Finding Scott Guthrie

Where is Scott Guthrie now?

Scott Guthrie was a hugely successful product development manager who became a voice of Microsoft Web development. He seemed to reach widely and bring in everyone who was looking for leadership in leaning into the Microsoft web development products. Since he was promoted where is his social activity?

His blogs were excellent and become so popular over the years outlining nuts and bolts level of the Microsoft direction for web development. The post would be lengthy covering the forward step of the product in detail to quicken implementation. He would outline the approach at a high level however brought in the cadence of all the little challenging details and then returned to facilitate all manner of questions from the great variety of operational machine configurations.

Occasionally over the years I would retune into his blogs and they seemed to move somewhere new each time I looked for them. However this time I was unable to find a current blog.

Blogs at that time were still popular and worked well for his feature tours. However a survey for his current social effect looks like the social style for an executive vice president is all about twitter.

From a Bing search:

Missing for over a year

https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu

Same blog destination

http://scottgu.com/

His Facebook account has one note from earlier this year.

https://www.facebook.com/Scott-Gu-60792624775/

He is very active retweeting and up to date on Twitter

https://twitter.com/scottgu

Linkedin

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guthriescott/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Guthrie

Microsoft executive page

https://news.microsoft.com/exec/scott-guthrie

The current Microsoft executive team

https://news.microsoft.com/leadership/

A comment to Scott Hanselman's blog

Subtitle: A casual and long chat towards the question of github for Microsoft

Today my first comment was made on the Scott Hanselman blog. As you know Scott is a popular social and technical voice of Microsoft and technology life.

Scott is in the "Paul Westerberg" school of writing meaning he writes like he talks which was the advice from Paul to songwriters. This brings a very organic and realism to his posts.

The influencers are influenced by their downstream feedback which is part of the great cycle of feedback in the community. It certainly would be interesting to get Scott's take as he is aware of the artistic and community light that lives in technology.

So to comment it was best to create a gravatar account which unfortunately didn't have a facebook login however required a wordpress account. I didn't mind creating a new blog on wordpress since I have been curious as to how the feature set compared with blogger where my occasional blogs are.

Here is my comment today:
The soft skills side of this post - "up on github" brings up codeplex and its demise. Considering many aspects - will .net based projects become a department within github in the way it was with its own site or will all projects just be part of a big graph like stones on a great beach with attributes? The list of languages available on github is impressive.

Reviewing your post on Sept 10th 2009 when the codeplex foundation was created so much of an open source perspective has increasingly found resonance with Microsoft. However for whatever that means - how will advanced search in itself on github be able to bring out the sense of a community continuity - the creativity and synergy of an awareness of the Microsoft language category that you are suggesting in this post - other than by way of the threads you have realized over time.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ExploringCQRSWithinTheBrighterNETOpenSourceProject.aspx