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Re: 13 Annoying Communications that Must End in 2016

jtroyer — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:59:29 -0000

Ditto on the video caveat - please tell me, when you schedule the call, that this is a video call. I work from home and have a few times shown up like this.

Re: Metafilter founder: I'm okay with being a relic of the Web

jtroyer — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:58:15 -0000

Not necessarily rearranging deck chairs - small endeavors have different dynamics than big ones. My read of the zeitgeist is that maybe "the Internet" wants everything to be big, but people on the Internet are looking for something smaller, more focused, more intimate, less noisy than Facebook and Twitter. There are still forums alive that have been going for 10, 20 years. MetaFilter is not alone.

Re: The VMware Cloud Explained, Software Defined Talk Podcast #009 | The New Stack

jtroyer — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:13:12 -0000

Re the peer-based analysis, see also https://www.g2crowd.com and http://www.itcentralstation.... For enterprise level stuff, just simple reviews fall short - analysis needs to be nuanced because this stuff is complicated and depends on your requirements.

Re: Activist Customer or Citizen Analyst

jtroyer — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:09:07 -0000

Hey Greg, Thanks for listening to the Geek Whisperers! Glad we can bring some insight, although we're kind of outliers as far as marketers go. We lead the horse to water but we can't always get it to drink.

I think Amy coined the term citizen analyst as a parallel to citizen journalist (Wikipedia has tons more if interested). The analysts I know try very hard not to be biased or influenced, but I'll give you there's a lot of paid-for opinions out there.

I like the framing as activism, although many of the community folks I know write more to share knowledge and give back rather than any sort of intent directed at a company. But I'm not sure what other words we have -- "influencer" seems to look it from the wrong vantage point, and "advocate" is altogether wrong. Community Commentator?

Re: vinternals - post

jtroyer — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:55:00 -0000

OK then, get out there and get some of those folks in here! The VMware crowd will sit on your couch drinking all your beer otherwise. I'd love a cross-community conversation.

Re: vinternals - post

jtroyer — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:21:37 -0000

I hope virtualization people come check out this site. We were discussing blogging, comments, and twitter just now on Twitter. It's so hard for most bloggers to get a conversation started on their blog - not because of any lack of engagement or trying, but simply because they don't have a critical mass of an audience. And as we all know it's crazy to have a conversation on Twitter. In the thread we were just having after cc'ing the 7 other people in the conversation you could get about 3 words in. This kind of a site could gather the community for actual conversations.

Re: Podcast 3: This Isn’t Florida, And We’re Not Selling Real Estate

jtroyer — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:56:18 -0000

Thanks for the kind words, Stephen! We'll probably cover governance in a future podcast.

All of our companies have lightweight training/certification, but in reality there's rarely an issue -- it's a matter of trust. The HMV situation was an example of bad process for a layoff -- most of us go through a management layer like HootSuite that could be turned off rather than getting direct access to the Twitter passwords.

I was recently listening to this podcast with a good discussion on Governance -- you might want to check it out: http://socializedbusiness.c...

Re: Podcast 5: Metrics: How much of that is science vs the black arts?

jtroyer — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:38:44 -0000

@Chris Emery These days? Been happening since the first caveman had to show an up-and-to-the-right graph on his cave painting about sales of stone knives and bearskins.

Re: Change of pace : My next career experiment

jtroyer — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:26:51 -0000

Congrats & welcome aboard! w00t!

Re: http://stu.radnidge.com/post/30819681149

jtroyer — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:25:09 -0000

I think you're saying you like the term SDDC? I like it because it has people thinking. Also you're eliding a lot in that second-to-last sentence -- management/monitoring/compliance capabilities, connecting the app to its storage & other application components, firewall & network configuration in general -- and then setting up all the application/db services & app-level configuration. Right now, in a lot of places a lot of manual intervention still happens once the green light is on. I like SDDC because it challenges people to think, as you said, more holistically.

Re: BYOD: Making Sense of the Work-Personal Device Blur

jtroyer — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:04:51 -0000

All good points. However, if you think that the "iPad problem" is just coming from your CEO, you must not have been in the same offices or conferences or subways or coffee shops that I've been in.

Re: VMworld HoL (Hands on Labs) | Technodrone

jtroyer — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:15:46 -0000

The Fast Passes are now all gone -- however, throughout the day I'm seeing book giveaways and other fun stuff, and of course the Hands on Labs are incredible just in themselves.

Re: vSphere 5 Licensing is (some kind of) per-VM licensing | Technodrone

jtroyer — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:03:47 -0000

4. Talk to your sales rep about your situation or your partner business manager about your customers' situations. We want to make this work.

