Archive for November 12th, 2007

Tech-Ed: Download session files now

My last Tech-Ed report is still missing and will be coming shortly, but I wanted to share a quick tool that I wrote to download all of the session slides and things that were available while I was still at Tech-Ed. I thought using the network there might be faster than doing it at home, but I was wrong, so I ended up downloading it from here.

I know some companies can’t wait for the DVD to be delivered and want the slides now, so this tool will simply let you log in to your MS Events site, then press “Start” to download the files. It will parse the download sites and then download the files to a directory of your choice. It’s quick and dirty, but it works. There isn’t a tremendous amount of error handling and you will have to work by the process “Log-In” then press “Start”, but if you want to change something feel free to do so, a link back to here would be nice if you use or change anything.

For sake of having a license at all code and binaries are subject to the Common Publice License.

Download Binaries or Source.

Update: Some people have to login, then click on “PPTX files” and then press start to download the files. But you should only have to login and press start.

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XING: Poor statistics on pro accounts

I’ve been on Xing or should I rather say good-old-openBC since May 2004. The service has always been great and I used the free one up until about half a year ago, where I decided to give the pro version a go. I wanted to check it’s capabilities on all those pro features that you would need as a self-marketer. At first the search pops into mind which is greatly improved in the pro version, you can search just about anything. (Though I wish the free search was at least a bit better too… Images would be nice…).

Anyhow, having visited Tech-Ed I was interested in something saying “I have increased the visits to my profile by x amount”. I had looked for that feature, but they had removed it about half a year ago after a system update. So where does he get his info, well it seems that the newsletter you can opt-out of includes this information. Ok, this seem a fair practice for free accounts – get people to subscribe to your marketing newsletter to get access to the statistics. But as a prop I want to have these infos on the website, with a historic view and even better some nice graphs. If I want to market myself I need to correlate these statistics to my work.

Seeing as this feature was missing I decided to ask Xing Support for some help. The answer I got:

Thanks for your email. We don’t offer this at the moment, but may do so in the future.

Great guys. I’m a bit disappointed. I wonder if LinkedIn.com has such features for pro accounts? You may have been the first (where you really? Come to think of it, I don’t exactly know, but you where online early.) but you certainly won’t be the last business network.

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