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Oracle E-Business Suite on Sun Blades

October 26, 2009

Dave Caplan demos at Oracle Open World 2009. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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GHC09: Women in the Flat Connected World

October 25, 2009

“Globalization has forced companies to create new processes to empower distributed teams to collaborate. It could mean that individuals have to travel for longer periods of time across the globe, work at odd hours, and work from home or make other adjustments to accommodate a new working lifestyle. Panelists will discuss and give their perspective [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Dressing for the Camera

October 23, 2009

Another snippet from the videoblogging training I did at Sun HQ.

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Videoblogging Tips: Filming Engineers

October 19, 2009

Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers who may not be accustomed to being filmed.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-10-18: San Francisco

October 18, 2009

alarm was set for 5, so of course I woke up at 4:30. And of course I got to the airport too early, and of course the flight is delayed. # Colleague on the same plane going to #oow09 to demo something that I know @reiger wants to see. I’ll get video for you ; [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Camera Motion

October 18, 2009

I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging, and, for practice, they filmed me talking. Some of the resulting video seemed useful, so here it is (in bite-sized pieces).

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Videoblogging Tips: Getting Good Sound at a Conference

October 17, 2009

This week I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging. It was very hands-on training, with the intent that they actually produce a finished video by the end of the two-day course. We started with setting up the cameras and mics right away, and I had them practice following an active speaker (me, imitating [...]

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Gallery: Oracle Open World 2009

October 15, 2009
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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-10-11: Broomfield

October 11, 2009

Sleep status: not good. Back to my own bed tonight, if that helps. # 5-minute interviews from Grace Hopper – sooner or later Teresa & I will be on here YouTube – EdandAshleyShow’s Channel http://bit.ly/15Vb9p # Tucson Airport has really good wifi. #win # @stevenbjohnson what you have found is the Nebraska of Italy. I [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

September 18, 2009

25 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun well over 200 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way (the photo above doesn’t show quite all the tapes I’ve got – some were out for editing) 150 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online  [...]

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Measuring Performance with Sun Studio Tools

September 17, 2009

This session is intended for experienced developers who do not necessarily have experience with performance tools. The attendees will learn how to use the Sun Studio software performance tools. Marty Itzkowitz presents at CommunityOne, San Francisco, June 2009. download for iPod

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Geek Humor

September 16, 2009

At Sun we have lots of whiteboard walls where people can (well, could, theoretically) scribble down brilliant ideas while they’re discussing deep technological issues over coffee. What they mostly get used for is trenchant corporate humor, as above (note that the “Clothing Optional Teaming Area” has been so named for a very long time). Recently, [...]

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Gallery: CommunityOne 2009

September 4, 2009
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Gallery: Chicago

September 3, 2009

These are from my trip back in May to speak at at Executing Social Media for Internal Communications. Had a little time before my retun flight to look around.

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“I’m Blogging This for Sun”

August 31, 2009

One of my tasks since I first began working for Sun in 2007 has been to help and encourage others (mostly engineers) to communicate in various ways, including blogs. There are many blogs at Sun (check the lower right corner of that link for today’s numbers), but, as I quickly discovered when I began analyzing [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-08-23: CO

August 23, 2009

^ Congressman Jared Polis at the Sun campus in Broomfield, CO “The actor is in the U.S. to promote, “My Name is Khan,” about racial profiling of Muslims after Sept. 11…” http://bit.ly/DR0af # just published my email newsletter. Ironically, my family are the last (if ever) to read anything I write. You’re never famous at [...]

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Nick Solter on High Availability – A Conversation with Jack Adams

August 19, 2009

OSCON, 2009. filmed & edited by Deirdré Straughan

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Community Leadership Summit

July 29, 2009

Several Sun folks attended the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose, just before OSCON. I didn’t get many photos or notes – was too busy listening, talking, and meeting people. I also led a session on videoblogging which 14 people attended.

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Kernel Conference Australia

July 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I attended Sun’s Kernel Conference Australia, where I did my usual social media production job, met a lot of interesting people, and introduced some of them to each other.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-07-26: San Jose CA

July 26, 2009

^@saraford at the Community Leadership Summit @AmberCadabra the book I’d recommend is Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bitch.Seriously. in reply to AmberCadabra # Trying to figure out where I fit. That means defining what I do. Which is really hard. # #cls discussion on women in tech devolving into semantics. Not solving anything # [...]

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