Re: Roger Lund ' s IT and VMware / Virtualization Blog: VMware vSphere 5 Licensing – Customer take? Your saying I pay what!?

jtroyer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:45:47 -0000

I'm not a licensing specialist - maybe one of my colleagues can chime in - but you do need to run real-world numbers across your entire datacenter to realistically assess what's going to happen -- memory overhead (vRAM vs pRAM), HA & DR capacity, etc. Barry walks through a few scenarios here: http://virtualisedreality.c...

Re: Nuance Responds to My Dragon Dictate Concerns

jtroyer — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:50:20 -0000

If you ever want to try switching over to the (presumably superior?) Windows version, I'm more than willing to donate a copy of VMware Fusion to the cause. I recognize we are still occasionally second-class citizens on the Mac platform, even in 2011 :-)

Re: vTech Field Day 6 – Boston , preview thoughts

jtroyer — Tue, 31 May 2011 00:18:29 -0000

Hey Chris - I'll be there, but sans Wookiee suit! Since we're meeting in VMware's Cambridge office, we're going to have 3 of our local engineers present on three projects that they're working on. No marketers were harmed in the production of our presentations!

Re: - The Study of Social - Why Your Influencers Need More Than A Brand

jtroyer — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:33:23 -0000

Hey Matt, thanks for the kind words! "That guy" is @lkilpatrick -- he had started soon before VMworld, so hopefully he knows more folks in the community now, and he's still manning the helm at @VMware.

We try to balance the more informative links and news with more fun stuff and contests from the branded channels, and then we layer more personal interaction from the whole team over that. I think both layers are important.

That kind of mix works well for us, but the VMware community is a very special place with people who are passionate about what they do, so it makes it easy and enjoyable to connect on a personal level. We started out as the "Community Team" here at VMware, and I think that legacy still comes through even as we fulfill a marketing role.

Re: Twitter Tells Developers to Stop Building Twitter Clients

jtroyer — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:07:47 -0000

Note the exact wording: "90% of active Twitter users use official Twitter apps on a monthly basis." I use TweetDeck on my Mac and Echofon on my iPhone, but yeah, at least once a month I click through a link to read or retweet something on the actual Twitter website. So I'm part of that 90%, although I strongly prefer 3rd party clients and do not trust Twitter not to screw up their UX entirely.

Re: Klout for Business: A Useful Metric –but an Incomplete View of Your Customer

jtroyer — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:52:49 -0000

+1. Right now, to gauge influence in a subculture, you need to go native and be a part of that subculture. I'm sure we'll get algorithms to go there, and in fact relative Klout scores correlate roughly with my sense of local authority, but just looking at absolute scores is worse than meaningless for my community at the moment.

Re: Exclusive: Verizon iPhone sales fail to meet expectations

jtroyer — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:28:19 -0000

Not sure the details -- her account, not mine -- but my implied point was that there are probably a lot of people on Verizon who would like to upgrade to an iPhone 4, but who can't yet, and they'll show up over the next year or two.... a future iPhone 5 (as others are speculating here) doesn't mean much to my wife; she just sees the apps on my AT&T iPhone and wants one on Verizon... if I can extrapolate from my single data point.

Re: Exclusive: Verizon iPhone sales fail to meet expectations

jtroyer — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:03:22 -0000

My wife would have bought one that first night, but since Verizon upped their renewal upgrade period to 20 months right before the iPhone launch, it was no go without $700. She's on the fence, but will likely stick with BB for a while longer. When upgrade time comes, though, she's in the market.

Re: Do You Really Need the vMA? | Technodrone

jtroyer — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:38:28 -0000

Not to state the obvious, but vMA will work without Windows. PowerCLI is Windows only. So for VMware, I think it makes sense to have a supported, OS-independent management capability. The API is there, so I could envision other language bindings over time.

Re: virtualization.info | Leaving virtualization.info and cloudcomputing.info: A message from Alessandro Perilli

jtroyer — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:49:48 -0000

Alessandro - just saw this! I echo the others with congratulations and best wishes on the next stage of your journey. You've been an institution for my entire 5-year tenure at VMware. I feel like this is the end of an era! And Kenneth, I'm looking forward to working with you! Good luck to you both.

Re: Is Quora the biggest blogging innovation in 10 years?

jtroyer — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:06:30 -0000

I keep trying but I don't get Quora yet. I even like talking tech and startups and silly valley, I like news sites like TechMeme, and I like question sites like ask.metafilter.com, and yet I'm just not warming up to Quora -- I've tried a bunch of times and I just can't seem to find questions that are interesting to me. Is there anything there besides the insular silicon valley/web startup conversation?

Re: http://jtroyer.tumblr.com/post/1676105608

jtroyer — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:28:19 -0000

Māhealani is Hawaiian for 'night of the full moon' -- we're a few days beyond that, but all week the clear light at night has been beautiful.