fortnite in massive numbers, people are watching people play Fortnite in massive numbers. Ninja, a top game streamer, is making millions of dollars a month from people who subscribe to watch him play Fortnite all day.</p>
  638.  
  639.  
  640.  
  641. <p>Everything isn&#8217;t rosy with Fortnite, however. At first, I resisted the urge to play Fortnite. In some ways, it represents everything people like to hate about the gaming industry. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale">The premise of the game is violent</a>. It&#8217;s basically The Hunger Games at huge scale. 100 players are dropped into the arena. Only one will not be eliminated by guns, explosives or a fall and earn the Victory Royale. However, as I saw the game continue to grow in scope and popularity, I was drawn to check it out. For the past couple months, I&#8217;ve been playing a couple hours every week with my daughter with the rule that she learn about making games for a couple hours every week, too. I even organized a dozen player Resing Christmas Fortnite tournament for charity. As a result of the tournament, a snow leopard charity, chosen by the winning niece and nephew, is getting a $140 donation, which will be doubled as a perk of my employer Microsoft.</p>
  642.  
  643.  
  644.  
  645. <p>Here are 3 lessons I&#8217;ve learned playing Fortnite.</p>
  646.  
  647.  
  648.  
  649. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Enable everyone, everywhere and achieve more</h2>
  650.  
  651.  
  652.  
  653. <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="338" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fortnite-600x338.png" alt="victory royale" class="wp-image-10444" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fortnite-600x338.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fortnite-300x169.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fortnite-768x432.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Fortnite.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  654.  
  655.  
  656.  
  657. <p>Fortnite is the only game I&#8217;ve played with 3 other people on 3 different different types of devices in 3 different places in the world. For our Xmas tournament, we had players on Android, iPhone, XBox, Playstation, Nintendo and Windows. They played from the living room, the basement, from DC, Chicago and Seattle. What made this cross-platform experience possible?</p>
  658.  
  659.  
  660.  
  661. <p>Before Fortnite, if you wanted to play a game with a friend, you either had to be in the same place as your friend or, more likely than not, on the same game platform. You can play Minecraft on PC, game console and phone. However, I&#8217;ve never managed to enjoy playing any game from my Nintendo Switch with a friend in another place playing on their iPhone. Why not?</p>
  662.  
  663.  
  664.  
  665. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p><a href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/30/newzoo-global-games-expected-to-hit-180-1-billion-in-revenues-2021/">$138 billion is one estimate of 2018 gaming revenue</a>. The same source estimates the number of gamers worldwide at <strong>2.3 billion people</strong>.</p></blockquote>
  666.  
  667.  
  668.  
  669. <p>Competition in the game industry is intense. <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/30/newzoo-global-games-expected-to-hit-180-1-billion-in-revenues-2021/">$138 billion is one estimate of 2018 gaming revenue</a>. The same source estimates the number of gamers worldwide at 2.3 billion people. </p>
  670.  
  671.  
  672.  
  673. <p>To keep gamers generating revenue for their platforms, console makers have gone for exclusivity. Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft top game makers or top game franchises to deals to only produce for their game console. Playstation Network, XBox Live and Nintendo Connect were designed to be services exclusive to their respective platforms. I think I bought my <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/fortnite-1-000-v-bucks/c0f5ht9nv86p">1,000 Fortnite v-bucks in the Microsoft Store for $10</a> to get my Battle Pass for Season 7 which I mainly play on my Sony Playstation. How did Epic break the exclusive nature of the platform networks? One word: success. <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/27/epic-fortnite-3-billion-profit/">TechCrunch estimates Epic made $3 billion in profit in 2018</a>. No game platform could afford to be left out of getting a percentage of that in revenue from in-app purchases.</p>
  674.  
  675.  
  676.  
  677. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/27/epic-fortnite-3-billion-profit/">TechCrunch estimates Epic made $3 billion in profit in 2018</a></p></blockquote>
  678.  
  679.  
  680.  
  681. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Creative, serial content can sustain success</h2>
  682.  
  683.  
  684.  
  685. <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="338" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide3-600x338.png" alt="Burger Onesie" class="wp-image-10446" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide3-600x338.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide3-300x169.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide3-768x432.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide3.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  686.  
  687.  
  688.  
