The Community Matters To Your Career, Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad)
VMware Community:
- VMTN forums
- Podcasts
- Blogs
- VMUGs
- #vBeers
- Conferences
Why should you care?
- Helps you do your job better
- Helps you find a better job
- Helps you grow personally & professionally
- Twitter, in particular, breaks down barriers
Community Benefits:
- Wrote a book
- Promotion
- Spoke at a vendor conference
- Career shift
- Changed jobs
- etc…
Advice:
- Get involved!
- Twitter, blogs, podcasts
- VMUGs, vBeers
- Relationships: help solve problems, find new roles
- Ask for help and give help–pay it forward
- Have fun, be respectful, be professional
- Get insight into new products, people, topics
- Do your certs
- Share your viewpoint
Twitter Tips:
- Egg, bad. Bio, good.
- Disclaim all the things (working for a vendor, etc)
- Leverage lists
- Turn off automated tweets
- Mute those that don’t ^
- Tweet unto others as you would have them tweet unto you
- Be real
- Have integrity
Why Blogging?
- Set yourself apart
- Explore something you’re passionate about
- Learn from others
- Document your successes
- Give back to the community
- Laugh when you google a problem and the top hit is your blog
#vBrownBag
- Hundreds of hours of deep technical content presented by the community
- VMworld Tech Talks
- OpenStack Summits
- Nearly zero marketing
- No BS
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