Helping Businesses Catch the Cluetrain
Back in the misty reaches of time — just before the last millennium turned, to be precise — four smart people got together to write about the growing gap between companies and markets. The result was called "The Cluetrain Manifesto", a cogent and plainly-written set of theses about how the Internet changes some of the [...]
Scale 6x: Stormy Peters: What is a Community Manager?
The first day of SCALE 6x, I camped out in the Women in Open Source track. One of the sessions that I caught during this day was Stormy Peters' excellent, "What is a Community Manager?" presentation. My notes - in point form rather than prose - follow.
Tags: Alolita Sharma, Bytesfree.org, community, Community Manager, conference, Dawn [...]
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SCALE 6x LiveBlogging: Linux in Early Education
LA is wearing her typical veil of grey-brown smog. I've been here for enough hours that I can't really smell it anymore – or much of anything else, for that matter. I'm at the LA Airport Weston with the rest of the SCALE 6x attendees.
I'm sitting in Steve Oualline's session on Linux in Early Education. [...]
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Sandro Groganz starts new Open Source marketing consultancy
After handling the marketing for Open Source vendors eZ Systems AS and Mindquarry, my friend Sandro Groganz taking the leap into entrepreneurship and is starting his own Open Source marketing consultancy. Sandro's a smart guy with experience working with several different Open Source communities, including PHP - I'd recommend him to anyone looking to get [...]
OpenMind 2007: Monty on the Future (and Past) of Databases
After a break, Tommi Mikkonen of the Tampere University of Technology introduces Monty Widenius (who is, as most readers of this blog will know is one of the founders of MySQL AB)
Monty takes the stage wearing a suit - a nice suit - something I don't recall having seen before.
He starts with an overview [...]
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Alfresco Seeking Community Relations Person
A friend of mine who also is also a friend of some of the Alfresco crew asked me to help Alfresco find a community relations person.
I've poked a few friends and sent a note off to a few lists. If you are curious, then check out the job posting on Alfresco's site.
If you are thinking [...]
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A Blessing in Disguise
MySQL's latest advertising campaign (called "The 12 Days of Scaleout") is getting a bit of a kicking in the MySQL blog space.
I am sure that this is slightly uncomfortable for the MySQL team, but at the same time the team is lucky that people who care about MySQL still take the time to explain what [...]
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OSCON Highlights: openTalk 2.0 and cxap
Damian Conway is giving the funniest public flogging I have ever seen. He is single-handedly kicking the ass of Web 2.0, Sxip, patents, patent vulture firms, snake oil crypto, Microsoft, Google, r0ml and all the rest of us all at the same time.
Great quotes include:
We have a patent on replacing the letter in a name [...]
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OSCON Lowlights: greenplum Keynote
The sponsored keynote must always present a quandary for conference organizers: how much should a conference organizer charge to give a vendor the opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot while on stage?
Take the greenplum keynote that was just presented at OSCON 2006: greenplum probably forked over a large chunk of change to get that [...]
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Hire Will Pate
Will Pate, a sharp Vancouver web marketer, is looking for a new gig, specifically:
A great job with an awesome company, filled with people who "get it"
He comes highly recommended by friends - read his blog post on the topic to learn more.
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