  689. <p>Fortnite is a free game that makes all of it&#8217;s money from in-app purchases. Google, Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft each get a percentage of the purchase price of Fortnite&#8217;s virtual currency. This model of app success is not new. App developers and app platforms have been benefiting from similar success since Apple introduced the App Store on the iPhone and the model was repeated on other platforms. So what&#8217;s different that makes Epic&#8217;s in-app content so appealing and profitable? They&#8217;ve serialized massive, online multiplayer gaming.</p>
  690.  
  691.  
  692.  
  693. <p>When my nephew first showed me Fortnite on his phone in June, it was <a href="https://fortnite.gamepedia.com/Season_4">the 4th season</a>. He explained to me that, each season, the game changes. There are live events, like a meteorite strike that month, that happen, while you&#8217;re playing the game and change the arena. By the time I decided to download the game, it  was Season 6, and a floating island had appeared. When I bit the bullet and decided to finally pay something for Fortnite, it was to purchase a Battle Pass for Season 7, which is, of-course, winter themed for the benefit of those of us with snow in January. I guess Africans and Australians have learned to live with this cold content in their warm months.</p>
  694.  
  695.  
  696.  
  697. <p>Games have seasons? TV shows have seasons, so why not games. What a brilliant idea and it&#8217;s done with very creative execution.</p>
  698.  
  699.  
  700.  
  701. <p>My daughter is an artist. Most 11 year-olds still are. They haven&#8217;t yet lost their courage in their drawing skills like most of us. One of the things my daughter and I can appreciate together is the level of detail in the character design of Fortnite. When you begin a season, you start with a couple playable characters or skins. As you play the game, you unlock new outfits and accessories. The plot of the season effects what you see in the game, including the skins of the other players. I think the ultimate prize for this season is a hooded onesie with hamburger print, for example.</p>
  702.  
  703.  
  704.  
  705. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Provide for streamers and they provide for you</h2>
  706.  
  707.  
  708.  
  709. <figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img decoding="async" width="600" height="338" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide4-600x338.png" alt="Ninja Photo" class="wp-image-10447" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide4-600x338.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide4-300x169.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide4-768x432.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Slide4.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></figure>
  710.  
  711.  
  712.  
  713. <p>So far, we&#8217;ve learned that Epic has broken the exclusivity of the console club. And, they&#8217;ve invented serial gaming, as far as I can tell. A third aspect that has lead to their success is the embrace of the newest sports stars, streaming gamers. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/31/tech/ninja-fortnite-stream/index.html">Top Fortnite streamer, Ninja, told CNN he made $10 million in 2018</a>. He&#8217;s not new to streaming. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_(streamer)">The 27 year old began playing Halo professionally in 2009</a>. However, he jumped on the Fortnite bandwagon early enough to benefit in a large way.</p>
  714.  
  715.  
  716.  
  717. <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p> <br><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/31/tech/ninja-fortnite-stream/index.html">Top Fortnite streamer, Ninja, told CNN he made $10 million in 2018</a>. </p></blockquote>
  718.  
  719.  
  720.  
  721. <p>When more than 650,000 people stream Ninja playing Fortnite at one time, that&#8217;s a convergence of a number of trends. When he began pro-gaming, the real-time streaming technology at that scale just didn&#8217;t exist. And neither did the audience, yet. However, the ubiquity, the creativity and the serial nature of the game make it more fun to watch. Ninja&#8217;s personality is a big part of what draws people in to watch him, without a doubt. However, he&#8217;s streamed other games before and never had an audience this big.</p>
  722.  
  723.  
  724.  
  725. <p>As streamers promote games and games appeal to streamers, the rise of gamers as sports stars will continue. Fortnite had a huge 2018, and all signs point to an even bigger 2019. While the game was released in late 2017 for some platforms, it wasn&#8217;t until August 2018 that it reached one of the potentially biggest gamer audiences in the quickly growing Android base.</p>
  726.  
  727.  
  728.  
  729. <h2 class="wp-block-heading">$12 billion in 2019?</h2>
  730.  
  731.  
  732.  
