Category Archives: community building

Good things on the horizon – courtesy of Inktank

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All good things must come to an end they say. And for me, one of those things ended last Friday…..which was my last day at Dell. I had a great experience at Dell. I was there to see them launch … Continue reading

What comic book movies can teach us about social media for B2B marketing

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This post is part two of my post about being a schizophrenic engineer. 🙂 FYI this post MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS. I don’t think it does if you have seen the Avengers previews, but I’m letting you know just in case. Like … Continue reading

I’ve moved my blog!

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I’m migrating away from Edublogs. I hope everyone won’t mind following me here!

Content cost and creation – and how it relates to community building

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During a meeting at the Dell Storage Forum in London Hans De Leenheer, one our invited bloggers, told me something to this effect: You are Miss Social Media. You have to make it so we are able to keep connecting. … Continue reading

Beer: the essential ingredient for successful community building

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I don’t know if it was Bitnorth, spending the last couple of nights communing in Barcelona with other members of the internal Dell Storage community, or the tweets coming from my friend Ed Saipetch at Monktoberfest, but I have finally … Continue reading

Dell Storage Forum and the emergence of a new community

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A goal we had for the Dell Storage Forum was to bring together all users of Dell Storage – whether they use PowerVault, EqualLogic, or Compellent, into one Dell Storage community. For me, one of the biggest take-aways from the  … Continue reading

Insiders, Outsiders, and Visitors – and what this means for community

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I’ve been managing the EMC Proven Professional Community and the outlying social media ecosystem we’ve created for the community for a little over six months now. Maybe in another post I’ll talk more about what we are calling the social … Continue reading

A community to support customers must be more than customer support

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I’ve been thinking about this post for a long time. I’m noticing that many businesses will set up a community for their customers, but the community never makes it any further than the customer support stage. My Verizon example I … Continue reading

Brian and I are getting married!

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Last night Brian proposed to me!!! We’ve been living together for 6 years. And now we’re going to get married. 🙂 Here’s how it went down….we have “present night” every year. The kids and I don’t really do Christmas, and … Continue reading

Fall Semester 2009

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I know I haven’t posted here in a while, so I thought I’d do a keep-alive post today. I’m still busy with grad school, hopefully just this semester and next and I’ll be done. We’ll be at the AANE art … Continue reading