How do you end up as a VP and Security CTO at Juniper? Chris Hoff doesn’t know, but there he is. This week we talk with @Beaker about hackers, faking an aneurysm, building compelling presentations, and finding what you’re passionate about. “Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don’t be mean; we don’t have…
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This week we bite off perhaps more than we can chew, but we go ahead masticate anyway on the topic of social tools and authentic engagement until it turns into something tasty. Can you use new social tools and stay authentic? What implicit and explicit expectations are there with different social…
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Josh Atwell is a man with a plan. We talk with Josh about agile career development and the way Josh navigated the steps in his career from an undergraduate in aerospace engineering to an enterprise architect, and what he has mapped out for the future Picking your goals Choosing your path…
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Nick Weaver is the Director, SDI Labs at Intel. He has written a lot of demos in his time. How did he get from IT geek to exploring cloud management and automation for Intel? Nick is so awesome our show notes can only consist of transcripts of things he said…
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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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This week we talk with serial entrepreneur and alpha geek Dave McCrory, CTO of Basho. We talk about his career, transparent management, being a leader, and keeping up with new things at any age or level. Basho makes a distributed No SQL database, which we don’t talk about at all in…
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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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What expectations do companies have about their employees participating in social media? Has it changed from ‘tacitly allowed’ to ‘mandatory’? This week, it’s just the three Geek Whisperers, and we discuss employee ambassador programs, social media training, and “Expectations for Employees in a Social Age” Employee Ambassador Programs are…
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