  733. <p>If Fortnite achieved $3 billion in revenue with only a partial year of the full capacity of platform growth, what could it do in 2019? Unlike any game or other media that&#8217;s come before, Fortnite has the potential for continued growth and success for some time to come. If Epic can continue to change the industry, create captivating new content and keep the eyes of streamers, I think they&#8217;re in for another really good year.</p>
  734. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2019/01/27/3-ways-epics-fortnite-is-changing-gaming/">3 ways Epic&#8217;s Fortnite is changing gaming</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  740. <title>Putty for Linux Azure SSH authentication</title>
  741. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2018/06/24/putty-for-linux-azure-ssh-authentication/</link>
  742. <comments>https://www.tomresing.com/2018/06/24/putty-for-linux-azure-ssh-authentication/#respond</comments>
  743. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  744. <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
  745. <category><![CDATA[azure]]></category>
  746. <category><![CDATA[cloud]]></category>
  747. <category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
  748. <category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
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  750.  
  751. <description><![CDATA[<p>I created my first Linux Azure VM this weekend. I chose the option to secure it with an SSH Public Key instead of a password. Creating a password would have been easier. SSH public key will be much more secure. It took some learning to get it right. First Step &#8211; PuttyGen for creating the key After choosing the ssh key option, the Azure portal required entering a public key. On Windows, PuttyGen was the tool suggested to create the</p>
  752. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2018/06/24/putty-for-linux-azure-ssh-authentication/">Putty for Linux Azure SSH authentication</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
  753. ]]></description>
  754. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I created my first Linux Azure VM this weekend. I chose the option to secure it with an SSH Public Key instead of a password. Creating a password would have been easier. SSH public key will be much more secure. It took some learning to get it right.</p>
  755. <h2>First Step &#8211; PuttyGen for creating the key</h2>
  756. <p>After choosing the ssh key option, the Azure portal required entering a public key. On Windows, PuttyGen was the tool suggested to create the key, so I downloaded it and tried it out.</p>
  757. <p><div id="attachment_10430" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen.png" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[10429]"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10430" class="size-medium wp-image-10430" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen-300x283.png" alt="Shows a key created with the default options" width="300" height="283" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen-300x283.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen-768x723.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen-600x565.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen-159x150.png 159w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyGen.png 962w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10430" class="wp-caption-text">A key created with the default options</p></div></p>
  758. <p>After creating an RSA 2048 key, I saved the private key, which required a key passphrase. Saving the key and noting the passphrase was important for the step 2.</p>
  759. <h2>Step 2 &#8211; Login with Putty</h2>
  760. <p>After the VM was created, I logged in to my Azure Linux VM with Putty. Putty and PuttyGen were part of the same download and install.</p>
  761. <p>Putty stores settings in what it calls sessions. You can save the IP address and port in the session. You can also save the authentication options. In this case, the private key is useful to store in a session.</p>
  762. <p>I selected the private key file which I saved from PuttyGen on the auth screen. This is where I needed the passphrase I noted when saving the key file in step 1. I also needed it later when I loaded the session with this key file.</p>
  763. <p><div id="attachment_10431" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth.png" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[10429]"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10431" class="size-medium wp-image-10431" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth-300x281.png" alt="Private key file loaded on Auth screen" width="300" height="281" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth-300x281.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth-768x720.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth-600x562.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth-160x150.png 160w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/PuttyAuth.png 906w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10431" class="wp-caption-text">Private key file loaded on Auth screen</p></div></p>
  764. <p>I was happy to find that when I opened a session with the private key loaded I was able to reach my Ubuntu server on Azure.</p>
  765. <p>Next step, load the robot operation system! 🙂</p>
  766. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2018/06/24/putty-for-linux-azure-ssh-authentication/">Putty for Linux Azure SSH authentication</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  772. <title>More on UI Text Design</title>
  773. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2018/01/18/more-on-ui-text-design/</link>
  774. <comments>https://www.tomresing.com/2018/01/18/more-on-ui-text-design/#comments</comments>
  775. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  776. <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
  777. <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
  778. <category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
  779. <category><![CDATA[ui text design]]></category>
  780. <category><![CDATA[voice]]></category>
  781. <guid isPermaLink="false">http://tomresing.com/?p=10401</guid>
  782.  
