EMC World Bloggers Lounge

I've been neglecting my blogging duties of late - Blame it on road trips. Fortunately, travel was for two great events - the Razorfish Client Summit and the Inbound Marketing Summit - Both were excellent. Of course I also managed to pick up the obligatory nasty cold during many hours at airports.

Down to business... Man am I getting excited for EMC World this year. It's not to late to grab a spot if you haven't already.

I'm most looking forward to the EMC World Blogger's Lounge, sponsored by our friends at ZDNet. It's a bit of an experiment, and we're very much open to hearing how we can tailor it to your needs. It's open to anyone who blogs (or microblogs)... All you have to do to get in is sign up in the comments section below... Tell us who you are and give a link to your blog, if you would.

Here are the folks who have been added to our 'members only' list:

Sam Diaz (Blog - Between The Lines)
Jason Hiner (Blog - TechRepublic)
Dennis Martin (Blog - Wikibon Blog)
Andrew Conry-Murray (Blog - InformationWeek)
Rich Bocchinfuso (Blog - GotITSolutions.org)
Jeff Jedras (Blog - varbose)
Apoorv Durga (Blog - PCM Blog)
Laurence Hart (Blog - Word of Pie)
Bas Raayman (Blog - Renegade's Tech. Diatribe)
Greg White (Blog - Inside Enterprise IT)
Vincent Santo
Chris Evans (Blog - The Storage Architect)
Eric Kiel (Blog - Network0)
Ed Saipetch (Blog - Gestalt IT)
Natalie Corridan-Gregg (Blog - Working Mother Experience)
Marty Glover (Marty - the 'bouncers' are going to be looking for a url before they let you in ;)
Inna Gordin (Blog - SharePoint Reviews)
Denny Cherry (Blog - IT Knowledge Exchange)
Marsha Glassner (Blog - WebSerf)
Charles Hood
Bob Muenster
Greg Schulz (Blog -The Green and Virtual Data Center & Storage IO Blog)
Devang Panchigar (Blog - Storage Nerve)
C Skornicka
Nabeel
Jeff Adam
Jon Tabar (Blog)
Han Solo (So far, no word from Chewbacca)
Nada Wheelock
Karl Owen
Charles Kronauer
Mike Fishman
Kelly Lavin
James Lally
Butch McCrackin

From the EMC Blogging Corps
Chuck Hollis (Blog - Chuck's Blog)
Barry Burke (Blog - The Storage Anarchist)
Mark Twomey (Blog - StorageZilla)
Dave Spencer (Blog - Dave Talks Shop)
Dave Graham (Blog - Dave Graham's Weblog)
Stu Miniman (Blog - NoHype)
Andrew Chapman (Blog - Never Talk When You Can Nod)
Ed Newman (Blog - Mr. Infrastructure)
Brian Henderson (Blog - Power Windows)
Steve Kenniston (Blog - Backup and Beyond)
Me (Blog - Confessions of an eBiz Junkie)

We'll have some special badge bling on day one... Stop by to pick it up as it's your 'key' to access the lounge throughout the event. Okay - we won't make you have it blinking ALL the time...

We'll be giving away a few Flip cameras with hopes that winners capture their EMC World experience and share it with us. Winners will be announced first thing Monday at EMC World and posted here as well (No employees on this one - sorry). Stop by, say hi and see if you are the proudowner of a shiny new Flip camera.

I said this was an experiment, right? Well, we're going to try crowdsourcing the weeks' activities. We'll have a white board in play - and if there are people, topics, etc that you'd like to discuss or meet, simply add it to the board and we'll do our best. So far you've expressed interest in meeting some of the EMC Bloggers - and we'll make that happen.

Lastly, we'd ask you folks to tag your world content with EMCWorld. At the end of the day, we look at this as an opportunity to better get to know one another... And how better than to ensure we're aware of the conversations?

Sign up if you haven't... Truly looking forward to meeting all of you!

Comments

[Laurence Hart]

Len,

Just thought I'd remind you of the twitter account as I have both that and my blog. You only have my blog referenced above.

http://wordofpie.com
http://twitter.com/piewords

Looking forward to Orlando.

-Pie

[Len Devanna]

Sorry Pie! My bad. Updated with correct info.

Keeping up with links was tough on this one... Let me know if I missed anything for anyone.

LD

[Bas Raayman]

Hey Len, Well I am sort of in there, but you got my name slightly wrong, and you linked me to Mike Fishman on Twitter. ;-D

Anyway, it's Bas Raayman. Twitter link is http://www.twitter.com/BasRaayman and I actually started blogging. You can have a look at http://renegade.tweakblogs.net/ :-)

Anyway, I am very much looking forward to the event, and I am kind of curious what to look forward to when it comes to the crowdsourcing part, but I expect some good fun and something to stimulate the mind.

See you there!
Bas

[Len Devanna]

You know, I was all excited in 1993 to earn the title of 'WebMaster'. I was the guru of all things html... Tossing cool terms like 'Java' and 'Animated Gif' out at parties for wow factor.

Now, I'm breaking links left and right. *sigh*.

Sorry Bas - All set now. Looking forward to catching up @ World and thanks for pointing us to your blog.

[Bas Raayman]

Hey, as long as it's just breaking links and not something like bones, I've got no problem at all. ;-)

And as far as 'Java' and 'animated gif' or even 'php' goes... Ehm, just bring one of your "ladies" with you and we can sing a duet about it @ World. ;-))

[Rich Bocchinfuso]

I am the Director of Engineering for a national EMC partner. Looking forward to some interesting announcements around V-Max, Atmos, Sphere and FCoE at EMC World

blog: http://gotitsolutions.org
twitter: http://twitter.com/rbocchinfuso

[Jeff Jedras]

I'll be at EMC World for Computer Dealer News from Toronto, and blogging at our VARbose blog. Looking to get the channel partner angle from the conference. How EMC is helping partners, what it can do better, and the channel strategy behind the announcements.

http://blogs.itworldcanada.com/cdn/

[Kelly Lavin]

Hi Len -

Count me in too, Twitter: @kellylavin

Looking forward to it!

[Steve]

Len,
I will be there too. Self proclaimed Data Protection Specialist - Blog - Road to Recovery (your data that is) - www.backupandbeyond.com
Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Steve

[Andrew Conry-Murray]

Hi Len,

I'll be there blogging and reporting for InformationWeek.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/information_management/index.html

Andrew Conry-Murray

[Dennis Martin]

I'll be there. Twitter: @demartek. Blog: http://wikibon.org/blog

[Jon Tabar]

Hey....count me in for the Blogger's Lounge...see you in Orlando!
http://twitter.com/jtabar
http://jontabar.com

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