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Comments for 'Blog in isolation': attention all Oracle bloggers - Digging in a Habari sandpit

  • dahowlett · 2 years ago
    "In my current role, I spend most of my working time working for customers. I simply do not have the spare time to spend maintaining a corporate blog."

    We're all in that boat Andy. That point is that if Oracle chooses not to engage with the wider community of enterprise bloggers then it loses relevance in the mindshare stakes that ultimately determine the company's ability to sell products and services.

    Your - or rather your company's choice. In the meantime, SAP gets a lot of kudos for making the effort and devoting appropriate resource.
  • Jeremiah Owyang · 2 years ago
    If it were possible to quantify how benefits from open community communications could help with product development, customer-to-customer support, increase in brand lift, awareness of Oracle offerings, and open collaboration, would you consider these types of activities worthwhile?
  • Brian Duff · 2 years ago
    "For example, Oracle don’t offer a hosted blogging platform for aspiring authors"

    This isn't entirely accurate. Many of the corporate blogs listed in the blogs.oracle.com directory are also hosted on the corporate blogging platform under that same URL.
  • Brian Duff · 2 years ago
    ... although perhaps I'm misreading and you mean that Oracle don't offer a platform for *non-Oracle* aspiring authors...
  • Tim Dexter · 2 years ago
    "Authoring an ‘official’ Oracle blog would immediately create a wealth of (self-imposed) pressure on me to maintain that blog and keep adding technical, well researched, accurate, interesting and valuable content." - ohhhh yeah Andy, Im there, every day ... its tough but once you start you do have a responsibility to keep it going.
    Coorporate blogging looks sexy from the outside, your raised profile, regular readers, etc - but the reality is a lot of early mornings or late nights putting together useful articles rather than fluffy posts that although maybe fun to read they are not useful per se.
  • Justin Kestelyn · 2 years ago
    Andy C., BTW, the names you see listed on the blogs.oracle.com homepage are a subset of the whole community. I am very confident that there are many, many more that we don't know about yet.
  • Jeremiah Owyang · 2 years ago
    Hope all is well, I wanted to let you know that LinkedIn held Lunch 2.0 last week, and had over 200 people show up, had quite a bit of great buzz. They were covered by the SF Chronicle, and there were other mainstream news groups there.

    Aside from the tremendous buzz from the very viral community, they shared goodwill to the community, which ralied behind LinkedIn, it's products and most importantly it's employees.

    I'm not trying to "rub it in" but I'm also offering to help. As one of the chief promoters (and former Community Manager at Hitachi) I understand and want to help.

    Please let me know if I can be of any assistance, my email is jeremiah_owyang@yahoo.com