IT pros gather in tribes surrounding vendors. Are open source projects like OpenStack driving more mixing of the tribes? Are vendor-neutral communities on the upswing? This week we talk with fellow Whisperers John Troyer about his new independent IT community, TechReckoning, and with Amy Lewis about her attendance at the recent OpenStack Summit. We…
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Howard Marks wears many hats. He’s primarily an analyst these days, with a full lab where he can actually test storage equipment. He’s also a journalist who has written for Network Computing for years. And finally, he’s a blogger and podcaster. He can wear any hat that helps him get the…
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So you’re a technical evangelist. Where does your career go from here? This week we talk with Brian Gracely about career paths, working remotely from the corporate headquarters, and surfing the waves of change within the tech industry. Brian makes the point that a technical evangelist (rockstar?) is at some level a field…
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When you engage with influencers, you get a perspective from outside your own building. We talk with Lisa Caywood, product marketing manager, about the emotional component of buying behavior and the communities surrounding companies, the rewards of engaging with external influencers, and the role of the product marketing manager. Lisa…
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This week we talk to an IT Community OG, the founder of the VMware Community, Daryll Swager. We talk about community forums, being customer-centric, and about Twitter forcing brevity as a communication style. Daryll, who by his own admission has no brevity within him whatsoever, now leads a customer engagement team…
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In what may be our best podcast yet, Jason Nash, CTO of technology solutions company Varrow, gives us his frank views on the value of social media and technical evangelism. For Jason, the value is clear. Employees engaged in the technical community help drive the business while they grow personally and technically.
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We continue our discussion about content and surviving the content crunch. The metaphors fly thick as we talk about being personal trainers for content creation, being agile bicyclists vs building a waterfall-driven space program, and something about roulette wheels and pebbles. This is what we talked about: Why Are So…
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The Geek Whisperers talk with HP’s Calvin Zito about bringing bloggers together and the risks and rewards that ensue. We also hear how Calvin and Matt first met and how that almost got them fired. Over the course of the hour of this podcast we talk about Transitioning from marketing…
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