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Novell Cool Blogs – hopefully the final update

by | Feb 24, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Novell BrainShare, Uncategorized, ZENworks

We’re in the home straight; final testing for the new Novell Cool Blogs.

I’ve been hitting the test system hard in the last week – making suggestions to the Novell team that are making this happen. There are two main updates – the plan is now to use WordPress for the blog infrastucture; second launch is due ‘next week’.

The internal test system looks really great; all Novell branded and look and feel – but with live blog content. All of your favourite features should be there – comments, trackback, pings – as well as some unique blog posts from Novell’s strongest personalities.

I’ll leave it until announcement time so as not to spoil the surprise – but watch out – this is going to be big!

Special kudos to Mr Jared Nyland from Novell’s web team; he’s been awesome.

Building a Community

by | Feb 16, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized, ZENworks

Guy Kawasaki has a great post tonight on Building a Community.

I’m not going to post it here – but take a read.

We’re right in the middle of getting the Novell CoolBlogs kicked off – this is great timely reading.

[Edit: this also got picked up by Robert Scoble; who added ‘go visit your community’. My comment back was this was great for well funded evangelists. What I also meant to add was that it also only works if you have clusters of community members in places you go.]

BrainShare 2006

by | Feb 8, 2006 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Novell BrainShare, Uncategorized, ZENworks

More updates on BrainShare 2006.

I am in Provo, UT all week – working with Mark Schouls – on our BrainShare session and demo:

Session Title: ZENworks Design, and the Lifecycle Management Framework
Length: 2 Hours
Level: Advanced
Abstract: Over the past number of years Novell has presented the ZENworks Lifecycle Management diagram in many of the ZENworks related sessions. This session will focus squarly on how to design a rock solid ZENworks infrastructure and put lifecycle management into practice. Join this session to learn how to fully leverage your ZENworks architecture, take advantage of best practices, and see a live lifecycle management demonstration. This session is a combination of both theory and live demonstration.
Speaker: Mark Schouls

ZENworks Product Manager
Novell, Inc.

Martin Buckley

Director of Product Management – Resource Management
Novell, Inc.

Should be good fun. We’re working on the ‘minimal slides, maximum demo’ approach.

So far I am documenting how to build a successful ZENworks demo/workshop/lab – I will get that posted to the (soon to be launched) Novell Cool Blogs community.

The summary of the session describes the life of an employee – presented in a two hour session. From day zero (hire) to when the employee leaves for pastures new – the session and demo will describe how ZENworks, Novell Identity Manager and other solutions can control the lifecycle of the user and their hardware.

I’ll post more in the next week or so – but I’m saving the bulk of the information for the new Cool Blogs!