Tag: Community

  • NetApp Names Members of 2017 NetApp United Program

    NetApp Names Members of 2017 NetApp United Program

    NetApp has announced the first members of their new community recognition program, called NetApp United. I’m proud to announce that I’m one of those 111 people. What makes a good candidate for the NetApp United program? According to the application announcement, NetApp was looking for technology enthusiasts who: Have a social media presence Have overall…

  • How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

    How I Accidentally Became a Conference Keynote Guest Speaker

    Over the years, I’ve attended many industry technical conferences. I’ve been an attendee. I held a whiteboard session that was livestreamed over the Internet. I’ve done video interviews. I’ve been booth staff. I’ve given presentations in booths. I’ve been responsible for the entire booth. With all that, there are still a few things I haven’t…

  • Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9) Preview and How to Follow Along From Home

    Storage Field Day 9 (#SFD9) Preview and How to Follow Along From Home

    If you weren’t able to guess from my previous post about this, I’m very excited to be returning to Storage Field Day as a delegate for SFD9. If you won’t be there at the event, I figured you might like more info on the presenters and on how you can follow along — in real…

  • VMware Announces vExperts for 2016

    VMware Announces vExperts for 2016

    Today, VMware announced the list of vExpert recipients for 2016. The VMware vExpert program recognizes those who have gone above and beyond their normal job description in sharing the messaging, knowledge, and “how to” of virtualization in general and VMware in particular. The vExpert program is open to VMware employees, partner, customers, and others. I’d…

  • EMC Elect 2016 – Just the Facts

    EMC Elect 2016 – Just the Facts

    Yesterday, EMC announced the list of those who had been awarded the EMC Elect designation for 2016. The EMC Elect is EMC’s community recognition program. Now in its fourth year, the Elect program seeks to recognize those who exhibit engagement with the EMC community, commitment to be “part of the EMC conversation day in and…

  • Cisco Announces Champions for 2016

    Cisco Announces Champions for 2016

    On Friday last week, Cisco started sending out email welcoming those people who have been selected to receive the Cisco Champion designation for 2016. For those of you not familiar with it, Cisco Champion is Cisco’s community recognition program. Its main goal is to encourage and recognize knowledge-sharing efforts. To quote from the welcome email:…

  • Tech Bloggers’ Support Group – Beta Test

    Tech Bloggers’ Support Group – Beta Test

    This is an idea I’ve been kicking around for a while. I’ve been thinking about how I’d like to be doing more with this blog: posting more often, creating series of posts, improving my writing skills, increasing my readership, etc. Obviously, the easiest of these for me to affect is the “posting more often”. I’m…

  • For Your Listening Pleasure: Cisco Champion Radio Season 3, Ep 2 is Live

    For Your Listening Pleasure: Cisco Champion Radio Season 3, Ep 2 is Live

    Earlier this week, I got to play the role of a guest-host/panelist on the Cisco Champion Radio podcast, talking about tech predictions for 2016. It was a very lively conversation and a lot of fun. If you’re interested in hearing it, you can find it: On the iTunes On TalkShoe Or, on Android, just search…

  • Guest-Hosting Cisco Champion Radio Next Week

    Guest-Hosting Cisco Champion Radio Next Week

    I’ve written before about the various community programs I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in and how I’ve benefited from them. I’ve just been given another unexpected benefit that should be a lot of fun. The Cisco Champion community records a weekly podcast titled Cisco Champion Radio. Over the past two years, they’ve covered…

  • Journey to EMC Elect 2015 (with Bonus Number-Crunching)

    Today, EMC announced the list of names of those people named to the EMC Elect program for 2015. Now in its third year, the EMC Elect program seeks to recognize engagement with, commitment to, and leadership in the EMC technical community-at-large. EMC has been very active in reaching out to the Elect community, working to involve…