Niki Acosta is bubbling with passion and bursting with OpenStack enthusiasm. These facts are familiar. What may be more surprising is how she navigates the world of job opportunities. Her flexibility to work within the business and voracious need to consume new information keeps her ahead of the Evangelist pack.…
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How do you get developers interested in your product? This week we talk with Jonas Rosland, a developer advocate for EMC’s new CODE group. Listening vs Talking How does working with Developer differ from working with Sysadmins? Why are developers “weird” if you’ve been talking with Sysadmins? Emphasizing creativity…
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Big company, small company – does it matter when you’re trying to sway people with community and influence marketing? Since influence is earned, does it really matter if you work for a giant church of technology or a small startup? Will people drive miles for the best chai? John says that he…
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We address the sensitive topic of what gets priority in the limited time we have at a technical events. Your regular hosts are joined by Nick Howell while at NetApp Insight in Las Vegas. We dig into: Event performance pressure Spend time with your internal coworkers or external influences? How to…
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Navels, prepare to be gazed upon! Hosts Lisa Caywood and Greg Knieriemen bring you through a quarter’s worth of opinion while you trusted Whisperers consider where we’ve been and where we go next. We go through tough questions, introspection and Greg’s copious amount of notes. Some of the details: What’s success look…
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This week we talk with Symon Perriman, senior technical evangelist from Microsoft, about evangelism, career change, MVPs, user groups, org charts, performance management, business value, and more. It turns out unicorns come from Redmond, too. Moving from engineering to evangelism The Microsoft MVP Program Career effects of MVP Engineering…
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This week your Whisperers are welcomed by Mark Finnern, Chief Community Evangelist responsible for the SAP Mentor Initiative. Mark is a fellow passionate community builder who, when called out as a marketer, responds with certainty: “If [community building] is the new marketing then absolutely, I am a Marketeer.” Some topics of…
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A car club has a lot in common with a technology community, and both follow similar patterns. We talk with Frank Denneman about what gives a sense of community, boundaries & membership, and how to sustain a community over multiple generations. This episode was recorded live at VMware PEX 2014…
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