  783. <description><![CDATA[<p>Today, Episode 46 of the MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast was published. I was the guest and our conversation included some discussion of UI Text Design. UI Text Design was new to me a year ago and it&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t hear about every day, so I thought I&#8217;d share some more on the role. The screenshot above shows the list view drop down in SharePoint. Even as I look at it now, I see UI text that doesn&#8217;t follow</p>
  784. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2018/01/18/more-on-ui-text-design/">More on UI Text Design</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
  785. ]]></description>
  786. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, <a href="https://www.msclouditpropodcast.com/episode46/">Episode 46 of the MS Cloud IT Pro Podcast</a> was published. I was the guest and our conversation included some discussion of UI Text Design. UI Text Design was new to me a year ago and it&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t hear about every day, so I thought I&#8217;d share some more on the role.</p>
  787. <p><a href="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SharePointUIText.png" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[10401]"><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10402" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SharePointUIText-300x503.png" alt="Screenshot of the view drop down in SharePoint" width="300" height="503" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SharePointUIText-300x503.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SharePointUIText.png 455w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p>
  788. <p>The screenshot above shows the list view drop down in SharePoint. Even as I look at it now, I see UI text that doesn&#8217;t follow our design guidelines. Addressing those issues is part of the role.</p>
  789. <p>Recently, the word &#8220;as&#8221; was added to this menu. That two letter change, from &#8216;Save view&#8217; to &#8216;Save view as&#8217;, had a measurable, positive impact on the number of views saved. As a new UI text designer, I was very happy to learn the role could have such a strong effect on the product usage.</p>
  790. <h1>UI Text Design References</h1>
  791. <p>UI text design is something that happens in all software with user interfaces. However, it may be that only large development teams, like OneDrive and SharePoint, have specialists in the role. I&#8217;d never heard of the role before joining Microsoft and that may be one reason why. In many development teams, including work I&#8217;ve done in the past, it&#8217;s left to the programmer to write the text that shows on the screen.</p>
  792. <p>If you look closely on the web, however, you can find signs that others are doing the role as a specialist and have been for awhile. Here are a few things I&#8217;ve found:</p>
  793. <ul>
  794. <li>Cheryl Lowry, a former Microsoftie, who&#8217;s also done UI text design for Amazon and <a href="http://cheryllowry.com/2014/12/28/ui-writing-a-new-look-for-news-feed/">now Facebook</a>, wrote this post in 2011: <a href="http://cheryllowry.com/2011/08/11/6-things-ive-learned-about-writing-user-interface-text/">6 things I’ve learned about writing user interface text</a></li>
  795. <li>OpenStack, cloud software I learned about at Rackspace, has <a href="https://docs.openstack.org/doc-contrib-guide/ux-ui-guidelines/ui-text-guidelines.html">published UI Text Guidlines</a></li>
  796. <li>Microsoft&#8217;s Fluent Design System includes <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/accessibility/accessible-text-requirements">Accessible text requirements</a>, which pair well with <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/tonevoice">Tone and Voice</a> guidelines from Microsoft Design</li>
  797. <li>Google&#8217;s Material Design includes <a href="https://material.io/guidelines/style/writing.html">Writing Style Guidelines</a></li>
  798. </ul>
  799. <h1>Docs.Microsoft.com</h1>
  800. <p>I&#8217;ve found UI text design is a natural extension of my other current role at Microsoft, content development for help, learning and training about SharePoint. If you&#8217;d like to get involved in content development, check out <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com">docs.microsoft.com</a> where anyone can contribute to improving Microsoft IT Pro and Developer docs.</p>
  801. <p><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com">Docs.microsoft.com</a> includes a great summary of<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/contribute/help-crr/help-content/style/style-get-started-quick-start#use-the-microsoft-voice-principles"> the Microsoft voice principles</a>, with the following main points:</p>
  802. <ul>
  803. <li>Focus on the intent</li>
  804. <li>Use everyday words</li>
  805. <li>Write concisely</li>
  806. <li>Make your article easy to scan</li>
  807. <li>Show empathy</li>
  808. </ul>
  809. <p>If you&#8217;ve got more to add or questions to ask, add them in the comments below or @ mention me on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/resing">@resing</a>.</p>
  810. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2018/01/18/more-on-ui-text-design/">More on UI Text Design</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  816. <title>The Power of 9 Characters</title>
  817. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2017/10/28/the-power-of-9-characters/</link>
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  819. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  820. <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2017 11:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
  821. <category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
  822. <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
  823. <category><![CDATA[Content Development]]></category>
  824. <category><![CDATA[ms-dos]]></category>
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  826.  
