ZENworks Open Audio Podcast
The first part of my Open Audio Podcasts is now live at Novell Open Audio.
Welcome to the Novell Cool Blogs
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A warm welcome to all new Cool Blogs readers – this is a new concept for Novell; but hopefully will follow in the footsteps of Novell Open Audio as being an instant hit with you all.
By way of introduction – and I’ll keep this short – I am Martin Buckley; better known by some as the Evil ZEN Scientist. I have been working with ZENworks at Novell for over six years – predominantly as Product Manager. Yes – I was part of the team that made ZENworks for Desktops 3 and all subsequent releases arrive on your desks.
Prior to Novell I was working in various consulting roles in the United Kingdom implementing many different systems management products into customers – remember ManageWise? Standalone NetWare Application Launcher (now a core part of ZENworks)?
I have been blogging for a good while now – mainly around technology, systems management trend and the rise of corporate blogging.
Written at: Draper, UT
Novell Cool Blogs – sneak peek!
Sofas – one down, one to go
We sold one sofa on craigslist – now it’s time to sell the other.
Novell Cool Blogs – hopefully the final update
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.
Harvey Balls
Ah – a favourite for Powerpointers world over – Harvey balls (or meatballs in Novell parlance) represent the relative impact of various options.
I found a great font with the balls in here – soniacoleman.com – and some great graphics here.
A sidenote: “Harvey balls” are named after their inventor–Harvey Poppel, a partner in the international consulting firm Booz Allen.
Green Card
Our application for permanant residence in the US has been approved; in short our Green Cards are in the post.
It’s taken eight months to process – from first paperwork filing to approval. Sounds like a long time – but this is one of the fastest processed applications I’ve known.
Woo! We’ll be celebrating this evening – this removes a lot of risk.
Novell Community Podcasts
At last – the flood of community content I’ve blogged about for the last month or so is starting to appear.
First out of the gates is Novell OpenAudio – Podcasts for the broad Novell Community.
I’ll not spoil the suprise – but I recorded a series of four podcasts with Erin Quill about a month ago. Watch out for them to show up.
Building a Community
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.]
San Jose, CA
I’m in San Jose all week – working at the RSA Conference.
San Jose is lovely at this time of the year; it’s sunny, warm and friendly. It’s good to be out of the cold of Utah for a few days.
It’s been an interesting few days; there was a PETA demonstration on the corner of Market and San Carlos. Scantily clad girls protesting about the fur trade. Certainly an eyeful for the geeks. Apart from that – press, analyst and general show stuff.
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