The Why of the Follow

Posted on 31 January 2012 by GeekFluent

Regardless of your medium of choice for social media — Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, blog posts — the first, and easiest, measure of success is the number of followers you have.

There are a lot of social media articles out there that offer tips and techniques for building your followership.  This isn’t one of those articles.

Instead, I’d like to explore why people choose to follow someone.  I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and, as far as I can tell, when people follow you, it boils down to basically three reasons — either individually or in some combination.

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GeekFluent Migration Completed Successfully

Posted on 10 November 2011 by GeekFluent

If you’re seeing this post, you’re seeing GeekFluent in its new, self-hosted home.  It should have the same overall look and feel, although if you’re a frequent visitor you might notice a few small cosmetic changes.  (If you’re completely new here, welcome! Hope you’ll stay a while.)

Those of you who remember when I first said “I’m starting to migrate GeekFluent” probably have only one real question:

Why did it take so long?

The answers to that will be in an upcoming post on “Lessons Learned During the Migration”…

Until then, welcome to the new site!

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Careful with the Jargon…

Posted on 9 September 2011 by GeekFluent

As the only Technical guy in a Marketing group, it will likely come as no surprise that I encounter occasional problems with jargon.  What might surprise you is that my biggest jargon problems aren’t caused by me using Tech-speak around the non-Techies; the biggest issues arise when people use Market-speak around the non-Marketer (me).

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GeekFluent’s Top VMworld Session Choices

Posted on 12 August 2011 by GeekFluent

Are you going to VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas and finding yourself a little overwhelmed trying to select which sessions to attend?

Don’t worry — it’s happened to all of us.  There’s a lot of great content this year (as always) and it can be challenging to choose.  To help you out, I offer:

GeekFluent’s Top VMworld Session Choices

I’ve seen a few lists like this out there.  Mine’s going to be a little different in that I’ve divided it into six “areas of interest”, i.e.: “if you’re interested in Topic X, I’d recommend these sessions”.

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VMworld 2011 Public Voting on Sessions Is Now Open

Posted on 9 May 2011 by GeekFluent

This year, like last year, VMware is giving attendees to their VMworld conference the ability to help decide which of the proposed sessions they’d like to see presented at the conference.

If you have interest in which sessions get selected (and if  you’re planning on attending the conference, you should), I encourage you to go to the voting site and get your opinion heard.  Voting remains open through 18 May.  You’ll need to have a vmworld.com account.  If you don’t have one, registration is easy.

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CloudSlam 2011 Multi-vendor Panel on the Future of Storage for the Cloud

Posted on 29 April 2011 by GeekFluent

I had the opportunity last week to sit in on a CloudSlam multi-vendor panel session on the future of storage in the cloud. It was a very interesting and revealing discussion. I’ll do my best to summarize it here and share my thoughts and conclusions.

What is CloudSlam?

CloudSlam is a virtual conference, an online gathering of Cloud computing professionals.  Now in its third year, CloudSlam 2011 had thousands of attendees from over 80 countries.

The Topic

The session was titled “EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp: where they are taking the Cloud”.  It was intended as a discussion of where the vendors see the future of data storage for the cloud. To quote the session description: Continue reading →

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Tasker: The Android Equivalent of a Radioactive Spider-bite

Posted on 21 April 2011 by GeekFluent

If there is anything that counts as a “must-have” application for your Android phone, Tasker is it.

Tasker is the first Android app I ever paid to purchase, and is by far the most versatile I’ve seen.  I am convinced that with it, you can grant your Android the smart-phone equivalent of super-powers.

The best way I can think to describe the phenomenon that is Tasker is that it allows you automate almost anything you can do with your phone.  You do this by creating macros.  You can execute these macros manually, just like starting another application, or (and here’s where the true power of Tasker comes in) set the macros to be triggered automatically based on context.

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The Obligatory Introductory Blog Post

Posted on 15 April 2011 by GeekFluent

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to GeekFluent, my new side project.  (Who am I?  Check out the site’s convenient “About” page.)

Why this blog?  And why now, when I’m even busier than ever?

Excellent questions.  I’ll take them one at a time.

Why This Blog?

Several reasons, really, varying from serious to not-so-serious.

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