  827. <description><![CDATA[<p>format c: The MS DOS Manual taught me the true power of the PC. Typing those 9 characters and hitting Enter made a very large change in my computer. Before I ran that command, my computer booted. I turned on the power switch and I got a prompt to perform an action. After, it didn&#8217;t do anything. Something like this had never happened with my last &#8220;home computer,&#8221; the Atari 800 XL. No matter what I did with that device,</p>
  828. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2017/10/28/the-power-of-9-characters/">The Power of 9 Characters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
  829. ]]></description>
  830. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><code>format c:</code> </p>
  831. <p>The MS DOS Manual taught me the true power of the PC.</p>
  832. <p>Typing those 9 characters and hitting Enter made a very large change in my computer.</p>
  833. <p>Before I ran that command, my computer booted. I turned on the power switch and I got a prompt to perform an action. After, it didn&#8217;t do anything.</p>
  834. <p>Something like this had never happened with my last &#8220;home computer,&#8221; the Atari 800 XL. No matter what I did with that device, it (almost) always did the same thing when I turned it on. But after <code>format c:</code>, my new PC was not the same.</p>
  835. <p>I do not remember how I learned about <code>format c:</code>. I do remember, at a summer job in college, when a co-worker jokingly told me about <code>rm /*</code>, the UNIX equivalent. But in each case, it taught me to, as some say, &#8220;Read the Freaking Manual!&#8221;</p>
  836. <p>If you haven&#8217;t been so brave (or brash?), both <code>format c:</code> and <code>rm /*</code> can have the same effect on a machine. Wiping the contents of the hard drive completely. Afterwards, the computer is lifeless, until you reinstall an operating system. This, I learned from a book. </p>
  837. <blockquote><p> Afterwards, the computer is lifeless, until you reinstall an operating system. This, I learned from a book.</p></blockquote>
  838. <p>These days, you can <a href="https://superuser.com/questions/553973/i-just-ran-rm-accidentally-any-fix/554101">learn similar lessons from sites like superuser.com</a> Websites can be so much more dynamic than a paper book. However, it the case of this answer to the question is another important lesson that hasn&#8217;t changed for many years, &#8220;Backup Early. Backup Often.&#8221;</p>
  839. <p>I didn&#8217;t really love reading the MD DOS Manual back in the day. Really, it was only the words and actions of my father that made me do it. I had begged and begged for a computer. My father told me that if I wanted to have a computer, I had to learn how to use it. He never seemed surprised that I had erased everything on the computer. And, he didn&#8217;t seem surprised when I restored (almost) everything to it. But others were amazed by both.</p>
  840. <p><a href="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Format-C.png" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[10393]"><img decoding="async" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Format-C-300x199.png" alt="" width="300" height="199" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10397" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Format-C-300x199.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Format-C.png 499w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p>
  841. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2017/10/28/the-power-of-9-characters/">The Power of 9 Characters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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  847. <title>1 Year at Microsoft!</title>
  848. <link>https://www.tomresing.com/2017/04/24/1-year-at-microsoft/</link>
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  850. <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Resing]]></dc:creator>
  851. <pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
  852. <category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
  853. <category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
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  855.  
  856. <description><![CDATA[<p>Last week marked the one year anniversary of my employment with Microsoft in sunny Redmond, Washington. It&#8217;s been an honor and a privilege to work with the SharePoint product team after so long as a partner and community member. It&#8217;s really amazing how much work goes on to make SharePoint the best product it can be. And, I had no idea how much work went into content design, both the in-product experience and writing and maintaining user assistance articles. I&#8217;m</p>
  857. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2017/04/24/1-year-at-microsoft/">1 Year at Microsoft!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
  858. ]]></description>
  859. <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week marked the one year anniversary of my employment with Microsoft in sunny Redmond, Washington. It&#8217;s been an honor and a privilege to work with the SharePoint product team after so long as a partner and community member. It&#8217;s really amazing how much work goes on to make SharePoint the best product it can be. And, I had no idea how much work went into content design, both the in-product experience and writing and maintaining user assistance articles. I&#8217;m surrounded by both top industry veterans and top new talent just entering the workforce.</p>
  860. <p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10375" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-Year-at-Microsoft-300x273.png" alt="" width="300" height="273" srcset="https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-Year-at-Microsoft-300x273.png 300w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-Year-at-Microsoft-768x698.png 768w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-Year-at-Microsoft-600x546.png 600w, https://www.tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-Year-at-Microsoft.png 794w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
