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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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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In the grand finale of our time at SpiceWorld 2014, your Geek Whisperers talk with Scott Abel, humble CEO of Spiceworks, lets us occasionally ask questions and mostly just talk about his cool business and behavior. No revisionist history Culture & values of a community Community moderators Asking for input,…
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Prolific writer and self-defined “shameless self promoter” Tom Limoncelli joins us in this continued series from SpiceWorld 2014. We discuss: The years before social media Publishing books Blogging before blogging was big Whether you need authority to write a book LISA projects Power of index cards as a medium Enabling your coworkers…
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This week we talk with Whitney Carnes about how IT departments can connect with their users and about running a managed service provider that works with small business. Whitney is the president of Serenity Computer Consulting, an MSP in Dallas and Atlanta. Recorded live at SpiceWorld in Austin. Thinking about your users…
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This week we spoke about IT tribes with Matt Simmons, university sysadmin, blogger, subreddit moderator, and LISA program committee member. How do people pick the IT Tribes they are a part of? Why didn’t Usenix and LISA (Large Installation System Administration) take over the world? “Large Installation” has…
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The Geek Whisperers crew is proud to have serial entrepreneur and former Microsoft employee Marc Farley on our third and final podcast from VMworld 2014. This episode was recorded on day 3 and you can hear it just a little bit. Our theme is career change, and Marc has been the…
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