  861. <p>One of the things that&#8217;s made the strongest impression on me in the year working hear is the <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/mission-culture">positive attitude of the employees and company culture</a>. Microsoft is working to make<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/"> a more diversified tech community</a> a reality in the future. <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/">Accessibility is a big focus</a> with a lot of great work going on. There is more effort to <a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/">listening to the community</a> than I believe has been going on in the past. And I&#8217;m really impressed how <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services">Microsoft Cognitive Services</a> are bringing new capabilities in computing to everyone. I learned about that first hand in the <a href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2016/07/25/oneweek-2016-kicks-off-with-hackathon-and-bright-ideas/#sm.00011ms5foypxfhixmh1qmpwk8d7s">OneWeek Hackathon</a>. And, I had no idea how much Microsoft employees give to the community. I participated in the October giving campaign, volunteering to clean up a playground, but <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/philanthropies/our-employees/">so many gave so much more</a>.</p>
  862. <p>It seems fitting that my anniversary week was highlighted by some great community events.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanlightfoot/"> Johnathan Lightfoot</a>, co-author on my first big book project, <a href="http://amzn.to/2pYddhY">SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out</a>, was in town and we went to the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/O365Seattle/events/235285886/">Office 365 Seattle Meetup</a> together. Johnathan was filming some soon to be released <a href="https://mva.microsoft.com/search/SearchResults.aspx#!index=3&amp;prod=Office%20365$SharePoint%20Server&amp;jobf=Developer&amp;lang=1033">Microsoft Virtual Academy courses on SharePoint</a>. O365Sea April was SharePoint Admin month. What a coincidence. <a href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wbaer/">SharePoint Product Marketing Manager, Bill Baer</a>, gave a security and compliance talk. And <a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jshoq">Microsoft IT&#8217;s Jared Shockley</a> gave an infrastructure talk. Great stuff! Before the meeting, I took Johnathan, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-SharePoint-2013-Plain-Simple/dp/0735667004/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493051279&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=sharepoint+2013+plain+and+simple&amp;linkCode=ll1&amp;tag=resingnet-20&amp;linkId=be95809bbd1befc03a80ffcb8a4bb2ef">SharePoint 2013 Plain and Simple</a>, to sign the #<a href="http://www.buckleyplanet.com/2011/05/the-building-of-sharequilt.html">ShareQuilt</a>.</p>
  863. <p><div id="attachment_10371" style="width: 160px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170421_013320526_iOS.jpg" rel="wp-prettyPhoto[10370]"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10371" class="wp-image-10371 size-thumbnail" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170421_013320526_iOS-150x150.jpg" alt="Bill Baer at Office 365 Seattle Meetup" width="150" height="150" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10371" class="wp-caption-text">Bill Baer at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/O365Seattle/events/235285886/">Office 365 Seattle Meetup</a></p></div></p>
  864. <p><div id="attachment_10374" style="width: 160px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/jshoq"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10374" class="wp-image-10374 size-thumbnail" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170421_025917202_iOS-150x150.jpg" alt="Jared Shockley at O365SEA" width="150" height="150" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10374" class="wp-caption-text">Jared Shockley at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/O365Seattle/events/235285886/">O365SEA</a></p></div></p>
  865. <p><div id="attachment_10372" style="width: 160px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnathanlightfoot/"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10372" class="wp-image-10372 size-thumbnail" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170421_005615600_iOS-e1493050811120-150x150.jpg" alt="Jonathan Lightfoot at the ShareQuilt" width="150" height="150" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10372" class="wp-caption-text">Johnathan Lightfoot at the <a href="http://www.buckleyplanet.com/2011/05/the-building-of-sharequilt.html">ShareQuilt</a></p></div></p>
  866. <p><div id="attachment_10373" style="width: 160px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.buckleyplanet.com/2011/05/the-building-of-sharequilt.html"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10373" class="wp-image-10373 size-thumbnail" src="http://tomresing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170421_005600359_iOS-e1493050901533-150x150.jpg" alt="Plain and Simple, signing" width="150" height="150" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10373" class="wp-caption-text">Plain and Simple, signing</p></div></p>
  867. <p>The post <a href="https://www.tomresing.com/2017/04/24/1-year-at-microsoft/">1 Year at Microsoft!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.tomresing.com">Tom Resing&#039;s Collaboration Blog</a>.</p>
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